Progress of a sort, and comments!

Thanks for the comments - it's been so long since I blogged anything interesting that I'd forgotten what that was like!


Here's tonight's progress, after a madly busy, very loud, extremely good fun KTog. Hypoteneuse (top) is doing nicely - about a third of the way through; the Mystic Meadows one got a bit stalled this evening once I realised the designer was eschewing the repeating pattern to get lots of random leafy things set up... I need to get back to it and do the last 5 rows of tonight's repeats. I'm worried about how small it is - don't mind about the width but I like a long scarf and I'm not sure that's what I'm going to get - but I think it's going to be beautiful. Has to be said though, if this wasn't an Olympic thing, I'd have given up by now...



And for all those commenting on the Addi-dyeing - I believe Addi cords are nylon and therefore will dye like any nylon fibre, buttons, bag handles etc. - I've seen no sign of them bleeding onto projects I've knitted afterwards, although I might cast on a row and dunk in water-and rub them on my hands for a while if I were going to propose to knit a baby shawl with them... You do, of course, lose the what-needle-size, but I've found that with the ordinary Addi cord that wears off pretty quickly anyway... Haven't tried Addi lace needles with this method, but with my degree of (im)patience, it's only a matter of time...

A FO from a while ago...

From June, in fact. The Peacock Feathers Shawl from Fiddlesticks - now living with Sue.

I used KnitPicks Shimmer laceweight in Turquoise Splendour, but realised quite early on that the skeins I had were way too variegated to do the pattern justice (I've seen this knitted in the same yarn on Ravelry, and it looks as if it might vary quite a bit between dye-lots). So I skeined the yarn up again, and dumped the entire project, needles and all, into a dyebath of turquoise/teal. I'd use the yarn again like a shot, but for something with a much simpler lace. It was really nice to do... (And for future reference, Addi cords dye beautifully - I have a lovely teal 3mm cord now...)

I think I probably have several other finished and unblogged FOs - more tomorrow, maybe.

Meanwhile I'm nearly 2 charts (out of 16) down for the Mystic Meadows Olympic shawl, and 4 repeats (out of 17/18) down for Hypoteneuse. I'll be taking both along to the KTog tomorrow night but probably won't be able to concentrate on the Mystic Meadows! I have high hopes for finishing Hypoteneuse, but am not quite as sure about the Mystic Meadows - it's high-concentration stuff and I'm doing fairly high-intensity stuff at work this month...

OK, that's it

I should have anticipated this, really - although most of the people I work with have been aware that I was offered a new job on July 7, and have just been waiting for various clearances to come through ever since, I gave in my notice last week so everyone in the world is coming out of the woodwork with things they absolutely need me to do before I leave... By the end of today I was ready to leap tall buildings in a single bound (if that would get me out of there)...

And I've finished a couple of things this week (or got them to the stage where I have to start measuring linings etc.), leaving me with the Unbloggable Project which is way too complicated to be knitting in this sort of mood - every-row-lace in sewing-thread, basically...


So tonight I'm going to do the border of this baby jacket, and cast on the blanket I'm knitting for ME... I'm using Mackenzie silk and wool tweed which was a bargain because it's been discontinued by Classic Elite, in a tweedy dark grey which should match my living-room (this is not a good picture, but welcome to the Season of All Photos Being Taken with Flash). This'll be the second of these (I can't show you the first one yet, but it was lovely to do). I got some Quills needles to do it with (didn't have the right size, and these are made by the Bryspun people who make my favourite straights), and they were marvellous - really light for 6mm needles, and grabby enough not to slide all over the place when starting with an 8-stitch Emily Ocker cast-on...

So I'm drawing the curtains, switching off the phone and getting Stephen Fry to read me something Harry Potterish. Not in person, sadly, but the cassettes will do... I'm calmer already, even thinking about it...

Ain't knitting wonderful.