A New Look

A few days ago I took the leap & had a few of my pattern books rebound. First time I have ever changed a book in such a way...never knew I could actually. After reading a post on Ravelry about rebinding Cookie A's new book I picked out a few favorites & headed off to Office Max.

Now I have 3 books rebound with a nice shiny black coil that allows me to fold the book pages flat...so much easier to use & I no longer will have to flatten the spines when I make a working copy to mark up. Now I know what all of y'all are thinking....cost a bundle right? Nope, that's the next best thing. Fairly inexpensive...depending on the size of the coil needed...the thicker the book the bigger the coil the more it cost. My most expensive one was $6 whereas the smallest one was only $3.25. I'll take it. It's a win win! Now I find myself looking at ALL of my knitting books, cooking books, hiking books...you name it I'm thinking of rebinding them all.

Must I Say It

I'm going to go out on the limb and just say it...not liking my current project. At. All. Not sure why, but I'm knitting forward when I'm not pleased. Stay tuned...maybe it will change. More likely in a negative way.

Stumbling & Bumbling

I feel like a newbie knitter. I'm stuck up to the armpits literally on Etrusca. For some reason known only to my brain I'm having some difficulty with the decreases for the armholes. The pattern has been easily followed until I reached the point of decision...deep scoop neck (front version), a more modest scoop (back version) or one of each and decide later which way to wear it. Three ways to knit it up...love that. The problem with all of this is how to proceed with the decreases for the armholes.

I decided to follow a more modest path & do the back version, but reached the point that I am unsure of my decrease. Do I decrease both ends while on the same row? On the beginning of each row? The kicker is that the designer added the dreaded "as for the front" which has me confused...the front decrease includes binding off for the neck at the same time. I'm thinking way too much I know so I'm going to let it go for awhile until the Epiphany hits me...or not.

Another Hokie Sock...Pomatomus

Must be getting forgetful...finished my Pomatomus socks and forgot to post. I started these in mid May as part of Sock Innovation KAL on . Too bad I didn't get them done during the month of May...missed it by thaaaat much, as in less than 24 hours. I finished weaving in on June 1st so they can't be counted amongst those finishing on time for the prizes. Oh well at least I finally got around to knitting the pattern.

I enjoyed kntting these socks. As always Cookie A's pattern was well written, fairly easy to pull off & the pattern just looks so cool. No problems and no modifications to my socks...can it be I followed the pattern all the way? Seems to be true. I also was able to use some stash that's been hanging in there waiting on a good pattern...my Scout's Swag Custom Dyed Hokie yarn finally made it's way into a pair of socks.


Details
Pattern: Pomatomus by Cookie A

Yarn: Scout's Swag Fingering Weight [100% superwash merino, 400 yards/92 gram skein]; custom dyed- Hokies. I have about 13 grams of yarn leftover from the one skein used.

Needles: Knit Picks Harmony DPN's, size US 1's (2.50mm)
Gauge: 32 inches/4 inches

Size: Women's size 9 1/2"

One last thought...you will notice that these are not exactly matched. I did try to get them to match, but once again missed by that much. Must be a theme for the last month or so.

Now it's Etrusca Turn

Finally getting around to knitting a pattern called Etrusca I bought a year ago from Angela Hahn. Really. A year...jeez. I swatched the darn thing over a year ago and was all set and then...nothing. I put all the yarn in it's project bag and promptly forgot it. Why? No idea. Now the next question: Do I redo the swatch? Mmmm, nope I've thrown caution to the wind and cast on last night.

After knitting a few hours and finishing the bottom lace section I packed it in for the night. You know what's coming don't you? Today I found a problem...so much for starting last night. Now I'm ripping back to the first 4 rows to restart the lace pattern. Admittedly I noticed last night that it looked funky, but kept on knitting. You'd think I'd stop and examine why it looked weird? Yeah, you'd think that, but noooo not me so today I'm frogging. At least I noticed before I got so far that I'd consider calling it my "interpretation of the design".

Y'all see the problem?

How about now?

If you said where the heck are all the slip stitch columns you'd be correct. I forgot to move the yarn to the front on every single column while knitting on the wrong side. There you have it...moving along & paying better attention. For now.