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I've Got Class
Friday, January 28, 2005 I signed up for a machine knitting class at my alma mater, FIT. I'm kind of nervous to take a class there. I get sad whenever I go there now. I graduated more than a decade ago, but my memories are still fresh. The campus is a sort of haunted playground to me. Around every corner I see shades of my past, old friends, dead friends, tragic heartbreaks, bad karma -- you name it. It makes me feel old to see all the young kids running around with cell phones. Cell phones! No one had cell phones when I went there. I didn't even have a regular phone back then. The pay phone in the hall sufficed. At least I'm not taking an art class. I won't have to be on that floor or even in that building. I hope the class is worth it. And I hope there are some cool old people there too. posted at 1:48 PM . link .   .
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5 Comments: Question for you: Did you do short row shaping on your "Remembering Honey" sweater or did you just follow the pattern?
By I followed the pattern. Was there short row shaping in that pattern? No, there is no short row shaping. I was reading in Knitty though that patterns usually don't contain shoulder short row shaping, but that converting it to short row shaping drastically improves the appearance of your sweaters. I thought the shoulders on your sweater looked fine, so was wondering if I was converting for nothing.
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Actually, I do use short row shaping for shoulders sometimes, although I didn't use it on Remembering Honey. But I didn't use back stitch to sew the shoulder seams, I used a technique I read about in "Knitting Simple Sweaters from Luxurious Yarns" by Marilyn Saitz Cohen. It's a whipstitch seam and the directions are as follows: "With right sides facing, sew down through the inner edge of the back bound-off stitch and up through the inner edge of the front bound off stitch." Not much in the way of directions, but it makes a pretty decorative seam. Sometimes I just do away with the shoulder shaping all together and bind off all the stitches at once. Then other times I bind off using directions from "Vogue Knitting" for a sloped bind-off. To do that you leave on stitch on the left needle the row before, then turn your work and slip the first stitch from the left needle (the last stitch you knit before turning your work) onto the right needle purl wise. Then you pass the unworked stitch of the previous row over the slipped stitch, which makes the first stitch bound off. Then you bind off the remaining stitches, turn then work to the last stitch and repeat. great, thanks!
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I Really Lost It Saturday, January 22, 2005  I'm working on another Aran sweater. This one is by Norah Gaughan from Interweave Knits winter 01/02. I'm using Grey Heather Patons Decor. There is a not so funny story about this sweater. I started it months ago and as I neared the end of the first ball of yarn I discovered I couldn't find the rest of the yarn I bought to finish the project. I searched everywhere. I looked through my huge pile of stash several times. I searched under my bed and through every closet (and we have many closets, more than you'd expect in a New York apartment). I looked every where. I even asked my grandma if I had left a bag of grey yarn at her house. No dice. I came to the shocking realization that I had to buy more yarn. I went back to P&S fabrics, where I bought the yarn originally, because I thought they might have some of the same dye lot. But when I got there it was closed. A guy eating take-out chinese in front of a neighboring store saw my befuddled expression and told me they were closed for the holiday. It was one of the Jewish holidays in the fall. I forgot. P&S is closed from sundown Friday till Sunday morning and all the Jewish holy days. So I went home empty handed. I called P&S to find out when they were going to be open again. It wasn't until the next week. So I waited. The next time I went I called first, just to make sure they would be open. But the answering machine informed me that they were closed due to a death in the family and that they'd remain closed for two weeks. Of course, P&S isn't the only yarn store in New York City, but it's the only one I go to that sells Patons and Lion Brand and all the cheap yarns I like. So I waited. And waited. And waited. When they finally reopened, I went. Of course they didn't have any of the dye lot left, so I bought seven skeins of a different dye lot. At first I was going to just continue knitting what I had already started. But the original piece had a couple of inches where I knit the fancy rib all wrong, so I decided to start from the beginning. I used the old piece to make my helmet hat and hand warmers.Tonight I finished the back. Now all I have left are the two fronts, two sleeves, and, of course, finishing. I figure I'll be done with it just in time for summer, that is, unless I lose the rest of the yarn. posted at 10:49 PM . link . .
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3 Comments: My guess is that you'll find the originally bought yarn just any day now! At least that's what keeps happening to me! Good look with the aran project!
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Nice texture on the swatch.. I think I remember this pattern, but can you show a picture of the whole sweater? I'd love to see it!
By Here's a picture of the original "Tweedy Aran Cardigan" By Norah Gaughan from Interweave Knits Winter 01/02.
Busy Weekend Knitting Sunday, January 09, 2005  I've spend all weekend knitting. I made a pair of hand warmers (from Weekend Knitting : 50 Unique Projects and Ideas ) to match my new down coat. Then I decided I needed a matching hat. I really like hats with ear flaps. I need warmth So I made an earflap helmet hat from Interweave Knits Summer 2003. But it looked weird. My coat is dark silvery grey. I made the mitts out of two strands of Patons Decor, grey heather and olive, so they're pretty dull. I made the hat out of the same colors so when I put it on I felt like I belonged riding on a post-apocalyptic rat trap out of "Mad Max" or something. The hat needed a little cheering up. So I knit a rose they had in the first issue of Knit 1. I sewed it on and thus my hat was complete. It's kind of cute but werid at the same time. I started making a mistake rib scarf in the same colors, but I ran out of yarn. Then today I went to my lys and bought some Mission Falls 1824 Cotton to make a baby hat for Kyle's cousin. She's going to pop any day now. I don't know if she's having a boy or a girl, so I bought green and grey yarn. I made the green hat tonight and I'll make the grey one some other day. The hat pattern is from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts . It's the first pattern I used from that book and it came out cute. It's funny to think this little hat will fit anyone, it's so tiny.
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3 Comments: iLOVE your hat with ear flaps and the rose. Can you please share the pattern(s)? I'd appreciate it. My son wants an earflap hat and your pattern is the best one that I've seen
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Hi! I just stumbled across this website and absolutely love your hat. Can you share your pattern ?
By I actually didn't design this hat, it's from the Interweave Knits Summer 2003 issue, so I can't post the pattern, since I don't own the copyright. They still have back issues available at http://www.interweave.com/knit/interweave_knits/back_issues/SU_03.asp
The Mini's Hammock Monday, January 03, 2005  Mini loves -- i mean LOVES -- laying on wet sweaters. Don't know why. I can't imagine it's all that comfortable. It's really annoying, because I get up in the morning and the sweater I've blocked all nicey-nice is rumpled and coated with cat hair. And it's not like the drier is as comfy as a hammock. Look how fat she is -- she's basically laying on the ground! It's quite disgraceful. Poor Mini. It's a new year, perhaps she should go on a diet.
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