Patchy

There has been a bit more sewing chez 'pom.

Just a scrappy little pillow slip made of..... scraps. (Plus a bit from some fat quarters because really, I've not been sewing long enough to have amassed enough scraps for anything as impressive as say, this.) I sewed this up following a log cabin-esque construction over two nights. Now I'm chomping at the bit for larger sewing projects (I've maxed out the living room's pillow potential), maybe *gasp* a real bed sized quilt or "double gasp* clothing?! We'll see if my eyes are bigger than my sewing ability :)

You can WIP it!

What's on the needles?

My modified Circle Socks are slowly, slowly being knit upon. I'm trying to keep these are my social knitting project since they are the smallest most portable project on my burgeoning WIP list. The last time I knit on them was a week ago at Sit n Knit's meetup at The Point and they have been laying around in a heap, pretty much like up there, ever since!

My Dad came to visit a little while ago which gave me the opportunity to answer one of my longest running niggling knitting questions. Would the Notting Hill Vest I started for him about a million years ago actually fit? The back of this sweater has been waiting for a front for about a year and half. I stalled because I was paralysed by the thought that I'd made a mistake by modifying the design to make it much longer. A quick "hold up and take a look" with my Dad was enough to convince me that in fact I'd made a good decision and that it would fit. It was only when I went to cast the front that I discovered... the Notting Hill pattern is no longer available!

It's a good job I know my way around the internets.

The Way Back machine managed to find me an archived link to the pdf which magically still worked! But then I forgot how to count to seven (I can make it to five quite well it would seem) and had to rip out an entire chart repeat. But finally, this knit is progressing! He might get it for this Christmas (only two years late!) that is if I have enough yarn....

(Ancient picture of the back in progress just as a reminder!)

Shiny!

Last week a friend of mine sent me a message on facebook asking for a "Knitting Favour". Now, I don't usually knit things for people when they ask mostly because people don't get that knitting a scarf or a sweater isn't, like, a five minute thing*. But if someone asks me for something that I'd maybe already been thinking about, or thought was cool then they are far more likely to get a yes response from me. And so the Jayne Hat was knitted. And in acrylic no less.

Pattern: My Jayne Hat by Redshirt Knitting (Medium size).
Yarn: About half a ball each or so of Vanna's Choice Brick and Terracotta, and Wool Ease Gold. All held double throughout.
Needles: Size US11 8mm dpns
Modifications: I knit a few more rounds of the gold before doing my standard hat decreases (K8 K2tog etc...) because otherwise the hat would have been a bit short.

I have enough yarn left over to make another one should there suddenly be a rash of requests for Jayne Hats from back home. I really can't see me using it for anything else, for acrylic this stuff is pretty good but for knitting yarn it's shite. (Hi! Yarn snob!)

Bendis: We're gonna die.

Mal: We are not gonna die. You know why? Because we are so...very...pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw!

* I don't really interject all my sentences with the word "like", only when I'm pretending to be other people.