Wednesday WIP 4/2-08

I know I will love wearing my Friend's Folly sweater.  I do love how it is coming out.  There is just the matter of sleeves.  Knitting one freakin' sleeve is taking me longer than the body.  I'm not loving it.  I only have about an inch and a half to go on the first one, so you'd think I'd just settle down and slog through it.  But  not so much.  It doesn't look any different than it did last time you saw it so I'm not going to post a photo.  Goal: keep at it.  Even at this snail's pace, it will eventually be long enough.

I also got a few rounds in on the corrugated rib socks.  Again, progress really doesn't show so no sense in posting a photo.  Goal: same as before - work a couple rounds here and there.

Biggest progress of the week is two pounds of angora now dyed and drying.  I did the first batch in color salmon.  It's a tonal variegation, ranging from pale peach through apricot and on into orange.  I like.  It's for blending with some natural chocolate wool.  The second batch I blended a bit of sapphire blue with violet and got tonal variegation from light blue violet through stormy dark blue violet.  It will be wedded to a silver grey wool. 

I started a new sock.  For good reason.  Really.  I need a sock on the needles today, but it needs to be a mindless knit and neither the SKP sock nor the corrugated rib is mindless.  I dug out the directions for the magic cast on for toe up socks, ripped the needles out of the SKP sock (cause I needed to rip back a bunch of rounds to adjust fit anyway), and cast on the new.  This time, I did it correctly the first time out.  Whee!  That's definitely progress.  I think I will do a rib sock with these.  Any other pattern would get lost in all that color, I fear.  The yarn: Koigu KPPPM.  It seemed appropriate to use a Canadian yarn today because I'm going to NYC for The Inexplicable Knitter Behavior Yarn Crawl Tour. 

Comments

[Jessica]

It still makes me giggle a little when you talk about "pounds" of angora! Most people talk about angora in ounces!! Needless to say, I love the blue stuff and can't wait to see the blend. Keep trucking on that sweater. You *will* get there! See you in a few hours! :)

[Karen]

Oh both colorways are gorgeous!

Have fun in NYC!

[Laurie]

So so pretty!

Have fun in NYC with all the knitters.

[Anne]

Have fun on your yarn crawl - looking forward to the stash enhancement pics when you return. ;)