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stitchy_stitchy) wrote2010-01-06 03:56 pm
stitchy_stitchy) wrote2010-01-06 03:56 pm
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Wow, been a while.
Lessee...a brief crafty roundup.
1) Goal list? Out the window. I did, however, end the year with no knitting or crochet WIP's (unless you count finishing that Irish crochet pincushion). I had one spinning project going...and Tradewinds. (On which I did make visible progress. Kinda.)
1b) I finished the first sock on my sister's Christmas pair in record time, and then finished the toe on the second one on December 26. Oopsie. I think it had to do with baking cookies.
1c) One of the things I baked was Lebkuchen, a traditional German gingerbread. Delish. They will be back next year.
1d) My sister burst into tears - happy ones - when she opened her socks. That was not quite the reaction I was expecting.
2) New goal list? Not gonna. Although I still hope to naalbind something (I bought suitable yarn for a first go at it, just never did it) and to go to the Spinners Flock (maybe this weekend).
3) Instead of making myself a "DIY yarn club", I'm doing "Sockdown" with the Ravelry Sock Knitters Anonymous group - a different sock-knitting challenge every month. This means this month I'm doing my first mystery sock! It also means I should stop buying sock yarn!
3b) I was very, very good during the Dizzy Sheep 12 Days of Christmas, and bought just one skein of sock yarn. I tried for the Malabrigo Sock during the very last hour and had three different colors sell out from under me - the whole thing sold out in about 6 minutes. I also would have bought more Classic Elite Silky Alpaca Lace, but missed it - OTOHsarbah77 bought two balls of the color I wanted, and will trade me for a skein of laceweight in a color I don't like anymore.
4) I finished the first mystery sock clue in a hurry and then started looking for a new project. I decided to make a hat from my birthday qiviut. It's not going well so far - when I looked for the end, 3/4 of the skein barfed. My nostepinne is good for using while watching TV, but not so good at making a nice yarn ball, at least when I use it, so I wound it a second time after Dr. Who was over. Cast on for one of the hat patterns that came with the yarn - ended up with four feet of tail left over. No. Moved the slipknot, tried again, had two feet of tail left over. No. Moved the slipknot, tried again, had about one foot of tail left over, cut my losses, got a gauge of 3/inch instead of 4/inch. No. Right now I don't have any other hat-appropriate needles with me so I'm browsing Ravelry for a new pattern. I might actually have two: Madge and Foliage. Madge uses a small amount of yarn, and Foliage is worked top-down, so I think I can actually get one of each from the skein.
4b) I also had a bad case of Chart Reading Fail working on the mystery sock - I started at the upper left corner instead of the lower right. Oops! It's totally recoverable, though - in the worst case I just move the start of the round over two stitches.
4c) I hope the fact that I'm about to start the qiviut hat for the fourth time isn't the universe trying to tell me something.
4d) I just realized I have enough pieces of my interchangeable needle kit with me that I could, indeed, construct a means by which to knit a hat on two circs - I just make sure that the right-size tip is knitting off a slightly smaller one. Go me!
...yeah, go me. Gonna go give Madge a try...
1) Goal list? Out the window. I did, however, end the year with no knitting or crochet WIP's (unless you count finishing that Irish crochet pincushion). I had one spinning project going...and Tradewinds. (On which I did make visible progress. Kinda.)
1b) I finished the first sock on my sister's Christmas pair in record time, and then finished the toe on the second one on December 26. Oopsie. I think it had to do with baking cookies.
1c) One of the things I baked was Lebkuchen, a traditional German gingerbread. Delish. They will be back next year.
1d) My sister burst into tears - happy ones - when she opened her socks. That was not quite the reaction I was expecting.
2) New goal list? Not gonna. Although I still hope to naalbind something (I bought suitable yarn for a first go at it, just never did it) and to go to the Spinners Flock (maybe this weekend).
3) Instead of making myself a "DIY yarn club", I'm doing "Sockdown" with the Ravelry Sock Knitters Anonymous group - a different sock-knitting challenge every month. This means this month I'm doing my first mystery sock! It also means I should stop buying sock yarn!
3b) I was very, very good during the Dizzy Sheep 12 Days of Christmas, and bought just one skein of sock yarn. I tried for the Malabrigo Sock during the very last hour and had three different colors sell out from under me - the whole thing sold out in about 6 minutes. I also would have bought more Classic Elite Silky Alpaca Lace, but missed it - OTOH
sarbah77 bought two balls of the color I wanted, and will trade me for a skein of laceweight in a color I don't like anymore.4) I finished the first mystery sock clue in a hurry and then started looking for a new project. I decided to make a hat from my birthday qiviut. It's not going well so far - when I looked for the end, 3/4 of the skein barfed. My nostepinne is good for using while watching TV, but not so good at making a nice yarn ball, at least when I use it, so I wound it a second time after Dr. Who was over. Cast on for one of the hat patterns that came with the yarn - ended up with four feet of tail left over. No. Moved the slipknot, tried again, had two feet of tail left over. No. Moved the slipknot, tried again, had about one foot of tail left over, cut my losses, got a gauge of 3/inch instead of 4/inch. No. Right now I don't have any other hat-appropriate needles with me so I'm browsing Ravelry for a new pattern. I might actually have two: Madge and Foliage. Madge uses a small amount of yarn, and Foliage is worked top-down, so I think I can actually get one of each from the skein.
4b) I also had a bad case of Chart Reading Fail working on the mystery sock - I started at the upper left corner instead of the lower right. Oops! It's totally recoverable, though - in the worst case I just move the start of the round over two stitches.
4c) I hope the fact that I'm about to start the qiviut hat for the fourth time isn't the universe trying to tell me something.
4d) I just realized I have enough pieces of my interchangeable needle kit with me that I could, indeed, construct a means by which to knit a hat on two circs - I just make sure that the right-size tip is knitting off a slightly smaller one. Go me!
...yeah, go me. Gonna go give Madge a try...