Oops! Long time no blog, due to technical difficulties. I’ve gotten some knitting done. During a conference in October, I finished the feather and fan scarf I knit from my fractal stripe handspun. I had reversed the pattern front to back in the middle of the scarf because I was knitting during a concert and messed up, but decided to leave it that way. It turned out lovely.
You can see that one half of the scarf has slow color changes, while the other has more frequent color changes. I love it! However, when I was blocking it, I discovered this:
Aaaaaaaaugh!! I hate dropped stitches in lace. As you can see, I salvaged what I could and put a safety pin through 3 stitches that seemed to prevent any further damage. I am not sure how to pick these up again, and may just have to fudge it. This was going to be a gift, but I don’t want to give something that I messed up. So I may end up keeping it for myself – it depends on how well the repair goes.
So instead of working on that, I started a new project – the Reid lace cardigan, from Knitty.com. This will be for Annabelle, and hopefully in time for Christmas. But in trying to be clever and avoid seaming, I managed to mess up in a few different ways.
First off, I decided to knit the right and left fronts together with the back up to the armhole shaping. Once I got there, I realized that there IS no armhole shaping – it’s a drop shoulder design. Duh! So basically I knit in one piece up to the neck shaping. It really didn’t look that big to me. Instead of frogging, I started on a sleeve.
I’ll see how it looks as a longer cardigan. One of the ladies in my knitting group suggested putting a ribbon through the waist – I think that would look cute! We’ll see how it goes as I fudge it up.
Pam's Knitting and Spinning, with a dash of Timmy 