Thursday, December 13, 2007
Knittins' Happenin'
I have some things to note.
1) I was doing YO's completely wrong. I was just wrapping the yarn over the needle from back to front and carrying on. Thus, on the next row, the only way I could get a proper hole was to knit through the back leg. Though this created a hole, it still looked wonky.
2) I was doing my ssk's the proper way, but have begun my project with the ssk as slip 1 knit wise, slip 1 purlwise, knit both together. Now I have great looking ssk's thanks to the fine crowd at Ravelry.
The result is my new version of Oriel. The picture below is not blocked, but I will later post the swatch I made before implementing the above-mentioned improvements. (Note my BRAND SPANKIN' NEW Harmony options!)
Also in progress are the socks I'm making for Charles for Christmas (dumb to mention it in a public forum, but he's no dummy). Made from some cool wool with which I also made a Calorimetry (not pictured yet).
The colors are very washed out. The Oriel is made with a heathery brown/gray alpaca I got at Rhinebeck's Sheep and Wool. The other is from a yarn store in Gettysburg. A nice rich tweedy heathery green (but not tweed). I'll get my camera cable soon so I can say bye to these phone pics. Sorry!
My thanks to Ravelry - and phone-image-emailing to Flickr.
I must get to work before I get my ass whooped.
1) I was doing YO's completely wrong. I was just wrapping the yarn over the needle from back to front and carrying on. Thus, on the next row, the only way I could get a proper hole was to knit through the back leg. Though this created a hole, it still looked wonky.
2) I was doing my ssk's the proper way, but have begun my project with the ssk as slip 1 knit wise, slip 1 purlwise, knit both together. Now I have great looking ssk's thanks to the fine crowd at Ravelry.
The result is my new version of Oriel. The picture below is not blocked, but I will later post the swatch I made before implementing the above-mentioned improvements. (Note my BRAND SPANKIN' NEW Harmony options!)
Also in progress are the socks I'm making for Charles for Christmas (dumb to mention it in a public forum, but he's no dummy). Made from some cool wool with which I also made a Calorimetry (not pictured yet).
The colors are very washed out. The Oriel is made with a heathery brown/gray alpaca I got at Rhinebeck's Sheep and Wool. The other is from a yarn store in Gettysburg. A nice rich tweedy heathery green (but not tweed). I'll get my camera cable soon so I can say bye to these phone pics. Sorry!
My thanks to Ravelry - and phone-image-emailing to Flickr.
I must get to work before I get my ass whooped.
Labels: alpaca, gifts, Oriel, ravelry, socks, wool
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