just another damn knitting blog

if you’re making the Winter Gem gloves from the most recent issue of Cast On (the ones listed at #37 in the bottom picture), take note:

where the pattern says “Note: For sizes L and 1X, M1 bet b2 pinkie and p2 ring finger on rows 34 and 36 of the Cable Pat. Two of these p sts will go to the pinkie and 2 will go to the ring finger”, this is what it means:

the P2 stitches between the cable that will eventually go up the pinky and the cable that will eventually go up the ring finger? M1 between those two on Row 34, and then M1 on Row 36. There will now be 4 purled stitches between those cables. Two of them go when you make the pinky and two will go to the ring finger.

(I wrote the author of the pattern and asked her about it, that’s a paraphrase of her answer. Now I just need to find out what to do with the fact that you have 30 stitches in a size large after you M2 on row 32, but she only allocates 28 stitches for the fingers.)

Edit to add: I heard from the author, she said there’d been some editing issues. She’s going to write an errata.

I really like the “K1; P2″ bracelet on this page.

(I also like the needle gauge necklace here.)

(And I like this charm.)

(And I like the “…as soon as I finish this row” bracelet from here.)

I was reaching for my bog jacket knitting last night and pulled the needle about 3/4 of the way out of my mystery stole. :( waaaaaaah. I was able to get the needle back in without too much problem but I will still have to fix part of it. waaaaah.

you do 12″ of garter stitch, knit for another 2-3 hours, and you’re still at 12″.

I am just so glad I am only on row 270, and didn’t get to the point where I would have to RIP BACK 75 ROWS IF I DON’T WANT TO DO A STUPID ASYMMETRICAL *WING* THING. sheesh. I am going to wait until all the clues are released before go any further.

I finished my “Touch of Argyle” socks today though, only eight months after I started them.

Mystery Stole 3:

I am maybe 1/3 of the way through Clue…4? Whichever one was the most recent one (since they didn’t do one last week because everyone was in OMFG HARRAY POTTAR mode). I had to put this down for a few days because I’d made a mistake that I couldn’t figure out and it was horking me off. But I found it (pesky dropped yo) and I am back on track.

Jaywalker socks:

These are in Tofutsies that I got in North Carolina while on vacation. Everyone said they knit snug, make them the largest size, I started them in the largest size, thought they felt huge, did the smaller size and now they seem like they might be small. I CANNOT WIN.

Bog jacket:

If I never see garter stitch again it’ll be too soon.

In sadder news, that t-shirt I knit a few entries ago? I washed it, dried it on my little sweater drying rack, only to discover the DYE IN THE YARN RAN. HORRIBLY. Since the rack is a little small, I flipped the sleeves over on top of the shirt to dry, so I have these whitish triangle-shaped spots RIGHT AT MY BREASTS. And then at the side of the sleeve, all the dye accumulated so there are dark blue stripes.

I can’t even really complain to the company, since I bought the yarn as factory seconds and the dye was uneven in the first place. I will probably have to re-dye it or something.

lesson learned tonight: when knitting lace, don’t do anything else. I was listening to the new Patton Oswalt album and had to do the same row eighty thousand times.

I got peer pressured by my knitting friends into doing the Mystery Stole 3. It’s my first lace project ever (I know, I’ve done lace socks, but never the kind of lace where you have to block the bejeezus out of it before it looks anything like what it’s supposed to look like) and I’m not quite sure how it looks compared to what it should look like.

I’m doing it out of pink Misti Alpaca on size 2 needles (which is probably all wrong for it) but, ah well.

I’m also doing a Bog Jacket from Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitting Around. A group of us is meeting tomorrow to talk about it. I’m doing it out of the Cascade 220 Quatro color 9432 I bought almost a year ago.

From the armholes down, it’s the Shapely Tank Pattern from White Lies Designs. From the armholes up, it’s a raglan-sleeve pattern from the Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns. It’s Cotton Fleece, the same that I used to make Soleil.

There’s bunches of mistakes in it (like I didn’t realize that if you make short rows, and then go back to knitting in the round, you can’t pick up the wraps) and I may go back at some point and fix the armholes (they are gappy and sewn together not very well) but I am just happy it’s done and I can actually wear it.

Then there’s my other new obsession, which is mitered squares.

This is black Cascade 220 and some handspun that I picked up a while ago. I like how it looks.

World Wide Knit in Public Day would be my son’s birthday.

But I pretty much knit in public every other day, so I’ve done my part.

And how insane am I? I finished the front and back of the Shapely Tee, spent about an hour trying to figure out how to mattress stitch the thing together, and decided “screw it” and I am starting it over, in the round.

(I made my sides funky, ’cause I purled the last stitch of each row and the slipped the first stitch, giving me big loopy edges that were impossible to figure out where to pull apart to get the stitches for the mattressing and all that. Plus the fabric kept curling, and I don’t really have a good blocking board…yes, I am insane.)