Girl on the Rocks

The couch of shame May 26, 2006

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects, sweater — karrie @ 4:31 pm

If it seems like I have been busy finishing crafty projects, let me show you what I haven’t been doing….. I present a gallery of barely UNfinished objects on the couch of shame.

To begin, at the top left, the drop stitch cardigan from the Fall 2005 Interweave knits. The yarn is handpaintedyarn.com ejido in “fondo marino.” I really whipped this thing out - it was finished with the knitting in no time. I applied an i-cord edging, then i hand-sewed a zipper into it and wore it school. Like this:

with the zipper sticking out of the top like a big ol’ dork. and then i wore it like that to school again.

Next we have my most recently unfinished object, the Deep-V argyle vest from eunny jang made from knitpicks merino style (asparagus and white). i made it through the steeking okay, and i managed to add a neck band, but i didn’t make it through the arm bands before i decided to wear it out and about.

Luckily my friends were there to help tuck the waste yarn back into my armpits. aaawwww, isn’t that sweet…. And if you are interested, you can see a photo of our wine tasting adventure here (somehow, the sweater is completely obscured).

And finally the oldest unfinished object, my Lamb’s pride worsted weight Rogue Cardigan. what can i say… i keep meaning to order a really nice two-way zipper from zipperstop, but I haven’t. so instead i still wear it all the time and safety pin it shut.

Not pictured: The Ribby Cardi. Current Status: unassembled in a ball somewhere we are not talking about it.

So close to done January 30, 2006

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects, sweater — karrie @ 1:44 pm

I am so close to finishing my rogue hoody that i am wearing it right now. Everything but the zipper. I don’t have any pictures of the finished object, but i do have a picture of the sleeves blocking on my high-tech blocking board (towels on a cardboard box).

I had already started the drop stitch cardigan from the Fall 2005 interweave knits, and now i am flying
along. knitting on 9’s helps.

There you have a very curly back piece, and ~1.5 out of two front pieces. I remain slightly disappointed in the color. I didn’t realize it was going to have so much green in it. here is the photo I saw on the handpaintedyarn.com webpage:

Doesn’t it look like brown, blue, and white? or maybe really light green? I have another finished object to report on, but I will save that for another post.

At least it is a vest! November 9, 2005

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects — karrie @ 12:58 pm

I have progressed far enough on my Rogue that is a wearable object, though not complete.Here she is, curly bottom and all….

I have also made significant progress on the sleeves. I am doing two at once and I am about half finished with them. As a treat to myself for finishing the main body, i wound up some handpainted yarn that i bought for my next cardigan.

It is 100% wool and is not quite the color combo was expecting - the lightest parts are very green colored, which is tough to capture in a picture. It wasn’t captured in the photo on the webpage when I ordered the yarn, so i was surprised by the color, but it is growing on me. i have also started thinking about Christmas knitting. Okay, i know it is a little late. I have basically a month- but i think I can do it! I really just want to make two scarves and a vest. I am planning to use bulky yarn for all of them. The vest will be from the same pattern that I used before , but I might try to modify it to be done mostly in the round, and with a different collar. I am going to use the bulky weight wool/alpace blend from Knitpicks, Sierra. To make the scarves luxurious, I want to use Panache from Knitpicks. It
a bulky weight blend of 40% Baby Alpaca, 20% Cashmere, 20% Silk, 20% Extrafine Merino. I can only imagine how soft that will be. Now I am going to start perusing my Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns for a suitable texture… Oh yeah, and I better order the yarn.