AnotherPurl :: a knitter's life

Wedding day countdown

One of my friends is getting married in under two weeks. I wanted to make the I Do shrug to wear to the wedding. In my mind's eye, I was picturing wearing a sleeveless or spaghetti-strapped grey dress with a nice deep teal version of the shrug over it. Of course, my mind's eye was only a little worried because it hadn't found a dress and the shrug was started and stalled. These things don't worry the mind's eye, because the mind's eye is an object of fantasy.

FANTASY.

Last weekend, I found something at Banana Republic to wear. A very short sleeved top with a pleated skirt that has a thread in all the grey that matches the yarn I am using for the shrug (I know, because I brought all potential shrug yarns with me to the store). I started the shrug again at the beginning of this week. I toiled and toiled and ripped and ripped, and now I am at exactly the same place I was Monday evening. I am no longer doing the decreasing (or the increasing for that matter), so the sleeves will not form little lacy bells. I have cast on the number of stitches needed for my size at the shoulder (72), and am knitting the entire thing in that width. My sleeves will be a little wider than necessary, but on the whole it should work pretty well.

Now to see if I can finish an entire sleeve to back by Friday night, so I can finish the left sleeve early next week and block to wear for a weekend wedding. Gosh, I am so hosed.

Just my luck

I was looking forward to being at the Boston Knitout, teaching knitting classes and setting up. Then I looked at my schedule.

October 2nd, 12 to 4

That is when I am having the next part of my tattoo work done. Even if it was say the day before, my back would still be a big ol mess of lotion and color. I will have to try and get in early enough to help with set up and then go get needled.

I love knitting, but this tattoo is important and half done. I'd like it to be all done by this time next year.

C'est finis!

Is Done!

This is the first pattern I feel like I have heavily modified (beyond just changing the yarns). This is based heavily on the Short Row Rib scarf featured in Magknits. I just thought it was a neat idea to do this with two different colors to create the zig zag color stripes. I actually submitted this to Magknits, thinking that she could just append the modification at the end of the pattern like you would a recipe variation, but it didn't quite fly. So, I will offer it here with references to the original pattern in a day or two so other people will think of things they can do with this nifty pattern.

Pictures at an exhibition

I have been working to update my gallery for the better part of a week. I have things to add, pattern notes to share, and interesting things to show (at least I think they are interesting). I have hand coded my pages for the gallery, but they are a little on the juvenile side and I don't really like them. I want to have the pictures look good and the page look almost like a professional did it.

For that matter, I want to change my button for it already. That's what I get for being picky about my paltry graphic design attempts.

Anyone have software or suggestions?

All it takes

is one compliment.

I am wearing my new One Skein Wonder at work. It is covering Soleil, which I am sure I will need to take in soon. There were a few people who didn't think it was a separate piece, but they thought it was cute and that is good. It is nice to make something that registers as cute or not bad or "gosh darn that's cool!"

This is one of those times.
(Alas, the pictures are still on the camera waiting for me to stop being a slacker. Maybe you'll get lucky tonight.)