April 01, 2004
See Jon Knit. Knit, Jon! Knit!
Even though I spent a good chunk of the day running errands and such like, I did manage to get this out from the needles:
It's that variegated Primo, on #8 ebony DPNS. The pattern for each diamond is:
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if you know what that means. It's right in the middle. I didn't get the cast-on exactly right, and I didn't do enough extra stitches in the bind-off, so the garter stitch edging pulls up and in... making this look like a yarn dish as much as an afghan square, but the yarn is pretty and I learned something! And it's likely that if someone who's a good blocker gets their hands on this piece of knittage that it could turn out to be relatively flat!
But just so I'm not solely in afghan square mood, I started in on the Synchronicity. I'm adapting a pattern from the Jaeger book I bought a few weeks ago. Granted, the pattern is for a simple crew neck, but I'm going to do some funky intarsia between the self-striping and the solid yarn. If all goes well with my evil plan, a lovely sweater for moi should result.
What do we have so far? A cuff!
"Hey, I may be just a cuff, but I'm drinking milk, and one day I'll have a whole sweater coming out of me and I'll be big enough to beat you up."
Posted by Jon at April 1, 2004 03:12 AMSo, tell me how you like the ebony needles. Do they feel and knit like bamboo? I am going to get some.
Posted by: max at April 1, 2004 05:25 PMGet em, Max, get em! I knit on nothing but bamboo...unless they're all out of the size I need and I don't feel like ordering them online. And what's more they're never like knitting with ice sticks in winter.
Meanwhile, that square would make a nice serving tray. Throw some tortilla chips in it...felt a bowl for an olive tappenade...good source of fiber too!
Posted by: Antonio at April 2, 2004 07:27 AM