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2.27.2004
fuzzy contact
In dog agility, there is a term fuzzy contact, for when you and your dog accidentally touch while running a course. Like wet nose to hand or something like that. This project somehow also merits the term.
The ironic thing is that this simple fun fur scarf was the most loved of all the holiday presents I made for anyone. My friend Laura wore it once and it started unraveling from the middle, where the two colors meet. Honestly, I don't even know what the hell happened. This is what it looked like (yup, those are loops sticking out of each former garter stitch row). It looked like someone took a bite out of it.
So after ignoring it for weeks, I did this:
Put two knitting needles several rows down from "the area" in both directions. Then cut the scarf across the middle. I had never cut my knitting with scizzors before. It was liberating. And sort of like performing surgery on a muppet.
Then I frogged back to each needle and made sure all stitches were accounted for (by holding up to the light; not easy with this fluffy stuff).
Then did a 3-needle bind-off and what do you know. Fuzzy contact.
I only did all this because Laura really loves this scarf. I gave it to her at work and she wore it all day today. Nice.
In dog agility, there is a term fuzzy contact, for when you and your dog accidentally touch while running a course. Like wet nose to hand or something like that. This project somehow also merits the term.
The ironic thing is that this simple fun fur scarf was the most loved of all the holiday presents I made for anyone. My friend Laura wore it once and it started unraveling from the middle, where the two colors meet. Honestly, I don't even know what the hell happened. This is what it looked like (yup, those are loops sticking out of each former garter stitch row). It looked like someone took a bite out of it.
So after ignoring it for weeks, I did this:
Put two knitting needles several rows down from "the area" in both directions. Then cut the scarf across the middle. I had never cut my knitting with scizzors before. It was liberating. And sort of like performing surgery on a muppet.
Then I frogged back to each needle and made sure all stitches were accounted for (by holding up to the light; not easy with this fluffy stuff).
Then did a 3-needle bind-off and what do you know. Fuzzy contact.
I only did all this because Laura really loves this scarf. I gave it to her at work and she wore it all day today. Nice.
2.25.2004
kyoto lives!
And dear god is it boring. I haven't knitted this much square since I was 5. But it's very beautiful, Elann Sonata in Dark Olive.
For variety, I've given in and started a multidirectional scarf. And I have to admit this pattern is really fun to knit. Maybe there's a reason why everybody and their mother is making one. This one's in the Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock and I think it's so delicate and small it's going to be for my tiny Mother In Law. She is truly small, like under 5 feet and 98 pounds. She can wear it to church.
And dear god is it boring. I haven't knitted this much square since I was 5. But it's very beautiful, Elann Sonata in Dark Olive.
For variety, I've given in and started a multidirectional scarf. And I have to admit this pattern is really fun to knit. Maybe there's a reason why everybody and their mother is making one. This one's in the Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock and I think it's so delicate and small it's going to be for my tiny Mother In Law. She is truly small, like under 5 feet and 98 pounds. She can wear it to church.
2.23.2004
coffee & sweets
My coffee colored banff is moving along, slowly since the sleeves are so gigantic. Despite not finishing anything, I went to a really wonderful LYS yesterday, called Lint. I bought this sweet little ball of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Vera and some Crystal Palace bamboo needles (size 2).
Like I need more yarn.
p.s. I haven't blogged much the past few days because I had to revamp my art web site since the radio show was playing this week. Take a look if you have a minute and are interested; I kind of like it. :-)
My coffee colored banff is moving along, slowly since the sleeves are so gigantic. Despite not finishing anything, I went to a really wonderful LYS yesterday, called Lint. I bought this sweet little ball of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Vera and some Crystal Palace bamboo needles (size 2).
Like I need more yarn.
p.s. I haven't blogged much the past few days because I had to revamp my art web site since the radio show was playing this week. Take a look if you have a minute and are interested; I kind of like it. :-)
2.20.2004
leftovers
I'm clearing out again, woo hoo. My stash is overflowing into the bedroom and things I'm done with must go. This is just the first, but I'm listing a bunch of stuff (I intend to anyway) today and tomorrow:
3 skeins of Manos in Wildflowers
I'm clearing out again, woo hoo. My stash is overflowing into the bedroom and things I'm done with must go. This is just the first, but I'm listing a bunch of stuff (I intend to anyway) today and tomorrow:
3 skeins of Manos in Wildflowers
2.19.2004
shameless self promotion
I'm on this show on NPR this week, talking about my sculpture work (including one knitted piece). Larissa Brown, that's me. Sorry for the plug, but it's my career y'know? If you're interested and you miss it on the radio, this link will allow you to hear the piece:
Studio 360 This Week
I'm on this show on NPR this week, talking about my sculpture work (including one knitted piece). Larissa Brown, that's me. Sorry for the plug, but it's my career y'know? If you're interested and you miss it on the radio, this link will allow you to hear the piece:
Studio 360 This Week
ok, got that out of my system
You are pink aluminum.
Retro, straightforward and fun, you love classic
things. If they're 99 cents at Goodwill all the
better! You are moved by striking colors and
tasty morsels, and you like a stitch-n-bitch
session in the sun. Just remember, while
you're being kitschy cool, don't get too cold.
Ice cubes are best kept in your cocktails,
baby!
What kind of knitting needles are you?
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You are pink aluminum.
Retro, straightforward and fun, you love classic
things. If they're 99 cents at Goodwill all the
better! You are moved by striking colors and
tasty morsels, and you like a stitch-n-bitch
session in the sun. Just remember, while
you're being kitschy cool, don't get too cold.
Ice cubes are best kept in your cocktails,
baby!
What kind of knitting needles are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
It takes a long time to make a quiz. Whew!
2.18.2004
chocolate pudding
That's my frogged banff sleeve. I left the big ribbing in and just decreased the "body" of the sleeve, so I won't look like Henry VIII. Seems to be working! I already want to make another banff in a different yarn, but I must finish and love this one for itself. So I need to keep at it and try to enjoy it.
In lighter news, I got a cool book in the mail: Anna Zilboorg's Magnificent Mittens. And the hat next to it is one I finished a few years ago from her hat book. I'm saving it for my someday baby (ok, it accidentally came out small).
That's my frogged banff sleeve. I left the big ribbing in and just decreased the "body" of the sleeve, so I won't look like Henry VIII. Seems to be working! I already want to make another banff in a different yarn, but I must finish and love this one for itself. So I need to keep at it and try to enjoy it.
In lighter news, I got a cool book in the mail: Anna Zilboorg's Magnificent Mittens. And the hat next to it is one I finished a few years ago from her hat book. I'm saving it for my someday baby (ok, it accidentally came out small).
2.17.2004
huge, great
The sleeve from banff had its own weather system. I know it's supposed to be big, even really big. But the schematic shows the width of the sleeve as 18". Mine was 24" across! It was big enough to be the front of a sweater all on its own, and it was eating up yarn like nobody's business. I frogged it back to the ribbing, and I am having to make several decreases after the ribbing to make this sleeve a human size. This is very frustrating. I hope I end up with something wearable. Drat.
The sleeve from banff had its own weather system. I know it's supposed to be big, even really big. But the schematic shows the width of the sleeve as 18". Mine was 24" across! It was big enough to be the front of a sweater all on its own, and it was eating up yarn like nobody's business. I frogged it back to the ribbing, and I am having to make several decreases after the ribbing to make this sleeve a human size. This is very frustrating. I hope I end up with something wearable. Drat.
2.14.2004
sweet thing
Block me, baby. That's sweetness with some added waist shaping, worked in Manos wildflowers and black with size 10 needles. Once it's blocked and dried I'll give a body shot. I haven't finished a sweater in years. What a feeling!
Block me, baby. That's sweetness with some added waist shaping, worked in Manos wildflowers and black with size 10 needles. Once it's blocked and dried I'll give a body shot. I haven't finished a sweater in years. What a feeling!
2.11.2004
sock
M felted his hot chocolate socks so badly they now only fit me. So I'm making another pair for him, from the "Heavy Socks" pattern by Irene Macrae in Spin-Off's Socks book. This is some of the yarn from Uruguay (here's the link one more time). It's soft and knitting so fast, and the colors are making a very cool spiraling pattern. I wish I could take a decent picture of the pretty olive green and black and cream. Here's their own photo of the yarn, from their Uruguay website.
M felted his hot chocolate socks so badly they now only fit me. So I'm making another pair for him, from the "Heavy Socks" pattern by Irene Macrae in Spin-Off's Socks book. This is some of the yarn from Uruguay (here's the link one more time). It's soft and knitting so fast, and the colors are making a very cool spiraling pattern. I wish I could take a decent picture of the pretty olive green and black and cream. Here's their own photo of the yarn, from their Uruguay website.
2.9.2004
not exactly knitting porn
I was in North Carolina for 4 days, seeing my best friend's play opening, so this post is a bit more about food and not yarn. We stayed in the Guest House at Davidson College, and it was gorgeous. Far too nice for what we had in mind: SciFi channel, "Forensics Friday," and take out. We ate everything in Davidson NC. Grits, eggplant parmesean, martinis, Irish coffees, Krispy Kreme donuts, oh and I had my first ever taste of Sonic, where "Chili Makes It Better". Back to the diet.
And I did knit while I was there. In fact, I completed a silk garden beanie from Stephanie's pattern, and gave it to Jeanmarie. It's gone to Brooklyn, so there is no picture but my friend has a warm head. And I got a lot done on sweetness, which they let me carry on the plane both ways.
I was in North Carolina for 4 days, seeing my best friend's play opening, so this post is a bit more about food and not yarn. We stayed in the Guest House at Davidson College, and it was gorgeous. Far too nice for what we had in mind: SciFi channel, "Forensics Friday," and take out. We ate everything in Davidson NC. Grits, eggplant parmesean, martinis, Irish coffees, Krispy Kreme donuts, oh and I had my first ever taste of Sonic, where "Chili Makes It Better". Back to the diet.
And I did knit while I was there. In fact, I completed a silk garden beanie from Stephanie's pattern, and gave it to Jeanmarie. It's gone to Brooklyn, so there is no picture but my friend has a warm head. And I got a lot done on sweetness, which they let me carry on the plane both ways.
2.3.2004
early morning update
It's very early (for me) 7:39. But I'm sick of looking at my hot pink chickami every time I open my home page, so here goes. I'm the human ball winder (that sounds vaguely nasty), since all this came in the mail yesterday (variegated handspun bulky and sock yarn from this eBay seller):
I came up with a new method for hand-winding center pull balls off the swift. I stick the yarn end through my wedding ring, then wind around my hand in several directions. Once done, I just pull my hand out and my center pull string comes out! Cool.
So many projects going on. I felt guilty about that, but then I read some blogs and realized many other people do too. Like this blog I hadn't read before, where Carissa has a gazillion projects on the needles, all of them gorgeous.
What've I got? If you're the slightest bit interested:
Sweetness - 40%
From the knitty pattern. I'm working this in Manos del Uruguay, half Wildflowers and half Black. I've got both sleeves done (adapted to be 3/4 length), and I'm casting on the body in black today. I actually have all the yarn I need, so that's exciting.
My Soft Sweater - 50%
This one is in the most gorgeous, soft black alpaca, and I started from a pattern from Interweave Knits Winter 2002 called the Lacy Bell Pullover, but I've changed it drastically to where it's not recognizable as that sweater anymore. I'm a bit stalled, because I realized my round knitting is a lot tighter than my flat knitting, and I have yet to decide if I want to compensate for that on this body, which I've already begun.
The Miata Blanket(s) - 15%
Martin & I have a very small house and a very small car (a '95 Mazda Miata). We love driving with the top down at night, but even in the summer it can get pretty cold. Since I signed him up for Miata Performance Driving School for Christmas, I was going to make a romantic two-person lap blanket that perfectly fit the Miata for our drive to California. Well, now I've realized 1) Christmas is way past and I still haven't finished, and 2) two blankets make more sense than one, even though it's not as romantic. That way we can each tuck in around our legs. So the new goal is 2 small car blankets by March, in time for the trip.
These are my first ever cables. The yarn is huge; I put the US 10 dpn I'm using as a cable needle in there for comparison.
Banff - 60%
Waiting for yarn - drat! Otherwise this sucker would be done! It's in 2 strands of Lamb's Pride Worsted in Roasted Coffee. Yummy, and practical since none of my frequent spills will show.
Kyoto - 10%
My little project, so lonely in the not-really-even-cast-on pile. I've done lots of swatches though, so I'll call it 10%. It's ironic, since I am hosting the knitalong for this sweater, that I haven't given it enough love and attention. But I seriously think it's the weather (cold). I want to knit warm fuzzies as fast as I can, and kyoto is just so springy I keep thinking "later." I have some new inspiration for this one, since Allison, Heidi, Marcela, and Becky have all started theirs. Way to go -- I'll catch up soon.
It's very early (for me) 7:39. But I'm sick of looking at my hot pink chickami every time I open my home page, so here goes. I'm the human ball winder (that sounds vaguely nasty), since all this came in the mail yesterday (variegated handspun bulky and sock yarn from this eBay seller):
I came up with a new method for hand-winding center pull balls off the swift. I stick the yarn end through my wedding ring, then wind around my hand in several directions. Once done, I just pull my hand out and my center pull string comes out! Cool.
So many projects going on. I felt guilty about that, but then I read some blogs and realized many other people do too. Like this blog I hadn't read before, where Carissa has a gazillion projects on the needles, all of them gorgeous.
What've I got? If you're the slightest bit interested:
Sweetness - 40%
From the knitty pattern. I'm working this in Manos del Uruguay, half Wildflowers and half Black. I've got both sleeves done (adapted to be 3/4 length), and I'm casting on the body in black today. I actually have all the yarn I need, so that's exciting.
My Soft Sweater - 50%
This one is in the most gorgeous, soft black alpaca, and I started from a pattern from Interweave Knits Winter 2002 called the Lacy Bell Pullover, but I've changed it drastically to where it's not recognizable as that sweater anymore. I'm a bit stalled, because I realized my round knitting is a lot tighter than my flat knitting, and I have yet to decide if I want to compensate for that on this body, which I've already begun.
The Miata Blanket(s) - 15%
Martin & I have a very small house and a very small car (a '95 Mazda Miata). We love driving with the top down at night, but even in the summer it can get pretty cold. Since I signed him up for Miata Performance Driving School for Christmas, I was going to make a romantic two-person lap blanket that perfectly fit the Miata for our drive to California. Well, now I've realized 1) Christmas is way past and I still haven't finished, and 2) two blankets make more sense than one, even though it's not as romantic. That way we can each tuck in around our legs. So the new goal is 2 small car blankets by March, in time for the trip.
These are my first ever cables. The yarn is huge; I put the US 10 dpn I'm using as a cable needle in there for comparison.
Banff - 60%
Waiting for yarn - drat! Otherwise this sucker would be done! It's in 2 strands of Lamb's Pride Worsted in Roasted Coffee. Yummy, and practical since none of my frequent spills will show.
Kyoto - 10%
My little project, so lonely in the not-really-even-cast-on pile. I've done lots of swatches though, so I'll call it 10%. It's ironic, since I am hosting the knitalong for this sweater, that I haven't given it enough love and attention. But I seriously think it's the weather (cold). I want to knit warm fuzzies as fast as I can, and kyoto is just so springy I keep thinking "later." I have some new inspiration for this one, since Allison, Heidi, Marcela, and Becky have all started theirs. Way to go -- I'll catch up soon.
