...After a cozy weekend up north beside the fire with my knitting I'm back in the city taking stock...
I've read through the pattern for Hawser and tried out a new-to-me Tubular Cast on I'd seen on You Tube by Eunny Jang. I like the resulting less-fussy-to execute, gorgeous tubular edge that resulted. I'm ready for swatching!
'Resolved the Glen Checked Socks issues to suit My Beloved's feet. I'll close up those toes today with my favourite inside out three needle bind off closure. With three balls remaining in what seems the perfect colourway for a casual men's sock I may just indulge in planning a second pair right away.
Devlan, that I'm hoping to sneak out of my remnant Shepherd/Shearer yarn, is knitted bottom up in the round. Currently I'm at the bottom of the sweater where there's nigh on 300 stitches per round to generate the 8 1/2 inches of positive ease around the hips. I'm a few decreases/dozens of rounds south of dividing at the underarms. These long mindless rounds with that gorgeous creamy, wool yarn are the kind of soothing, warm, delightful work that non-knitters could never understand or imagine. ( I know you can though!)
The Double Knitted Dog Bed project I started in the spring will require four more skeins of Briggs and Little "Atlantic" that have yet to come in at Romni but I've one more ball to work before I'm completely out of yarn. In contrast to the Devlan experience, this piece is a workout. The big scale of both needles and yarn means moving my arms not just fingers and/or hands for every throw and the double knitting requires paying attention to avoid a pesky "joining" of the front and back. (Its invisible when it happens and for this project is of no consequence - its the principal of the thing for the sides to be separate and independent of each other. (Again. non knitters would never "get" that fine point on it - in fact they'd ask"why make a dog bed when you can so easily buy one?"
There are, of course, other projects that shall remain "ignored" for the moment. This morning I'm finding these and these alone entertaining to think about and arrange project baskets/bags for following their arrival back here city-side.
I hope you find your knitting "entertaining" today too!
'Resolved the Glen Checked Socks issues to suit My Beloved's feet. I'll close up those toes today with my favourite inside out three needle bind off closure. With three balls remaining in what seems the perfect colourway for a casual men's sock I may just indulge in planning a second pair right away.
There are, of course, other projects that shall remain "ignored" for the moment. This morning I'm finding these and these alone entertaining to think about and arrange project baskets/bags for following their arrival back here city-side.
I hope you find your knitting "entertaining" today too!
3 comments:
HEe HEe. Got enough to keep you occupied?
It's all so beautiful -- especially that tubular blue at the top. I'm sure Hudson is much better behaved, but the reason I don't knit my dogs a bed is because they eat dog beds. Oh, they might leave it alone for a few months, but it would eventually get munched.
I explored different tubular cast-ons for my Master Knitter program, and decided I liked the Italian one best (no waste yarn at all, and no provisional cast-on either). I'm happy to read that someone else likes to close socks with 3-needle bind-off.
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