That's short for fix it Friday and Sock'n'Smooch Sat/Sunday!
In furtherance of my cunning plan to deceive myself into finishing old projects and getting rid of some bad knitting karma living in my knitting corner, I made a resolution recently to finish a new(er) exciting project and alternate with an older unexciting project.
(Saturday was spent doing odd jobs around the house that needed doing - garden clean up, drilling things into walls, you get the idea...)
Friday was a fixit/ finish it. Here's what got done:
Booties (originally made for DS Ian, but never finished)
Diana
I ended up taking over 2 inches off the band, having eased it gently originally. I eased it aggressively the 2nd time, and it still puckers a little at the top edge as if not eased enough yet, even after pressing with the iron. I suppose that I could try again or put some binding on the top edge to stop it rolling a bit, but I know myself.This is not going to happen. The worst of the problem is now fixed, and I am happy with the result.
Saturday/ Sunday was for Smooch and my languishing sock:
I'm about to divide for the neck opening:
I want to say a big THANK YOU! to Alysia and Alison for their helpful information regarding this Smooch pattern.
Here is my useful repetition rendition of explaining the pattern, just in case someone is interested:
The first row after the cast on was vexing in that it said K3, *CO3 (one st left on needle) K2* repeat etc. Now I always had 4 sts left on the needle because of the K3. I was supposed to have 4 sts left on the needle all along. What the pattern writer was trying to get across was that after you K3, you then then K2 slipping the 2nd last knitted st over the last knitted st to create a CO st, and you merrily cast off the next 2. So in the end it looks like 3 sts on the RH needle, then a gap, then 3 more sts on the RH needle etc, with 3 k sts at the far right of the work. Phew! Glad we got past that one! The rest was pretty self explanatory, although I was glad to have Alysia's notes to back me up.
and here's the sock. I'm almost at the heel:
I have been inspired recently to look into my knitting workspace and to imagine what it would truly be like to have only one project on the go at once, thanks to Bron. If you have not seen her newest cardi, go and have a look and tell her how great she looks in it!
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