Monthly Archives: July 2010

Blob o’ Lace

Posted by on July 23, 2010 2 comments

I’ve been chipping away at the hip scarf; it’s an easy pattern but somewhat monotonous for long stretches. Unfortunately, it’s not very exciting to show in progress, lace being the tangled looking mess of string it is on the needles.

Lace blob

I have an idea to try spraying it with sparkle fabric paint for a some extra glitz. Thinking it’ll probably be best to test that idea on a swatch, anyone ever used the stuff before?

And in completely unrelated other news- I got glasses!

New specs

Hopefully now I will not have to sweat it through my next eye test at the drivers license office, heh.

V. Important Cozy

Posted by on July 20, 2010 2 comments

Beer Sweater Just a fun quickie for a friend. A little “Thank you” for coming over and teaching me bread making. Now I at least feel like I’m not completely guesstimating about kneading.

Only a camera phone shot here (I had just finished this up while lake-side knitting, woo). The ever popular Beer Sweater. As you must keep your beer nice and insulated and no one wants cold wet hands of course.

Yes, there were mods- even on something like this I can’t seem to help it. I used a DK weight yarn instead of the recommended sport weight and thus ended up adjusting the pattern to about 75%.
I worked the sleeves as double-knit tubes (at only 12 sts this was much easier).
Also I always use my alternating knit/purl long tail cast-on method whenever starting in rib.