It's Too Late, Baby

After a mad dash to the first of October, a moderately insane moment where I trusted Necropolis with my pinking shears, and copious amounts of muttering and cursing, my latest Italian Ren garb is featured in the Italian Showcase on Bella's site. You can check it out here. All in all, I'm please with how the gown itself turned out. How it looks on me? Not so much. Frankly, the thing hangs like a sack of potatos, since I've lost weight (take THAT, Dr. Rheumo!), and I didn't have time to do a complete remake. Even if I had the time, I don't think I would have done a complete remake. But, it's done and over, and now I have another gown from the 1490s to complete by November 1st. I love stress.

GLB decided he wanted to be Harry Potter for Halloween, so I'm in the process of knitting a Gryffindor house scarf for him. And, it's in the yuckiest, scratchiest Red Heart acrylic yarn ever made. I must really love my children.

I haven't mentioned this before, but I've been playing around on Ravelry, a new knitting/crocheting community. Let me tell you, if you do yarn work, GET ON THE LIST. This place is amazing for the pattern search alone. You can see what other people have done with a particular pattern, what issues they might have had, what yarn they used...it's totally amazing.

I've also added a ton of photos to my Flickr account, so you can see what passes for my attempts at photography with my POS camera. Necropolis keeps hinting that Santa may be nice to me this year. One can only hope!

More knitting on the way, but I don't have a lot of photos of the works in progress. And, the photo issue I mentioned before seems to have resolved itself. Good thing. My resolutions would have probably resulted in a subdural hematoma (how's that, Lucy?).

Dancing with Myself

Every so often, I get in a weird place, where I just want have to back away and sort of crawl into myself. It’s a combination of avoidance and self-preservation, I think. I’m not a huge believer in astrology or that kind of thing, but my birth sign is Cancer, the crab.

Exactly.

So, apparently, I’m allowing my more social personality to venture forth. And, truthfully, getting back into the swing of work has been tough, as well as dealing with the current health issues. But, enough of that. Today is for fiber.

I’ve been knitting like a fiend in my spare time. Here are the fruits of my labors.



Mananita Magic. Pattern from Shawls and Scarves: The Best of Knitter's Magazine. I did it on sz 9 needles with a lace weight yarn (most of a 900 yrd skein) by The Plucky Knitter I got from The Loopy Ewe. It's a colorway called Wuthering Heights, a fabulous burgundy with some dark grays throughout. It turned out rather well, and was an easy knit. I added an additional row at the bottom, and I did a different border than the one called for in the pattern.





Black Water Socks. Pattern is my own. It's a generic toe-up pattern with the waterfall lace pattern chosen from Barbara Walker's Treasury of Knitting Patterns Vl. 1, with some slight alterations to accommodate knitting in the round and the look of the sock. Yarn was most of 1 skein of Lorna's Laces sock yarn in the Black Watch colorway (hence the name). Again, a totally easy knit. Pardon the dangly in the above pict. MUC took these photos for me. Not bad for a 6 year old.

The HUGE bag I knitted with idea of felting it. It's supposed to be a messenger style bag. It felted nicely, by the way. I knitted it on a sz. 8 in stockinette. Looking at the kids with the bag makes me laugh, because it really was a freaking huge bag before I threw it in the washer. I'll have to get a pic of it all nice and felted. Knitted with Lion Brand Wool.

Shawl knit on No. 9 needles out of a mohair/wool blend that I found at my LYS. I can't remember the name at the moment, but I do remember there are about 400 yrds in the shawl. The pattern is my own, something I kind of made up as I went on, in keeping with Aunt Dion's Shawl, since I'm still working on making something out of that, eventually. The last photo is the truest to the colors. They really are that vibrant, and that's what drew me to the yarn in the first place.

And, this is just what I had pics of. I still have 2 socks on needles, completed a Baby Surprise Jacket that I forgot to take pics of, have since completed another BSJ and it's awaiting buttons, with no less than a more BSJs on the needles. I have an Elizabeth Zimmerman Tomten Jacket on the needles for MUC, another planned for GLB, a Shapely T on the needles, and a mitered square blanket on the needles.

Those are just the projects I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more. Oh, and I have a 2 garb projects coming up at the end of the month as well.

Can you see me now?

I know this isn't the most reliable of blogs. Heck, I"m just doing it for myself anyway. But, if you stumble upon this, you might like to see what I've been up to lately:

I'm the November 15, 2006 Italian Showcase on the Realm of Venus. WOO HOO! Just a quite little corner of the web world, but it's where I've developed a rather intense fondness for Venetian Renaissance garb. So, if you have a moment, check out what I spent the last week or so killing myself to complete!

Jenni P's Italian Showcase