tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329536362024-03-12T21:16:14.848-07:00tulokyn knits a bitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-69950423953232819042007-12-21T07:02:00.001-08:002007-12-21T07:21:06.872-08:00Going HomeThis is my first Christmas away from my house as a Knitter (capital K). I was away last year, as a knitter (lowercase k), and brought maybe two projects. I can't even remember the second project, if there was one. This year... oh, this year...<br /><br />This is what I have crammed into my knitting bag (and I've been wanting a bigger knitting bag for a bit now):<br /><br /><ul><li>One knee-length hooded cardigan (I figure 2 100g balls of yarn should get me through until I get home. I might take a third if I get nervous before I leave the house.</li><li>One pair of socks in Trekking, toe up, to be knit until the end of the ball.</li><li>One pair of socks in On Your Toes DK, toe up.</li><li>One scarf, 3/4 knit already.</li><li>One neckwarmer (Tudora)</li><li>One Sally the Eco-Fairy</li></ul>I may yet be convinced not to bring the yarn for a pair or two of Dashings, but it's a 50/50 chance right now.<br /><br />I have strictly told myself that I do not need to bring any more yarn for socks with me. Every now and then, I find myself carrying a ball of yarn towards the bag, and I snap out of it and put it back. The Trekking sock on the needles right now has taken me weeks already, so I have no worries that I will run out of sock to knit, but still...<br /><br />All I can say is, at least yarn's light.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-64898930585649041482007-08-18T07:07:00.000-07:002007-08-18T07:31:54.829-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/1126773703_d5163b8b7d.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/1126773703_d5163b8b7d.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I've got a lot on the needles, and just two more projects to go in school before I can relax for a few weeks. Let's see what I've got pictures of, shall we?<br /><br />This is the Spring Garden Shawl that was featured in my last blog post. I took this picture about a week ago, and haven't touched the needles since. It's slightly too complex and time consuming (20 minutes to a row) for me to work on while I'm stressed out with finals in school. I expect that once I'm done my homework for Monday night, this will come to the forefront again. Right now though, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">the</span> twisted stitches, and the chart for both right and wrong sides are kinda killing me.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1074/1160268508_ea04a8f063.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1074/1160268508_ea04a8f063.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a>In other news, I completed one of my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Roza's</span> socks. It doesn't fit me. I have decided that it's for my Mom instead of ripping it out. I haven't woven in the ends yet, because I'm bust knitting the other sock... at least I was until I ripped the whole thing out this morning. I decided that the second sock had only a passing resemblance in fit to the first, probably due to the fact that I've been tense from school, and was knitting really tightly. I'm going to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">unkink</span> the yarn before knitting it up again, though I've noticed that the Palette yarn holds the kink a lot less strongly than my other sock yarns like Sweet Georgia and Scout's Swag. Probably something to do with the quality of the wool, I'm guessing.<br /><br />Well, that's about all I've got to show at the moment. I've got a whole list of things on the needles, but no photos, and it's too rainy to go out on the balcony and take pictures right now. I'm not going to make any promises about posting more regularly this time, and see where that takes us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-23210164718459530842007-06-30T05:34:00.000-07:002007-06-30T06:01:26.011-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1257/650503576_6720213a8a.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1257/650503576_6720213a8a.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a>Oh, hello there. How have you been? I haven't seen you in two months.<br /><br />I haven't knit in about as long either. I've been busy with school. Right now I'm nearing the end of 10 days vacation, and then it's back to school again. I'm doing summer courses, and they're condensed, so things get a bit crazy around here. Of course, you're here for the knitting. I know I am.<br /><br />I finally cast on for the Spring Garden Shawl (Knitter's Magazine, Spring 2007) and have been having fun with that. It's my first dalliance with beaded knitting, and I haven't done much with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">laceweight</span> yet. This is also my first chart with "things going on" on both sides, which is interesting. Thank god the chart is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">mirrored</span> on itself, or I'd have a pretty wonky looking shawl, from reading it right to left all the time.<br /><br />Pattern: Spring Garden Shawl<br />Needles: Size 4 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Knitpicks</span> Options<br />Yarn: Zephyr Wool-Silk in Pewter<br />Beads: Silver-lined crystal in whatever brand the Bead Pod carries..<br /><br /><br />Also on the needles are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Roza's</span> Socks from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">IK</span> Spring 2007.<br /><br />Yarn: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Knitpicks</span> Palette in Hyacinth<br />Needles: Two KP Classic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Circs</span> in Size 1<br />Modifications: Knitting these on two <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">circs</span> instead to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">dpns</span>. This is my first project on two <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">circs</span>. I don't know why I always think it's a good idea to do new techniques on projects where I have to edit the pattern to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">accommodate</span> myself.<br /><br />I actually emailed <a href="http://www.grumperina.com/knitblog/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Grumperina</span></a> about this pattern because the sizing info is too small for me. I remember reading that her grandmother (whom the pattern is named after) has the same size feet as I do, so I emailed and asked how she modified the pattern to suit her grandmother. She was very prompt in her reply (no more than two hours before I was casting on) and told me that going up a needle size would probably do it. She was very friendly. :)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1290/659779877_643e0c34c5.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1290/659779877_643e0c34c5.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a>I'm a bit further along on these now; they're knitting up really fast on 60 stitches since I'm used to stitch counts like 72 and 80. I almost had a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">tragedy</span> this morning, when I went to knit a bit, and... tugging the needle into place, I felt a little more... "give" than there should have been. Looked down, and there was one hand with the knitting, one hand with the needle, and lots of air in between. Yup, pulled the needle right out of the knitting and dropped all of 30 stitches.<br /><br />Dropping 30 stitches first thing in the morning was not my idea of a good time, but somehow, I managed to calmly thread the needle back through all the stitches, and only one had tried to make a run for it, at the very end of the row I was picking up. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">The</span> KP needles are sharp enough that fixing a dropped stitch doesn't mean running for the crochet hook anymore, so all was well. I'm pretty proud of myself for being able to grab all those stitches when my eyes weren't even focusing yet.<br /><br />Well, I don't know if I can promise any more faithful activity on this blog, but I am still alive, and I am knitting occasionally. Just wanted to check in and share. Happy knitting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-7107679015864752682007-04-24T10:17:00.001-07:002007-04-24T10:17:57.173-07:00<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7943020@N05/471437923/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/471437923_60b4f5eb10_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" > <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7943020@N05/471437923/">kp_pallette</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/7943020@N05/">tulokyn</a>. </span></div>I do so love getting yarn in the mail.<br /><br />I almost managed to beat the post office with my fan lace socks (I have four pattern repeats to go on the second sock and ribbing on both) but the gorgeous weather conspired against me to get my order here sooner.<br /><br />I'm swatching the pink stuff now, but it'll just be a little swatch. Then I'll go back to my other socks like a good knitter and finish them up so I can wear my socks while I knit new onesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-77531674668476802692007-04-19T12:54:00.000-07:002008-11-13T17:12:27.775-08:00Bad blogger, bad blogger. I've never been good at keeping up to date on these things.<br /><br />I just finished the semester at art school, and that was eating pretty much every waking moment. I spent the last two and a half weeks of the semester down at the school painting. Not doing quite so much knitting, though the most recent socks I've started (these should be finished by the startof my summer semester (May 7th) easily) are clipping right along. I'm doing both socks at the same time on two sets of dpns. Both of them are just slightly past the heel turn (toe up) and are looking rather pretty.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNJ-_lNRVSuhU3RwWNFFYzpxCbFLXeNV1_z958puEfNN-pAqfy4eIomrKsD6KJ-q0xAynP8g4DSVRT4Ft0qcYgvUuwO4X2SX3FwnMTNFcZEyBmUpkQxOeFQeq8Y5psOAXEwZ70/s1600-h/fanlacesock.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNJ-_lNRVSuhU3RwWNFFYzpxCbFLXeNV1_z958puEfNN-pAqfy4eIomrKsD6KJ-q0xAynP8g4DSVRT4Ft0qcYgvUuwO4X2SX3FwnMTNFcZEyBmUpkQxOeFQeq8Y5psOAXEwZ70/s320/fanlacesock.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055232776234665298" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Fan Lace socks from Sensational Knitted Socks, in Louet Gems Fingering, 2.50mm knitpicks needles.<br /><br />I am hoping that they're not a smidge too short. I guess we'll see about that.<br /><br />Other things have been on the needles and ripped out or sent to the corner. I just wanted to show off my orange socks today. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-89725808146541857632007-02-04T09:44:00.000-08:002007-02-04T09:50:01.346-08:00The driver CD for my camera has been found, and I have knitting progress to show, but not yet. I've been hacking away at my Beaded Rib sock, and I'm up past the heel now. :D Homework has intervened in my race to the finish though, and I expect it'll be another week or so before I'm done. Ah well. Pictures will come later.<br /><br />I 'm mostly posting for non-knitting reasons today. I'm part fo a game called LOST that is a social experiment, and I'm about to lose. I would be ever so pleased if one of you lovely readers would go sign up at <a href="http://www.lost.eu/fdf1">http://www.lost.eu/fdf1</a> and prevent me from losing. Sorry to be a pain. D: I promise knitting pictures this evening, okay?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-31648832174557320832007-01-13T14:58:00.000-08:002007-01-13T15:19:34.689-08:00I would have pictures, but the cat stole the CD that has my camera drivers on it. I had to reinstall Windows last weekend, due to a virus doing something terrible to the part of Windows that takes care of the login screen. Fun times.<br /><br />Anyway, since I last blogged (in October >_>) I have finished knitting two shawls, a beer cozy, a modified beer cozy to fit my tea bowl so I would stop burning my fingers, half a purple sock (we're about 1/4 through the heel flap and hanging out until I stop hating purling, or I lose interest in what I'm knitting now), numerous swatches (including two 2-3 inch "socks" that I decided were too ugly or too big. I call them an experiment on how well this yarn holds up to frogging), and I;m currently working exclusively on a Welt Fantastic sock from Sensational Knitted Socks. I have taken the liberty of removing the welts on this attempt, and it looks awesome.<br /><br />I was a spoiled knitter on Christmas. My mom got me two sets each of two sizes of KnitPicks dpns, Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch, Knitting on the Road bt Nancy Bush, and the Knitter's Almanac by Elizabeth Zimmerman. I also got a subscription to Interweave Knits that starts with the next issue, and a neat miniature sewing machine. My boyfriend got me a set of size 1 ebony dpns by Lantern Moon, and two balls of Patons Kroy sock yarn. I got myself two hanks of Sweet Georgia in Gold Digger, and that's what's being knit into Fantastic socks right now.<br /><br />The other day, I got the urge to learn fair isle again, so I found a hat pattern, and I ordered a bunch of stuff from KnitPicks for that and for more sock needles. I love their dpns so much that I wanted to have some on hand for the next swatching I'm going to do in larger needles (2s and 3s specifically). Of course, I ordered on Thusday, and my order status still says Pending, so I'm getting antsy about seeing it move already.<br /><br />Anyway, I need to go work on my homework. Photos to come at some point, but I need to find that CD first. The manufacturer's website only has the update to the driver's, not the base to get upgraded. Boo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1161884158718378602006-10-26T10:29:00.000-07:002006-10-26T10:35:58.726-07:00Bleh. My cats paws are offset by a stitch or two. Figuring out how to rip back two rows of garter stitch was not easy, but I think I've got it. *threads dental floss through her shawl for miles and miles* T_T<br /><br /><br />And now I can't find the cord to transfer the picture from the camera, so this post has to be pictureless. Oh well, now there won't be any documentation of how I messed up. XDUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1161289595523252182006-10-19T12:52:00.000-07:002006-10-19T13:30:30.400-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/1600/minimillsyarn.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/320/minimillsyarn.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Woot! I post bearing pictures!<br /><br />So, despite my posts to the contrary, I haven't had a total loss for knitting lately. The yarn to the right is destined to become a hat of some sort. I don't have the needles for it, so it's just sitting around looking pretty and dodging the cat for the time being. I lost the band for it, so I don't remember exactly what's in it, but it's from Mini Mills in PEI. The colour repeats on it are quite short (like, two inches or so) and it's slightly thick and thin. It's a little strange for me to knit with, but I like the swatch I did. The swatch just told me that I also needed smaller needles for it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/1600/mexicohat.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/320/mexicohat.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br />So in the meantime, I've frogged the mini scarf I was making from this Katia Mexico yarn, and have put it on my needles as the hat the Mini Mills yarn was supposed to be. Mini Mills will just have to wait.<br /><br />This yarn makes me glee all over the place. I love ombred yarns like this, and this one is in such cheerful colours, it just makes me squee. I like to pinch it, because it's so lofty. I only wish it wasn't so splitty. It's a single ply yarn, so it's like so many hairs just laid next to each other on the needles. Add this to my tendency to untwist yarns as I knit, and then add in two froggings, and the yarn has seen better days. But I still love it, so it gets to be a hat.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/1600/shawlyarn.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/320/shawlyarn.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />This lovely red stuff is what gets to keep me warm. It's Lamb's Pride Worsted in Spice, and it's going to be a cat's paw lace shawl, as seen in my last post. Much thanks goes to <a href="http://slomoeknits.blogspot.com/">Moe</a> for suggesting it, and giving me an excuse to go to Tangled Skeins and check it out. I went after lunch today, and sat around drinking coffee and swatching on borrowed needles for an hour, and generally enjoying my complete and utter inability to do any homework there. When I'm through with blogging, I'm going to cast on gleefully and then promptly puzzle over things like pM (short research has shown this to be "place marker") and how to keep track of what row I'm on and what I'm supposed to do on that row. Should be much fun.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/1600/sillycatchair.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/320/sillycatchair.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And this is my cat. She's very silly, and very bad, and has tried on more than one occasion to make off with every ball of yarn I own. She completely lacks respect for me, and even tried last night to steal the Mexico yarn from a foot away from me. Just picked up the whole ball and tried to run off. My ill fated arm warmers met the same fate, and I had to take two days off from knitting them to rewind the ball, only to discover that it was a full frogging job anyway.<br /><br />But yeah, she's cute, and I cackle at showing incriminating photos of her on the internet. As much as keeping my yarn away from her is a 24 hour job, I lurves her dearly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1161201365421458882006-10-18T12:47:00.000-07:002006-10-18T12:56:05.433-07:00So, you lovely Halifax ladies that knit. I'm looking to make this: <a href="http://www.freepatterns.com/fp_pdfs/Other/Knitting/Cats_Paw_Lace_Shawl.pdf">http://www.freepatterns.com/fp_pdfs/Other/Knitting/Cats_Paw_Lace_Shawl.pdf</a><br /><br />You probably think I'm nuts, but I am sort of that way. So here's my problem. The yarn they used is an Australian mill's yarn, in wool and mohair, and I don't know how to sub in. The pattern says the gauge is 10sts - 10cm on size 10.5 needles. Any of you want to enlighten me as to what this is telling me?<br /><br />In other news, swatching has been done for a hat in ridiculously colourful yarn (the Mini Mills stuff needs some smaller needles for a decently cozy fabric, so it'll have to wait until I can go swatch for a while at the Loop), and I'm eager to cast on and puzzle over things like k1fb that don't quite make sense to me except when I watch the videos at knitting help. Honestly, how could anyone ever learn that from a book? o_OUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1160949374676455732006-10-15T14:40:00.000-07:002006-10-15T14:56:14.686-07:00Oh man, I'm having yarn withdrawl. I'm <i>so</i> busy with school that I get about 30 minutes of knitting time a week. All I want to do tonight is go to a yarn shop and spend loads of money, and then come home and roll around on my yarn. Alas, both time and money thwart me. I've got some reasonably nice yarn at home, but one ball is being knitted into Branching Out (which is not entirely stress free for a new knitter like myself), and the other is still in hank form.<br /><br />The hank is blue and pink variegated, with a colour repeat of about an inch and a half to two inches, and I have no idea what it'll look like knit up. Not a clue. I'd swatch it, but I'd have to spend an hour winding it into a ball first. Morgan told me it wanted to be a hat, but I don't know what kind of hat it wants to be.<br /><br />Anyway, the basic reason behind this post is because I'm bored, and I don't want the breath holding and constant counting of Branching Out, but I also don't want to make stockinette cat toys for my cat to tear apart. Blah.<br /><br />I want to knit. :(Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1159489043337353462006-09-28T17:06:00.000-07:002006-09-28T17:17:23.350-07:00I've got a project I desperately want to make. This project desperately wants me to stuff it to the bottom of my stash and never speak of it again.<br /><br />No, it's not the lemon bag, which I'm still not on speaking terms with. Its my new cabled wristlets. I had to cast on for the first one about 5 times. That was fine; I eventually figured out what was giving me so much trouble. Then I got to the increase round, and forgot the second increase. Figured it out two rows afterwards, tried to rip back and ended up frogging all two inches of it.<br /><br />Cast on again. Get about three or four inches done. Leave the project on the floor on the living room unsupervised for 10 minutes. Return to discover my cat has the ball strewn across the living room and back again. Not a big deal, as the project was still sitting there untouched. She was after the glorious ball; forget the knitted stuff. So I spent most of my free time today rewinding the ball so I could knit from it again.<br /><br />I've got about five and a half inches now. I think it's too big for me. See, my wrist measures at 6.5 inches around. The pattern had sizing for 6 inches and 7.5 inches. I figured with my tight knitting tendencies, I'd make the 7.5 inch one and have a reasonably well fitting wristlet. Well, it appears I was wrong. I've been attempting to loosen up the deathgrip stitching, and I guess I've done pretty well for myself, because while the wristlet fits okay, my boyfriend and I agree that after a few wearings, it's going to be loose and annoying and falling off.<br /><br />*sigh*<br /><br />So I'm thinking, do I just frog the damned thing and start over again? Do I frog it and grab another ball that might show off the cables a little more and save this poor beaten ball for something less cabley? Do I give myself some retail therapy and get myself some sock knitting implements (needles, yarn, the whole bit) to get frustrated at instead?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1156438564689246412006-08-24T09:48:00.000-07:002006-08-24T09:56:04.696-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/1600/lemonbagwip01.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/320/lemonbagwip01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I started on my lemon bag at the Tuesday night KOL. I had neglected to realize in my charting, that I can't just carry the blue along through the yellow without it peeping through constantly, and the shape of the lemon prevents me from just dropping the yarn in the front and picking it up when I get back to it. Aggravation ensues. I spent half an hour or so last night sewing in ends so that I wouldn't have three million to do when I finished the bag, so you can't see the agony that has gone into this purse.<br /><br />If I didn't love the colours and the concept <em>so very much</em> I'd probably bury the yarn at the bottom of my stash and find it in a month's time and do something else with it, lemon forgotten. As it stands, we may see a completed lemon purse sometime in the year 2010.<br /><br />Sigh.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1156275464420941482006-08-22T12:32:00.000-07:002006-08-22T12:37:44.430-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/1600/bagyarn.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/320/bagyarn.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is the yarn for my lemon bag. None of it really reproduced well, but that's okay; they're close enough. I'm going to use the blue for the background of the chart, and have the raspberry combined with the lemon and blue in stripes for the strap. Now I just need to get my gauge worked out, and I'll be set to start tonight at the knitmeet.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32953636.post-1156262901427258702006-08-22T08:49:00.000-07:002006-08-22T09:08:21.456-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/1600/lemonchart.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4052/3594/320/lemonchart.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Planning on heading to the Halifax KOL tonight. I'm working on a chart and choosing colours today for a new bag based on the Orange You Glad bag in SnB; the Happy Hooker.<br /><p>I'd love to do the lemon in the yellow Cascade 220 Quattro. I'm torn between raspberry and electric blue for the other colours, and wondering about a green for the stem and leaves as well. Obviously, this requires a trip to The Loop today to figure out what colours I actually have access to.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2