Monthly archives: April 2008

Watching: X Files season 4

Listening to: Mother 3 soundtrack, Chitosedori by Pe’z, FUN FAIR by RIP Slyme, The Understanding by Royksopp, Alive by Daft Punk, Pimpoint by Soil & Pimp Sessions

Playing: Mother 3

Reading: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Knitting: The Patchwork Throw by Erika Knight from the book Classic Knits at Home. As soon as I saw the throw on the cover of this book, I ordered it. The book arrived while I was on spring break, and I had the time to knock out 9 hexagons in 3 days! The pattern calls for knitting hexagons with 3 or 4 colors of yarn in 4 different stitch patterns, but only half the blanket is knitted. The other hexagons are out of different wool and linen textured fabric. The idea of using textured fabric would be really cool, but I have no desire to sew fabric to knitting. So my blanket will be all knitted, and with a different yarn and stitch for each hexagon.

Click photos for full size images, and details about each stitch and yarn combo. Photographing each hex was a good opportunity to try out my new camera. The last 2 were taken with the macro setting, and the detail is amazing.

I also started a new scarf design that is nearly done.

Its knit with 5 green colors in knitpick’s palette, and I plan on writing the pattern after the knitting and blocking is done.

So… I haven’t posted since before Christmas. Christmas break was a busy time, I got engaged January 11th, then I started the busiest semester I’ve ever done. Luckily this is the second to last semester of my baking degree, and I have about 3 weeks left. One of my classes ended last tuesday, and it was the most time consuming class I’ve ever had. The class is food and equipment purchasing, and the whole grade is one giant final project, which you work on all semester. I had to come up with a restaurant, write a concept, write a menu, write about 50 recipes, and then list all the food I needed to buy for the menu. Needless to say, a giant weight was lifted when I turned in my 300+ page binder.

My other classes are baking 3, which is pretty fun except the teacher is a megalomaniac, cake decorating 2, which is alot of fun, and restaurant accounting, which is the most boring class ever.

This is one of my pieces from my cake decorating class, everything but the base is made out of sugar of some kind, and its the piece I’m most proud of from my class. My chocolate piece turned out so ugly I don’t even want to look at it.

Knitting wise, I’ve gotten alot done. I finished my Ivy League Vest.

I like this picture alot. Vala often tries to lay down or sleep inside something I’m currently knitting. But only when she’s not trying to eat the yarn.

Pattern: Ivy League Vest from Interweave Knits Winter 07
Started: November 21st
Finished: March 12th
Yarn: Knit picks palette in ivy, teal, fawn, tan, twig, and cream; and Brown Sheep Nature Spun Fingering in nervous green. I needed less than one ball of each, but the pattern calls for 2 balls of most of the colors. The nervous green I used instead of the teal palette because it was too close in color to the ivy, so I used the teal for all of the ribbing.
Modifications: I really don’t like the look of corrugated ribbing, so I just did plain ribbing, and I made the body about 2 inches longer than the pattern called for. It fits pretty well, but is still quite short for my liking, so I may rip out the bottom and knit more rows of ribbing.

Pattern: Plain toe up stockinette socks

Started: January 21st

Finished: February 26th

Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock, color # 188

Pattern Notes: These socks fit really well. They’re quite snug when you first put them on, and as the stretch out they fit perfectly. I ended up with alot of yarn left over, so I weighed the socks, and I only used 51 grams! So I may make a lacey scarf or something out of the extra.

Another post is on the way about my unfinished projects.