Saturday, April 28, 2007

Little Big Wool

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I'm almost done with my Grace sweater which is knitted out of Rowan's Little Big Wool. It required 17 balls to complete the project. The pattern is fun and kept me amused and had knitted up quickly. Unfortunately, there's only about 68 meters in one balls, so it got quite expensive (about $160). I don't remember ever paying that much for a store bought sweater, but hey, I guess it's worth it when I'm investing that much time into it.

This was my first time using Rowan and I must say, I was very disappointed. A lot of the balls had knots in them and I lost a lot of meters just cutting and rejoining the yarns. Needless to say, I was up last night knitting and hoping to finish the sleeves when I ran out of yarn. I couldn't even finish the sleeves, much less have anymore to knit the neckline. So, I have to buy another ball just to finish it.

I did e-mail Rowan a couple of days ago expressing my disappointment. I normally do not complain but because of the poor quality wool, and wrong patterns with out any published corrections, I was a bit ticked. They e-mailed me and told me that they will be sending me enough yarn for another project to compensate. That really helped the frustration!
In the meantime, this has been calling out t0 me:
It's an eggplant color. You can't really see it since I was too lazy to take this pic outside in natural light. But Oh Baby! it's soft and cozy! It's the Northumberland Pullover by Fleece Artist.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Too many work in progress...

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Well, I've finally jumped on the bandwagon (late as always). This will be my first posting so I thought I start with pictures of all the work in progress. It's quite embarassing, really, either I have serious Acute Casting-onitis or I'm suffering from Knitting ADD





here's the Clapotis that I'm knitting from Manos del Uraguay in #42 for my mother. I started with 3 skeins and now looks like I would need another one. You can't see the drop stitches yet but once it's blocked, I think it would look beautiful.



I'm hoping to make a fitted Turtle neck Sweater out of this one. It's "Babi" Kid Mohair bloucle that's been hand-dyed by Fleece Artist. This is my first time knitting with anything that's boucle and I'm not too happy about it. I thought this will be mindless knitting using only garter stitch but since the yarn is so, well, Loopy, it's taking all of my concentration to make sure I knit it in the right hole.






This was my first ever socks. I totally was walking on air the first time I turned the heel. I'm knitting this on Addi 12 inch but had to switch to dpn when turning the heel. Doesn't bother me since I Love Addi's.


This one is being crochet. I really like the easy pattern and self striping yarn by Trendsetter (tonalita) My mom is really good at crochet so I might just let her finish this one up for me.



Here's my favorite and the one that I'm currently workign on. It's "Grace" from Rowan Arabesque. I'm knitting the 2nd sleeves now and hoping to block and seam in the next couple of days. This one is costing me an arm and a leg to knit up.



This is a quick knit that I'm knitting fro Aliana and hopefully passing it down to Arison. It's a size 4 sweather that's knitted up in Lion's Brand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick. It just needs the sleeves knitted up.


Ok, I'm on the fence with this one. It's a toddler sweater knitted in the round with cheapest and ugliest Acrylic yarn that money can buy. I don't know if I should just give up or keep on knitting. I hate the color, hate the material and hate the needle.




This is a back of a Cardigan for Aliana that I'm knitting out of Alpaca/Wool blend yarn. Hopefully, she won't grow out of it by the time I'm finish with it.



Another acrylic poncho. It really only needs some more fringes. I just can't seem to bring myself to finish it. This project has been mocking me ever since.


This is a beautiful cardigan from Vogue Winter 2006/7. I started on bamboo but thinking about switching to Addis. It's knitted on Worsted Cabled Merino. The stiches is showing really nicely with this yarn.


My first ever sweater. It was knitted for Max in less than 3 weeks from alpaca/wool blend in soft Camel color. The neck is weird and twisted. I haven't had the energy or time to frog it and reknit.


A cable purse knitted from Lion's Brand thick and Quick. Probably only need about an hour of knitting time before it's done. Oh well, so much knitting, so little time.



I started this sweater during Christmas time from Bernat "Glacier". I know, I know, another acrylic. Maybe that's why it's not finished?
 

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