I decided to start knitting the top of my sweater for the herrringbone fabric. More updates to follow.


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I decided to start knitting the top of my sweater for the herrringbone fabric. More updates to follow.
Almost done, half a skein left on this tv-friendly knit Cowl.
Interesting crocheted edging.
and... is it a llama?
Fact 1: I love Knitting.
Fact 2: I love Family Guy.
If you do too, YouTube:
Family Guy Men's knitting club
"Knit that!"
So the first pic is on a US 6 and the fabric was too stiff, so I bumped up the needles to 10s, recommended for this bulky yarn. I am loving the result so much I can't stop squishing it. So I dub thee : Smooshie.
It's a brioche stich, I am halfway through 1 ball with 3 more to go. Hopefully enough to make a decent Cowl. I plan to graft the edges together at the end. Glad I finally found and started a project for this yarn I bought when I was just a newbie.
Yarn : Katia Peru
I was not ready to join the party at first. I felt the instructions, for the Fiesta Mittens, at first, to be a little over-complex, however, now that I have gotten as far as the thumb gusset, I feel I really gotten the knack of it.
You can tell from the pics that my varigated yarn has the exact grey of my main color for some stretches which I decided were not worth frogging but for the future stretches of grey I have gathered them in knots to be woven in after. This way I get the most of the bright color changes.
I also could only find one US 1, so I did the cuff in a 0 and I am using a 1 on the back of the hand and the 0 in the palm.
So far, I am loving this project!
I started these Marywarmers again after abandoning the varigated yarn I got from Schaefer called Anne, I believe, which proved to be too thin & this Jitterbug is probably a smidgen too thick. However, I think I am going to enjoy the finished product more with a little thickness to it for the northern fall.
I have been looking for this pattern! I like how it is coming out so far. I am holding 2 strands, one from outside the cake, and 1 center-pull strand. It twists a bit as you knit but I like the color variation you get. When I used this as 1 strand stockinette, I didn't like the pooling I was seeing. I would recommend a technique of knitting 2 rows & then switch to yarn from center & knit 2. I have even heard switch every row but it would help with the pooling. However, having said that my pattern called for dk, so I had to double up.
Very easy pattern to memorize for knitting on the subway.