The One Where I Mostly Untangle Yarn Yet Finish My Gorgeous Gloves

2012.03.29

Do you take your yarn from the inside of the ball or the outside?  I always take it from the inside.  And, yet, I know that the ball will collapse, and there will be a tangle at some point.  It happens every time.  But, still I like to take the yarn from inside.  Why?????

I spent most of Sunday winding yarn so I can finally start a lace shawl for my mom.  (still haven't started it )  Then I rewound the yarn for those brown Cobblestone socks for the Doc that I posted yesterday, because the balls had collapsed and were a tangled mess.  Today I spent most of the morning rewinding the balls of red yarn for the Red Hot Sweater for my friend Tony.  I knit 5 rows while riding the exercise bike.  I spent as much time fixing the tangled yarn BEFORE I went to the Y. 

I almost took photos of the balls of neatly wound yarn.  They were my finished objects.  How pathetic.  I do have another really nice finished object.  

 I didn't need to untangle the yarn for these.  

 A few weeks ago, I posted my first glove EVER.  Over the weekend, I finished the mate.   

And again, I am so proud of myself.  Really. I owe it all to LizMarino.  I would never have even tried to make gloves if it hadn't been for her Gift Knits Club.  

Where in the World is f1bercat?

I have decided that, while I am still going to work on increasing my minutes spent knitting (I mean riding the exercise bike WHILE knitting), I am going to try to work my way up to 10 miles, rather than focusing on how many minutes in the bike seat.  I need to increase my speed a bit.  Today, I worked on keeping the speed up to 12 mph and pushing 13 mph as much as possible.  So, I was able to get 7.33 miles in about 38 min. 

Where am I?  I reached Yarn & Things, in Chehalis WA.  This is a tough one to visit virtually, because I can't find a website for the shop.  I can only assume they are still in business, and I am busy virtually peeking through the window.

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Good night, everyone

Yours,

f1bercat

shaping the planet one PAIR of gloves at a time.

WIP Update

Good afternoon, everyone!

This is a bit of a catch up blog, just bringing you up to date on my WIP's before I head out for some fun stitching and chat with the Eastside Stitchers at Crossroads Mall.

WIP

Needles

I only have knitting in progress right now as I am waiting for next month's Block of the Month CAL to be released.

Hearts Abound Socks for my sister, Kathy

Hearts Abound Socks by Kerin Dimeler-Laurence 

I have finished the feet and heels of these self striping pink socks.  I am sure the yarn is too busy for the heart lace pattern, or the lace pattern is too busy for the self striping yarn.  However, when the socks are on, the pattern is more visible.  I did not like the heels in the pattern, so I substituted the heels I used in the Hungry Bees socks I made earlier this year.  These still don't look fabulous, I had some trouble controlling the stitch size on the ssk side of the decreases, but they are still neater than the ones used in the original pattern. 

Here are the finished feet:

Insteps

Soles

Here are the messy heels:

Not too bad

Ugh!  looks so sloppy

I just need to do 1 or 2 repeats of the lace pattern for the legs and the cool ruffled cuff, and they are finished!  I hope to have them off the needles by Feb 28th.  If I make that deadline, I will still be on target for at least 1 pair of socks every month since September.

Liz Marino's Gift Knit Club Gloves

Yippee!  The next project from the Liz Marino's Gift Knits Club from the Knitting With Karma blog has arrived.  It will be some slippers.

The first project is a pair of women's gloves.  Now remember, I have never come close to knitting gloves before, but I have finished the first one and am about 1/3 of the way through the second glove.

Isn't it beautiful???  Look, 4 fingers!  And it was actually pretty easy.

Lewk's Red Sweater

I'm about 1/2 way through the front of the never ending sweater project.  I like to bring this with me when I go places, because I soooooo have the patterns memorized, that I barely have to think about it now.  I brought it with me when I met up with my neighbor BFF's PR and BW for coffee yesterday.  I knit through our whole conversation about what amazing kids we have.

At some point, I will finish the body parts and have to start on the sleeves.  Someday... I plan on bringing this sweater tonight because the conversation can get lively, and I don't want to have to think too much.

Wrapped Like a Princess

I have started a new lace project with the Beginning Lace Knitters Group in Ravelry.  It is a rectangular wrap designed by Betsy Perry called the Princess Lace Wrap.  It calls for worsted weight yarn and size 7 needles.  I am using some gorgeous Cashmerino Aran by Debbie Bliss in a wine color and size 10 needles.  The finished dimensions on the pattern give only 12" in width.  I want a wider wrap, so I am hoping that the size 10 needles will take care of that.  I cast on today, and have finished 1 repeat of the pattern.  Super super simple chart, and it seemed to go quickly.  I am not secure enough though, to bring it to Eastside Stitchers tonight.  Maybe next week.  Anyway, here is what it looks like so far, and unblocked:

That's all for now, I need to pack up my knitting back and camera.  I hope to take photos of everyone's WIPs again tonight and post tomorrow who showed up for the fun.

See you tomorrow.

f1bercat

shaping the planet one lace wrap at a time