K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

I am too full of indie lurgy to knit. I am LOOKING at my knitting. I am adding every knitting pattern to my queue on ravelry but can I actually knit, noooooooo.

I want to start revontuli
(http://www.christinaslattery.com/blog/2008/05/22/presenting-the-revontuli-shawl/)

AND a turban! (I've just realised it's 2ply held double == yeah world of dk!)#

However... blergh :(

My mom-in-law sent this email to my husband and me:

i just wanted to ask is abbott pregnant? just a fleeting thought. (came with your remark that abbott has lots of time to knit). and i wanted to let you know that whatever you two choose to do with your lives (except being crooked politicians) we're behind you all the way. we love you both and are proud of you both, and respect all your choices as grownups.

I knit all the time around her for the past 2 yrs so I'm not sure why now she thinks this means I'm pregnant?

lol abbott!!

i finished the acorns hat over xmas/ny break. i don't even like to wear hats but they are the funnest thing to make and i just want to have a pile of them. madelinetosh vintage is my new favorite yarn, i made this one out of it.

im making a scarf right now, its made up of little individual knitted leaves of different kinds and shades.

Knitting roundup:

1. Ashworth scarf. STALLED. I ph34r the Wollmeise is not the sort of drapey fuzzy yarn that the scarf needs! But can't face ripping back without another proper project for it. SO, grey/white wollmeise, laceweight - any ideas?? I have just under a mile of it. not I am NOT KIDDING.

2. Revontuli shawl - enjoying it, possibly cz after hours of 2.75mm knitting, 5.5mm needle knitting speeds ahead. Very nice so far, and mistakes only add the the pleasure of finished item. My first shawl!

QUEUED TO MAKE:

1. Cityscape cardigan (as mentioned above!) - got pattern for wobs, and am after my pal to dye up some wool for me. We are thinking slate green body and perhaps a faded burnt yellow for the sky? (She has mooted blue for an underwater city effect, but I am not so sure, as the blue would have to be spot on...)

2. ELEPHANTS! ELEPHANTS! ELEPHANTS!
http://knittingbykaae.blogspot.com/2010/04/elephants-in-stripes-test-strikning-af.html

Here is another elephant. He is super:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/holofernes/edward-the-eggwarming-elephant

Oh god, I LOVE those elephants! I should try knitting something like that for my Mom's birthday - she loves and collects elephant stuff, and goes crazy over ANYTHING I make, even if it's, like, a garter stitch sample. Haw.

A question:
What fibers are best for knitting a rug, in particular a bathroom or kitchen rug? I guess I want it to be absorbent, but not too absorbent? Anyone ever made one of these btw?

The first Mason-Dixon book had a log cabin rug made of Peaches & Cream/Sugar & Cream kitchen cotton held triple!
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/absorba-the-great-bathmat

There is also the thing where ppl cut up old t-shirts to make yarn which has the whole like '70s rag rug vibe that I kinda dig but OTOH fuck cutting up t-shirts all day imo.

abbs this is great!! because i have so much of that yarn!

The kitchen cotton? Do you have it in cone form?

Size 15 needles!

oh wait, no, it's not kitchen anything. haw. just the original peaches and cream stuff, like in peaches and cream color and all. i came into a cache of old fashioned knitting stuff at a yard sale last year - tons of ooooold susan bates needles on the old, original 60s-looking cardstock, and tons of peaches and cream!

what IS kitchen cotton? is it reinforced or something? i should google.

i dont even know what i mean by "reinforced"

I just call Sugar & Cream/Peaches & Cream "kitchen cotton" – picked the term up from a friend – bcz it seems to be used mostly for dishcloths, potholders, kitcheny stuff, like not for wearing.

oic and otm

btw rox I found a mitten pattern for you

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BuBAvr7XdzQ/TScXhlFMmjI/AAAAAAAABcw/3vsXnVezn9M/s400/icanhas01.jpg

CUTE!!

check this out yall:

http://style-files.com/2006/12/09/christien-meindertmas-giant-knitwork/

whoa, what size needle are those??

I think Lion Brand had a line of yarn called Kitchen Cotton, which was similar to Peaches & Cream/Sugar N Creme & I think had a patten for a rug made out of it.

The One Skein book has a pattern for a crochet bath matt made out of Peaches & Creme doubled.

So basically, all the kitchen/bath rug patterns I have come across use some sort of cotton.

lol Pom Pom Rug

pom pom rugs just seem like a bad idea, esp having cats

Great haul at All the Fun of the Fair yesterday - they are about to close for refurb so everything is on sale.

Picked up 6x balls of black chunky (going to make the o w l s jumper - but already I know I'm going to mod the heck out of it - it's got to be top down and I don't like all the shaping at the back - black would hide a lot of sins but I it looks like it might be nicer done more evenly), some circ addi turbos 3.25mm (am sure they will come in useful), knitpro metal 6mm tips (for the owls jumper - annoyingly you rib on 6 and then go up to 6.5 for the body, who has 6.5mm circs, NOT ME chiz...), a small...

pom pom maker!!

Oh oh, and "insouciant socks" by Cat Bordhi. AWFUL title, but it was on sale. It actually looks really good and I've never made socks using that method before.

(I'd get "eat.sock.love" (ewwww) if it were a fiver I guess. But it wasn't. Cookie A is coming to visit a yarn shop round here at some point, but I'm not sure if I'll go as I've never made any of her patterns come to think. Oops).

Further to my plea upthread, thought I'd just update on current knitting situation for my wife: As part of her birthday swag I got her a 6-hr course, Brant's "Ultimate Knitting Bible" book and then visited fairly new local knit supplies shop for yarn etc. They were super helpful and I emerged with a tote bag, needles and Noro pattern book and yarn (expensive wool! as you all know). Tina had her first lesson this week - she was a bit apprehensive beforehand, but really enjoyed it and came back with an immaculately neat bit of sample work (I was very proud).

Thanks again to ILx Knitting Local 2378 for all the advice - really appreciated.

Heh glad she's enjoying it!

Is anyone else having problems with Ravelry running like a 3 legged dog? I have a bunch of messages to read and Rav won't open them, and it's full of red x missing graphics. And I'm on IE so it can't be a Firefox problem (doesn't work AT ALL with Firefox at home). It's a great resource but urgh goddd COME ON, it's Friday afternoon, have a heart :(

I am goingto Knit Nation. Yipee!

On my ipad so can not post pics. Maybe for the best. Lolol

Off to knit fiore di mare shawl and cobblestone sweatah.

Going to get this book.

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/knitaly/529608/cover_small.jpg

Oh no!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevienixed/5351621745/

Shit. Nevermind. :-)

Just saw something on Twitter that Rav has lost a server or something and are trying to get it fixed pronto.

I'm doing cables for the first time - totally screwed up initially, didn't realized bringing stitches to the front or the back actually mattered, but no way am I frogging and restarting so the scarf looks like snakes emerging out of utter chaos.

Do you use a cable?i have since I knit too tight.

I'm definitely using a cable needle - I watched over the shoulder of someone doing cables w/o one but then couldn't fathom it for myself when the work was in front of me. I've got a too-slippery aluminum bird's wing one - thinking about getting a set of wooden ones from KnitPicks along with some of their new Chroma yarn.

I <3 my wooden cable needles. They weigh very little. Trying to just used a pencil as a cable needle did not work the one time I tried it.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1337.snc4/162979_492832584395_789174395_5738896_7210234_n.jpg

i bought a set of cable needles a while back. i've never used anything else

Does anyone know a good online source for snap-on plastic safety noses and eyes sold in the U.S.? You would think somewhere in Tucson would sell noses, but nope. And v few dift kind of eyes. My family all wants me to make them toys.

am working on this http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/aidez/aidez.html but annoyed that my row gauge is 5/inch rather than 4/inch. i would have been done with the left front and a sleeve by now if it was right.

Abbott - when I was searching for stockists in the UK I found a bunch of US based people giving resources - I remember lots of posters were saying they found them in JoAnn, which I am guessing is some sort of chain thingie! Try that, or otherwise, well, don't listen to the person on the other side of the Atlantic :)

What do you all think of the patterns in the new knitty?

I am immediately taken by Palisander, and think I might make one on smaller needles with the wollmeise. Might see how off gauge it goes. I have no problems with creating a thinner scarf, but I do like my scarves long. We'll see! Reversible scarves FTW!

Not immediately taken by others, but could change my mind. I don't like Constantine at all :( But then again I suppose some knitters *like* to make things that look as if you could buy them at any Primark... meh. Perhaps it's the meh colour sample it's knitted in? IDK.

Thx superpitching – I tried Joann's, and they have some eyes and no noses. (Also I don't know what the deal is with that place but always 20 mins in line, no matter how many or few ppl in the store.)
I did find this place, tho, with a nice nose selection: http://www.suncatchereyes.net/index.html
And these guys, who offer "undead" eyes! http://www.etsy.com/shop/EnamiEyes

I find looking at toys eyes on the internet really creepy tbh. Look at their staring dead eyes argh argh argh. If you put them onto a soft toy what if they make the soft toy... kill??

Anyway that's just my er, take on those. (This is why I like the ami style round simple black eyes. Less room for psychopathic inference).

Wondering whether I should actually post this or not. Hey why not.

I did not know there was a new Knitty! <3 I agree that the Palisander is nice – I like the cabley thing on the back to make it reversible. Would be lovely in Wollmeise (!!!!) too, as I think it's too wide right now...I have a couple skeins of ultra alpaca light, I wonder if that wld work for it...

I think the turn of the glass cardigan is pretty & wld probably look flattering on me, but it is a shame the designer lazied out on putting in buttonholes. I wouldn't want to use a shawl pin on a sweater. I think the Shelburne mittens would make good gifts for my sisters up in Idaho. I like the Quest hat, too.

Just yesterday I was admiring a Japanese book which contains NOTHING BUT reversible scarves, yum yum (I wonder if it's time for another play-asia/amazonJP order). So Palisander's caught me in the right mood :)

In agreement on the TOG cardie, but she does suggest snaps and I think they might work, if you weren't a little tubster like me and snaps would probably gape a bit.

(I wonder if I am one of the only knitters who hates shawl pins! I dunno why, I just sort of resent their presence in my life! Then again I hated olives for years and now I could happily scoff them by the jar).

Joanie is nothing like anything Joan Harris would wear, and that line of ribbing ending on the boob would be most unflattering (looks nice on the small-boobed models, though).

The collar on Joanie is totally weird and giant. IDK what it is but like 90% of sweater patterns have these giant, gaping necklines...all the ones in this issue seem to.

I see where they were coming from with Jacqueline, (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEw11/PATTjacqueline.php)

("mod culture, Chanel jackets, and, of course, Jackie O" <-- yeah yeah)

but it doesn't do anything for me in that bulky guage, and *another* button down collar. And the buttons pull even on tiny model cutie :( I'd be inclined to get a smaller yarn and go back to the drawing board as I do like the OTT neck shape. A bit...

do i want to make this or not, i cant decide http://twistcollective.com/2010/winter/magazinepage_07.php

I like that very much.

Hmm I don't know! I really like the bias cables, but I'm not really keen on those sorts of collars m'self. YMMV!

If I am being VERY nitpicky, I wonder if the sleeves are a little bulgy at the joins? But that's very nitpicky. Reverse st. st is a bit sproingy, or it could just be the joining. Or the light! Or pixies!! Argh!

maybe i will. i've never had anything with that kind of collar. and yeah the sleeves do look puffy. that isn't something i can't fix though (lol yeah right i suck at sleeves). i'm in the mood to make sweaters at worsted weight or heavier because i want to feel like i'm accomplishing something. also hats, i want to make infinite hats