Grab your knitting needles and come relax with me.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Finished: Onward HO!
I finished hand sewing Anne's Garter for her. Took me about one and a half days to complete the weaving in of ribbons, sewing the bias tape to the back, sewing the garter ends together and making and attaching the decoration.
I am quite proud of all that hand stitching. And I really like how the finished garter came out.
I just hope everyone ELSE likes it.
Now that Lorelei's socks are done (and the garter), I have more "free" time. Ha! Mostly I am knitting for the shop right now.
I started knitting the Samara again. I am trying out a different (and cheaper) yarn. Paton's SWS: it has the exact fiber content, but a bit thicker. I tried using the same needle size I used for the first one (which was knitted in Rowan Tapestry).
"Tried" is the opperative word here. I wasn't happy with the density of thefabric (and neither was Wendy)--so I decided to go up to a size 10. I haven't progressed far enough to show you a decent picture, because...
I started knitting something else. I found some really cute yarn (read ON SALE) to knit a new Lacey Tulip Blanket (link to pattern page)! The plan is to sell it at my little B&M shop. The color is a nice gender neutral fun baby colour. It bumped the Samara since it's more likely to sell now than a scarf (babies are always being born and soon it'll be 90 here in San Antonio). I am hoping that this will be a quick knit, but I won't hold my breath. I "bragged" that I would finish Lorelei's socks in a week--and it took 2 months.
The knitting bunnies are still gnawing on grey matter. Sigh--it's like a twitch--it's really aggravating me. BUT, I can't do much about it. I tend to design on the fly. But to appease these bunnies I might need to do some serious sketching instead.
Birdy, the garter turned out so beautiful...what a wonderful piece to hand down through the generations...you did such a beautiful job on it...the patons is looking good...:)
