![]() I’ve finished the body and currently working on the collar. Here is a terrible picture of the current state of it. Then, as I was going through all my WIPs that are hibernating, I thought “What if I finish it, THEN dye it?” I hadn’t considered this option before and I’m still not sold on doing that, but I am working on the sweater again and ignoring the fact that the skeins aren’t all that well matched. After that, I put it in the bag and set it aside until I could decided what it’s fate would be. I didn’t really like ANY of these options, but out of those, I thought frogging and using it for something else might be best. ![]() Since I didn’t start out alternating skeins (because frankly I just don’t like to do that), I figured I had a few options: frog the whole thing and use it for something else, keep knitting despite the rather drastic and obvious changes in color and just live with it like that, or frog it all and over dye it to even things out, frog it and alternate between 3 skeins (I have 3 sets that match, so this would be the best way to even things out). I think it’s getting better, but I got these on sale and while they all looked very similar and well matched when in the skeins, after I started knitting, I found that they were rather different from one another. How I love your softness, but dislike your non-matchy skeins. I was going to frog this one because the skeins are not well matched. In fact, I’ve started back on a WIP that I was thinking I was going to frog – the Rocky Coast Cardigan. In the mean time I’m focusing on my other WIPs. So, I’m back to no socks on the needles! I figure Summer of Socks will be starting at the end of the month and I’ll cast on for a new pair then. The yarn at 64 stiches was striping for me and I ultimately decided I didn’t like it, so I frogged it and will be knitting something else with it soon enough. I decided on the Georgia on my Mind pattern (free pattern on Ravelry) and pulled out the SweetGeorgia Yarn in Hard Candy that I had. Since I frogged that sock and the Jaywalker sock, I had no socks on the needles! GASP! I needed something more portable and less complicated then anything else on the needles, so I started a new sock. I think I’ll likely go up a needle size for the second sock and hope that fixes the gauge issue. ![]() Frogged the whole sock and it’s in time out utnil I figure out what I want to do. Guess I was doing a little too much pulling on my yarn as I knit. This was after knitting the heel nearly 3 times because the stripes weren’t lining up right! Turns out my gauge on the second sock had changed. I knit to the leg of the second of the Bonnie and Clyde stripey socks, but then found it to be too tight. For now, they’re frogged and the yarn is wound back onto it’s cake. Need to go up another needle size, I think to US 1.5, for those. I frogged the stripey Jaywalker socks because they were coming out too tight. I’ve made a bit of progress on Magrathea, which I’m using handspun for.Īfter receiving some new yarn, my fingers were itching to get it cast on, so I decided to get a head start on Christmas knitting and started the Foreign Correspondent’s Scarf (free pattern on Ravelry) out of Cephalopod Yarns Nautilace in the Rainbow Trout colorway. Not a lot of progress lately, but here’s a much better picture of it. I’m still working on Thin Ice out of Cephalopod Yarns Skinny Bugga! in the Leafy Seadragon colorway. I used a fingering weight yarn and smaller needles, which made it into more of a shawlette. Notes: I was able to knit a total of 5 pattern repeats. Yarn: Another Crafty Girl Twinkle Sock in Lagoon, 1 skein Pattern: LaLa’s Simple Shawl by Laura Linneman ( My Ravelry project page.) The photographs don’t show it well (and two of them are from my iPhone, sorry!), but there’s sparkle in the yarn! I think it turned out great. ![]() I chose to double dip and knit LaLa’s Simple Shawl both for the SSK KAL and the KAL in LaLa’s group, LaLa Knits. The current KAL going on for SSK (which ends today) is to knit something designed or inspired by one of the hosts (Laura, Leslie, and Carin). Per the usual, despite the lack of blogging, there has not been a lack of knitting. It’ll be tough considering it’s only 6 weeks with 10 weeks worth of material crammed into a shorter amount of time. Spring term has just 5 school days left for me (term ends June 18th) and I’ve already registered for summer term. Seems that the month just got away with me and things have been busier then usual with school, though school plus work are the new “usual” for me these days. I had every intention to blog during May. where did it go? I thought it was around here, but suddenly it’s just disappeared!
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