Yesterday was bigger than big fun, it was the first SSK (Sydney Sity Klickers) meet that I'd been to in over a month, whee! We all meet at a cafe in Newtown and knit our little heads off for a few hours, drinking heaps of coffee and eating yummy stuff and gossing and cackling the entire time.
So it was "show off the treasure" time, and an opportunity get into that green sleeve. I only have one sleeve to go now on my cute little shirt, and then the neck which will take all of about 2 seconds, and voila! There's even enough winter left to wear it it.
The shirt (since I can't download photos, you'll just have to imagine really hard) is made of handspun (yeh I spun it too) green wool, a very airy, light chunky wool which knits to about 1 stitch per 1cm (that's 2 1/2 stitches per inch for all you quaint darlings who haven't come across to the dark side of metric yet *hehehe*).
It's my first attempt to go completely pattern free, and the logic behind such a chunky wool for this was twofold - first of all, I couldn't find a pattern for such humungous yarn. Secondly, if it didn't work and I had to frog - which I have, on numerous occasions - it knits up so fast there's no tears shed.
It's my first attempt to go completely pattern free, and the logic behind such a chunky wool for this was twofold - first of all, I couldn't find a pattern for such humungous yarn. Secondly, if it didn't work and I had to frog - which I have, on numerous occasions - it knits up so fast there's no tears shed.
Mostly just plain old stocking stitch to show off the lovely thick-and-thin (not as dramatic as Colinette) texture of the yarn, with a 4-row moss stitch cuff and *bit-around-the-waist* (don't know that word, or having a Sunday morning mental blank). It's fairly fittted, comes to the waist rather than falling beyond it, and has a 3-d sort of crossed-dropped stitch detail around the waist and just above the cuffs. When I finish it I'll be sure to model, photograph, and post it somewhere. The colour is HEAVENLY, and nothing like the green I'm currently typing in. *grin*
So. Now I'm off to paperwork my head off for the rest of the day. If I finish at a decent time, I may even get into that final sleeve. Whee!
Tarot card for the day: Moon. Hmm. Not quite what I was hoping for. Better luck tomorrow, and back to the books.
So. Now I'm off to paperwork my head off for the rest of the day. If I finish at a decent time, I may even get into that final sleeve. Whee!
Tarot card for the day: Moon. Hmm. Not quite what I was hoping for. Better luck tomorrow, and back to the books.