Thursday, December 21, 2006

Terror and Joy

Terror: Must knit, knit, knit, knit, knit...until my fingers fall off or Xmas arrives, whatever happens first.

Have to finish the Moguls scarf for my 6' tall nephew, and the Nature Cotton cardigan for my great-nephew. The Moguls design calls for 360 sts/row @ 6 rows/stripe & 12 stripes. My mind balks at doing the math, even allowing for my arbitrary truncation to 310 sts/row (62" vs. 72" is perfectly acceptable in my mind).


So I am trying to turn this
into a completed version of
this:
which right now does look rather like a demented, mutant ruffle, but holds the promise of actually being kinda cool, and semi-reversible. It is, sadly, a wee bit too unwieldy (as well as heavy) to wrangle during a morning subway commute. Thank GAWD that my office will be closing early this Friday. 8-1/2 stripes down, 3-1/2 left to go. Ack.

Oh yeah, Plymouth Encore Worsted on 9s.

And I am working on a variation of a previous Nature Cotton cardigan
I made for a friend's baby (still in use! yes!!) and adapting it for my great-nephew. Considering the gauge, it is just whipping along. I started this week, and have so far finished both front panels, and 1-1/2 sleeves.

Joy: Blogger is finally out of beta and now works in Firefox!


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