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Starting on a Rusted Root

Lorene — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:39:56 +0000

I started knitting Zephyr Style’s Rusted Root. I’m doing a bit of traveling soon – to Portland this weekend and the driving cross country – and I need something to keep me busy on my downtime. Anyway I’m using some sort of olivey green Cotton Fleece from Brown Sheep Co.

starting socks

Lorene — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:10:32 +0000

I tried really hard to resist this, but last night I started working on a pair of socks. I am currently about halfway done with knitting Temptation II, and I really shouldn’t start a new project. Except, the sweater is a commute exclusive project. So starting an at home one must be ok, right?

I’ve never knit socks before so I did some searching for a pattern. I’m using my Dye-O-Rama Yarn from Liz. She said the stripes work well with a 60 stitch round. So when I came across Wendy’s Toe-Up Sock pattern I was all like SCORE! So I cast on and got going and 2 rows in I got confused, very confused. I’ve never really done short rows, and I knew that I had to be slipping more and knitting less, but I couldn’t understand how that works. So I searched and read and searched and read. And finally I came across this tutorial. So I basically ignored the instructions, which I think are not very clearly written for an “easy” pattern, and followed the Coffee Crazy instructions. So right now I’m done with the first toe. I just need to put my provisional cast on stitches back on the needle.

Knitty Temptation II

Lorene — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:04:30 +0000

So I got back on the horse working on Temptation II. I had started it for the knitting olympics but I messed up a bunch so I decided to start from scratch. Plus I picked up some Addi Turbos for this project too. So far I’ve been working on it for a week and I’ve gotten about 15% done. I have 5 of the 13″ of ribbing I need to do for the body.