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Tangled Yoke

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On 17 Nov, 2008

In FO, Knit

Pattern: Tangled Yoke from Interweave Knits Fall 2007
Yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed

I made the smallest size because I just couldn’t get gauge.  I went down to US #3 to get anywhere close.

Elapsed time on this was a year.  I put it down last winter, when I couldn’t find the time when I was able to concentrate to work on the cables.  A few weeks ago, I sat myself down and just pushed through the cables.  The rest went very quickly.

I used a 2 hole one-row button hole instead of the 3 stated in the pattern.  I was worried that the hole would be too big and the button would slip out.  I was correct.

The button band is still a little flimsy and the buttons are prone to slipping out.  I think some grosgrain ribbon should give the band the structure it needs.

Just in time for fall.

#8 & 9

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On 16 Nov, 2008

In FO, Knit, Spin

There’s been a dry spell on socks. Unless there was another pair of finished socks that I can’t remember. Completely possible.

October Socks (Socks #8)

Yarn: I can’t remember — Lana Grossa?
Needles: 2.5mm
Pattern: My standard toe up socks with 64 stitches around.

It was a limited time colorway, sold in hanks.  The colors reminded me of fall colors.  I worked on these during SOAR.  The first sock was finished during the field trip to HTTM.  My eyes were on the fall colors in the hillsides from the bus.  My fingers were working on these socks.

I’m rather disappointed how the yarn patterning turned out.  It’s too mottled for my taste.
November Socks (Socks #9)

Yarn: Handspun Spunky Eclectic 100% BFL; 3 ply; fingering weight; spun in October 2008.
Colorway: Burning Bush
Needles: 2.5mm
Pattern: Standard toe-up socks with waffle cuffs.

Waffle pattern:
Row 1 & 2: k2, p2
Row 3 & 4: k

The yarn is extremely cushy.  I was aiming for the look of my favorite sock yarn — Zitron’s Trekking XXL.  I love how Trekking gently flows from one color to another without repeats.  I think I really came close with this.  I stripped the roving into thirds lengthwise, but otherwise, just let things happen.  The yarn is still thicker than Trekking, but it’s much softer and has more loft.

Granted, it probably won’t wear nearly as well, since it is 100% BFL, but it is lovely.

I added the waffle pattern to the cuff, because I’ve always loved the Blueberry Waffle sock pattern, but have never actually made a pair because I merrily knit along and forget to switch to pattern.

I started out the year making about 2 pairs of socks per month. It was because I was trying out a bunch of different toe/heel methods. Things have slowed down dramatically since then. I wonder if I can average 1 pair a month for the year? 7 weeks remaining for 3 more pairs. We’ll see.  Maybe there’s a miracle and there were completed socks that I forgot to document.

Centered Eyelets

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On 17 Sep, 2008

In Knit

Several months ago (okay, close to a year ago), I availed myself to Gudrun, of The Loomy Bin, to help me out of a mess I made with my card weaving.  After she helped me sort out why the pattern wasn’t working for me (I was overthinking it), we sat down and looked at some of her latest knitting projects.  She was trying to translate some weaving patterns into knitted fabric as an exercise.  One of the areas that she wanted me to look at was lace.  She wasn’t satisfied with the way lace always leaned toward one side or the other.  There wasn’t a way of centering an eyelet.

I gave her a short lesson on the anatomy of a lace, and how it really isn’t possible to make a perfectly centered eyelet.  The only way I knew how to do it was to do a left leaning decrease, yarn over, and right leaning decrease.  But this decreases 2 stitches to the one increased stitch created by the yarn over.  To counteract the lost stitch, I told her to hide an increase either somewhere in the same row (lace knitting) or somewhere in the next row (knitted lace).

Neither options were terribly elegant.

But now, there is an elegant solution!  Thanks to Janine, I stumbled upon the answer at Schoolhouse Press.  Scroll to the bottom of the bottom of the article for “Pithy Instructions for Centered Eyelets.”  Pure genius!  So simple!  So elegant!

Okay, I’m off to re-write some of my lace patterns to center my eyelets.

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