Another one bites the dust!

Yep that’s what Ryan’s sock looks like. I bet you were wondering about the progress and where I had gotten with it! well that’s where I had gotten. Oh before you start to think that i ripped out all that work i guess i should show you another picture of Ryan’s sock.

Yep that’s right I finished the first sock and isn’t it a lovely sock. Look at the way it just splays itself along the desk lounging gracefully. It is already begging me to become a model, despite my attempts to remind it of the evils of the fashion industry. For those of you not paying attention this yarn is Lorna’s Laces Shepard Sock in the Shadow colorway. I love the way it stripes causing a nice look.

I have always maintained self striping sock yarns are not for control freaks these socks only prove that matter! I have already noticed that even though both the skeins are the same dye lot they are not perfect. The second skein has more black and mess whit and in general seems darker. I don’t have too many issues with this and nor does Ryan so it should be fine. We will have to see after they are finished. They have been moved up to bus socks so thus they should be finished sooner!

Now I bet you have been wondering what has happened to the bottom up deep ocean vest I’m working on. Well I’m working on it but darn that slip stitch doesn’t want to grow. I really looked at the ribbing and realized 3 inches was much more appropriate than 4.

It’s currently in a total of 4.5 inches long and looking good, the disadvantage of the linen stitch is that it takes two rows to equal one. so this is slow going but at least it’s going! here’s a nice close up of the beautiful yarn! I reall love this color too!

Also a couple of weeks ago I was doing the shopping and saw some beautiful blue and green food dyes that came in pretty decent sizes for fairly cheap I grabbed them and some vinegar and came home and did some dyeing! This is the fruits of my labor! some dyed roving and some blank yarn i had and finally some over dyed yarn (that was a really ugly country blue nasty color)

(Sorry its fuzzy I could NOT get a clear picture of this yarn for the life of me!)

Autumn is Upon Us

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

Starting at the Bottom

Starting at the Bottom

As I begin to look for a side job, one that will actually allow me to eat and such while I start up my fashion design label and get people buying things, I have realized that I have very little to actually wear to a job interview and work in general. So my brain started turning and I looked through my closet then raided Ryan’s closet. I came out of the venture successful, matching a pair of simple black pants of mine, and a hoochie mama vest that i usually wear with my breasts hanging out, and one of Ryan’s white dress shirts left me with a very professional look(placing the hoochie mama vest over the dress shirt). Not only did it look professional, it also looked great! That moment got me thinking why don’t I wear sweater vests and such, oh yeah cause I usually see them in baggy body covering ugliness. About this same time the new Knitty came out with a vest pattern(Honeycomb), that was exactly what I was thinking of.

Except I didn’t like the, stitch pattern….. Or the length of ribbing…. Or the shape of the neck line(especially in the back)…. I didn’t have any yarn on the right gauge… And I wanted to knit my vest in the round… You can see where this headed didn’t you? Darn It I’ll design my own! So I dug into my stash and found the perfect yarn!

Isn’t that just beautiful? The nice deep ocean color of Knit Picks Swish Superwash, and I have more than enough of it! I absolutely love this color and the texture of the yarn it’s sooo soft! It wears rather well too, which is always important! So with a ball of that and my trusty Options set, and a stitch dictionary or 5 i started swatching. many swatches were started only two survived! One of the ribbing and stitch pattern together and the more important one of the stitch pattern it’s self.

This is the linen stitch and is a simple slip stitch pattern with the yarn held in front and alternating stitches being slipped it creates a dense but still stretchy fabric that has a nice woven look to it! The bonus is that the wrong side looks like a regular moss stitch which leave the potential for a reversible vest which I kinda like the idea of.

So after I was happy with both of my swatches it was time to do some measuring and some math, which makes my head hurt in general. Sorry the math has been smudged out due to security reasons, mostly so that you all don’t know my waist measurements. Next comes the fun part of casting on all those stitches… I hate casting on absolutely hate it! Which is a problem considering I love starting projects…. So hopefully in a week or so I will have more progress to show you on this particular vest! I’m still thinking about a tutorial/blog post about steeks and their fabulousness! I hope you are all well and everything in nice in your lives!

head bands(now with pictures)

I’ve been knitting heand bands to keep my hair out of my face. Its at that stage where my bangs are always in my face….. And I wanted a cute headband….

So since I ripped out the wedgewood blouse(hate the was noro’s unevenness makes my knitting look uneven) so I’ve decided now that my hairs red and I have a bunch of green apple coloured yarn I shall have headbands I’ve knit three basic headbands from the following pattern *edit* I created a seperate blog to put patterns in ill put it in the side bar, but that link will also take it to it*/edit*

So now that I have three of these that are almost identical(I made one wider and one just 6 stitches wide) I decided I wanted one a lil defferent from any other headband so I’m working on a head band that will wrap around my head several times like women in ancient greece used to wear hopefully it will look decent

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