Knitting Meme

I’ve seen this meme on a handful of blogs and decided that it’d be fun to do.

Perhaps it's another way to stall my readers from noticing the lack of afghan pictures...

Bold for stuff I've done/am doing

Italics for stuff I plan to do someday

Normal for stuff I'm not planning on doing

Afghan/Blanket (baby) – oh man, so close to finishing this one!

I-cord – if you make i-cords and felt them, they make excellent faux-dreadlocks

Garter stitch - duh

Knitting with metal wire - though I hear it's hard on the hands

Shawl - maybe I'll make something sometime that could be a shawl, but I'd wear it as a scarf, certainly not as a shawl

Stockinette stitch - double duh

Socks: top-down - oh yeah

Socks: toe-up - waaay better than top-down

Knitting with camel yarn - camel yarn? do people knit with hair from all mammals?

Mittens: Cuff-up

Mittens: Tip-down - it's only a matter of time

Hat - x100

Knitting with silk - eventually I'll be able to afford it

Moebius band knitting - this sort of strikes me as screwing up in the round, and just going with it

Participating in a KAL - one of these days

Sweater - only one so far, but more will be rolling out this winter

Drop stitch patterns - not too exciting

Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn - $4 goodwill sweaters certainly yield more than $4 worth of yarn

Slip stitch patterns - meh

Knitting with banana fiber yarn - huh?

Domino knitting (modular knitting) - I don't really know what this is

Twisted stitch patterns - these make good sock cuffs

Knitting with bamboo yarn - I've only heard of bamboo needles...

Two end knitting - if this is what I think it is, then I've done it

Charity knitting - one of these days

Knitting with soy yarn - I've never heard of this either, but I'd give it a try

Cardigan - the plan is to make one this winter

Toy/doll clothing - nah

Knitting with circular needles - check

Knitting with your own handspun yarn - gotta learn how to spin first

Slippers - big pink and fuzzy

Graffiti knitting (knitting items on, or to be left on the street) - uh, what?

Continental knitting - this is holding it on your left hand, correct?

American/English knitting (as opposed to continental) - I hear this way is slower

Designing knitted garments - only simple things so far

Cable stitch patterns (incl. Aran) - I love cables

Lace patterns - again, only simple things so far

Publishing a knitting book - I think I'll stick to the blog

Scarf - x50

Teaching a child to knit - the youngest that it actually stuck with was 11

Knitting to make money - not really practical

Button holes - only on bags, but it's a pretty simple technique

Knitting with alpaca - not that I can really afford it

Fair Isle knitting - I need to get better at this though

Norwegian knitting - what exactly is this?

Dying with plant colors - one day

Knitting items for a wedding - just gotta wait for my friends to start getting married

Household items (dishcloths, washcloths, tea cozies…) - a dishtowel that doesn't really absorb and a potholder that can't really hold pots

Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on two circulars - less pokey-ness

Olympic knitting - ???

Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn - another expensive facet of this hobby

Knitting with DPNs - yup

Holiday related knitting - halloween costumes, 'nuff said

Teaching a male how to knit - most of them are closet knitters though

Bobbles - I have a bucket of bobbles

Knitting for a living - not practical I'm afraid

Knitting with cotton - yup

Knitting smocking - what?

Dying yarn - get me some Kool-aid

Steeks - what?

Knitting art - like abstract art?

Fulling/felting - and now that I have a washing machine, there will be much more

Knitting with wool - indeed

Textured knitting - does this include illusion knitting?

Kitchener BO - grafting is soooo cool

Purses/bags - even one with a handsewn lining

Knitting with beads - one day I'll figure that one out

Swatching - I've gotten into the habit of swatching

Long Tail CO - this is my cast-on of choice

Entrelac Knitting - perhaps a bag

Purling backwards - if these means un-purling, then I've done it, otherwise, I have no idea

Machine knitting - machines are expensive

Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegating yarn - yup

Stuffed toys - I can't reveal what I've made, because I haven't given it to the person yet

Baby items - no babies to knit for at this time. and that is A-OK

Knitting with cashmere - when I can afford it

Darning - if I wear something out, I'll just make a new one

Jewelry - perhaps

Knitting with synthetic yarn - the cheapest of all-est

Writing a pattern - yeah, it's cool

Gloves - coming soon

Intarsia - plenty of this

Knitting with linen - will try

Knitting for preemies - again, no babies

Tubular CO - supposedly extra stretchy

Freeform knitting - what's this?

Short rows - my favorite kinda heel and toe

Cuffs/fingerless mitts/arm warmers - probably the easiest thing to make

Pillows - well, pillow singular

Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine - plenty of these too

Rug - when I get bored of knitting normal things

Knitting on a loom - nah

Thrummed knitting - hmm?

Knitting a gift - oh man, there's been a billion of these

Knitting for pets - don't have pets yet

Shrug/bolero/poncho - uh-uh

Knitting with dog/cat hair - again, any mammal hair?

Hair accessories - not enough hair to accessorize

Knitting in public - hah, I'm rarely in public while not knitting

...consider yourself tagged

a blast from the past

Since I don't have any photogenic progress on the afghan, I thought I'd bring out a bit of knitting history. Here is my first project that used more than one color. It's the famous ohm hat that I gave to Sam a couple years ago...and will match his maybe future tattoo.


The picture's a little blurry and the colors are a little inaccurate, but this project was what made me start taking photos of my work.

hopefully there will be more afghan progress soon!

...I have an excuse

Ok, so you may have noticed the lack of posts in the last few days or so. And the lack of new pictures for a while now. The problem is that the only project I'm allowing myself to work on at the moment is the afghan. And the pictures of its progress are not that interesting. When it's all done, then you will get as many pictures as your heart desires.

Also, my hands are absolutely killing me. No, not from knitting, from mountain biking. I went up to Winter Park (you know, the ski resort, only in the summer it's a mountain biking, etc park) and biked and biked and biked. It was amazing, but brutal on my hands. So no knitting for a few days while I recover.

But I'll be back to it soon enough.

Rings

...I have discovered how to add links to NetRings... meaning that I'll be connected to other knitting blogs. Pretty sweet really. Though I should be working on that afghan now, and not typing. I'm almost halfway done with it and have only about 3 weeks left until I need to mail it.

Woot!

Note to self:

Man, this afghan is taking forever!! Usually I like to break up large projects by working on multiple things at the same time. BUT I have to finish this thing by the end of July, so there really isn't time to work on smaller projects simultaneously. ahhhh! It'll be worth it though....it's looking awesome, if I do say so myself. ...just gotta keep on chuggin'!

Afghan continued...

I finished one of the cable strips in Alaska, and am now almost done with cable strip #2. I still have to make 2 more cable pieces, plus 2 honeycomb pieces, plus one lattice piece. So the moral of the story is that I'm making progress but still have a long way to go.


Here's a close-up of the cable pattern, but the color is way too dark. The color in the first picture is accurate.

let's here those afghan cheers!

More Alaska Yarn

Here are the other yarns that I bought in Alaska. Both also superwash Merino and hand-dyed. I got two skeins of the blue/purple/black mix and only one of the teal.


The colors in these pictures are actually pretty accurate, so that's good. I haven't decided what exactly I'm going to make with them. I'm thinking some sort of footwear, but I'll keep you all in the loop.

Alaska Rocks! (and I made some socks)

Pretty much the only thing I bought while in Alaska was yarn. Delicious, lovely, hand-dyed in Alaska yarn. And I made these socks out of 1 of the skeins while I was still in Alaska. The yarn is superwash Merino and the socks were knit on US 6, so they were rather speedy.


Ta-da!


These socks have both a short-row heel and a short-row toe. Though the cool thing about these is that they have kind of a strange assembly.

I was out of town when I made these with had no access to the internet and I wasn't sure if I remembered how to graft properly, so I decided to make these in a way that required no grafting.


I started by casting on 1/2 on the total stitches onto 2 needles at once. Then I made it a sort of provisional cast-on by purling the stitches off of one of the cast on needles and keeping them on the other cast on needle. If that doesn't really make sense, it's ok...it's hard to be entirely clear with no specific pictures.


Anyway, I made the short-row toe to start and then, when the toe was done, connected it in the round and made the foot, then made the heel, then the leg, and the cast-off edge was also done on two needles at once to make it extra loose.


The socks themselves are rather loose and comfy and very very soft. This yarn was wonderful to work with. As the picture above shows, the heel can sort of pucker when you point your toe because it's not that tight. But when the foot is relaxed, everything fits delightfully.

Overall, it was a very fun project. They were my first toe-up pair and I was able to just knit until the yarn was gone, making them much taller than I initially anticipated. Very cool.