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October 20, 2003
WIP Update
Let's have a look at the various works-in-progress:
This is the baby sweater I'm making from Dale 'Baby Ull.' This has been a frustrating sweater so far, though no fault of the yarn or the pattern. I keep finding little errors that require ripping back three or four rows. I've done this at least three times. This is not typical for me... Perhaps it's because I'm feeling a bit rushed, what with the baby due very soon. But I'm making it for a size 9-months, so it's not like I need to drop it in the mail the minute I get the announcement.
This is Lochinver; it's on hold while I work on the baby sweater. I'm at the point on the first sleeve where I need to switch to dpn's, and at the yarn store last week I forgot to pick up a set of size 5's.
These are the grey Regia's that I'm making for my husband. I'm down to the heel flap on the first one. This is my take-along project, so I do make some progress on it away from home (soccer games, etc.)
Finally, here are the Koigu socks, and I ran out of yarn with less than an inch to go on the second toe. My local yarn store no longer carries this particular color, so I need to surf the web to find the elusive third skein.
Today, I'm going to set aside my knitting and do some badly needed housework, filing, de-cluttering, etc. My pile of knitting crap has nearly overtaken a corner of the family room. My husband's too nice to comment but I can see the look on his face.
Comments
Oooh. The non-verbal comment. I hate those! It's awfully gorgeous "knitting crap", BTW :)
Posted by: Patricia Tryon at October 21, 2003 12:43 AM
Beautiful knitting crap, LOL! I'm concerned about the Koigu Broadripple socks; I too, have this pattern and two skeins of Koigu in line to knit. Were you using full skeins? Should I start looking now for a third skein of my color?
Posted by: Lisa at October 22, 2003 09:09 AM
Lisa, if you will make the socks just one-half to one inch shorter than what the pattern calls for, you should be just fine. However, I wear a size 9 shoe, so if you have a shorter foot you might even get away with making the socks exactly acccording to the pattern instructions and come out just fine.
Posted by: karen at October 22, 2003 03:39 PM