Cottage46 Knitter

What happened to February?

Considering I actually pay Typepad for this blog, I REALLY should post at least monthly.  But February is short; if it were normal length it would still be Feb.  Ha!  How's that for rationalization?

Progress is continuing very slowly on Ingeborg.  The sleeves are done.

And there's a bit of progress on the body.

I've been moderately monogamous.  I've worked on socks but no other large projects.  My left hand isn't used to participating in my knitting so it gets tired quickly when I'm doing stranded knitting. 

Happily, DH picked this lovely colorway for his next socks. 

We thoroughly enjoyed watching the Olympics.  Good job, Canada!  Nice national anthem too.  We've been getting in some end of the season x-country skiing in.  Our snow is melting quickly now and we're probably done.  Bummer.  But we did plant a lot of bulbs last fall so spring should be very colorful! 

Project Monogamy in 2010

I'm thinking 2010 will be the year of project monogamy.  Of course I reserve the right to make 2010 about something else later, but for now, project monogamy.

Ingeborg has moved back into the rotation for the Knit a Norwegian KAL.  Very fun KAL, by the way.  I had knit a few inches 3 years ago, then tossed it aside willy-nilly.   After picking it up and knitting a few more inches I realized my gauge was way off so I ripped the body back to where the patterning starts above the hem.  I decided the sleeves would be my gauge swatches.  Knitting the sleeves first is fun!

DH's birthday is in the spring and he is getting this:

Not in finished form you realize.  Hopefully we will not have a repeat of the moose sweater debacle, ie. it will be finished by next year's birthday.  This pattern is in the elusive, out-of-print Dale of Norway book #79, but luckily Allegro Yarns offers the kit.  

I've been trying to read actual books in 2010 too instead of just Ravelry and blogs.  I was doing pretty well too until an iphone version of Chuzzle came out.  Too many nights my reading time (between knitting and falling asleep) is taken up by little exploding fuzzballs.  Could there BE a bigger waste of time?

A couple of FOs for 2007 & the Dale KAL

Well, the camera still isn't back for reasons that are, quite frankly, unclear. Anyway, I borrowed the library camera for the weekend to show you the following knitting progress.

Pattern: Green Gable
Yarn: Knit Picks Shine sport
Modifications: I made the neckline a little narrower and the sleeves a little longer.
I'm quite frightened by the white pallor of my mid-winter arms. Yuck. But the sweater fits and I love it and I may knit it again and again.

These are VK's Mountain Colors Bearfoot socks. They are toe-up with Wendy's short row heel and a 2x2 ribbed cuff. VK is completely unperturbed by the fact that the cuffs are not the same length. This is why I love him.

After much fanfare and hoopla I cast on for Ingeborg. I started with the sleeves, thinking I'd ease my way into it, until I realized that I haven't the foggiest idea how to increase in pattern. I decided to leave that for another day when I had more functioning brain cells. So what you see here is the body about half a dozen rows into the pattern. So far it's going quite well.

VK and I are having a very tense weekend as we wait for results for a needle biopsy that he had Thursday of an abdominal mass. He's been sick since the first of the year with what we now think is an ulcer. In the process of diagnosing the ulcer, a CT scan picked up a golf ball size mass. Could be nothing, could be something bad. The waiting truly sucks.

Today we have many, many geese on Pretty Lake. This is the first time this winter that we've had any geese hanging around. I love it.

Labels: Green Gable, Ingeborg