So I haven’t been knitting much lately. I’ve been dedicating more time to reading and cooking, and I also haven’t been home a whole lot, which meant projects were going to the wayside.
Um, let’s see, early this month I broke my yarn-purchasing freeze. I just bought one ball of Fisherman’s Wool because I wanted to try dyeing yarn, and have lots available for test skeins and such. (I then re-instated the freeze.) It turned out okay; I’ll make another post soon with details.
I frogged the last sock I’d started. I’m going to look into different patterns again and play around more. Meh, I’ll get it done eventually.
I misplaced the pattern for the black lacy scarf/shawl I was making! And I didn’t have it memorized yet. I’ll have to see if I can re-find the pattern. Ah, the problems with copying from books…
Oh, on the plus side, I started a new project tonight!
I’ve had the yarn for Shimmer for months, and I actually swatched for it a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn’t gotten around to starting it. Tonight was the SnB at Starbucks, though, and I wasn’t about to show up to a knitting event without something to knit. So, I’m now a couple of inches into the first sleeve. :-) I’m going to have modify it a bit, because the whole thing’s too long for me (I’m just small in general, but I have a particularly short torso and arms), but that shouldn’t be too hard.
I decided to try the Magic Loop method with this, because while I don’t have size 8 DPNs, I do have a long-ish size 8 circular. I kind of fumbled around with it at first, as Jess can attest to, but I finally got the hang of it by the time I finished with the ruffle. I’ve decided that I like this method. I’d like it better if these particular circs didn’t suck so much, though.
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