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3/28/2004 9:12:57 AM
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bets
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Sometimes I get confused as to who is working on what...I know Corinna is making lacy undies (what color did you pick anyhow, C?) and Theresa might be done with the Patriot Sweater for Tim, but I just get CONFUSED sometimes (Ok, I am confused A LOT of the time!)
I am trying to finish up one more bag, and then I have to make a lil hottie top so DH will frown at Casi when she goes out...as long as she doesn`t turn up the spotlight TOO much, I can stand it, but talk about enabling...guess I`m living my fashion dreams on my daughter`s figure!
what`s everyone else working on this week?
B
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3/28/2004 9:26:00 AM
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I`ve got so much stuff on the needles! I`m making, in utmost secrecy, the Capri openwork jacket for my sister-in-law in ivory-- she`s going somewhere tropical on her honeymoon in May, so I think it`ll be a good wedding gift.
In no secrecy whatsoever, I`m making a top-up raglan for my husband with some Circulo Venezia I bought last year, and I`m just winging the pattern.
Then I`m making a hat for a friend in Classic Elite Ibis, which is so soft and pretty. It`s green and it looks like fluffy moss once it`s knitted up. And of course there`s my carry around sock in case I have to wait somewhere. Whew! Plans for the future include another capri jacket in kiwi, and the Just One More Row watercolor camisole in Esprit, both for me, me, me. ;) I think all of this might last me more than just this week.
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3/28/2004 10:05:22 AM
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jeanflores
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Hey Bets,
I`m working on the Oregon Totes bag. Should only take a couple of days... actually who knows with all the Icord.
I also have swatched the Vittadini Marissa #11 for the Moonstone Quecha so I`ll start that when I`m finished with the bag or can not stand to do any more Icord. lol.
Peace,
Jean
Ansbach, Germany
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3/28/2004 10:08:57 AM
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What do you mean this week ?
Make it this semester for me !
Well I started summer projects (cause we, here in Quebec, are supposed to have a summer sometimes, maybe in two three months..)
So I started the Aztec sun vest from the spring issue of Interweave knits, I am designing a no sleeves, hooded nautical vest for my son (almost finished) with yarn leftovers, and I should get started on this sweater i have been promising my husband for ages now, using Naturelle coton in denim blue (by the way has anyone used this yarn ? How did it turn out cause it looks kind of stringy to me)
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3/28/2004 10:09:46 AM
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Today I`ve been working on the Celtic Cardigans (you may hear about this for months to come...) finishing up the pattern for the dk version of Gracious Cables, playing with a new ribbing which incorporates v shaped stockinette areas outlined by eyelets (isn`t going well) and trying not to start yet another sweater as I expect a shipment from Elann on Monday or Tuesday and know that will mean at least one new sweater started!
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3/28/2004 11:26:58 AM
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knitnut
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i used naturelle 8/8 dark linen for the worsted weight dancing vines sweater. i didn`t find it `stringy`, but quite dense (but still soft) after the expected shrinkage (10+%) with the required wash/dry.
i think i should`ve tried the pattern in a dk, for my own taste, but live + learn (sigh!).
pilling i`ve yet to find out about, since i`ve not had the patience to do a test swatch for that.
i`m currently trying the denim blue for a cabled afghan, since there`s so much of it on the cone.
chikako
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3/28/2004 12:19:25 PM
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well I finished the front of kathy zimmerman pattern from a knitters mag. I made it out of intermezzo cotton and it cables up so nice, however, when I lay it flat the center cable section pulls up so it`s actually shorter in the center and longer on the sides if that makes sense, I don`t know if I should frog it and make something else or try and block it and see if that puts it back into place. oh the decisions!!!
I did find a pattern in a rowan book that the cotton would look really good in. I`ll have to decide soon my fingers are itching to knit.
judy
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3/28/2004 12:58:26 PM
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MacChick
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Way cute! And since it looks lke it will fit for quite awile, you ought to take a pic of the baby wearing the sweater, in the same pose, every 6 months... then put `em all together when the sweater is absolutely too smal, and have a "see baby grow" montage... if you did it on video, you could make a little movie showing baby sprouting right up out of her lovely sweater!
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3/28/2004 1:22:16 PM
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MacChick
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Oh, these kinds of threads really make a person take a hard look at how ridiculous it can get, huh? Currently working on:
• finishing Casual Cables for sister (would go quicker if it would knit itself just a little now and then!)
Brilla lace tank top for DD (now she wants a different design on the belly part... will probably rip and start over from the top this time)
• tvaandsstickning water bottle bag for DD (starting with a flat circle... seems strange right now, might not be the best construction method for this technique)
• fisherman sweater for my Mom for Mother`s Day (maybe for next Christmas instead?)(body and sleeves all started and onto two circs all together... may rip and start over from the top)
• Yet another ballet sweater for DD (all done except yoke and edges)
• Pink shawl for DD (half done.. might move that to the "on hold" bin until winter)
• green Fortissimo cotton/wool socks for Mom (only the toes are done)
• Yellow Fortissimo cotton socks for DD (only the toes are done)
and darned if I didn`t start a bag out of Uros last night after reading about the one Jean is doing...
But today, no knitting... have a tone of sewing to catch up on, two skirts that are due tomorrow and a pile of American Girl dresses that have been cut out, but not stitched up, for nieces` birthdays coming soon.
But when the pink Esprit gets here, I`m dropping everything to re-make DD`s pink turtleneck... or will that have to wait for the summer top out of the Arucania?
DD asked what the topic was, and then trotted out here with a half-done Barbie sweater out of pearl cotton... it`s done up to the armpits, but I wanted to try a little garment construction experiment on that, that`s why I haven`t finished it...
I guess I should sign off and get to work!
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3/28/2004 2:37:10 PM
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ChristineC
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I need to be working on something, but I`m not <sigh> My computer died Wednesday night, and along with it died all my (very patiently entered) grades for the report cards that are due on the 9th. (No, it wasn`t backed up, because it wasn`t on the same drive as my Windows XP, which is the one that failed, but the installation just reached out and wiped out parts of that drive, too (hear me screaming?)) Anyway, this week I am mostly working on those grades, brushing up my practical math skills again. In between, I`ve decided I`m going to do the dreaded finishing for lots of projects I`ve "finished" and which are sitting in their bags patiently waiting for me to get around to them. Some of them have been waiting so long, I don`t even remember knitting them. It`s like getting a new present! I just got some Esprit in Ruby, and it`s calling to me, so perhaps next week I`ll start on that lingerie that Corinna is making. I also have some beautiful Reynolds Mandalay silk that is making noises, so I may do something with that, instead. Or in addition. And some CE Provence, in 3 colours, that I need to design something for. And.....
ChristineC
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3/28/2004 3:17:42 PM
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Cate
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Today I put all my WIP in one place and tried to make some decisions. Took the Elann 100% Alpaca gloves I am making for my neighbor to the studio to keep there when I am taking breaks and thinking. I got a bit bogged down on the left glove for a while because the directions weren`t written out completely - I finally just sat and looked at the finished right glove and the to-the-beginning-of-the-thumb-gusset left glove and worked out what I was supposed to do. She won`t be needing the gloves now for at least 6 months so I made a scan of them and put in her birthday card.
I am also making the first of many Shape it! scarves from Sally Melville`s The Knit Stitch because I have discovered that I can read and knit it at the same time. Christmas presents here we come.
Still plodding along with the Soft Cables Mobius in Elann 100% Alpaca.
My White Buffalo came and it took me two days to remember why I had ordered this giant box of yarn. The Einstein Jacket! But now I am thinking of frogging the Lopi to-be-felted vest, knit in the round, and using the lopi instead & using the WB for a Not Your Mother`s Suit Coat. What do those of you who have made the Einstein & the Not Mother`s think?
Cate
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3/28/2004 3:38:26 PM
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I actually did a swatch (I was wondering more about how a whole project might look like and thank you for the answer) and did wash and machine dry it and it did not pile.
Bye
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3/28/2004 4:26:12 PM
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Alice Trueman
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Oh, dear. When I count up the projects, it`s daunting, but when I don`t see them all in one place, it`s just fine.
Upstairs, beside my computer, is a mindless, striped side-to-side summer top in leftover cottons. Got the body done, and am knitting on the first sleeve of that one. Downstairs, there`s the Bohus cardigan in Samoa cotton, yoke done, knitted down one sleeve to the cuff, and now about 1/3 down on the second sleeve. Hiding behind that is the celtic cardigan from Knitter`s Stash with the bottom fair isle band completed and maybe four more inches. That`s in the Peruvian lama/wool. Then there`s the slip-stich scarf in black Mama Mia with two blocks of different patterns in Amethyst metallic at each end. The third pattern to finish and a fourth to add on - it`s another sample for the retreat. It looks great, but I have to semi-pay attention. Then there are the socks in my sock bag for knitting on the ferry and whilst reading on campus - one finished and the second one started for the pair I cast on last week.
Then there are the things that needed finishing - several pairs of ferry socks waiting for the ends to be darned in, a jacket from Jean Frost`s book to be sewn together, a new Zealand 12ply jacket awaiting checkerboard bands up the front, a Nancie Wiseman jacket asking for less fancy bands than in the pattern, a black hairy sweater for DD somewhere downstairs.
There, I feel much better now. Anyone want to come and help?
Got to get back to a historiographical essay on `time in narration` that absolutely has to be done.
Alice
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
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3/28/2004 5:18:20 PM
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Ok, I am up to the shoulders on Tim`s `Soldier Sweater" "Soldier," right now, is including everyone who is/was ever in any of the services, other wise I will end up having to knit a BUNCH of sweaters....
Anyway, up to the shoulders and I am trying to decide what to do about the sleeves - so far the shole things is knit in Heel stitch, and I was sort of hoping to get away with something else for the sleeves, but probably not, I have to check...
Then there is the mailing of the Round Robin to Betsy so she can get to work on it, and the working on of Betsy`s own so that I will be able to mail that off to her on time...
I am also working on a tiny little project, which shall remain enexplained for the moment.
Then there is the pink sweater that I am working on for myself - more knitting potato chips - and a "not your mother`s suit coat" that really goes very quickly, but has not been a priority, and a few pair of socks. All the other WsIP have passed the statute of limitations for civil cases right now, so I am not counting them until I reactivate them.
What I really have to do, however, is paperwork for school and the taxes for my itty-bitty teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini of a business.
Long, heartfelt sigh.
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3/28/2004 5:59:55 PM
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Jamie
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Wow! Just read the whole bunch. This week I`m up to the armholes on a vest with Araucania Bayberry in a pattern from Cheryl Oberle`s Folk Vests, up to armholes on a Louet wool yarn with a pattern from Elann (it`s been on hold quite a while now), started a pair of mittens in Lopi today while waiting for exDH running errands, and now want to warp two inkle looms for a weaving get together tomorrow. IT`s endless but I try to finish projects as soon as I can. Also finished spinning some Shetland wool (about 3-4 oz). Happy knitting to all!
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3/28/2004 7:28:23 PM
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ScullyKnits
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Such a busy lot. I envy Cate, I wish I could knit and read at the same time. I`m working on the round robin sweater for T, a felted bag out of a skein of Noro, and a large purple shawl for the DMIL of a friend. I`m not liking the shawl much, but she`s offered to pay. I`ll have her send it directly to elann.com! lol
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3/28/2004 8:08:37 PM
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bets
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OK-
I feel completely normal with all my wadded up semi-projects (I only told you what I had worked on, not what is hibernating....)
Rene, is that Capri jacket quick or tedious?
Bless you all for making me normal...must go pay bills (ack!)
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3/28/2004 8:42:48 PM
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Sandra D
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I`m almost done with my Soft Cables Mobius in Filatura di Crosa Zara--Yay! Finally have mastered the lace pattern (about time, I should say!). The hint to treat it as 3 sets of pairs of rows really helped, now I just think of it as: one set has a P3tog and 2YO`s, second set P2tog and 1YO, and the third set is rib as it appears. I`ll have it done just in time to pack it away for winter! Also been pondering over buying Araucania Cotton for a nice change....
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3/28/2004 9:10:10 PM
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Cate
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Well, the read and knit at the same time is still a WIP in itself. I need a very simple pattern with easy to distinguish yarn, not too fine. So far, so good.
Cate
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3/29/2004 5:39:22 AM
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So far, the Capri jacket is fun. Mind you, I`m only about halfway through the first sleeve, but it seems to be going pretty quickly. I`ll let you know if it gets awful. ;)
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