I recorded this on my iPod and edited it in the iMovie app, which was kinda fun.

You want details? See my Ravelry project page for those.

While we are hanging out she took photos of me modeling her latest design, Assassin’s Creed. It was very difficult for me to give her back the sweater. I fucking LOVE it and am so going to knit this myself!

I brought my Holga and new flash so look for some color Holga shots soon.

And, yes, this is a photo of a garbage can. Taken in Portland in the alley behind Happy Knits.

Here are some links to some of the stuff I’m referring to:

Who Me? Cardigan

Hourglass Sweater

Top Down Raglan Cardigan

Ravelry Project Page

Why hello there! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? I have to admit, I havent’ been feeling very social networky lately. And not very in the mood to blog, for some reason. Until today. I thought I’d post something crafty.
I finished the Aran Necklace Camisole almost a month ago. This is what I worked on when I was really sick in July. Did I tell you about that? Oh god. I was soo sick. I ran a fever for a good week. And we’re talking a pretty high fever too. I seriously thought I was gonna die. It ended up being bronchitis, and it took me a month to fully recover and feel normal again. So, yeah, my summer hasn’t been super fantastic.

Anyway, the camisole. This knit kind of got me through it. It was a really fun knit. The cabling in the yoke was very simple and it made the knitting interesting. The miles of stockinette got a bit boring toward the end, as per the usual case.

I really like the way it turned out, though I have only worn it once. I wore it as a vest to work one day and the cotton and linen yarn made the garment grow on me throughout the day. This yarn can be washed and dried in the dryer, though, so that’s good. It’ll shrink it up a bit.

Not much else to say about that. Here’s the Ravelry info if you are interested in the fine details.

I have some other crafty pursuits going on right now that I’ll have to share in the near future. I’m working on a t-shirt quilt with my old Summer Reading t-shirts and I’m doing some embroidery on it.

I’ve also discovered beading! This happened this past week while I’ve been on vacation. I’ve already made three necklaces and a pair of earrings. So I will show them to you soon, as well. I might be addicted to this at the moment. It’s super fun!

Happy Monday!

I finished Que Sera a long time ago. Here is a horrible picture of me wearing it, reflected in the bathroom mirror. I really need to get better at taking pictures of myself wearing my hand knits. That is one thing I’ve never really gotten good at, or have liked doing in all of the years I’ve been blogging about my knitting.

But that is beside the point.

So. Que Sera. This wasn’t the funnest knit for me. I saw the sweater in Knitty and had to have it. I’ve been needed more cardigans to wear to work and a cotton, lace cardigan fit the bill perfectly for summer. But, honestly, I am not fond of knitting lace. It frustrates me. Always has. It is in no way relaxing to me. Unfortunately, I like the way lace looks and sometimes I want to wear lacey things. So this was one of those times where I just pushed through and did it. And I really like the final product for the most part.

The one thing I don’t like is the neckline. When I wear it it tends to slide down my shoulders. But that’s the magic of knitting your  own sweaters.  You can fix things like this! So I plan to do that.

The buttons I chose are too small, so I will be replacing those, as well.

The sleeves I decided to knit differently than the pattern was written. The sleeves are knit flat. Which is kind of weird to me because the rest of the sweater is knit in the round. So the sweater is knit in the round and the shoulders are seamed up and then you knit the sleeves flat and then seam them into the armholes. After knitting an entire lace sweater, that just sounded like a recipe for a tempter tantrum. So I decided to make things easier on myself and just pick up the stitches around the armhole and knit them from the top down. The lace pattern is upside down but that is perfectly fine. You can’t really tell. I double decreased the sleeves every 6th and 12th row. And I decided to make them 3/4 sleeves, since this is a summer sweater.

It is knitted with Cotton Ease so I can wash and dry it if I wanted to. It’s very comfy and, despite the neckline thing, I really like wearing it.

Ravelry Link.