Archive for May, 2010

The great thing about yarn is…

It’s oh so portable.  I’ve had the most insane week at work, with a field trip, the spring musical production, and evening class…and then I came down with a head cold to make it all even more complicated. Yet, my projects were with me all the way.  On the field trip, I started my second [...]

May 23, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Crochet, Knitting  No Comments

WIP limbo

I’m feeling the need to finish a project already!  Of course, nothing is even close to being wearable. My first Vogue stocking is nearing completion, but I need to finish a whole other sock before I can wear them.  I am getting very close to the point where I want to try them on to [...]

May 15, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Crochet, Knitting  No Comments

Forward

I got caught up with the Zarabel sweater this evening, and I’m so much happier with it now.  Those panels are now slanting the right direction. After rereading the directions for the decreases, I’ve decided that it really is the directions’ fault.  It gives instructions for the right side decrease first, then gives instructions for [...]

May 11, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Knitting  No Comments

Un-knitting

So, I’ve been making fantastic progress on my Zarabel sweater.  See.. And then, I realized that I had done the decreases on the front stockinette sections wrong so that the lace panels on the sides were sloping towards the neckline instead of the ones closer to the center sloping towards the sides.  BIG difference to [...]

May 10, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Knitting  One Comment

Lace success…maybe.

So, I needed a new small project to take with me this past weekend and decided that I was ready to tackle the Vogue stockings again.  I’ve got a little more lace experience under my belt now, and had gained a new strategy for dealing with those pesky k3togs.  (The Zarabel sweater pattern has you [...]

May 3, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Knitting  No Comments