I have been feeling very bleh lately. In my knitting life I somehow feel restless because I don't have any big project ongoing and so I don't feel I am really making anything. This is all about to change, as I just bought some yarn for a cardigan that my mom has ordered as a birthday gift.
I did however pull off a most amazing feat. I handsewed the zipper onto the green lopi monster, and that took a freaking long time. Remind me to think twice before I ever decide to knit a zipped cardigan again. Oh, oops, I've already bought yarn for a new one! Jeez. No really, I love that the zipper is handsewed and imagine my great grandkids looking in awe at it thinking that this sewed in zipper has lasted for a hundred years, done with the loving hands (while cursing and massaging knotted shoulder muscles) of their great grandmother me. Well, here it is: me and the sweater feeling very proud of mememe
and let's not forget about that zipper
Despite having many projects planned, I gave in to a sudden yearning for a felted bag and spent many a happy moment coming up with a pattern for it. I thought the bag would make me feel good, cause it would be so fast to knit. In fact I thought I'd be walking around with the bag already this week (having started it on saturday)
The bag did not agree. It's trying its best to make the floats really get in my way. Stupid floats! Who ever invented those? (The yarn is by the way the leftovers of the green monster.)
Oh, I wore my green lopi socks all of sunday. My toes were feeling a bit cold, but the socks sure took care of that. And I was even barefoot in'em, and they didn't feel all that scratchy. They're my new favourite thing. Warm feet are the best.
Yay, congratulations on the very pretty green monster peysa! I am dreading the zipper part on the one I am making too. I actually was just thinking about that the other day, what was I thinking making a zipper sweater!!
What is the bag pattern you are using?
Comment by Rebecca — Tuesday, April 4, 2006 @ 11:37 pm
Congratulations on the green monster. Looks great and will surely do so for the next hundred years (be aware of moths!)
I have to ask you about your non-scratchy Lopi socks. Well, firstly, I don’t believe that part ;-) but secondly, are you not afraid that they won’t stand walking in/on them? The yarn seems so fragile to me. I tried to make socks out of lopi but they were sturdy, inealstic and holey in no time.
Comment by carola — Wednesday, April 5, 2006 @ 12:53 am
Thanks! The pattern for the bag isn’t really a pattern at all. Well, I used the beginning from Sophie, i.e. knitting a square bottom and picking up stitches along it. Then I’m just knitting it straight up, and the motif is something I drew up myself.
For the Lopi socks I used this cool trick that Svandís on my mailing list told me about. It’s to wash the Lopi stuff in hair conditioner, it softens it up! And it works! Of course it is still a bit scratchy, but it didn’t bother me too much. I didn’t really know about Lopi being so fragile until I had already knit one sock. So on I knitted :-). Let’s see how long they last, I knit them at a very tight gauge on 5mm needles, so the fabric is quite dense, I don’t know if it helps. But if they get holes, they get holes – maybe then I can practice my sock mending skills ;-)
Comment by siggasif — Wednesday, April 5, 2006 @ 7:44 am
The cardigan was worth the hassle! It’s lovely. Well done!
Comment by Beth S. — Wednesday, April 5, 2006 @ 4:36 pm
Love the cardigan! It’s beautiful. Nicely done indeed.
Comment by regina — Wednesday, April 5, 2006 @ 7:30 pm
Warm feet are the best!
The bag will make you feel good in the end. It looks good.
Comment by Lene — Saturday, April 8, 2006 @ 8:08 am