I've been dying to post this week. Not only do I have a finished object to show off but some significant progress on a new sweater and some other projects that have jumped to the front of my summer to-do list.
Alas, Hockeyman has sabotaged my efforts. He has fallen in love with photography and commandeered our one and only digital camera. Somehow, he managed to alter the settings in such a way that makes all my pictures turn out over-exposed and blurry.
He keeps promising to figure out how to reset the camera to its original default settings but our crazy schedule has kept him from accomplishing this feat of photographic prestidigitation.
Alas, you will just have to use your imagination.
First, the FO is a table runner and/or scarf made from the leftover yarn from my version of the Daily Sweater. There was just enough yarn to eek out a basket weave patterned table runner, much like the one pictured in the latest issue of Vogue Knitting. It is 4 feet long, so it could be worn as a scarf, too.
Second, remember this project? Well, it is now a pile of rag balls and the beginnings of a knit log cabin rug, from Mason Dixon Knitting. After struggling to make the rug lay flat and attempting to block it out, I gave up the battle and unraveled the whole thing. I think I'm going to like the more modern graphics of the log cabin rug anyway. (At least, that's what I kept telling myself as I laboriously ripped out all those rows of toothbrush knotting - oy!)
Third, I've been plugging away on a new top-down sweater from Knitty.com. I have some inexpensive acrylic yarn in a lovely sea foam green shade that is working up nicely for this summer t-shirt. I have already progressed past the place where the sleeves are put on holders and am working on the main torso now. I can't wait to finish this sweater!
I am thoroughly sold on the top-down concept and plan on making several more top-down projects in the near future.
I've also been shopping at a local quilt shop and picked up supplies to make a rug hooking project this summer.
Well, guess I should go light a fire under the teen saboteur to get the camera back into some semblence of normal so I can take some pictures.
Gah!
4 comments:
Oh, I loved that Pioneer sweater. My only concern was the deep "V" neck. I don't have the - lungs - for deep Vs. So let us know if you decide to alter that a bit, okay?
overexposed and blurry? Sounds like the shutter speed is too slow. Try checking that in the manual.
good luck!
I've stolen your sweater idea. I'm going to knit it for my son's girlfriend, though, as I haven't the nice curvy shape for it like you do!
Thanks for pointing the pattern out!
Happy Mother's Day (How was the fiber festivel???)
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