Not much has changed since last post, buuut I didn't get a chance to talk about a few things on that post that I'm really excited about.
First, projects.
As far as knitting, I'm onto my March Finish or Frog projects, which are my Chevron Scarf, My cotton dish bag, Natalie's Headband, and I want to start a pair of socks.
The scarf, I really hope to finish because I made the pattern myself, but scarves are soooo tedious. I'm maybe a quarter of the way done and it's killing me slowly. It's made of a mystery yarn gifted to me by a friend, and all I can tell really is that it's probably synthetic and its got a nice sheen.
The cotton dish bad I'm making out of sugar n cream or whatever that cotton stuff it. It's so that I can hang my plastic dishes on the wall and utilize more vertical storage in our room, but I don't really feel the need for it anymore. And like its a really simple project, but two problems have been making me put it off forever.
First it's made out of cotton, and I need that cause its basically gonna be a dishcloth, but holy hell I can't fucking stand he texture of this stuff. I've only ever worked with the cotton sugar n cream or whatever it is from Micheal's, so I don't know if all cotton yarns feel like this, but I freakin hate it. Secondly, it's out of crocheting, and while I crocheted avidly for a good many years and wouldn't even touch knitting needles, I'm just so over crocheting. It's like totally lost its appeal now, and while I need it to make this construction happen, its just a slog to get though. Honestly this project shouldn't take more than an hour or two but it's so tedious. I hope to get it done quickly, or else I feel like this might be a Frog project.
The headband is another project that will take about fifteen minute but I just like. Eh. I don't really care right now. I made one in about 12 hours to give to my sister for her birthday, and that's 12 hours including sleeping, eating and classes like normal. Seriously an easy knit.
With my last order from knit picks where I bought my drop spindle (my love), I also got two skeins of Felici, and I went to my LYS recently and got a different color to use for the toes and heels on some socks. So far, I've only done Tin Can Knit's Rye pattern, which is cuff down with a heel flap or something? I'm not quite sure, but I'm looking to expand my sock arsenal so I decided to try toe up two at a time socks. Which sounded super fun, until it got right now to making them. I finished my February FoF projects pretty fast, and I've had the option to start them, but I just... haven't. I think I'm intimidated. I don't really understand the concepts behind two at a time or an afterthought heel. I'm really excited for them, yeah, but it's easier to keep being excited for them than to start them and get super stuck and not be excited anymore. I just gotta kick my hiney into high gear. We'll see though.
I also have some side projects that aren't FoF related. My friends and I are going on a camping trip soon, and it'll probably be cold, so I'm knitting all of us (semi)matching hats before we go. For Christmas I got a sampler of Biggo from Knit Picks, in Dove Heather, Bamboo Heather, Aurora Heather and Sapphire Heather, so I'm mixing and matching the colors and making beanies out of The Vermonter pattern.
Which is awesome and all... but I think my knitting has changed since I knit this pattern for the first time. They all turn out too short now. And it's not like I'm blindly following the pattern, I make extra wide brims and add an extra row to ever pattern repeat, so it's two inches longer than it would have been if I followed the pattern exactly, but its still... too short. I'm kind of stuck because I already ripped out mine completely and did it over, so I don't really want to do that again, but I know it'll piss me off if I leave it as is.
So we'll see where that goes. I'm still excited cause I have the pattern nearly memorized by now, so it's an easy in-class knit and I can make one a day basically. There's a lot of finishing that needs to be done on them, but honestly it's a pretty easy project, considering I need to make multiple beanies before next week.
Besides that, I don't really have much going on with knitting. I put some things in my queue for the first time ever, and my family went to San Francisco over the long weekend and my mom brought me back some lovely, wonderful hand-dyed cashmere yarn that I'm just in love with. I' haven't gotten good pictures of it yet, but it's this lovely dusty rose color and I realize how freaking cheap I am cause I have never felt anything this soft.
I'm excited but I don't quite know what this yarn wants to be yet. This is one of those things where the yarn is so nice I don't want to squander it, so I'm gonna find a pattern that really fits with it before thinking about using it.
In sewing land, I'm very excited.
I went to Jo-Anne's a while back and oh boy. I spent most of what was in my checking, but SO worth it. I got enough petticoat netting and cotton to make myself a short petticoat, which I've been dying to do forever, honestly. I also impulse bought some beautiful special edition cotton something or other fabric with gold on it, in a pattern that reminds me of a peacock in the jazz age almost. It's really beautiful. I aaaalso got a few more yards of my Starry Night fabric, enough to finally make my paneled circle skirt.
Over the course of two weekends, I set some hours aside to set up shop in one of the study rooms and I have started constructing my circle skirt. It's made of 8 panels, and while I wanted maybe 6, dividing a half circle by 4 is easier than dividing a half circle by three, so 8 it is. I'm really excited for it, all of the panels are sewn together and it's been hanging in my room for two weekends now. Still left is putting in a waistband, hemming it, and making closures. It's so close to done and I'm so excited.
That's about it for major projects right now, this wasn't so much a progress report as what I'm working on right now, but as this blog has more consecutive months under it's belt I'll really be able to reflect more. Personal developments coming soon hopefully. Until then, I've got class!
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