When we last heard from the heroine, she was working on the second sleeve of her interlocking cables sweater. Since, she has finished the sleeve, sewn the sleeve seams and the raglan seams...




...and started the collar. It is extremely large with the 240 stitches. I´ve got about 7 cm done but I need a total of 27 cm.



The pattern calls for increasing the needle size every couple of centimeters so now I need to go looking for my 4,5 mm circ. I know I have one, but I have no idea where...

Still feeling crummy...

sorry, not much of an entertaining blog at the moment but I really can´t help it. Went to the gym this morning as I did on Monday which is helping (who would´ve thunk it!). I hope to finish the sleeve today and then join the sleeves to the body.



This is the neverending cone of 6-ply merino that I´m knitting the interlocking cables sweater with. I weighed the body and the finished sleeve and they weighed almost exactly 500gr. This cone is supposed to have 1200gr on it which means I will get another sweater out of it!




These are my tomato plants. I planted them very late so they don´t have any fruits yet but they´re coming!




And these are the zucchini plants. I have really enjoyed watching them grow and wish I had planted them earlier, because I´m getting kind of anxious about it becoming too cold in a couple of weeks. But we´ll just have to wait and see!

Now, it´s back to the books!

Knitting? Oh yeah!

Studying? Not so much...

I´m in a rut regarding my exams. I know that if I sit down on my behind and just get to work, I won´t have to do as much next march to finish. But I´m tired. Tired of studying, tired of never really being able to relax totally because in my mind there´s always that picture of a huge mountain of information I need to absorb.

I´m so damn tired. I want to lock myself into my office/fiber room, sit on the couch, watch the Olympics, drink tea and knit. Just knit...

But that is not an option so I´m sitting at my desk with my books in front of me. Although, the tv is on!

When I´m only reading stuff and don´t need to write, I´m knitting. That´s how I managed to get almost half sleeve done in a day and a bit. This is what I did sunday evening:





This is what I had as of 11 p.m. last night (monday):



(I just noticed how wobbly this pictures is...ooops, sorry!)

And because a cabled sleeve in various stages of completion is not all that interesting, I´ll show you what I bought in Kenmare, Ireland:


It´s a bit absurd to buy alpaca in the land of sheep, but the only other local product was an extremely scratchy aran wool that I know I won´t knit with, so I bought the Kerry Alpaca. It´s 50gr. of a light fingering weight, I´d say (no yardage on the band). It´s undyed and I will definitely dye it. I have some ideas for this but it will take me a while to get to it.

I wrote a progress report yesterday. I´ve been thinking about my knitting goals for 2008 for quite a while and how serious I want to take them. I came to the conclusion that I really want to do everything on the list except the last one (the one about the WIPs, remember?). As a reward, I will buy myself a rigid heddle loom in January. Yes, I want to try weaving (as if I don´t have enough to do already!) and definitely spinning also, but that will have to wait until I get my degree.

OK, enough already, I need to get back to the books...

Progress report

1. Here I wrote "finish Interlocking Cables", but in the meantime I´ve ripped the damn thing! It was about three times too big!!! Next time I start this I promise to swatch... Yes, you heard right I will swatch!!!!! I still want to finish this thing this year and I will!

I only need to knit the second sleeve, join everything and knit the collar!

2. Knit Starsky ( I don´t have yarn for this yet, but more about this later)

Finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. Knit at least 6 pairs of socks (one is in the making)

3 down, one in progress, 2 to go!

4. Knit one big lace project (this is my Indigo Spring which can be seen on ravelry, username: ribbit)

Haven´t worked on this in a long time because I hadn´t bought beads (couldn´t decide on a color). I have some now and can finally continue.

5. Knit one fair isle project with steeks

This will be Eunny Jangs Deep V-necked Argyle Vest. I have the yarn but haven´t started.

6. leave no UFOs at the end of each quarter of the year
-> if I accomplish this: I will allow myself to buy 3 skeins of sock yarn from the Loopy Ewe.
=> for the end of march this means I have to finish two sweaters, one pair of "fetching" and
a hat.

Haha! This is a complete disaster! Not even thinking about it.... ;-)

If I manage to accomplish the first 5 goals, I´ll be very happy! It will be extremely hard but I´ll do my best.
The Interlocking cables is the next project I want to finish with the heelless sleeping sock as my mindless knitting.

I´m back!

Our vacation in Ireland was great. It´s such a beautiful country. I took lots of pictures but I just downloaded them to the computer. It´ll take me a while to work on them but sometime you´ll get to see them.
In knitting news I finished the first heelless sleeping sock

and I finished Starsky!!! I am totally in love with this cardigan!

Specs:

Yarn: 6 and a bit skeins of Malabrigo Merino Worsted in Frost Gray (606)

Needles: 5.5 mm circ and dpn

Size: Large

I can´t say it often enough: I love this cardi!

Normally I hate weaving ends in and generally all finishing stuff, but I just kept on going with this one because I loved it so much.

It could have been a smidge longer but I was concerned I wouldn´t have enough yarn. Now I have a full skein and about a third of another left over. I want to make a Tudora out of the left overs.