twistedloops

I know that posts of this sort are usually an update on what’s being knit, but this will be a bit more of an update on what’s been ripped out.

The listings over there to the left listing what’s on my needles.  It’s not accurate.  I’d cast on for the Little Child’s Sock [Ravelry Link] from Knitting Vintage socks.  I was using some Trekking XXL that I purchased a while back.  After knitting about 4 inches of the leg, I decided that I didn’t like the combination of yarn and pattern.  I ripped it out right then; I never even got a photo of it.  I determining now if I’ve got another yarn that will be appropriate for the pattern, because I’d become fairly excited about knitting it.

As for the Orenburg lace shawl in cobweb weight yarn, it too has been ripped.  I was working on it on size US0 (2.0mm) needle, but neither of the size 0s that I own seemed small enough or pointy enough to deal with the yarn.  It’s funny because one of the needles usually seems much too pointy to me for its usual duty of sock knitting.  With the fine lace, it just seemed as if I was trying to force huge, blunt ended needles through the knitting.  I was considering trying a smaller needle to see if my results were any more successful.  The idea of knitting with a 000 or 0000 is a bit daunting.

Even with the needle dilemma, I hadn’t planned to rip out the small piece of border I’d knit (about four inches).  However, fate intervened as I was knitting one evening. I’d been sitting in my chair, the one that I like to knit in.  I decided to get up and get a drink from the kitchen.  Somehow, in this process, the yarn got wrapped around my leg.  As I moved away from the chair, the fine yarn snapped under the tiniest bit of pressure.  Since I’ve got extra yardage on that yarn, I decided to put away the project and start the shawl over on the tinier needles.

That’s it.  There’s no photos or interesting knitting.  Hopefully the new yarn/pattern combination will work well for the Little Child’s Socks, and I’ll have knitting to talk about.

So, Ravelry posted a way to check your place on the waiting list.  I’ve got less than 1,000 people in front of me.  Based upon the Ravelry blog’s previously stated statisitics about the number of invites they are sending per week, I’m thinking that I should get in this week.  While I heard about the site early on, I wasn’t really interested in joining.  It wasn’t until Ravelry posted screenshots of the features that I really became interested.  I have the advantage that I already keep a fairly extensive spreadsheet of my yarn inventory and some projects I want to make. 

As I was surfing around the net today, I stumbled upon a site of knitting and felted bag patterns that I’d never been to before, Noni Designs.  I’ve never seen their patterns, but I love this bag, the Large Patterned Prism Bag.  I even love it in the chocolate and aqua colors shown.  I haven’t done any felting in more than a year, but this bag might just be a reason to jump in.  The site also has a nice tutorial on how to line square bags and triangle shaped bags.

There has been no knitting progress on Bayerische.  I did manage to rip the toe back to the last patterned row, but I did nothing from there.  The knitting time I had this weekend was spent making some Ballband Dishcloths in the cotton that I have.