K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

Not like you're "selling out" but that you'll run out of stock ASAP.

she helpfully included the url just in case i wasn't familiar with knitty.

xp yeah i know! she said to stock up. eeeeep.

Hahaha, my friend who just learned to knit asked me a couple times, "Have you heard of this web site for knitters called Knitty?"

btw Julia I failed to mention that your news is FUCKING SWEET.

yeah, it's about as obscure as ravelry.

thanks! i'm totally thrilled and freaked out. holy SHIT.

the issue goes live in mid-march. i think i'm making some stitch markers this weekend.

Wow JuliaA!!! That's awesome, but holy crap kind of terrifying too! In an exciting way though.

My friend who I gave the "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" set to adores them and needed them so badly to get his sweater finished - he was using random bits of wire and paperclips!

Awesome, Julia!!!

OMG HOLY SHIT WOW. i just got an email that my etsy stitch markers are going to be featured in motherfucking KNITTY.

late to the game but this is fucking awesome news!

ANYWAY, I'm most probably going to do the Mountain Ash shawl. I ordered a shitload of Japanese knitting books. Friend suggested I just start up the shawl. WAH? I hardly think I'm capable! But heck it's in sportweight and doesn't have any frigging nupps (like the Baltic Blossom shawl I'm doing now).

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/___68MN07ag8/RXhDpY8NxSI/AAAAAAAAAGw/lASInnd2bMk/s1600-h/Mountain+Ash1.jpg

This is Fleegle's or Grumperina's shawl.

See another shawl (with fucking nupps) I made=

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4484064728_74c88710bc.jpg

Oh lolz.

http://www.grumpyknitter.com/mountainash/fma3.jpg

thanks nath! knitty was exciting. my listing is near the bottom of this page: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEss10/FEATss10stuff.php (the knitoramaa stitch markers)

nath, you always get all self-deprecating about your knitting skillz, but that shawl proves otherwise. gorgeous! i've heard that nupps are a pita.

i swapped services/yarn with a rav person, who knit me this:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4347206702_60400fd55a.jpg

i gave it to my mom and she looooves it so yay. it's not as pooly as it looks in the pic--the colors look really good in the actual shawl. i hate how blues are so off in photos sometimes. that's with CTH supersock in blue/green potluck. the pattern is rhytidome.

i haven't knit for eons. i miss it. but i'm focused on keeping stitch markers stocked up for my etsy shop, and my hands are hurtier than they used to be, so i can't get that much done with knitting.

but, a couple of years ago i did a bunch of bears for the mother bear project. they were a great way to learn magic loop, and also they were cuteness therapy knitting. as well as a great way to use a bunch of acrylic. my mother insisted on buying two of them from me at the time, which i thought seemed silly, but whatev. one of them was the best one i did.

and then my sister had a baby and the baby got the good bear. she doesn't say many words yet (baba mama dada etc), but she does say beh! when she wants her bear, and she loves that bear. which i think is adorable and charming. of course.

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/juliaa/21880464/P1030417_medium.JPG

i'm knitting one just for her, but it's horrific fun fur (never again!) and it may take me a while to finish. i'll get it to her by her fifth birthday. she's just about to turn one, so i think that's reasonable.

Oh what a sweet baby! And I am envious of you having knit a bear. Alas I have way too many projects I want to do and as a result bears don't come into the picture.

Nupps are indeed a fucking pain in the motherfucking ass to knit. But it gets easier. Especially with a thinner DPN. lol.

The shawl you see above (and that I knitted) was not that difficult actually. Lace shawls are pretty easy if you keep track. I just want to move on and do some new patts which incorporate for example knitted on borders. I'll probably need help from friends. (Yes! I have friends who KNIT and do it VERY WELL.)

I switched a class (for Knit Camp). I had enrolled in Intro to Lace Knitting which is now hilarious as I can do some lace knitting. lol. I switched to FAIR ISLE. HURRAH! I mainly want to do hats in fair isle. :-))))

Learning some Norwegian shit

So what norwegian shit are you learning?

Me, I think I overdid it with the Mountain Ash shawl. This shit is driving me bonkers.

http://www.merelkarhof.nl/merel_karhof_-_product_design/wind_knitting_factory_files/siteview_windknittingfactory_merelkarhof_copyright.jpg

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With the power of the wind, a knitting machine knits from the outside towards the inside of a building. The knitted material is harvested from time to time and rounded-off in individually packaged scarves. Each scarf has its own label which tells you in how much time it has been knitted and on which date.

oops: http://www.merelkarhof.nl/merel_karhof_-_product_design/wind_knitting_factory.html

awesome idea , a+

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4625059510_48191ca3d7.jpg

This is two weeks of work. LOLOLOL. I can only do three rows per night. That's three hours of knitting, y'all. But I more or less figured it out. Learned tons (about how yardage and so on works). Also, I do like the method he used: instead of knitting on the border afterwards, he does frigging shorts rows. I hope to finish this in a month but I doubt it'll take that long. Probably longer.

I also finished my clapotis:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1092/4606292575_4dfcced058.jpg

And started a citron. Man, that shit's boring. But I needed something to use my zephyr lace weight yarn. I tried the Mountain Ash with Zephyr but A too dark and B too fine to tink with that frigging yarn.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4618541998_9b95af0505.jpg

BTW that mountain ash will end up being wider than 2 meters, I'm so fucking sure. But my mom - who has claimed it - doesn't care AT ALL.

Nath, those are gorgeous!

I haven't been knitting at all. My day job is very typing intensive and I get tendinitis flare-ups in my wrists and so no knitting for awhile. Pfbbbt.

Short rows blow my mind! I tried doing a short row heel on my most recent sock and was too baffled to finish it...I ripped it out & just did a reliable flap heel.

short rows are really cool once you catch on, and totally confounding til then. i'm doing a calorimetry right now, which has pretty understandable short rows.

tendonitis sucks. mine has gotten ridiculous so i'm on a quest for an ergonomic-ish mouse to replace my comp touchpad. and i'm barely doing any knitting.

nath, gorgeous stuff! love the clap especially.

I blocked my fucking clap (-> lol fucking clap how apt) and it worked! It's really frigging flat now.

Man, that citron is beyond boring. Of course I used a smaller needle. And me being a tight knitter means I will have to do TEN reps instead of five. But yeah okay I'll do it.

I think I have done about ten centimeters in TWO WEEKS. lolz

http://www.dizzysheep.com/

These guys are doing like the yarn equiv of a "woot off" until the end of Monday at midnight. SO a new sale yarn every 45 mins or so, or when they all sell out. I haven't bought anything yet but I am so Pavloved out on this.

the dizzy deals are so tempting. usually they're daily.

They have Dream in Color up now.

I have my yarn addiction completely under control because I don't buy random anymore plus I focus on two wips at a time. And my mountain ash is also keeping me busy. One month: 50 rows. Lololol
Ialso decided to buy nice yarn (mostly). None of that crap one euro yarn anymore. I have had it w that shit. Yep I am a yarn snob. Lol

Btw I re-enrolled in my class cause I want to do Herbstlied. Google and realize: this is just sth to knit, never wear. Lol

It looks pretty fricking awesome, imo.

I was just asked by my mum to knit something for a friend's baby. ARGH! I had given her the nupps shawl (mentioned above, in brownish colour). I figured I was freed from the task. lol. So now I have to knit Milo in about a week. I did a swatch. Probably still can't calculate it properly but it seems my tension has loosened and is now NORMAL. WAH? :-)

i haven't been knitting either, not interested in any of my wips. i might just start something brand new soon.

was doing the aestlight shawl (i like triangular scarves) but i lost interest when i got to the hard part after the straight garter stitching ended.

Hard how? If it doesn't have any nupps, it can't be hard. Just kidding. I just discovered a GIGANTIC GLARING mistake in my Mountain Ash! lolz I ain't gonna say it cause you need to observe it up close. My mum's gonna frigging wear it, no way someone is going to check the center stitch. Oops, I gave it away. lolz.

That darn CItron is booooooooring.

it's not really hard at all, you pick up stitches on the edge and go back and forth. it just felt uncomfortable on the needles, all twisted around, and i lost interest. more my fault than the pattern's, i'll pick it up again soon.

i really want to start a new sweater and actually finish it this time. if i start now it'll be ready by fall!

Can you do combination knitting (which is for example handy when you do entrelac)?

nah i basically have to hold the needles vertical. i can do it a little bit but my stitches end up too loose.

I just made a triangular scarf – the Daybreak shawl – and it turned out a lot bigger than I hoped for. I'm thinking I might have to design my own to get one I like. I also like the Springtime Bandit one, but really, I want one that doesn't come down more than a couple inches below my collarbone.

What about citron? You can do as many reps as you like...

Btw my friend is doing the miralda one by, i think, nancy bush. I am so jealous of her speed and talent

someone brought me a box of books at the store and i saw one on top and went OMG NED HAS A NEW BOOK but it wasn't ned after all

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pZTLoF3jL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

sorry ned

bahahahaha

That never occurred to me before, but now it's all I'll be able to see. The Yarn Harlot is Ned!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/4405819472_cd25106730.jpg

Sweet Dale sweater, Ned!

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/Abbigail/19322619/abbiepics_002_medium.jpg

Not sure if I shared this here before, but I made this lil' monkey for my mom. When I went to visit her recently, she has it displayed leaning against this porcelain model of the Idaho Falls Mormon temple.

i died @ "sweet dale sweater ned"

nath, your knitting is always inspiring. v beautiful.

the norwegian stitching thing i was working on is too hard for me

Packed up all my yarn for moving - it's a lot more than I thought I had, 6 banker boxes full. I'm nearly finished with the 2-at-a-time toe-up socks I started in April, but haven't had a lot of time for knitting lately.

Thanks Rox. Really I think my knitting sucks. But I guess that's because I am demanding and pick way too complex projects. (unlike my friends who's stuck in stockinette land. NEVER strays from it.)

6 boxes? my stash is decreasing. YAY. i only buy yarn for specific projects. also, my mountain ash is keeping me busy. lol

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL19/1338926/15412762/238835283.jpg

my next way too complex project. like fuck i am ever gonna wear it. just want to make.

Someone made their dog a pair of leg warmers:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/4472222604_131de6eafb.jpg

Someone made their dog a pair of leg warmers:

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Dude looks cool. Lol

Dudes; I have had it with lace knitting. Mountain Ash is a UFO (lol). And I started the Jared Flood Juneberry. Fun, yes, because I replaced bobbles (blergh) with beads.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1175/4723373953_3b40097e26.jpg

But I have decided to teach myself STRANDED KNITTING. Friend keeps saying it's easy. Doubt it. But what have I decided? To order myself an Alice Starmore Cats 'n' Mice blanket kit. HAHAHAHAHAHA I also got myself two of her books. One is 35 euros. Yikes. Anyway:

http://farouche.smugmug.com/photos/236884174-L.jpg

First I am gonna do a stranded hat. I "concocted" pattern myself. I'll show it when it's ready.

Oh yeah, I might be doing a course in Brussels. My mom (in Japan) introduced me to the teacher (via someone who resides in Japan and is a mutual friend.).

Oh yeah, blanket is done in the round and you have to do STEEEEEEEEKS cutting. ARGH! But better than doing stranded purling, I guess. LOLOL. I have decided to do the stranding combo stylee (so one yarn in left and other in right hand).

Anyone here done stranded knitting? Should I be not afraid or VERY afraid? I was taught in my course but didn't pay much attention cause I had zero interest.

Also, those Starmore sweaters are horrid. Prefer Yang's designs.