Toe up and other lace...
Well, like Donni I have a fair few WIPs to confess – currently vying for attention we have:
- My Sunrise Jacket
- John’s scarf and my Swatch (Shameful, shameful – this photo was taken in March, and neither of them have really advanced any since then!)
- Annie’s shrug:
– it’s hideously difficult trying to take decent photos of black lace. The biggest problem is that I only bought two balls of Bamboo (SWTC from Get Knitted ) and you can see how little there is left from the first ball – and there’s still 2 more repeats of the lace pattern before I finish the first side. However, I put an order in for a 3rd ball this morning, and one from the same dye-lot is already winging it’s way here. - Birthday socks (I’m pretty sure that the recipient doesn’t read this – what’s the betting she does now!)
– isn’t this yarn gorgeous? It’s the Alpaca-merino blend I bought from the Natural Dye Studio. I love the way the striping is working out – especially the way I get very narrow stripes for the foot and cuff, but just because of the construction with short rows, the toes and heels are highlighted by having wider stripes. So cool, and so lucky! But look, there’s more with these socks – they are my very first toe-up socks – and they use my very first provisional cast on:
– it’s just visible there – I picked the stitches up from the waste yarn the wrong way round, so you can just see it – but hey – it’s a feature OK? And now I’m going to go and experiment with a picot cast off… - Flame socks
– this is the yarn I dyed myself with the Kool Aid Daisy sent me – I’m loving knitting with this soooooooo much. I felt that I had been cheating when I knitted my first pair of socks – I used Opal self-striping yarn and although the stripes were fun, they weren’t mine. This wonderful blotchy muddle is completely mine – as is the pattern, as is the cast-on (basically the same as a provisional cast on using waste yarn, but instead of the waste yarn I used the other circular needle – it’s probably a really well-known method, but I worked it out for myself, so I’m very proud. If I’m sufficiently organised I’ll take pics as I go when I cast on the second sock.)I think that little lot is enough to be going on with? Right, how do I do a picot cast off…
three comments:
Nice socks, blue and red. Must try toe-up sometime, since it seems so sensible, but I’m such a stick in the mud.Mary de B () (link) - 22 June '06 - 08:25
Ooooh all those socks looks gorgeous! I love the alpaca/merino blend must not go on ebay and get some, am on yarn diet. And the yarn you dyed is looking fab too!Daisy () (link) - 23 June '06 - 10:29
Yay! Another that is out and proud about her WIP’s….go girl!Donni () (link) - 25 June '06 - 10:52
