Monthly archives: November 2005

After seeing the new harry potter I think I’ll attempt my first design project after the Christmas sweater is finished
I fell in love with this grey sweater even though I don’t really like Hermione.

I can even start knitting it out of the stash, and I was lucky to find this character model from the game detailing the sweater. The grey sweater from the movie had cables on the ribbing, which I think I’ll do. I’ll just do k4 p4 ribbing with a simple cable every other k4.Its really amazing that now that I knit I notice knitted objects way more. After seeing the movie my first comment to Russell was “did you see hermione / neville / fred and george / ginny’s sweaters? they were awesome!” to which he replied “no, I didn’t notice.” But really there were some really great fair isle things in there, and everyone had great hats.

I’d also like to knit something like these for the winter.

It shouldn’t be too hard, just a little math and figuring out how to continue the cables onto the ear flaps, probably doing a provisional cast on… which I hate doing. I also want to do these socks that were designed by eddie bauer, but that will take some more figuring out, drawing the color charts, and getting new yarn. I have so many projects I really can’t justify buying more sock yarn, especially considering i have about 9,000 balls of sock yarn, and 1 pair of socks.

one sleeve of the chrismas pullover knitalong is done. ann is way farther ahead than i am (she has 2 sleeves and the back done). its going well so far, i like the striping and the intarsia fair isle looks good.

id like to remake the freida sweater from the alpaca silk book. this time in the right gauge. unfortunately I CANT FIND THE BOOK. it is very sad. i know its in the house somewhere.. i bought some bernat denim style in off white for it, and because hobby lobby has cheap tempting yarn i bought 3 balls of infatuation in “bouquet”. which is a really pretty antique rose color.

sock on the left was made about… 6 months ago i think. sock on the right was made today! and! i cast on its companda! i think i’m finally getting over my second sock (mitten, sleeve, etc.) syndrome. we’ll see if pink sock gets a mate. i doubt it because its ugly. what was i thinking?

orange zip up sweater is finally done! unfortunately the zipper was too short and my sewing job was less than awesome despite my meticulous pinning technique. it fits well but the knitting stretches SO MUCH that it makes everything hard to sew.