Anyway, here is Sara with the shawl:
And here is a close-up of the shawl itself:
I feel accomplished :). Now back to my granddaughter's dress...
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
03 December 2012
One-Strand Knotted Openwork Stitch Prayer Shawl
This was from a Ravelry pattern (free download) that I made for Sara as a Christmas present out of Marble yarn. (I'm not sure of the whole name but each ball was 341 yards and the color is a nicely variegated blue). It was done on size 13 circular needles and is about six feet long in total and I *still* have some yarn left over. (I'm going to have to find a project to do with all my remnant stash!). It alternated rows of purled stitches with rows of knitted stitches, yarnovers, and slipping other stitches.
Anyway, here is Sara with the shawl:
And here is a close-up of the shawl itself:
Anyway, here is Sara with the shawl:
And here is a close-up of the shawl itself:
15 September 2012
Project 365: Week 37
So, to recap: not participating as much because...well, I work, I go to school at night to finish my Master's. I work, I go to school at night to finish my Master's. I work, I go to school at night to finish my Master's...ad nauseum. I just can't really find many pictures that would be anything different other than the view from my desk or a page out of a textbook. And believe you me, I don't want to inflict a tome on tax policy on anyone else!
(Bug, I have your book. Life has been a little insane. I will try to get it in the mail this week. I think I still have the address...)
However, I have a few pics that I thought I would put up and share:
I finished a scarf I was working on and blocked it this week. It's four colors of yarn and a combination of garter and stockinette stitch. It was the first time I'd worked on circular needles with two balls of yarn at the same time. Scarf is almost 6' long.
My youngest granddaughter, Emery. Way too cute :).
I was on my way into Drug Emporium when I saw this license plate and had to take a picture. I swear, the first voice in my head was Apu from The Simpsons: "Mr. Simpson, please to not be feeding my god a peanut."
While waiting to check out in Drug Emporium, I saw this by the register. The cashier looked at me a little oddly for putting down my purchases and grabbing my phone but, seriously, how could I resist? It's LIP BALM, people! Doesn't the name just make you want to grab up a couple? (please note, they swear at the bottom that chicken poop is not an ingredient....uh huh.)
Otherwise, just trying to work my way through this semester. The amount of weekly reading for this semester's courses is astonishing. I'm studying again tomorrow so I can try to maintain being a week ahead. That means I'm not cramming to finish the reading so I can write the homework memos on the weekend. Really wanting some time to knit but not getting much. I have in progress:
1. Dress for Rylie
2. Cowl
3. Linen stitch scarf (I *swear* I am going to get that finished)
4. Hat for Monkey
Maybe tomorrow. I will go study for a few hours, go with the Spousal Unit to take his rental back to Hertz, and hopefully get some time to just sit without having to do anything after that except knit...read...maybe take a nap. Ohhhhhhh, a nap.
The diet progresses. I have lost 14 pounds in three weeks at last check-in. And although I have been ordered to not let dairy cross my lips minus the one ounce of milk I can have in coffee (there went my lattes, too. Grrrrr...), I have been given permission to use - within reason (darn!) - sugar free DaVinci syrups. Yay! 'Cause I hate black coffee.
I'm really not missing much else, though. The supplements are pretty decent tasting and I haven't had any desire to run screaming through a store and cramming carbs in my mouth like there was no tomorrow. The only thing I really want is a nice, big bowl of buttered popcorn. Oh well, maybe in three months or so...
04 September 2012
And thus and so...
So, week one of the diet is complete. I lost five pounds which I am happy with for a first week result. Below is a picture of the meal I actually get to chew each day:
That's eight ounces of protein (chicken in this case) and 2 cups of vegetables. I also get two cups of vegetables for lunch along with whatever packet I've snagged before I left the house in the morning. I'm having to look up more ways to cook vegetables or think of new ones to try because I don't want to get bored over the potential months I will be doing this. I just don't want to buy a new vegetable, hate it, and then have to eat it because, you know, I spent money on the thing :P.
Also had to do all the medical stuff I couldn't do at my first appointment because there was someone else with me and HIPPA frowns on trading medical details like bubblegum cards :). The last thing I had to do that day was...get measured (gasp! oh, the horror!). I still am proportional (47-42-49) but would like those measurements to go down just a wee bit. Ah well, if this gets my pancreas to (a) stop giving me the middle finger and (b) start giving up insulin instead of hoarding it like it's preparing for a bomb shelter for World War Z, that will be worth it. Plus, the need to no longer stab myself in the stomach every day with needles would be pretty awesome, too.
I am knitting, knitting, knitting. I finished the first cable hat and sent it to my favorite girl-child-who-is-not-one-of-my-granddaughters, Beanie:
She was very happy with it per Mom. What is on her shoulders is the shirt I also sent her: Bambi (she's allllll into Disney right now).
I also started work on this dress (model picture):
I am about a third of the way through the back skirt portion of the dress and feeling rather ambitious since this is the first piece of clothing I am making so I'm learning about decreasing stitches for clothes as well as how to sew together the pieces (when I get there).
The linen stitch scarf got put to the side for the moment because I wanted to get the hat finished (check), get started on the dress (check) since I have hopes of finishing it in time for Christmas, and I am pretty close to getting this scarf done:
I've got about eight more sets of the thin stripes to complete and then around 100 more rows of solid block knitting using the gray color first and then the white (or I may use one of the blues again, who knows?). BTW, please excuse the crappy picture - it was taken on my desk at work.
Still kind of writing off and on. It's a relaxing thing like knitting. I've been working on an SGA/Chuck crossover for a while and I have various scenes written but I think I need to start trying to stitch them together and really nail down my timeline between the shows. There is some difference and if I go one way, I need to use the Legacy series SGA books as canon and the last one won't be out until November. Not a problem one way since (a) I write at a glacial pace these days and (b) this will probably never see the light of day to an archive or anything like that. But I can see another way I want to go and I'm not sure I can get the timelines to mesh as well as I would like. Oh well, at least I'm writing! Now if that SGA/X-Files plot bunny would leave me alone...(I'm skeered of Chris Carter's ever fraying grasp on his own series canon. That's a migraine waiting to happen!).
BTW, if anyone has a good idea for a topic I can write about for Public Finance Administration, sing out! I have my Public Policy topic but Finance eludes me.
That's eight ounces of protein (chicken in this case) and 2 cups of vegetables. I also get two cups of vegetables for lunch along with whatever packet I've snagged before I left the house in the morning. I'm having to look up more ways to cook vegetables or think of new ones to try because I don't want to get bored over the potential months I will be doing this. I just don't want to buy a new vegetable, hate it, and then have to eat it because, you know, I spent money on the thing :P.
Also had to do all the medical stuff I couldn't do at my first appointment because there was someone else with me and HIPPA frowns on trading medical details like bubblegum cards :). The last thing I had to do that day was...get measured (gasp! oh, the horror!). I still am proportional (47-42-49) but would like those measurements to go down just a wee bit. Ah well, if this gets my pancreas to (a) stop giving me the middle finger and (b) start giving up insulin instead of hoarding it like it's preparing for a bomb shelter for World War Z, that will be worth it. Plus, the need to no longer stab myself in the stomach every day with needles would be pretty awesome, too.
I am knitting, knitting, knitting. I finished the first cable hat and sent it to my favorite girl-child-who-is-not-one-of-my-granddaughters, Beanie:
She was very happy with it per Mom. What is on her shoulders is the shirt I also sent her: Bambi (she's allllll into Disney right now).
I also started work on this dress (model picture):
I am about a third of the way through the back skirt portion of the dress and feeling rather ambitious since this is the first piece of clothing I am making so I'm learning about decreasing stitches for clothes as well as how to sew together the pieces (when I get there).
The linen stitch scarf got put to the side for the moment because I wanted to get the hat finished (check), get started on the dress (check) since I have hopes of finishing it in time for Christmas, and I am pretty close to getting this scarf done:
I've got about eight more sets of the thin stripes to complete and then around 100 more rows of solid block knitting using the gray color first and then the white (or I may use one of the blues again, who knows?). BTW, please excuse the crappy picture - it was taken on my desk at work.
Still kind of writing off and on. It's a relaxing thing like knitting. I've been working on an SGA/Chuck crossover for a while and I have various scenes written but I think I need to start trying to stitch them together and really nail down my timeline between the shows. There is some difference and if I go one way, I need to use the Legacy series SGA books as canon and the last one won't be out until November. Not a problem one way since (a) I write at a glacial pace these days and (b) this will probably never see the light of day to an archive or anything like that. But I can see another way I want to go and I'm not sure I can get the timelines to mesh as well as I would like. Oh well, at least I'm writing! Now if that SGA/X-Files plot bunny would leave me alone...(I'm skeered of Chris Carter's ever fraying grasp on his own series canon. That's a migraine waiting to happen!).
BTW, if anyone has a good idea for a topic I can write about for Public Finance Administration, sing out! I have my Public Policy topic but Finance eludes me.
06 April 2012
Please cite this blogpost properly and other random moments
Have I ever mentioned exactly how much I really hate APA style? If I have not, please let me assure you now that I despise it to the depths of my soul. I even despise it more than okra (which I already think is Satan's boogers).
If you can't tell, I'm trying to take care of the finishing touches on one of my two papers that are coming due (be working on the second one this weekend. I'm starting to think the coffee shop should put a little nameplate on my chair at this point :)). I've got citations from journal articles, news casts, government documents, magazine articles, what APA so helpfully calls "nonperiodical web documents, web pages or reports" and assorted other pieces of information. All six inches of documentation jammed into two manila folders that I've been lugging around with me for about four months now are so familiar at this point that I think I'm starting to dream about them :P. I just keep reminding myself that soon I will be done, done, DONE with this semester and that means two more classes closer to my Master's.
Knitting was providing stress relief but now it's providing more in the way of humor - for other people :P. The blanket I have a picture of in my last post is 120 stitches for each row. Somewhere along the way of my first five rows, I managed to add in another stitch, which is...not good. So I went back to the yarn store and had my first lesson in how to rip out stitches one by one. Still couldn't find the error so Yarn Store Lady took a look and, dude, I couldn't recreate what I'd done if I *tried*.
Apparently I managed to do some kind of advanced increase stitch that isn't even supposed to be seen. Go me! YSL joked I was now ready for sweaters and I told her my label for my sweater line would be "Sweaters...by Mistake" :). Took it home and somehow managed to create *another* stitch, thus giving me ample opportunity to practice my newfound talent of ripping stitches out. I ripped out the entire row and finally decided, "You know what, self? You're only, what, four-five rows into this thing. Let's rip it all out and start over." So last night I ripped out the few rows I'd done and then re-cast the 120 stitches needed to start the blanket. We'll see if I do any better this weekend and give my working-on-not-swearing vocabulary a rest.
However! I do hasten to point out that I am not the only oblivious one in the Hermitage. The Spousal Unit had a meeting to go to on Tuesday night and it was in a small church versus their usual spot. The SU needed to use the facilities before the meeting started, asked a friend where they were and the friend said he believed they were through the sanctuary.
So, SU wanders in and sees a small group of people sitting quietly. They look up at him (a little strangely, per the SU) and he says he's looking for the bathroom. One of the group points him in the right direction so the Spousal Unit thanks him and excuses himself. On the way back, he has to go through the sanctuary again and the same group of people are there and giving him the same odd kind of looks.
It is then that he notices the very large casket with the very dead guy in the center of the sanctuary.
So, see?? It's not just me!
And now I'm going to shamelessly steal from The Bug and her post on songs from your iPod predicting your weekend. I don't have my iPod here at work but I do have iTunes so I let it randomly play ten songs:
Bim Bam Smash - John Powell (The Bourne Supremacy)
Cold Missouri Waters - Cry Cry Cry (Cry Cry Cry)
Like a Dog Chasing Cars - Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight)
Carnivale Main Title Theme - Jeff Beal (Carnivale)
Vezandlebe - Johnny Clegg and Savuka (Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World)
Keep Yourself Alive - Queen (Live in Montreal)
The Tower - Vienna Teng (Waking Hour)
What Have You Done Now? - Within Temptation (The Heart of Everything)
Apprivoise-Moi - Ishtar (The Voice of Alabina)
Miami International - David Arnold (Casino Royale)
*looks at list* Seriously? I have no idea what that says about my weekend. Anyone? Bueller?
If you can't tell, I'm trying to take care of the finishing touches on one of my two papers that are coming due (be working on the second one this weekend. I'm starting to think the coffee shop should put a little nameplate on my chair at this point :)). I've got citations from journal articles, news casts, government documents, magazine articles, what APA so helpfully calls "nonperiodical web documents, web pages or reports" and assorted other pieces of information. All six inches of documentation jammed into two manila folders that I've been lugging around with me for about four months now are so familiar at this point that I think I'm starting to dream about them :P. I just keep reminding myself that soon I will be done, done, DONE with this semester and that means two more classes closer to my Master's.
Knitting was providing stress relief but now it's providing more in the way of humor - for other people :P. The blanket I have a picture of in my last post is 120 stitches for each row. Somewhere along the way of my first five rows, I managed to add in another stitch, which is...not good. So I went back to the yarn store and had my first lesson in how to rip out stitches one by one. Still couldn't find the error so Yarn Store Lady took a look and, dude, I couldn't recreate what I'd done if I *tried*.
Apparently I managed to do some kind of advanced increase stitch that isn't even supposed to be seen. Go me! YSL joked I was now ready for sweaters and I told her my label for my sweater line would be "Sweaters...by Mistake" :). Took it home and somehow managed to create *another* stitch, thus giving me ample opportunity to practice my newfound talent of ripping stitches out. I ripped out the entire row and finally decided, "You know what, self? You're only, what, four-five rows into this thing. Let's rip it all out and start over." So last night I ripped out the few rows I'd done and then re-cast the 120 stitches needed to start the blanket. We'll see if I do any better this weekend and give my working-on-not-swearing vocabulary a rest.
However! I do hasten to point out that I am not the only oblivious one in the Hermitage. The Spousal Unit had a meeting to go to on Tuesday night and it was in a small church versus their usual spot. The SU needed to use the facilities before the meeting started, asked a friend where they were and the friend said he believed they were through the sanctuary.
So, SU wanders in and sees a small group of people sitting quietly. They look up at him (a little strangely, per the SU) and he says he's looking for the bathroom. One of the group points him in the right direction so the Spousal Unit thanks him and excuses himself. On the way back, he has to go through the sanctuary again and the same group of people are there and giving him the same odd kind of looks.
It is then that he notices the very large casket with the very dead guy in the center of the sanctuary.
So, see?? It's not just me!
And now I'm going to shamelessly steal from The Bug and her post on songs from your iPod predicting your weekend. I don't have my iPod here at work but I do have iTunes so I let it randomly play ten songs:
Bim Bam Smash - John Powell (The Bourne Supremacy)
Cold Missouri Waters - Cry Cry Cry (Cry Cry Cry)
Like a Dog Chasing Cars - Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight)
Carnivale Main Title Theme - Jeff Beal (Carnivale)
Vezandlebe - Johnny Clegg and Savuka (Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World)
Keep Yourself Alive - Queen (Live in Montreal)
The Tower - Vienna Teng (Waking Hour)
What Have You Done Now? - Within Temptation (The Heart of Everything)
Apprivoise-Moi - Ishtar (The Voice of Alabina)
Miami International - David Arnold (Casino Royale)
*looks at list* Seriously? I have no idea what that says about my weekend. Anyone? Bueller?
31 March 2012
The (Knitting) Cliffs of Insanity
Either I am heady with the excitement of having completed two projects and conquered purling or else I am simply insane. Cast your votes now!
This is one of the two projects I am beginning this week:
I'm working it in a heather purple color using Vintage Chunky yarn. It's going to take *EIGHT* skeins of it to finish it.
This is the other project:
It's going to be done in another, deeper shade of purple (for some reason, purple appealed to me at the yarn store today).
*breathes deeply* I have Knitting for Dummies (book and YouTube channel), Ravelry.com and Knittinghelp. I can do this.
This is one of the two projects I am beginning this week:
I'm working it in a heather purple color using Vintage Chunky yarn. It's going to take *EIGHT* skeins of it to finish it.
This is the other project:
It's going to be done in another, deeper shade of purple (for some reason, purple appealed to me at the yarn store today).
*breathes deeply* I have Knitting for Dummies (book and YouTube channel), Ravelry.com and Knittinghelp. I can do this.
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