Tuesday, February 21, 2006

new stuff!

so i decided that it's time i do some teeny fair isle. this swatch is 8.9 sts/in on size 1 needles. i got the idea from Eunny's blog. these were just the colors i happened to have around. i 'll probably make the socks blue and light yellow.
i tried to do two-handed fair isle, where you hold one color in the left hand and knit continental while knitting english with the other color in the right hand. i couldn't do this very well because i have trouble knitting english and keeping the tension the same without dropping everything. oh well, maybe another time i'll figure it out. so for now i'm holding both strands with my left hand, which seems to work fine.
about two weeks ago at 2 am i decided i just had to start a lace scarf. hopefully it will be better after blocking...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

look better darling? piffle, it's already gorgeous ;^)

ahh i miss you tons. and i look to your beautiful knitting for inspiration on these cold days. i'll call sometime in the not too far future about maybe coming to visit.

LOVE YOU.

evie

Hannah said...

hey sweetie...
i miss you too. the sword ale was so much fun and i'm glad we got a chance to hang out. talk to you soon.
love, hannah