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March 10, 2005
And...... I'm Back
I have been knitting, just not posting about it. Last week I was in Bend and Portland for work and I've been sort of vegging this week since I have to go back to Bend again on Monday.
Anyway!
I haven't worked on Aaron's sweater at all. The yarn is so nice when it's knitted and washed, but it's a bit rough on the hands to knit with since it has next to no spring. Before I went to Bend, I made a quick French Market Bag out of the koolaid yarn.
It needs to be wet and blocked again, since it got a bit smooshed in the car. It's very cute and cheerful, though, and the wide, shallow bag is good for storing a couple of knitting projects.
Because I didn't want to tote the huge cone of yarn for Aaron's sweater all over the state, I grabbed a ball of the Sheep's Gift that I have for Te Rosada and started that sweater. I'm hoping it's not too big - I made a size larger than I usually would, since I think the lace looks better a bit relaxed and not super open. I'm pretty sure I'll have some leeway during blocking, so I'll probably be okay. Aaron said that it looks like cotton candy, which happens to be the name of the colorway! It's knitting up better than I expected - the yarn seemed to have a lot of white in it in the skein, but it's nicely distributed in the sweater. I haven't done more than a couple of rows in the past few days, but it knits up very quickly when I actually work on it. I'm about halfway through the back.
I also finished the last 6 blocks for the quilt I was working on last night, figured out how to use the free motion quilting foot on my machine and quilted some of the baby quilt I'm working on (practice project, and I'll probably give it to Aaron's little nephew since he's the only baby I know about), and experimented with some quilt blocks for the online block exchange that I'm participating in. Still undecided as to what pattern to use. I need to make 15 12.5" blocks, all the same with orange and the main color and black to complement (we're doing brights and assigned various colors so we'd have a good mix).
Posted by Emily at March 10, 2005 09:14 AM
