Sweaters Being Bad, Part 1

So, we got the new Cascade Tangier in stock, and I was all "OOOOO PRETTY WANT!" and needed something to knit up, and decided a Tee for Two would be awesome.


And it was. This is GREAT yarn, feels good to knit up, I like the drape on the needles I'm using (size 7). The only problem is that I was a bad, bad rabbit and didn't do a gauge swatch.

Yeah. I know.

So, I had the front and the back knit up, and one side mostly done... and tried it on. It was Not Good. Unless I wanted a totally off-the-shoulder sexy midriff-baring sweater. Which, since I wanted a tee shirt, was not going to work.

Frogged the side, and unpicked the cast off edges on front and back.



I have since made both front and a good four inches longer, and have done one side, with bonus short rows for the sleeve cap, and there *will* be longer sleeves. Picking up the stitches for the other side and getting going on that, hopefully remembering what I did on the first side so it matches. (I *did* write it down... I just don't know WHERE.)

So, maybe this "I can wear this to MDS&W!" tee will actually be finished sometime this summer.

Unless it plays more dirty tricks on me, in which case it's going into DEEP time out.

MDS&W 2015

The store ran the annual Sunday bus trip to Sheep & Wool again this year. I dug out my second Mizzle shawl as my take-along project:


I got a little bit done on it, I'm done with the first set of 76 rows, and working the "extra 54 rows" to make it longer now.

I also managed to forget to take any pictures of what I got (and I was AMAZINGLY restrained), so I'll just list:

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1. A cute needle-felted owl zipper fob for me, an a Minion for Shirley;
2. An owl needle felting kit (makes two owls);
3. Three wooden spools for spinning/plying;
4. Two boxes of Fiber Optic color runs, the same, which go from orange-yellow-white-skyblue-blue-royal, which will be a stole with the sun in the center and the sky around (IT WILL BE AWESOME);
5. A skein of orange-with-sparklies Wild Hare Galaxy (my absolute favorite yarn);
6. Three tshirts, 2 MDS&W and one that says "Not buying yarn is like not breathing";
7. This year's MDS&W tote and pin;
8. Two CDs: Maggie Sansone's holiday sampler, and Al Pettiway's collected Vol. 2;
9. A table loom.

Well, and various foodstuffs, because RIBBON FRIES.

But I actually came home with cash, didn't charge anything, could still carry it all easily, and hey, weeks later, can still remember all of it!

I did get a few photos, though, while the Sheep-to-Shawl was happening:






Someone on the 'net must have written up the insanity that was the shawl auction - where one shawl went for $1475 (!!!!!!) and the next went for an even $1000! (Needless to say, I did not bid.)

It was a beautiful day (you can tell that from the pics), and it was a lovely, fun, relaxing day. I'm looking forward to next year's trip already!!

Sock Knitalong

Doing a two-at-a-time sock knitalong at the store. Since I have copious yarn attached to each toe, I'm going to make lace stockings of bright and vibrant stripes. I think. (The alleged pattern, at this point, is Ann Marie: Pink Ribbon Stockings [Rav link]

Featherweight Cardi - Still Going...

Yeah, my Featherweight Cardigan. I'm still working on it, but lace weight is pretty much a recepie for amazingly slow progress. I'm about halfway from collarbone to armpit (wherein I get to knit the body while the sleeves hang out for a bit.