SO what HAVE I been doing.
I suppose there are many of you(who come for the knitting content) that are curious on what exactly I have been doing knit and maybe even craftwise!
I have been knitting! I have been working on a Katia pattern, the asymetrical scotch tweed jacket, in a lovely shade of Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed. and it totally my usual fashion I have completely rewritten the pattern! the mathe has gotten a little sticky so I’m stuck at the arm holes trying to figure out how often and how much to decrease here.
Other that really the only other knitting project I’ve been working on is the recycled shawl(yes I’m still working on that) I get maybe one or two rows done on it at a time because there are so many stitches per row easily 600+ and increasing 1 stitch each row! It may not look much bigger in the picture then the last time but really it is.
I ripped out alot of things which is how alot of my knitting is ending up lately because I just seem dissatified lately with alot of what I knit. I have tho been doing some embroidery. Infact one of those pieces is taking up all my spare time which isn’t a lot lately. It’s this really wonderful and quirky canvas work pincushion.
(note: the bunny decided she needed to be seen at this moment and in a way that you all couldn’t avoid looking at)
I have also been working on a cross stitch sampler, based of a pttern orginally printed in a 1930 burda magazine. The pattern is a tunisian tree of life pattern. This is going to be my own wedding sampler which I have always wanted to do and Ryan is okay with me starting so that seems good!
So that is really all I’m working on right now(yes I know there are some things some of you all know about that aren’t listed but i’m not actively working on those so thus they do not make it to the blog) and with that I leave you a picture of the cake I made for the cafe I work for.
Autumn is Upon Us
Well the wind is starting to get crisp. I’m starting to grab scarves when I head out and about. The dew in the morning is starting to look a lot like frost. I’m pulling out my sweaters to wear. I’m even wearing socks inside the house! you know what all of this means? yes autumn is upon us and soon it will be winter. The other day I knew the perfect answer to out chilly dreariness… STEW! Yes an nice warm yummy stew, with kumara, pumpkin, potato, onion, celery and tomato. Add some yummy herbs and boil it all in homemade chicken stock(made from boiling a roasted chicken carcass until it was boiled to bits) and you have the prefect autumn treat! We had so much of it yet it disappeared rather fast.
What’s the knitting been like? distracted that’s what… I haven’t been doing a lot of knitting mostly because I have been reading and working on my vest design, which I’m happy with and started.
So that is the beginning of the linen stitch vest. I cast -on (5 freaking times! When am I going to realize the long tail cast-on isn’t good for when you have many stitches to cast on) Tuesday afternoon and set it aside after semi trauma of casting on. Have I ever told you that I hate (HATE) casting on, really I would almost pay someone to cast on for me. But yesterday I took it to the Embroiders Guild meeting with me and then today on the bus and am now an inch done with the ribbing three more inches to go! I want a nice thick ribbing on the bottom it make my tummy look well less pregnant.
So really the only other knitting I have to show for myself is the simple moss stitch shawl. the worst part is you can’t even tell that it’s bigger but it is! It’s almost twice the size as it was last time you all saw it! This is my TV project and I have been watching more TV lately I don’t even know why. Well I guess that’s all for now! I have a really cool post about feminism coming up that I hope doesn’t offend anyone but frankly I don’t really care! :-p
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