maroon bias-cut velvet pinstripe suit

when in rome...

2008-12-22T22:06:00.002-05:00

i have cast-on-itis like woa. ^_^"

made a felted beer bottle cozy because my friend was making a coffee mug cozy. and i could.

and i just started a cabled top. because i figured out how to do it. and because i don't want to work on my mother's sweater.

i'm a bad person...

corn on the cob... and my head

2008-12-06T09:02:00.003-05:00

i just finished a hat for mari-chan's sister. it's lovely. it's amazing. i think even i'm impressed by how nice it looks.

i used a yarn made from corn fiber; i thought it would be fitting, since she's mexican and there's no way it could be itchy. it works really well for the pattern. the stitch definition on the cables is great.

i think the knitting only took four days. it was just that much fun to knit. i didn't expect to enjoy a hat this much. it is an excellently designed pattern and the yarn is lovely. i also haven't gotten much knitting in recently. and i certainly haven't gotten any interesting knitting in lately. i think the last thing i was working on that was remotely interesting was icarus. 0.o everything else has been stockinette or otherwise really simple.

it's made me realize that i really need interesting knitting in my life. i really need interesting knitting in my life. i've been out more evenings recently with ballroom dancing. and then there was halloween and the costuming that entailed. and i just hadn't gotten to casting on interesting projects. or lace at all. i think this is the longest i haven't had an active lace project since i started. and i was sad. but then i had the lovely hat and i'm designing an ear warmer and i'm planning on casting on some lace this weekend.

of course, this knitting is on top of the sweater i'm knitting for my mother's holiday gift and the shrug for my dad's girlfriend... and maybe some socks for my grandmother... and my other grandmother... and my aunt...

finally

2008-08-17T18:58:00.001-05:00

selling a classy tank top on etsy.

thanks to my roomie and her hot body for modeling.

maybe, baby

2008-07-30T21:00:00.002-05:00

on the needles:

grey rectangular shawl for my grandma's friend
banana raglan bolero for my dad's girlfriend

on the back burner:

holly jacket
katharine vest
felted box
moogle dress

... i think that's it.

really?

moogle costume.pattern notes

2007-12-29T00:20:00.000-05:00

wrist flutes

cable cast on one hundred and twenty stitches (24-24-24-24-24). join.

k twelve, yo, k1, yo, k eleven on each needle. k 1 rnd.

k1, yo, k eleven, centered double decrease, k to end of n, yo on each needle. k one rnd.

centered double decrease every row; k1, yo at beg of and yo at end of every other row until eight sts left on each needle

k1, p3 thirteen rows.

didn't do the collar like i noted in the last post.

made the wire frames for the ears.

wips

2007-12-16T19:55:00.000-05:00

my friend just introduced me to a new yarn store. i love it. i want to live there. it sells all sorts of wonderful eco-happy fibers like banana and recycled cotton. i found some wonderful wonderful stuffs.

i found some bright cotton and have cast on for the lacey sweater from loop-d-loop. i'm terrible excited.

and i'm halfway done with the border of the shawl for my mom.

but most importantly, i finally cast on for the white collar part of my moogle costume. cast on two hundred stitches on size three needles. knit two rows in stockinette stitch, and then a row of eyelets (yo, k2tog). purl back.

decreases every eighteenth stitch (from a set of twenty). knit eighteen, k2tog on right half; ssk, knit eighteen on left half - k2tog, ssk at center. three rows stockinette stitch.

for the moogle costume:
pink bonnet: done
flower: not done; have yarn
scarf: done
collar: in progress
ears: not done; have yarn
wings: not done; have yarn (just found it at the wonderful new store!)
cuffs: not done; have yarn
dress: not done; need yarn
vest: not done; need yarn
shoes: not done; need yarn

i think that does it.

due date: katsucon 2008. february fifteenth? hm...

other wips:
hedera socks
super-ultra-crazy thick-bulky weight scarf

...

wow. i think that's it. gee...

vanilla with pieces

2007-10-09T23:53:00.000-05:00

i'm having the most lovely evening. there's been a huge thunderstorm and it's nice and noisy out. i've been knitting and listening to podcasts. it's just so cozy with some nice audio and big piece of knitting in your lap.

i finished the knitting on my thermal. it's so soft and squishy. it looks like i could have made it longer, but i'll see how it looks after i block. when i cast on, i was so eager to knit it up so i could do the seaming. and of course, now that i've finished knitting, all i want to do is cast on another big project. not socks, not lace, but another sweater or something.

of course, the only yarn i have enough of is super bulky weight. my mom found it on sale. it's a wonderful color and there's four hundred grams of it, but it's super bulky weight. i have no idea what to do with it. moreover, i don't even think i have needles big enough to swatch. i have a set of size nine circulars. i may have a set of size fifteen straights lurking about somewhere. ... it shows gauge on size seventeen... looking this closely at the yarn, i'm a bit scared.

regardless, i still don't want to seam up thermal. even though i would have a sweater if i did. i also don't want to cast off and weave in the ends of my grey and red vest. it's been sitting in my bag for nearly a month now. i just need to cast off the neckline and sew in ends. that's it. okay, so, there are fifty million ends. or... y'know, fourteen. still, entirely too many.

i think this means i need to go to a knitting group.

2007-09-26T23:04:00.000-05:00

i have a kitty~!

actually, he's a wonderfully handsome tom. and he's so friendly and purrs so.

he makes me so happy.

even better, he hasn't shown any interest in my knitting yet. ^_^

in knitting related news, i finished my tofutsies socks. they're so wonderful to wear. and so pretty too.

and i'm one row away from finishing my grey and red striped vest. ... plus weaving in ends... yeah...

kangaroo shoes

2007-09-17T18:55:00.001-05:00

i finished the purple triangle shawl. but i still have to block it. somehow, even though i know how amazing blocking is, i feel no desire to block it.

i also finished dave's socks. and they actually fit!

i'm working on a pair of socks for myself now. i found a wonderfully colored skein of tofutsies at the lys and had to try it. i love the colors. and it's so soft! this may be one of my favorite socks yarns. i've finished the first sock and i just started the toe decreases on the second. i was amazed by how quickly they worked up. i just love working with this yarn.

and then i put the sock for me next to the sock for dave.

... and that's why they went so fast.

i'm also working on the shawl for my mother again. i'm farther along than i remembered. i'm almost halfway done with the last tier (not including the border). i think i may be able to finish it for her birthday.

but most exciting, is my sweater. i finished the second sleeve! they're so pretty and soft and fluffy. ^_^ alas, i don't think i'll be finishing it in a month (i started two weeks ago and haven't even started the body), but i should finish it by the end of november.

and lastly, just because. this is what saw from my kitchen window one day, looking out at the neighbor's roof.

2007-08-22T10:09:00.000-05:00

squee~!

::bounces::

i'm on ravelry~!

update.2007.08.21

2007-08-21T22:21:00.000-05:00

somehow, i managed to not forget any wips in my last post. ... or atleast any wips i've worked on or seen in the past week. i finished the first sock for dave and even started the second. but, alas, the first sock is a quarter of an inch too long. so i'm... torn between fixing the first sock and making progress on the second (read: working on other projects).

in other happiness, i finished the edging on my purple triangle shawl. which means i've finished all the knitting on it. finally. now i just have to block. ... and weave in the ends...

so, i was visiting family/home a couple weeks ago and was talking to a couple of my cousins about nanowrimo and, of course, that made me think of nanoswemo (national novel sweater month aka national sweater knitting month (0.o)). and i decided it was high time i knit a sweater and that nanoswemo was the perfect time to do it. i even brought back a wonderfully large poof of yarn for the project. turquoise cashmere/merino. @_@ now i just have to find a pattern. and a kal...

wips.2007.08.13

2007-08-12T21:48:00.000-05:00

current wips:

broken ribbed socks for dave

drop stitch shirt

little big girl lace socks

felted project cozy

garden pi shawl for my mom

purple triangle shawl

grey lace shawl

grey and red striped vest

... and probably a couple others.

...

oops.

notes.rosetrellis.01.000

2006-05-18T17:24:00.000-05:00

so, i finally have my card reader and camera back on a consistant basis and time to blog. ^_^ this means that i finally get to post about all the lovely lace i've been knitting.

about a year ago, i was at a fashion school store, and found a gigantic cone of cotton yarn. it was such a fun color, and a total steal. i carted it to school, thinking i would make thigh-high belled leg warmers. guess what i never got around to starting? i finally decided that, alas, it would never be leg warmers, and it was high time i made a lace shawl. and i had the perfect yarn for a summer lace shawl. that i had plenty of. ^_^ it's so big, i just had to take a photo of it.

and so you can actually see how big this thing is, i took a photo of it next to a skein of fifty grams of worsted weight.

i'm working the rose trellis shawl. i forget where i got it from, but it was free online somewhere. and it's really pretty. it's four triangular panels worked from the neck, making a square. it's worked flat, and the break is on one of the diagonal lines from the center.

this is about one repeat of one of the triangles.

i didn't have circs in the right size - twos, that is. i have circs in threes, but the fabric was too loose. so, i started it on straights. i ran out of space on the needle after four repeats or so, and had to go buy circs. ^_^

update.2006.4.16

2006-04-16T07:46:00.000-05:00

i don't remember what it was, but a couple weeks ago, i was inspired to make some stitch markers out of the bells i had gotten over winter break. i got them to make stich markers out of; i just hadn't gotten around to making them yet. they turned out wonderfully. i was amazed by how little time it took to make them and how good they looked. i have different colored wire and different colored beads. and they're just a nice happy jingly set.

and inspired by my sucess with the bells, i made another set of safety pins - subversive and useful! they also look suprisingly good.

dave's gloves are going well. i did the pinkey and have the calculations for the rest of the fingers (it's just a little big on me).

turns out the pinkey's a little big on dave too. right length. twenty five rows. but a bit too wide. so, i'm taking two stiches out of the cast on between each of the fingers. right now, i'm waiting for the yarn to relax.

the shetland shawl finally got too big, and i'm working the border and don't know what's going on, and i decided the jaywalker socks are too big in the heel, so i started another project. this was a good idea. a summer stole/wrap. branching out worked back and forth in connected strips to make a big rectangle. in turqoise thread from the japanese store. dude. actually it's not bad. i'm working them on ones. and it looks really pretty - great against black. it just looks so delicate and springy. and it's good for class - nice and mindless. now we'll just see if i finish it while i can still wear it.

this was it a week ago or so. my friend currently has my camera and card reader, so i can't get a photo now. but it's much larger - halfway done with the second strip. ... the ball of yarn looks just as big. and there's a second one.

i started another project a couple days later. it's another lace project. i'm finally using that huge cone of pink cotton. it's looking really pretty. again, my friend has my camera. i took a couple photos, but didn't take them off the card. now i'm well into the second pattern repeat.

and, of course, i follow links in other knitters blogs. so... now i really want a miniature sheep. preferably a miniature shetland sheep. or a toy cheviot. or a toy southdown. or all of them. amd i want a black one. their wool is always black. and i want a miniature goat too. evidentally, they can be trained to do tricks and stuff and they're very affectionate. and they all make good pets. one'll set me back three hundred dollars or so, but i won't need a lawn mower. i don't know i'll do if i live in the city, though...

notes.project.mrsbeeton.01.000

2006-04-03T12:21:00.000-05:00

okay, finally. photos of my first mrs. beetons. i actually changed the pattern a decent ammout. at first, i followed the pattern exactly, but then it was too big, so i decided to reknit them. i took out one ruffle to make it smaller. and then, since the inner ruffle was so pretty,

i decided to add beads to the outter ruffle too.

and then, i didn't like the weight of the wrist, so i knit that with just the main color. and then, since i had the left over yarn and there was contrast yarn at the bottom of the cuff, i used it to cast off too.

notes.pattern.dave.gloves.02.002

2006-04-02T14:54:00.000-05:00

they fit! they fit they fit they fit! they fit like a _glove_. ^__^

alas, my friend has my camera and i couldn't get a photo. ~_~

so, i have a cast on of sixty nine stitches, i skip the increase every fourth row of the thumb gusset, and i have seventy eight stitches after the thumb. i'll record the full pattern when i get to the fingers.

notes.pattern.dave.gloves.02.001

2006-03-29T07:04:00.001-05:00

so... knitting that pattern actually fits me. ... rather well.

the thumb gusset even fits perfectly.

it seems i'm getting twenty stitches per four centimeters. not seventeen. and i'm getting thirteen rows per two centimeters and not ten. but i left the row count the same. i just recalculated the stitches. this yarn is just out to confuse me. at least i'll know how to get a pair that fits me.

i've casted on again, with four more stitches and i'm doing a plain row in the thumb gusset every four rows. maybe this one will work.

notes.pattern.dave.gloves.02.000

2006-03-11T02:18:00.000-05:00

...

restarted dave's gloves again. and this time they'll fit. i swear! i redid the calculations and so it should work now. if not, it'll be so much closer. it looks really good this time. i like it in this gauge. it's on zeros. and i really like the stitch size and it's making a nice fabric. and it's _so_ shiny. @_@

so, pattern notes!

long tail cast on 65 sts on one size 0 dpn.

r 1(ws) - 3: [k1, p1] to end
r 4 and 6: [k1, p1] to 5 sts from end, k3, p1, k1
r 5: k1, p5, [k1, p1] to end
r 7: [k1, p1] to end
r 8: k to last st, yf, sl st
r 9 - 17: ktbl, p to last st, sl st
r 10 - 16: ktbl, k to last st, yf, sl st

r 18: ktbl, k to last st onto rem 3 needles, sl st (16-16-16-17)
join by knitting together last sl st and 1st st of n 1 (onto n4)
from now on, knit first st of next needle onto current needle (to preven ladders)

thumb gusset:
r 19: k2, m1t, k31, m1a, k2, m1t, k to end
r 20 - 24: k to inc, m1t, k to end
r 25 - 47: inc as before; except for every third row, which should be knit plain
r 48 - 51: k to inc, m1t, k to end

finishedobjects.00

2006-01-30T03:11:00.000-05:00

i finally got around to processing the photos i've taken of all the projects i've finished since the beginning of last semester. and i did quiet a bit of knitting. ^_^

i made the penguin from knitty for a friend. she's likes penguins. ^_^ here are all the pieces.

and a few days later, i sewed her together, stuffed her, and took a good look at her.

pretty cute, ne?

i also finished dave's tie. it's too floppy and the seam i put up the center is too tight, but it's shiny. @_@

but i must say, the piece i'm most happy with is the scarf for my mom. i used some of the silk dave brough back from china and i worked a modified version of branching out from knitty. since the panels i made were so small (two and a half inches), and i'm obsessed with symetry, i decided to put two panels together, with the leaves going in both directions. i word the panels seperately, then sewed up the center. i'm especially happy with the seaming. i can't tell that it's sewn. when you hold it up, the center is more solid than the rest of the scarf, but you can't see a seam. and it's just gorgeous.

and here's a close up. ^_^

it just has the most wonderful weight. it drapes beautifully. and it's so shiny. and soft. i like petting it. ^_^ and my mom says that she always gets compliments when she wears it. ^_^ her therapist was very impressed.

in other news, i have a fish! it's a school experiment. i have to give him back in three weeks, but for now, i have a very pretty little friend. ^_^

2006-01-10T20:59:00.000-05:00

okay, so i can't edit the date on these posts, so, alas, i cannot put the posts from my old knitting blog in here. and they had such nice photos...

well, so, i'm linking. my old blog was at http://www.livejournal.com/users/ingreycableknit

notes.pattern.dave.gloves.02.000

2006-01-10T19:06:00.000-05:00

dave.gloves frogged.

::ribbit::

i decided that the fabric was too lose and holey. and they were too big for dave. i'm reknitting them on the same needles, though, and the fabric is looking much better. i think it was just all the lace knitting i'd been doing that was throwing me off. and i've decided to change the pattern slightly, since the first re-re-re-knit attempt was too small, by adding a closure. it's worked flat now, up until the thumb gusset. i'll have to knot buttons and add loops, but it should look particularly swanky. and i've decreased the size of the seed stitch band. looks much finer now.

so, notes!

long tail cast on seventy three stitch
r 1(ws): k1, p1 to end
r 2: k1, p1 to end
r 3 and 5: k1, p1, p3; k1, p1 to end
r 4 and 6: k1, p1 to 5 sts from end, k3, k1, p1
r 7 and 9: k1, p1 to end
r 8: k1, p1 to end
r 10: k to last st, yf, sl st
r 11, 13, 15: k1tbl, p to last st, sl st
r 12, 14, 16: k1tbl, k to last st, yf, sl st

r 17: k1tbl, knitting onto dpns (18 - 18 - 18 - 19)
join, pass unknit last stitch of r 8 to needle 1
r 18: k2tog(last st of r8 and first sts of r9), k2, m1t, k 38 sts, m1a, k2, m1t, k to end
r 19, 21, 23, 25 - 43: k to last increase, m1a, k to end
r 20, 22, 24: k to last increase m1a, k to pair of increase, m1t, k 4(6, 8), m1a, k to end

this is an increase of 34 sts - 8 in the side gusset and 26 for the thumb.

notes.pattern.dave.gloves.002

2005-11-18T23:09:00.000-05:00

r 52: k around

r 53: k to 27 sts before increases, transfer 27 sts to scrap yarn; provisional co 10 sts, k across co sts, k to end of rnd

r 54 - 64?: k

dude, these gloves are going really fast. i already need dave to come over to try them on. but he's gone for the weekend. >.<

notes.pattern.dave.gloves.001

2005-11-18T01:45:00.000-05:00

work seed st for 18 rows

k 3 rows (19 - 21)

thumb and wrist gussets:
inc total of 33 sts; 27 r; 27 for thumb gusset, 6 for wrist gusset
thumb gusset worked every round; wrist gusset worked every other rnd - evens

r22: k to 3sts from end of 'first' n (21 sts), m1L, k to 4 sts from end of 'third' n, m1R, k2, m1L, k to end

r23: k to after last m1L, m1L, k to end

r 24, 26: same as 22; moving inc inline with first inc

r25 - 51: same as 23

notes.pattern.dave.gloves.000

2005-11-17T00:32:00.000-05:00

long tail cast on 73 sts on size 0 dpns (18 - 18 - 18 - 19).

work in seed st, knitting extra st onto each n (purl; and so you start the next n on a k).