Watermelon in Summer Time Finished!

All done. Thanks to Bev Love for the name:




Check out my blog to see my new project!

Sewing too?!

Hi!
Here's a photo of the 1st sundress I made! It's far from perfect, but definitely wearable!


More pics are on my blog.

Another lace project completed

I've been trying to clear up some of my WIPs in anticipation of MS3, which begins tomorrow. With that in mind, I finished working on and blocked my Seraphim Shawl last night. I know that some people don't think variegated yarns work well with lace, but I think this is one case where that is not true. The very subtly colored yarn worked wonderfully with the design, and I love the result.



Pattern: Seraphim by Miriam Felton
Yarn: Knitpicks Bare Laceweight, dyed by moi
Size: 79.5in wide by 38 in deep
Needles: 3.75mm Knitpicks Options needles


So that's three shawls completed this month. I think that I will be frogging the last shawl that I have OTN, as I'm finding the pattern not interesting enough. Slogging through all the stockinette on this one was a beast. The shaped triangle shawl is not stockinette, but it is a four-stitch repeat for approx 110 rows, and that is totally not interesting to me right now.

I'm amazed that I've managed to avoid buying any yarn this summer. I even had what I needed for MS3 on hand. I DO go and look though. I just manage to navigate away from the page before temptation gets to me.

Ta for now.

Ebony

Tinking vs Ripping

I was commenting on Sheila's post below and thought I should share this tip with everyone. Tink is knit spelled backwards and it is the safest, slowest and most frustrating way to unknit your mistakes; one stitch at a time. However, you have to do it that way if you are working lace and some cable patterns. But for stockinette and garter stitch mistakes you can usually rip out your mistakes by the row.

A little ripping out trick I use, take your yarn needle and a contrasting yarn and go back to your last "good" row of knitting. Run the needle and yarn through the stiches of that row. Either run it through the first leg of the stitch or the second leg of the stitch - but be consistent.
V<-- or -->V

After all of your good stitches are picked up let it rip; pull out all of the bad stitches. When you get back to the good row, place the stitches back on your needles and remove the contrasting yarn. Take a deep breath and knit on.

I have done a lot tinking and ripping, if anyone has any tips on tinking please let me know.

Boobholder Finished

Hi All,

I finished my boobholder, come on over and take a look.

Tunic Troubles

I've managed to get in a good amount rows on the Tunic using the continental method. I noticed that working my project using the continental method the stitches are loose so my project appears to have wonky stitches.. (that I'm willing to live with). For the first couple of rounds I did stockinette and honestly it was driving me crazy and switched to garter stitches, which I love. Now the problem is 1x1 ribbing, which I understand is knit 1, purl 1 to end.... I've done about 3 rows and it does not look like ribbing to me... what am I doing wrong.....urggggh! .... please help.

Opal Hundertwasser yarn sock

Well I had already been working on this sock before the KAL was started but I'm posting this anyway. I'm making out of Opal yarn from their Hundertwasser collection. You can check it out, along with other yummy yarns at Ariadne knits (their knit pals of mine so I never miss a chance to plug them). I just started the second one. That's all.