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In-Depth Review of Knitting Yarn

In-Depth Review of Knitting Yarn

Finished!

Yay! I finally finished. Not without a bit of tears, though. I decided to add a border around the edge, inspired by how lovely Marianne S.'s looked. It seemed so easy, just pick up stitches along the edge and knit, right? As it usually happens in my life, nothing is ever as easy as it seems. My bind-off edges were too tight and it caused the ends to curve in. After frogging and reknitting about 4 times I finally found the right technique (going up about 5 needle sizes when binding off). By the way, that's about 600 stitches, give or take, along each long side. The ends are a mere 100. Then there was the blocking incident. After all the work on the border, when I was blocking I broke the yarn along one short end. I'm not ashamed to say some tears were shed, because I thought I'd have to redo the entire border again. The idea of hours more work when I thought I was finished was a little much. But after wiping my eyes, I realized I could fix it without redoing the entire border, just one edge. So finally it is done. I love it and it was worth the work and tears. The Crystal Palace yarn feels nice and the colors are lovely. I probably should reblock it, but I'm still feeling a little block-shy after the last time, so I'm leaving good enough alone.

JUST SAYING HELLO

Hi everyone felt inspired to join you all and the very first thing I willbe doing is the log cabin as I
have a lot of travelling coming up so thought this project would fit the bill

MY FIRST FO OF THE YEAR

The wrap was started in September after a lengthly delay in obtaining the yarn, put on hold to finish the Christmas projects and finished last week. I used the new blocking wires and the straight lines were amazingly easy to keep straight. The project was fun and reinforces my love of modular knitting.

Making Progress!

Happy New Year Everyone!

After a brief hiatus due to several Christmas knitting projects, I'm back to work on my MQW. I'm a little more than halfway through. My boyfriend commented that I'll probably finish it just in time for the weather to warm up. Not true! I'm pretty sure I can finish it by early February, and here in Chicago there's still plenty of cold weather left to be experienced!

Modern Quilt Wrap is Knitting Daily's #1 Pattern of 2007!

The Bunad Mukluks are (finally) Done!

At long last I've finished my Bunad Mukluks! The knitting and felting has been done for some time but I was stymied trying to figure out how to dye the soles. After a major failure in attempting to dye them I ended up ordering a new pair from Patternworks, which came in a lovely grey colour that was just perfect as they were. As can be seen from the picture, I made some changes in terms of the decorative elements - I added a stripe with duplicate-stitched flowers instead of the embroidery from the pattern, and instead of tassels I put some silver beads on the ends of the drawstrings. They are really comfortable to wear around the house instead of slippers and I am very happy with them! I just wish there had been more information in the book about how the soles were dyed - at least a brand name for the dye that was used. But I will definitely make these again sometime.

Algonquin Socks

I've finally started a project from this book - the Algonquin socks. Maybe not a great idea, considering this will be my very first attempt at knitting any type of sock at all.

I'm using Knit Picks Palette - I had ordered the sample box quite some time ago - and I'm using different colors than those called for. So far, so good! I love the patterning and the way the colors are working together. I started the heel on sock #1 today while at the family holiday gathering and stopped when it came to turning the heel. Too many people around to distract me! :)

So here I am at home once again, going to mix up a batch of smoothies, get comfy, and start working the sock again.

Will post a photo once I have it complete.

~Laurel

Modern Day Quilt Wrap - blocking it

For those of you using the kidsilk, what blocking method did you use? Spray, wet or what?

Happy Holidays!!!

Thank you for all of the wonderful Folk Style postings... keep 'em coming!

All the best and the happiest of knitting for the New Year!!

Mags

Modern Quilt Wrap FINISHED!

That's ME in the picture, not the recipient. She will get it the Saturday after Christmas. IN PERSON this year!

I finished the MQW recently and then went about making a purse to match. the purse IS felted but not in the pic. I am also working on a pair of fingerless mitts with one mitered block on each one to give it a further coordinating look. All of this for my husband's sister. She lives in Long Island. If you see her wearing them and carrying the purse, be sure to let her know, YOU know who made it for her :)

Keeping with it

This was a challenging project for me.. Time consuming.. I usually like the quick hitters.. Instant gratification.. In the end, I am SOOO happy with the result.. and just in time to rock my Thanksgiving!... Thank you to all for your encouragement and cheering me on for this wrap. It was much appreciated!

Having Faith

I have finished knitting the Bunad Mukluks but have not yet felted them. Looking at the finished knitting, I must admit to a sinking feeling as to whether or not they will really work out.

I haven't felted knitted items to be a specific size before; everything I have felted so far hasn't really mattered how big it ended up. So this will be a test to see if I can manage to make these boots come out to being a size I can wear comfortably. I sure do like the idea of them so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. if they utterly fail I guess I can cut up the felt to make other things out of.

As you can see from the pen next to the Bunads for scale, these things are huge, and I have little feet. Stay posted on the size; according to my gauge swatch and careful notes as to shrinkage at several stages of felting, they should work out. But we all know how gauge swatches can lie......

I also abandoned the idea of doing a stranded design around the upper leg. I didn't think I had enough yarn to do the whole thing, so I was planning to do some stranded patterns instead of the embroidery as a way to stretch my yarn supply, but I didn't like the way the stranding felted. So I switched to knitted-in stripes and some embroidery on top of the stripes. The last photo shows the duplicate stitch embroidery partially underway. The floral design comes from one of the Nicky Epstein books - I can't recall right now if it's the On the Edge or Over the Edge book, but it's whichever one includes colour work. I think it was the 2nd book in the series, but if someone really needs to know let me know and I'll look it up for you.

I'd still love to hear any thoughts on dying suede if anyone has any!