Friday, September 18, 2009

Fighting my way out of a Knitting Black Hole

We've all run into it at one time or another, the knitting project that seems like it will never end. I am working on not one, but two black hole projects.



This is a top down sweater in which the number of stitches increased every sixth row.

I knit. I measured. I knit and knit and knit. When I measured the length again, it was still the same length. I had started new balls of yarn and increased the number of stitches, but the length still seemed to not be growing.

I had to resort to putting a pin in on Tuesday morning. By the end of the day, I had proof that I had accomplished something.

Another pin was attached to my knitting on Wednesday morning. I could see progress and was motivated to continue.

I followed the advice of my knitting buddies and knit longer than the pattern said to. It was good advice.

Around the same time that the Swing Coat was started, I fell victim to peer pressure and started Camelot. I thought it was a good idea.
I didn't realise how big this sweater was.



There is a ton of Stocking stitch in this sweater and a shitload of seaming.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and am pretty sure that by the time the weather turns cold, I will have two spiffy new sweaters to keep the chill out.

And if mine looks as good as this one does when it's finished, I won't care if I'm warm.



Sunday, September 13, 2009

Counting sheep...

....need to sleep....

Thursday, September 10, 2009

How do you store your circ's?

I have decided to give away my old circular needles to my SIL but I don't think that throwing them into a bag with a needle gauge is a really good idea. If I had kept all the individual cases, I could just include them, but in a previous organising binge, I was sure I wouldn't need them.

They currently reside in pencil cases that are linked together with binder rings. I have written the size of the needles on the outside of each pencil case. While there is room for all the needles and the dpns in the pencil cases, I'm not sure if I want to give them away too. It has been a good system but it is really too big to carry around.

My Addis and ebony needles are in a Lexie Barnes circular needle case and it is packed. One day the zipper is going to burst and there is going to be knitting needle vomit all over...and I mean all over everything.

Has anyone out there tried the 'Circular Solution'? Is it something that looks better than it actually is?

I need the perfect organizational system? Does it exist?