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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Hiding Out Wondering where I've been? Sometime late last week I realized my mother's birthday is tomorrow. The present that I started making her last month, secure in the knowledge I could easily finish it in time to get it in the mail had not been touched in at least two weeks. ACK! So I have spent the last week working diligently on it. It is complete. It is beautiful. And it is ready to mail. Since Mom occasionally checks in here, no pictures of it for several days, until after I know she has received it. Now, back to work on Birch.... Anne at 6:43 PM   | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Bye, Bye, Birchie  Something's not right here....  ... so it went into the freezer...  ... and back into the ball. I'm not sure if going into the freezer helped or not, but I'd read it makes ripping out mohair easier and I did get it all undone with no problems. WHY did I rip it out? From the very beginning it has just had not seemed "right". It was so loose and floppy but I had faith and kept knitting away. But last night as I finished up the first of 3 balls I had a very bad feeling so I did a little math... The first repeat of Birch has 30 leaf motifs, the second 29 and so on for a total of 465 motifs. I had completed 140 motifs when I ran out of my first ball. That is only 30% of the total motifs. Assuming the math works out, I'd run out of the 3rd ball with 47 motifs (9 full repeats - 72 rows) to go. Yes I could have bought a 4th ball but.... if I'm knitting way off gauge how BIG was this thing going to be? The finished Birchs I've seen out in blogland all seemed pretty good size, I didn't want to end up with a shawl that was WAY too big. When I pulled it off the needle I got my answer... the top edge was about 9 feet across!! Yikes! What happened here? I have no idea. I am NOT a loose knitter, in fact I am usually a tight knitter often having to go up a size or two needle when gauge matters in a garment. When I completed Cherry Blossom last week I mentioned I used only 4 balls plus a few yards of the specified fifth ball, thats the norm for me. I NEVER run out of yarn!! I dont mind that I had to rip.. I mind that I have to cast on 299 stithces again. Speaking of Cherry Blossom.... I promised pictures of Cherry Bloassom after blocking... here ya go....  I'm still very pleased with it overall, but I do have one issue... a minor one. It looked so lovely when I took it off the blocking board. But then after being folded up it got creased and it appears the KidSilk Haze holds the creases more than I'd like. Also the center began to pooch out a little, a complaint I've seen others have too.  But really, I still absolutely love it! Larger pictures on the Cherry Blossom page. Responding.... Thank you for all the nice compliments on Cherry Blossom that I received by mail and via the blog comments! A couple people had questions.... Hope asked if the color I used was Candy Girl. Yes indeed! Love that pink! Janet asked about making it bigger... I think if you were to make it bigger you'd need to add another increase row. I'd probably do it after completing the 12 repeats of Chart C and then do some more rows of Chart B, then the edging. Kira and Max Up Close and Personal  Anne at 7:43 AM | Thursday, July 14, 2005 It's All About Cherry Blossom! Guess what I did this morning?  Yes, that's Cherry Blossom blocking! All in all I am pretty happy with the way it came out.  The good things: 1) it's an easy pattern that is relaxing to do and works up quickly if one does not get sidetracked 2) the KidSilk Haze is gorgeous yarn 3) it took just over 4 balls, if you left out one repeat of Chart C it could easily be done with just 4 balls.  The not as good things: 1) it took just over 4 balls. Literally JUST over. Maybe 5 yards. Given the cost of KidSilk Haze, that's a bummer. 2) as beautiful as the KidSilk Haze is, the fuzz does obscure the pattern a bit. Will I use Kidsilk Haze again for lace? Absolutely! But I think I'll look for very simple lace patterns worked on larger needles (like Birch). More pictures when blocking is complete! The disappointing thing:  It's not a dropped stitch. I don't know what it is. Or how I will "fix" it. :( Now to get back to work on Birch.... Living in the Country... .... you never know what to expect. Yesterday I'm sitting in my office working and I hear the sound of goats. Now one of my neighbors does have goats and I can sometimes hear them, but this sound was coming from the opposite direction and was VERY close. I look out my window and what do I see?  My neighbor is out jogging... with her goats!  They stop for break....  ... and then head home. The End of the USPS Story Guess what showed up in MY mail box Saturday. Yup. Postage DUE. The less than highly intelligent guy at the post office put the certification on the envelope. And he put the return receipt request on the envelope. Despite my pointing out not once, but twice, that there was no stamp on it ("I'll take care of that" he said) he never did put the postage on it. Luckily my receipt was itemized... x amount for return receipt, x amount for certification and x amount for postage. He apologized sincerely and I got my money back. Anne at 8:29 AM | Thursday, July 07, 2005 My Backyard  It's all weeds. Weeds and thistles. Nasty things to get caught in doggy coats. And the guy with big mower is booked up for several weeks. Knitting News Cherry Blossom slowly crawls to completion. I knit and I knit and I knit and I'm still not done with the "12 repeats of Chart C". No new pictures until I start the edging because for now it looks just like the last pictures only bigger. I'm only doing 2 rows a day on Birch and on Peacock Feathers until I complete Cherry Blossom so very little progress there. I am so obsessed with seeing Cherry Blossom finished so everything else has been pretty much put to the side. USPS News Today marks the two week "anniversary" of mailing my certified letter. It has still not shown up. I plan to go to the post office tomorrow and file a complaint. Anne at 3:13 PM | |
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Read this first!! on the needles 30. Fletcher Noro Transitions 
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28. Forecast Cascade Quatro
27. Lady Eleanor (again) Patons SWS 
26. Marble Shawl Collar Sweater Karabella Marble 
25. Serrano Dale Baby Ull
24. Tamarah Artyarns Regal Silk, Silk Mohair
23. Apricot(Plum) Jacket DB Cashmerino Chunky 
22. Rusted Root BS Cotton Fleece 
21. Not So Shrunken Cardigan Lavold Sily Wool
20. Sizzle Nashua Kim
19. Hanging Garden Stole KP Alpaca Cloud
18. Log Cabin Blanket Cascade Pima Tencel 
17. Mystery Stole 2 Crazy Monkey Lace 
16. Petticoat Sallops Opal Petticoat
15. CeCe Lambspun Silk
14. Hyrna Herborgar Silk for Life
13. Sea Foam Shawl LaLana Phat Silk 
12. Diamond Fantasy Shawl CTH Possum Lace
11. Evergreen Cardi Malabrigo
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8. Pi @ Sunrise Shawl Crazy Monkey Lace
7. Follow the Leader Aran BS Naturespun Worsted 
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4. Sampler Shawl Starmore Campion
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