Well. I’m back from my little unintended blog vacation. What can I say, Shift Happens (see previous post!). I have been knitting a bit, though the past couple weeks have been overrun by work, and this week, church activities in preparation for Easter. I haven’t gotten nearly as much knitting to brag about as I’d like, but here goes.
Here’s what I’m working on now:
That’s the Cobblestone sweater, almost up to the underarms. I still haven’t decided if this is for me or for John. I’d love to wear this one, but that line where the stockinette turns to garter at the yoke falls right across the boobage line. In a skinny flat-chested girl, maybe that would be flattering. Me, not so much. We’ll see when it’s done. This is good mindless round and round knitting, sort of like a big sock.
Next:
Yes, this is still the first of the pair. I really need to finish these before I get sick to death of them. I love how the stripes changed at the heel and gusset. This is Madeline Tosh yarn in Amaranth.
Last but absolutely not least, I’m close to actually finishing Langsjal Jóhönnu. I have spent the last few weeks weighing the remaining ball of yarn after every repeat so I could use as much of it as possible. I’ve ended up with 46 repeats, and am ready for it to be done. For those of you who haven’t done this one, you knit the first border, then the body, then on another set of needles knit the second border, then graft the two together. Yes, that would be Kitchener stitching 125 stitches. Here’s where I am:
There’s also an edging of single stitch crochet chain to go on each end, but I’m not sure I want to bother with that. I might start it and see what it looks like. It might help the thing block flatter and not ruffle at the ends.
And the grafting started:
The color in that photo is closer to the real thing than the first photo up there. In some light this looks just navy blue, but in natural daylight, it has a deep royal purple color.
And I’ll leave you with a photo of what’s blooming in my front entrance:
I think it’s confused about which holiday is this weekend. Happy Easter everybody!
Wow – how many stitches do you have left to graft?! Gorgeous shawl. And those socks are fun – I always love how colorways change at the heels, too.
I really like that cobblestone pattern but I, too, am concerned about where that boobage line would hit me. I don’t think A-cup girls worry about such things. Or skinny girls either. Well.. .that thought has me depressed enough to eat a whole chocolate bunny!
Hope you have a wonderful Easter.
Hey… I just dug around Ravelry looking at the Cobblestone entries. I think I’ve noticed a trend. Flat chested girls look great in the pattern as written. Girls with Ta Ta’s look silly in the pattern as written. But the sweater looks pretty cute on girls who have ta ta’s and a little meat on their bones when they start the yoke color/garter stich top part prior to reaching the ta ta’s. So then that isn’t a boobage line it is a “here’s the skinniest part of me” line. I like that better. 🙂
What a pretty shawl. Looks like you are very close to the finish line. 🙂
Wow the Langsjal J
I think Kris is onto something regarding the Ta Ta’s and the boobage line…… Is that Skye Tweed you’re using? I have some in Raspberry awaiting a sweater choice.
Happy Easter, Lorette! I really like the color of your Cobblestone!
Welcome back. I’ve been sitting here thinking I should post, but I just don’t have anything interesting to post about! Great projects all. I really do think you should adjust the garter stitch line on Cobblestone if necessary so you can wear it. And the shawl is going to be stunning.
maybe not as much as you’d like but plenty of beautiful knitting here!
Happy Easter to you, John and the furry ones Lorette!
Cobblestone looks great. Pat’s Christmas catus is blooming too. So much confusion.
Mmmhhmmmm I see someone has been knitting away!! ;op
Happy Easter to you too!
whoa.. 125 stitches in kitchener? You deserve an award for completing this one… That is one of those stitches that I can never stop once I have begun.
I can’t wait to see it all blocked out.
Beautiful unpronounceable lace, just gorgeous.
When I saw Cobblestone, I just loved it. But DH won’t wear sweaters that pull over his head–they’ve got to button up the front. And so I thought about it fleetingly for me, and rejected it because I thought I had too much in the front and it would ruin the lines of the sweater.
I took a class in the Russian Join with Galina Khmelava at Stitches East, and it would work well for the huge number of live stitches you have to graft. It is explained in her book “Gossamer Webs”. It seems a bit fiddily at first, but it becomes rhythmic and makes a beautiful, invisible join that is stretchy and less of a pain than Kitchener. (There’s another use of “Russian join”. I’ve seen it used to describe attaching one piece of yarn to another when joining a new skein. Galina’s method is a type of grafting.)
Your lace looks beautiful! I hope the grafting’s going well–that looks like the scary part.
That photo looks like you are threatening your yarn to behave, or you’ll use the scissors!
Your projects are so nice! My mom’s christmas cactuses (cactii?) bloom all year round too.