Posted under Gifts and Charity & sweaters
Last night at the Aloha Knitters meeting I worked on my cardigan. Thanks to the good company and dirty jokes (you know who you are) I was able to finish most of the hem. When I came home I finished the rest and bound off the body in the morning.
Then it was on the neckband. I dove right in and with the great words of encouragement from all my great friend out her in bloglandia, as well as the fiberlings on AIM, my confidence was back. My first venture was not so successful. I was supposed to pick up 40 sts evenly along the first side of the V and I ended up with 35. I ripped it out without a qualm and started over again and met with success.
For some reason, my brain wasn’t working as well as my confidence and it didn’t occur to me to just pick up my cast on loops for the sleeve and back sections. So I had to pick up and rip a few times until the light finally dawned on me. Sometimes the moniker akamai knitter just doesn’t apply. (BTW, Swish seems to handle repeated frogging with just a minimum of fuzzing.) Finally though, I met again with success and I eventually had all the neckband stitches on the needle.
And after just 3 rows of garter stitch, it was all said and done.
Let’s not forget a gratuitous closeup picture.
I feel a little silly for being so proud of something so simple, but really I’ve never done this before. It’s way out of my comfort zone so don’t I deserve at least a tiny pat on the back for that?
In other news, there are some of you that might remember the Jayne Hat, aka the ugliest hat ever, I knit back in November. Well it’s finally landed and the recipient couldn’t be more pleased. See him modeling it here. I’m so glad he loves it for I surely cannot see what he finds in it to love. Though I do think it looks kinda cute on him.
I also need to come clean with you all for I have lied. Remember the Shifting Sands Scarf I made? Now I told everyone here and everyone else that would listen that it was for my Aunt Eleanor, but really it was for my friend Jenny. She just got it today and she loves it! Let’s hope this mention of it will nudge her into blogging about it. Am I not sly?
All my other gifts for Christmas 2006 have landed in the past week and I’m reminded as to why I love gift giving so much. I hear that the young man who got the pirate mittens wore one of them while doing his schoolwork, while his sister went to sleep with the scarf I made her. I can’t wait to make the matching hat for the boy and I’m ruminating on what I can make next for the young girl. She’s only 3 years old, so maybe I could make her a little sweater. I think some conference time with her mother is needed.
For now, it’s on to the sleeves of my cardigan where I have to pick up even more stitches and I want to spend some quality time with my spinning wheel. Have a great weekend everyone!
