Monthly Archives: June 2007
Beginings of something like Wisp

New WIP
Ahem. I seem to have cast on for something like Wisp.I’m probably knitting it a bit wider, so it’s more like a wrap than ascarf, and I’m knitting it on the bias, because I like that better forknitted wraps, and I’m doing the basic theory of alternating stripes ofgarter stitch with yo, k2tog lace, rather than precisely following thepattern, but it’s basically Wisp. Mmm, Kidsilk Haze Although I dowish I had pointier needles – the Addis are really a bit too blunt.
New Knitty!
I get quite excited about new issues of Knitty. There’s not oftensomething that leaps out and wants me to knit it (only Clessidra of thelast few issues, I think), but I love seeing what people are designing,and feeding those ideas into things that I might design and/or knit.This issue there’s one pattern that… well, I probably won’t knit itas is, but I’ll knit something like it, inspired by it, and that’s Wisp. I like that sort of scarf/wrap/shawl thing, and I have some KSH in my stash, so I’ll be adding it to my Ravelry queue. The other pattern that I like the idea of is Askew.I don’t think I’ll knit that, either – knitted vest tops don’t reallyexcite me, and I’m sure that Silk Garden would be too hot for thesummer – but I may well make a jumper inspired by it. (No, the jumperof doom hasn’t taught me that I don’t like jumpers.)
Having said knitted vest tops don’t excite me, I do really like both Zinzin and Coachella,but since I wouldn’t wear either (the perennial bra problem), there’sno point about even thinking of knitting them. And I’d die of boredomwith that much stocking stitch.
The lion dishcloth, Grr, is lovely, but I don’t really get dishcloths, and I can’t see why I’d want to knit one even if I did (although if I did knit one, it would be a lion one).
And of the socks, Coupling is pretty, but doesn’t look so different from Elfine, or any of various other lace socks out there; Sweetpea is nice but not interesting, and the yarn obscures the pattern; I really like the patterning on Breeze,but not the anklet shape, so I’d have to adjust it if I made it; andalthough the lace pattern is called “bluebird of friendliness”, Vogon isn’t really all that interesting.
Contrast hem
Knotwork cardigan

Recycling
Last night, I frogged the jumper of doom. It is now a bagfull of ratherkinky (oo-er) balls, waiting to become something else. When I was donefrogging, I started flipping through books and magazines and makingsketches to try and work out what that something else will be; a cabledcardigan seems most likely, predictably enough Design sketches,notes and brainstorming will be forthcoming…