Saturday, August 23, 2008
Monday, August 04, 2008
Progress
I know, I know, I haven't been blogging even though school is out for the summer and I theoretically should have more time to blog and knit. I generally turn off my pc as much as possible in July and August because it really makes this room too hot during the summer, and my laptop doesn't have Fireworks (my photo editing software) or the Canon software to download photos from my camera, so I can't do too much blogging from it. Sure, I could type, barely, but I can't get photos, and what's a blog without photos? Boring. I could put the software on the laptop, but it's my work laptop and has a smallish hard drive, and I don't want to give away my software to the school.
I had some time yesterday to make a bit more progress on the Tomten ~ finished one sleeve and picked up the stitches for the next one:
The end is in sight and not any time too soon because the baby is due this week, whew!!
I’m not a big fan of garter stitch, and even on this small piece, the never-ending garter almost bored me to death. But I do have to say that I am very enamored of the pretty edge that garter produces when you slip the first stitch of every row (do click to embiggen):
It looks like little pink pearls on a string. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but it is one I am willing to make. These little pink pearls sort of remind me of Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl in the Scarlet Letter.
Long ago I picked up the habit of slipping the first stitch of each row, likely as a result of doing so for the heel flap of socks, but since I don’t employ garter stitch very often, I was quite tickled by the very nice effect such slipping does for the selvedge edge of knitted fabric. While it is true I am an excellent seamstress, like many of you, I loathe more than anything seaming knitting together, but this edge is so nice and crisp that it should make seaming a snap.
Because this edge is so nice, I don’t think I am inclined to add the button band I had originally planned. Garter stitch button bands aren’t special, and they certainly won’t have the nice line that this currently has but will get a bit wavy and messy. Although I want to add the extra color band around the hood and front closures, I think I am definitely going to forego it and just add a loop and largish button at the neck. It would be very nice if I could find some ladybug buttons because that’s what my cousin is using as a theme in the nursery. It would be very cool if I could find some large pink ladybug buttons, but I’m not that lucky, and I think that is too much to ask for.
I had some time yesterday to make a bit more progress on the Tomten ~ finished one sleeve and picked up the stitches for the next one:
The end is in sight and not any time too soon because the baby is due this week, whew!!
I’m not a big fan of garter stitch, and even on this small piece, the never-ending garter almost bored me to death. But I do have to say that I am very enamored of the pretty edge that garter produces when you slip the first stitch of every row (do click to embiggen):
It looks like little pink pearls on a string. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but it is one I am willing to make. These little pink pearls sort of remind me of Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl in the Scarlet Letter.
Long ago I picked up the habit of slipping the first stitch of each row, likely as a result of doing so for the heel flap of socks, but since I don’t employ garter stitch very often, I was quite tickled by the very nice effect such slipping does for the selvedge edge of knitted fabric. While it is true I am an excellent seamstress, like many of you, I loathe more than anything seaming knitting together, but this edge is so nice and crisp that it should make seaming a snap.
Because this edge is so nice, I don’t think I am inclined to add the button band I had originally planned. Garter stitch button bands aren’t special, and they certainly won’t have the nice line that this currently has but will get a bit wavy and messy. Although I want to add the extra color band around the hood and front closures, I think I am definitely going to forego it and just add a loop and largish button at the neck. It would be very nice if I could find some ladybug buttons because that’s what my cousin is using as a theme in the nursery. It would be very cool if I could find some large pink ladybug buttons, but I’m not that lucky, and I think that is too much to ask for.
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