K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

Guys I just bought Tudor Roses for 125 dollars. lolololol

And btw my friend has been trying to convince me to knit Autumn Roses or Venzia (by Yang). I think that is so fucking out of my league. hahaha

i ordered some sock yarn and finally got a set of different sock-size dpns so i can start a pair of socks and not be confined to sizes 0, 1, or 3. it's the same colorway as in this picture http://knitspot.com/wp-content/uploads/dailies_2009/cookieSockCopenhagen11_11.jpg

omg that is just too pretty.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4770515581_5101a0d7a0.jpg

harbl, I love that colorway. Socks are so much fun to make.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4762017366_68ea37d88b_m.jpg

Do YOU see cats? Mice?

Is that your blanket Nath? So awesome! (The answers are yes & yes)

Is that your blanket Nath? So awesome! (The answers are yes & yes)

Yep. I strongly urge you to do stranded knitting. Esp a hat. Very easy. Only rub thing about this blanket is the border. I am pretty sure I will sew on border (and backing).

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/CoffeeAndCream/31853148/Touch_Your_Toes..._medium.JPG

I found a pattern for kitty legwarmers.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4777469585_4512540621.jpg

My icecream!

i am almost done with my first copenhagen sock. it looks a little barfy knitted up but i kind of like it. i worked on it continuously for a few days to get it done so fast though, i think the next one will take me like a month.

So you guys like the Knit Picks nickel-plated interchangeables? I'm thinking about buying a set. I'm also thinking about making one of these little dudes for a friend who's expecting.

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEff10/images/floBEAUTY.jpg

knitting toys is great fun––and it's cuteness therapy! I have been meaning to do this: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elefante but I have to wait until my cranky shoulder heals up before I can do anymore knitting.

I've got the KP interchangeables - love how flexible the cables are and how smooth the joins. I like needles a little grabby, so went with the wood points - they are awesomely sharp, great for lace knitting. I can imagine the nickel ones would be also, but even slicker.

i'm trying to do one of those greenhowe toys. the patterns are awesome but i fear seaming that shit will be... well, shitty. lol.
not too fond of that one, i prefer the elefante. the one julia mentions :-)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4810143010_9e7183ed7b.jpg

OH NOES TWO ROWS OF CATS N MICE. lolol. Have to say that stranding is fucking BORING. and troublesome if you have a starmore project with a gazillion colour changes. lol. i am doing her iceland pattern which NOONE seems to have made. hah! can'ty find a pic ANYWHERE online. i am gonna order lopi yarn.

also doing a test knit: baby blanket. has to be ready in two weeks. ARGH. it was three weeks but i had to wait a week for yarn. grrrr. and now i realize that i won't have enough yarn probably. better order some quickly

btw record collecting is nerve racking. but what about yarn buying? FUCK ME. i was on the wollmeise site. EIGHT MINUTES after update and ALL THE SHIT WAS GONE!!!!!!!! WTF!!! i love wollmeise though. AWESOME colours.

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If I finish cats 'n' mice, I wanna give this one a try. Well, one day. Hmmmmmmmmmm

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4803123862_90af6ec143.jpg

To practice my stranding. It fits Ophelia (and me). lol. It looks weird huh? Well, it is. But on her head it looks kinda cool. Well, it will once I attach a pompom. I have yet to make a pompom (as an adult, did as a child).

That blanket is turning out so cool, Nath! I have made stuff out of lopi before...it kind of feels like it is made of human hair.

I don't get how Wollmeise is worth the $40 people are always selling it for, other than excess demand.

Wollmeise is SFB.

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SFB

None of these make sense!

serious fucking business

Lol. I forgot to check wollmeise again
Abbott the colours are so pretty.

I am gonna make a rowan sweater. I am shit at sweaters... :-( but gotta learn huh...

Can any of you knitting types please explain me the difference between a Lopapeysa and a Fair Isle Jumper? I kinda need to know. Thanks.

Are you asking bcz of the Richard D James sweater? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but they're not too different. They both use stranded knitting techniques (alternating difft colors of yarn in the same row). The main difference is Lopapeysa is made from a type of Icelandic yarn called Lopi, and is traditional to Iceland. Fair Isle comes from the Shetland Islands & uses a difft type of wool (traditionally). Sometimes people use "fair isle" as just shorthand term for stranded knitting. I'm not expert, but I'm guessing RDJ's sweater, with music notes, is not some traditional Icelandic pattern.

Oh and apparently that's Chris Cunningham. That looks like it's made of some fat fucking yarn.

http://www.jsaintil.com/typo3temp/pics/8aa01a5d98.jpg

Looked Lopapeysa up b/c I'd never heard of it - the lopi yarn is apparently not spun and the guard hairs are left in the fleece, so it's not easy to work with by very lofty and warm. Looks like the Lopapeysa is generally a yoke design, while Fair Isle can be yoke but also all-over.

Yes, sorry, that's Chris Cunningham. I know him & RDJ look very alike, but he's the dark-haired one and RDJ is the ginger.

So do you reckon, based on the thickness of the yarn, whether that is a Lopapeysa or a Fair Isle or someone's girlfriend knitting an awesome custom design?

Hrrmmm, guard hairs - I am going to have to look up this lopi yarn, it sounds interesting.

Lopi is weird, it feels like it's made of human hair, kind of. Here's a (blurry) pic of my husband in a hat I made him that is made of Lopi:

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/Abbigail/19579176/yarn_shots_004_medium.JPG

I can't tell what his sweater might be made of bcz of pics' resolution. Could be anything? I hope he found it at a thrift store or something, because if someone custom made me a sweater with little T-rex arm sleeves like his has, I'd be sad. It does look home-made, though.

http://a.imageshack.us/img153/4691/03soundvision2.jpg

Fair isle is a colour knitting technique. Stranding (because of the running strands on the wrong side). Can use dozens of colours but only two colours per row. The other is a sweater made in iceland. Has a specific yoke form both sides the same.
That one he is sweater is pretty easy to make.

Also lopi yarn is water deterrent (?)

That is a very cute hat, but I could be distracted by the cutesness of the young man modelling it. ;-)

Here is a higher res pic of the jumper:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/masonicboomk8/4821451139/sizes/o/

(linked coz it came out of photoshop huge - but the original pic doesn't seem to have been very good quality so I'm not sure it helps.)

I assumed the sleeves were just pushed up, rather than it being actually T Rex-shaped, but now you mention it, it does sit pretty high on his hips so it probably wasn't made for him.

i made a hat from lopi, too. i like itchy yarns. it came out a little big for me so i gave it to my brother.

OK, going by Nath's post, it's not a Fair Isle, then, because close up reveals it's got 3 colours in each row - black, white and grey.

But it's sort of mottled in the yoke bit, like Mr. Abbot's hat. Hrmmm.

Yes fair isle is only two colours per row. Weird because it looks like fair isle!

Also lopi yarn is water deterrent (?)

All wool is water resistant.

I know but they do sth to make it non absorbant or sth. I forgot

about a third done with second sock. i can get so tired of socks but i think they are the most useful project. and i only ever want to make plain stockinette socks. i'm starting a job where i'm gonna get real paid soon so i let myself order some sweater yarn, might do this one modified to be shorter and tighter: http://needled.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/manu.jpg
i don't like baggy sleeves.

I have to say her owls sweater came out wrong twice. My friend also got a bad result. Way too short. Apart from that I think she makes awesome things.

my owls sweater fits! but i had to remove one of the short row dips, i'm short-waisted

Oh shit I forgot to mention: the children's version.

So I'm now at KnitCamp. It has turned into a fucking disaster as the organisers didn't get the workpermits in time for the american teachers. On Ravelry it has turned into a Rubberneck thread: reading one particular thread on the KnitCamp forum is a lot of fun. I posted something positive and of course got a gazillion disagrees. But y'know they are right in a way: this has turned into a disaster. Lots of classes fallen through or reorganised. But they are also wrong: just roll with it, have fun and take another class. Which I am. :-)

I just spent an epic week making a "bolero" (just looks like a short-sleeved cardigan) to wear to my sister-in-law's wedding. I can't believe what I can get done if I stay up until 2 a.m. every night.

I just started a sock on two circs and I think I'm a convert. I was getting really tired of all the picking up & putting down of DPNs.

I am going to learn double knitting in November!

i did a couple pairs of socks on one circ and then i went back to dpns! never done 2 circs. still working on that last pair because i started a sweater. maybe i'll go back to it this weekend.

This puppet from the new Knitty really creeps me out

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEdf10/images/chowALT3.jpg

Okay what the fuck is that?

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Finished this in a couple of days. Gonna make another one with Noro. Yipee.

You are so good at stranded knitting, Nath! I still haven't given it a shot.

My favorite yarn store in town is having a pretty sweet sale today, I am waiting for my big fucking headache to subside so I can go check it out. (The cool thing about Tucson is it has five more yarn stores than Las Cruces did, (5 + 0 =5))

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Finally finished the Terra (by Jared Flood). It looks nice - still has to be blocked - but is a pretty boring knit, tbh. Also, his pattern writing can be confusing at times: my version of the pattern neglected to say that you had to keep the three garter edge stitches, which was later corrected/added. I know a bit of lace knitting so I knew you had to keep it going, but others were of course confused.

Abbott, stranded knitting (in the round) is dead easy. Have a go, you'll discover it is especially easy with norwegian patterns. I made the above pattern in a smaller version with black and noro. As I had leftover from the black skein, I decided to make one for my mom.
Then again my drops mittens is MEH. It looks okay but I hated that they didn't include a fully chart for the mittens. Next up will be space invaders mittens for my husband.

Started lady february sweater.

i was doing the manu cardigan but i was so frustrated at how different my gauge is when i purl that i decided to quit. i need to learn to steek so i can knit cardigans in the round. i am doing the lightweight pullover instead using berroco ultra alpaca light. it's going very fast. even when all the stitches are knits i still knit unevenly somehow but it'll come out when it's blocked i guess

Harbl, you should do a KAL with me:

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/LuckyinKy/18070904/CCW11209--0422_medium2.jpg

Isn't this lovely????

Finally doing the Lady February Sweater. This is so fucking easy.