Sunday, September 28, 2008

Raining

It rained all day Saturday and much of Sunday this weekend. While this was a tad depressing, it was also an excellent excuse to put off dismantling and storing the pool hardware. (This task involves crawling around under the deck with tools, and swearing a lot--a filter with two hundred pounds of wet sand in it? Nobody's idea of a good time.)

So, that left me only procrastinating on indoor chores this weekend. So in between saying things like, "I really ought to--" I started a sweater:
colorwork sweater

This is based on the one-piece knit-in-the-round sweater from EZ's Knitting Without Tears. Much of the yarn is some very nice merino given to me by a friend. The design is being driven in part by yarn quantities-- the gray is the only yarn I can get more of. So I'm reserving a lot of the green for the sleeve cuffs and yoke. The white shouldn't be a problem- I seem to have plenty and also, from what I've read I'll have to be a little sparing with the decoration on the yoke, to avoid it pulling in. As is not unusual, I'm making it up as I go along.

In other news, I finally shot a picture of the shelves I put up in the garage a couple of weeks ago.
shelves

My husband says this will result only in having shelves full of stuff with every available surface remaining covered. My theory is that a judicious combination of getting rid of things we don't use, combined with putting thing the things we do use away when we're done with them, will eventually result in a semblance of order. I have a dreadful premonition that he may be right, though--entropy is on his side.

I finally blocked the Optic Waves scarf. I'll give a FO photo shoot when it's dry.

And I found the mistake that was making the heel of the Trekking Fools sock look weird, ripped back to fix it, and re-knit what I'd ripped. (No picture, it doesn't look a lot different from the last time you saw it.)

So, not unproductive. But I'm still ready for the sun to come out.

4 comments:

  1. You got that much knitting done just this weekend?????

    WOW!

    I love what you have so far & am SERIOUSLY impressed with your knitting speed. I positively crawl when working with color.....

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  2. Er. Okay, in complete honesty, I have to admit that I already had the ribbing on needles. But I hadn't actually decided on any of the motifs or anything yet-I only knew it was going to be worked in the round. So Friday night (it was also pouring then), I chose some patterns and started the first row of colorwork. I'm at around twelve inches of length at the moment, so I've only done a bit over 9" since 9 pm Friday (it's actually grown a couple more inches since the picture).

    And I haven't done much colorwork at all, but I've been reading about Fair Isle technique, so for the first time I tried the two-handed technique, where you hold one color in each hand. It has proved surprisingly speedy. I'm a Continental knitter normally, so the new bit was learning to knit English style with the secondary color.

    It obviously wasn't as fast as one color knitting, but I made up a lot of time on the plain stockinette in the body, after I got through the colorwork bands.

    Anyway, you're much faster than I am with lace!

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  3. Very nice start on the EZ. I enjoy watching these make-it-up-as-you-go projects take shape.

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  4. You think like I do. I have this to do, what can I do instead? Grin. Good to know I've got company on the other side of this great, big country. Nice start on that sweater, too.

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