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As if the ripping never occured.....
August 23, 2006
I've regained all the lost knitting on the Tapestry cardigan, ie finished the back for the second time! I couldn't find anywhere to pin it to show it properly, so I ended up pinning it on a box just so you lucky viewers can see it! This resulted in several minutes setting up what turned out a very dull photo, but since I bothered, here it is!
To make up for that poo face boring photo, here's one to show just how shiny and soft and pretty the yarn really is:
I've also started a front. I hope to get it done in the next couple of weeks....maybe that's too optimistic?! I'm looking forward a lot to doing the edgings on it, because the stripes will go vertically instead of horizontally, and I hope it looks cool and not dorky.
I also took some photos of some of the bits I like a lot in Rowan 40:
1 = crazy cool muff
2 = sexy socks (but there is no leg shaping, will they make wrinkles around the ankle like a granny's tights?! And if so I'm not making them!)
3 = lovely crocheted over the top frilly scarf, I want one
4 = gorgeous cardigan which I won't make but like loads anyway
5 = wacky armwarmers, which for some reason appeal to me a lot, but I wouldn't make them in brown, maybe inky blue.
It's a brilliant magazine for accessories, well - it's a brilliant magazine anyway but I'll probably only end up making the accessories. It's nearly bank holiday weekend! It's been such a dismal august we haven't arranged to go anywhere, but I hope to go shopping and get those bloody hooks and eyes to finish the Pinkster, maybe there will be finished stuff next week......
Posted by jen at August 23, 2006 09:14 PM
Comments
Ooh - cool muff! The tapestry yarn is lovely, I can't wait to see the finished article :)
(I've been lurking on your blog for ages, and have made two of your patterns, and have kept meaning to get in touch to say thanks for designing such cool stuff! :) )
Posted by: TheKnittingBee at August 24, 2006 11:16 AM
Oh well done Jen! Good luck with the fronts. Are you knitting them both at the same time?
I love number 4, looks great! xx
Posted by: Annarella at August 24, 2006 12:01 PM
Looks like I'm going to have to get my hands on the new Rowan somehow! Love that frilly scarf; I've been wanting one for an age.
Regarding the socks wrinking around the ankle: if it's a lace pattern it's usually pretty stretchy, so they may not wrinkle. It's always worth a try! (I've been wanting some zippy knee highs like that, too.)
Posted by: Miss Lissa at August 24, 2006 07:20 PM
I can't knit socks. However many instructions and patterns I read, I can't get my head around turning heels. Knit the sexy long socks. On behalf of those of us who.. *sniff*... can't...
(yet) :)
Posted by: Sam at August 25, 2006 08:51 AM
I love that cardigan and those socks from this Rowan! I'm glad you pointed out that wrinkly ankle possibility because I was considering knitting those stockings - the possibilities for wearing them are endless. I don't knit socks but I've seen socks out there with wrinkly ankles and it's always the first thing I see - kinda ruins the sock for me. Probably thanks to all those wrinkly pantyhose commercials (kid embarrasses mother by pointing out wrinkly ankles in public) I use to see as a kid in the 70s. It's marked me for life. Miss Lissa's comment has given me hope, though.
Posted by: Becky at August 28, 2006 07:54 AM
i am doing the anna knee socks from Rowan.....there is no shaping and i cannot figure out how to do it without screwing up the pattern so i've changed from #3s to #2s at the bottom of the calf. Then changed to #1s for the ankle, and i'll go back to #2s for the foot...so far its worked but now i have to turn the heel ( never done it before) hopefully the instructions will talk me thru.
Posted by: clairity123 at September 3, 2006 04:02 AM