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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Friday, March 02, 2007 Rip it! Rip it! I think I've spent more time frogging than knitting this week. Kay's pair of red and white generic cuff-down socks is on the needles for the third time. For whatever strange reason, I began a K1P1 cuff, which I never do. It isn't as stretchy as K2P2 and doesn't look as nice. I must have been off in la-la land when I began it, because I would never have done that on purpose. So I ripped it all back and started over. On the second attempt, I was nearly finished with as much ribbing as I wanted when I noticed a huge flaw on one row. I'm not one of those people who can rip back to a particular spot and take up the knitting again without making things worse than they were to begin with, so out it came again. The third time was actually a trial to see how a particular pattern of flat ribbing looked, and I did knit in a lifeline at the end of the cuff. I didn't like that pattern so back we went to the end of the cuff and started over from there. Now I'm doing a K4P2 flat rib that I like well enough to leave alone. The Socka yarn tried to be a toe-up sock in the Six Sox Knit-along pattern called Springtime in Paris. Nope, not good. I really tried to like doing a toe-up sock and I just didn't. On top of that I didn't like how the pattern was working out. It stood out well enough that the socks would have been acceptable, but I just didn't like it, and since half the fun of hand-knitted socks is knitting them, I decided not to inflict on myself something that I just wasn't having fun knitting. So I ripped back about four inches of sock and started over with another cuff-down generic sock on 4 needles. That one is half way through the heel flap now, so it will be finished soon. It is lovely yarn, like all your favorite denim colors combined in one sock. But it's a cotton and wool blend, so it isn't as nice and soft and giving as pure wool would be. I still like the colors well enough not to mind how it feels.I also started an Elizabeth Zimmerman Baby Surprise Jacket in Phildar Bubble, for my niece who is expecting in April. Bubble is a 100% nylon yarn in something approximating a DK or sport weight, with huge chunky-yarn-size bobbles at about half inch intervals, an absolute bitch to cast on. I managed to get three rows finished before I decided that this is just not a good yarn for knitting. Crochet would be a far more suitable technique for this particular yarn. So that one is wound back on its ball, waiting for inspiration to strike. I suspect it will make good 6" squares with ridged crochet rows (single crochet worked in the back loop to make ridges) set at right angles to each other. That's the plan anyway. I still want to make a Baby Surprise Jacket but I'll have to find another yarn to do it with.I'll post pictures when I've had a little more sleep. This is the fifth day on the road this week with another long one coming up tomorrow. posted by Liz @ 10:38 PM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. 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Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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I think I've spent more time frogging than knitting this week. Kay's pair of red and white generic cuff-down socks is on the needles for the third time. For whatever strange reason, I began a K1P1 cuff, which I never do. It isn't as stretchy as K2P2 and doesn't look as nice. I must have been off in la-la land when I began it, because I would never have done that on purpose. So I ripped it all back and started over. On the second attempt, I was nearly finished with as much ribbing as I wanted when I noticed a huge flaw on one row. I'm not one of those people who can rip back to a particular spot and take up the knitting again without making things worse than they were to begin with, so out it came again. The third time was actually a trial to see how a particular pattern of flat ribbing looked, and I did knit in a lifeline at the end of the cuff. I didn't like that pattern so back we went to the end of the cuff and started over from there. Now I'm doing a K4P2 flat rib that I like well enough to leave alone. The Socka yarn tried to be a toe-up sock in the Six Sox Knit-along pattern called Springtime in Paris. Nope, not good. I really tried to like doing a toe-up sock and I just didn't. On top of that I didn't like how the pattern was working out. It stood out well enough that the socks would have been acceptable, but I just didn't like it, and since half the fun of hand-knitted socks is knitting them, I decided not to inflict on myself something that I just wasn't having fun knitting. So I ripped back about four inches of sock and started over with another cuff-down generic sock on 4 needles. That one is half way through the heel flap now, so it will be finished soon. It is lovely yarn, like all your favorite denim colors combined in one sock. But it's a cotton and wool blend, so it isn't as nice and soft and giving as pure wool would be. I still like the colors well enough not to mind how it feels.I also started an Elizabeth Zimmerman Baby Surprise Jacket in Phildar Bubble, for my niece who is expecting in April. Bubble is a 100% nylon yarn in something approximating a DK or sport weight, with huge chunky-yarn-size bobbles at about half inch intervals, an absolute bitch to cast on. I managed to get three rows finished before I decided that this is just not a good yarn for knitting. Crochet would be a far more suitable technique for this particular yarn. So that one is wound back on its ball, waiting for inspiration to strike. I suspect it will make good 6" squares with ridged crochet rows (single crochet worked in the back loop to make ridges) set at right angles to each other. That's the plan anyway. I still want to make a Baby Surprise Jacket but I'll have to find another yarn to do it with.I'll post pictures when I've had a little more sleep. This is the fifth day on the road this week with another long one coming up tomorrow.
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"If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart.
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Cleaning, 1 Cleaning, 2 Cleaning, 3
KNITTING BLOGS
Extravayarnza Knitting Heretic Mind of Winter Pie Knits Persistent Illusion See Eunny Knit The Keyboard Biologist Taleweaver's Ramblings TECHnitting Wendy Knits
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