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frogging...

Last night I started the sleeve of Audrey, which I'm knitting with the Audrey Knit-A-Long. Its in Amour, a very warm red color. I've frogged and frogged and frogged because I'm so tired and distractable lately and I was trying to do too many things at once... I have other projects going too and not nearly enough knitting time. The sash of Kyoto only has a few rounds left. Then one sleeve and a body panel to go! The cleo halter in Manos cotton stria is absolutely adorable, but I need to reseam and reattach the elastic because the method I used the first time looked horrible. I went to the library and looked at a copy of Vogue knitting, which helped a lot. fun--lots and lots of knitting to do.

keeping up--

Distractions! Pretty lilac cotton and knitting the Cleo halter from Knitty has kept me from finishing my Kyoto, but I'm a quarter of the way through the sash now, so I'm moving along. I think I need to reknit a portion of the back because my tension is a little weird and my first attempt at steam blocking did nothing for it. Which is fine. If spring continues the way it has in Boston, I'll finish it before its too warm to wear a sweater. I've also been slaving away at work and doing research for a story I want to write about a spirit photographer in Boston in the 1870s.

Liz

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No huge knitting news today. I started Cleo last night with my lavender Manos cotton, boy is it going to be pretty! Like wearing artfully sculpted cotton candy.

Kyoto moves forward--

Very slowly, with all the stockinette, but its relaxing and mindless--I do it on conference calls at work, while watching TV, anywhere! So far, I have the front panels, the back, and 8 inches of one sleeve done. Here's a sleeve in progress. The colors--"icewater", a light blue, for the body, a darker blue called "nautical" for the sash, and chocolate brown for the stripe. I'm knitting it specifically go to with a blue skirt I own, which I've never had a top to match.

lots of knitting--not much posting

Well--I've been knitting a lot, but haven't been posting much. I'm working on two patterns from Knitty (Kyoto, I'm about 2/3 of the way done; and Cleo, which I just started making the boob triangles from). I'm knitting it with two strands of Manos cotton in a super gorgeous lavender color! I love absolutely love this yarn! I need to get a digital camera so I can post pictures of my projects. Kyoto seems to have an excessive amount of seaming/sewing on it. I'm wondering if this makes the finished design look more polished? I'll find out soon enough--probably in a week or so. I need to publicize my little site more, and be mroe frequent with the content. Maybe I'll have a banner and button made. Eh--super fun.

boys, boys, boys

overheard from my cubicle at work: a 20-minute-long conversation about the upcoming summer blockbuster movie Alien vs. Predator.

Eek! In unrelated news more pertinent to me, I received 3/4 of the yarn needed to knit Kyoto today--only the major color for the sash needs to come in. I have #5 and #6 needles and I'm crossing my fingers that I'll get gauge on the sixes.

Time allowing I'm going to add more stuff to the site today--links, stuff about me, pictures. Eh--its a work in progress. Competing time is the itch to start the new sweater, and also to finish off my poncho so I can show it off on Thursday--I'm travelling.

knitting!

So I've been paying for this blog site for awhile but have been procrastinating on getting it up and running. I've decided to use it as a forum for my knitting projects, writing projects, textile design projects (of which I'm really only an assistant on). I'm halfway through seedstitch poncho monotony from Knitting Pretty by Kris Percival. She's a Maine girl like me, and uses lots of Maine produced yarns in the patterns. My poncho is in Bartlett--a warm gray color for the body, which leans toward brown/sepia, and a natural color for the overcast stitching, maybe some fringe. This is a really mindless project that is great for TV watching on a cold, rainy Sunday, which is exactly what I did. One caveat: if you're a beginner or have never knit in seed stich with an uneven number of stitches, you may need additional language on when to knit and when to purl. I'm ambivalent about this book--she gets points for the Maine things I mentioned earlier, but the graphics demonstrating stitches are really small and hard to read, and I think it could have included some more difficult patterns--a beginning knitter won't get much mileage out of this book.

Next is Kyoto! And some small felting projects, and a cable scarf from leftover Bartlett natural colored yarn for my little brother.

In non-knitting news, I went to the New England Mobile Book Fair and bought a number of new things, including Kenneth Lapatin's Mysteries of the Snake Goddess, which reads like an academic mystery novel. While I'm on the topic of academic mysteries. I watched Posession yesterday, the film version of the A.S. Byatt novel, which I've read probably 20 times over the years. I loved the victorian sections of the movie, very true to the book--I didn't even mind that the woman playing Christabel Lamotte wasn't rail thin, as she's described in the book. But Gwyneth Paltrow and some ridiculously attractive American guy playing Oxbridge academics? Why? I also watched Hugh Jackman on Inside the Actor's Studio--he's the most well-roundedly sexy celebrity I can think of at the moment.

just testing

eek!