a black beanie ( no photos – sorry)
a cowl which I designed on a train while taking my mother to Strathfield to meet her country train – it’s hard to see but it has a textured zigzag pattern
a blanket for a local animal shelter (approximately one metre – 40 inches – “square”) – unblocked because I don’t think animals care!
a pair of socks for mum (Baby Mock Cable - which look so much better than this photo shows)
a pair of “plain vanilla” socks for me (Patonyle, purchased 2008)
four sample socks for the workshop I gave on 16th June
a single repeat on these socks (pattern: Ribbed Ribbon Socks from “Socks from the Toe Up” by Wendy D Johnson)
and 40 rows (8,000 stitches) on this blanket (not 80 rows - 16,000 stitches as stated on my progress report – I counted the ridges and doubled twice but some thing told me that couldn’t be right!). I have added another 26 rows (5,200 stitches) to that this week.
And to think I nearly frogged it when I was just past that pink stripe!
I frogged this blanket (which wasn’t working for me).
On Thursday night I cast on and knitted twelve repeats of Wendy D. Johnson’s Lacy Rib pattern on a bed sock for DD.
I think there are two problems:
1) the toe shaping isn’t quite right for DD’s narrow feet and there are too many stocking stitch rows before the pattern begins
2) I’m knitting DK weight on 2.75mm (US 2) needles; I think the fabric is too tight for bed socks and I need to go up to 3.25mm needles (which DD has and therefore I couldn’t use them in the first place)
What do you think?
Well that is a LOT of knitting!
ReplyDeleteI think the socks are probably not working either, for the reasons you mentioned. Pretty pattern though.
I agree about both toes and stocking stitch. If daughter has narrow foot, perhaps you could do the usual grafted toe with sloping sides and grafting. Or it's not the grafting I'm really thinking of but the shape that method produces. If you really want to do toe up, then you would need to reverse the method. I'd certainly cut down the number of stocking stitch rows before the start of the pattern. I suppose who really sees what the pattern is like when sock is in shoe, but that does seem odd. I think it would bother me, knowing it was like that.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, you have gotten SO much done! Congratulations. Sorry to hear about the frogging, but it is better than putting more time into something you don't love.
ReplyDeleteI think you have been very busy.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the knitted blankets. Wow. That's a lot of work. A labor of LOVE.
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