some knitting
I. The sweater in progress. (Carefully cropped – photos of me look OK as long as you can’t see my eyes. Bags you could pack for a 3-week vacation.) Lessons learned: 1. Never knit a sweater in cheap yarn – it’s already fuzzing and pilling a bit, though this is also partially due to 2. ever knit a parge project while wearing a jacket with velcro closures (this was my car knitting until it got too big to fit in a purse).
II. The fingerless gloves. Very cozy; this was my first time knitting with Cashmerino. I have one for skein; I might make another pair for a gift.
III. These are actually the same socks as in this photo. I finally got around to dying them – they’re a lot darker than they look in this photo, mid-gray to a charcoal color and very different than the original white and gray stripes. I just used your basic RIT dye. I’ve never used it before and I was very impressed. It didn’t stain the bowl I was using or the gloves I wore, but seemed to cleave to the yarn and hardly bled at all even on the first few rinses. The lighter bit is a swatch that I didn’t leave in the dye solution quite as long; I like being able to have that control on how intense the color is, too.
l'empress wrote,
“Cheap yarn” is relative. Back in the day when my kids were small (and so was my budget), I used to buy acrylic for about a dollar an ounce. With that cheap yarn I would make sweaters for the kids. Sometimes both daughters wore them and I gave them away, only to get them back when the next kid outgrew them. I made a couple of sweaters for myself using that same kind of yarn. I undid one of them after I lost some weight and reknitted the sleeves (which were on round needles), and I still wear it, even though it is now too stained to be “formal.”
Link | March 31st, 2007 at 10:44 am
Sarah HB wrote,
It looks nice…hope you can stand the yarn.
Link | March 31st, 2007 at 10:58 am
Bex wrote,
I guess you are needing those warm comfy home-knit items since you’ve moved to a much colder climate. I love the socks especially, very toasty looking, and well done. The sweater is pretty, nice color.
Link | March 31st, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Alison wrote,
I LOVE the sweater – what pattern is it?? IT looks amazing and it’s such a good fit!
Link | April 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm