Light and Shadow
The Kinari cardigan continues to require a great deal of patience. As you can see here, I have finished a sleeve, and lo, it is glorious.
But the part of the picture that’s in shadow isn’t going so well. I did finish knitting the body. It took a week to do the edging: because the yarn I used for that part was somewhat thicker than what I had been using for the body but the needles were the same size, it hurt my wrists to do more than a couple of rows at a time. It really wasn’t any fun. And then when I tried the sweater on, it became clear that the edging really hadn’t worked out. I had put too many increases in, so the bottom was proportionately much wider than it had been in my sketch, and since the fabric was thick, it was also rather stiff, with the result that it more or less stood straight out from my body. Wearing it, I looked like a very fashionable pyramid.
To cheer myself up and restore my flagging confidence, I knit the sleeve. Having learned my lessons from the body, I got the edging right this time. Then I cut off the bottom 4.25" on the body and started over with skinnier yarn and larger needles. The knitting is much more enjoyable now, and it seems to be going a bit more quickly. I’m hopeful.
I’ve been slowed down some by a Secret Design Project that’s going to keep me semi-occupied for the next several weeks. I can’t tell you what I’m working on, but I can give you a hint. Here it is:
Anyone who can figure out what I’m up to from that picture gets a prize.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Felted Easter Basket containing knitted eggs, flowers and candies (some felted some not).
March 4th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Hmmm. That looks like a cookie jar to me. (A few odd cookie jar, though–a bunny/pig/cow hybrid?) So are you baking Easter cookies?
My other guess is that you’re conducting genetic experiments to breed the world’s first bunny/pig/cow. Yes?
March 4th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I am curious to see how the kinari turns out - you’re right about that moment of reckoning for sweater patterns, because I am at that with my Cobblestone right now. If only I could keep going like you have…
March 4th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Are you turning the rabbit into a cow?
March 5th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Making a piggy, cowie, bunny toy.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Are those the pigs we made in Mrs. Smith’s art class in 8th grade?
March 5th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Isn’t it funny how even when you have a feeling it’s not working, you keep going because you need to see it to believe it? That sleeve really is lovely though, I hope it did wonders for your confidence. I really like that edging, it looks very elegant.
And I love the piggy/bunny, you’ll have to give us the history on that when you can
March 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I’m so out of the loop, having not seen my knitter pals for so many cold months now! I think the sweater shows great potential, and you’re knitting something for that ceramic creature to wear, aren’t you? A fashionable pyramid for his (her?) own.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Oooh, oooh! I know, I know!
I’ll just keep quiet though since I already won a prize.