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Fickle me

I've undone the scarf I was knitting and started a new one. I am using the pattern found on pages 104-106 of Sock Yarn One-Skein Wonders: 101 Patterns That Go Way Beyond Socks!. The design is called Seattle Bloom Time Scarf and is by Jennifer Chase-Rappaport.

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Argosy guarded by Horus and inspected by Bear

I haven't worked much on the Argosy scarf from knitty.com. I've been tracking time and I've only spent 4.25 hours total on it. I have almost eleven repeats of Section 2.

I tried to take indoor update photos, but, as always, Horus had to sit guard over the item and this time Bear had to come inspect it as well. Horus is very firmly sitting in place, but you can just barely make out Bear sneaking up on the ball of yarn just in case it is EVIL and willing to attack an unsuspecting cat.



I took an "unposed" snap of the scarf being held in front of my bedroom door as I was taking it back to safety. This one doesn't have any cats in it but it does show up the color mix.



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Now playing: Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
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Argosy Scarf

I didn't have much opportunity to work on the scarf this week. I only managed about half an hour on Tuesday, so this isn't much as far as weekly updates go. I still haven't decided who the recipient of this will be.

Knitting time: 1.5 hours

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Now playing: Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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Would you believe knitting content?

Yes, after all this time there really is honest to goodness knitting content on my blog. I can hardly believe it myself. This is about an hour's worth of work on the Argosy scarf from knitty.com. I started it at work on Wednesday during lunch. Let me tell you that it's really hard keeping count when you sit with a bunch of friends in the lunchroom at work and gossip. It took three tries to get it started without making a mistake. I'm not sure who I'm making this for yet.


It doesn't look like much, but it does pretty up the further along I get. I know this because I actually started the scarf last year before the finger business put a kibosh on my life and I had it about a quarter done. After the surgery and before the arthritis came along, when I thought I was fit enough to knit, I added a couple of pattern repeats only to realize I'd made a serious boo-boo. There was no way I could keep going with the pattern mistake I'd made so I finally frogged it on Tuesday and started over again. I intend for this to be my lunchtime project until I finish it.

And speaking of the finger business, here's a shot of me holding the yarn after I snapped the picture above. Doesn't really look much better, does it? I still can't straighten the finger, but I can use it for typing and knitting and holding things so that's progress at least.


And, yes, my had is a bit swollen. I'm back on blood pressure meds. The one I'm on now is a diuretic since I'm retaining over 20 pounds of water weight that I've put on in the last two months. That's apparently when the blood pressure went out of whack again. Oh, well. At least I can knit again.

It's done!

I've just finished the scarf (which will be for the Best Friend, but don't tell her that) using the Missy Lace pattern from the LSSK KAL. I felt like knitting today so that's what I worked on. I think it turned out much better than I thought it would look when I first started. I'm not generally a fan of garter stitch.






As you can see from the last picture, I was also enjoying Stargate SG-1 during my knit fest. I'm watching the 5th DVD of the 5th season.

I have been working on it!

See . . . Five iterations of the lace pattern done.



And as a special treat . . . Horus pointedly ignoring me 'cause I won't let him play with my yarn or my needles.

LSSK Missy Lace KAL, an experiment

I joined a Yahoo! group the other day and they were just about to begin a knit along. Since I'd finished Abigaile's Afghan sooner than I thought I would, I decided to give the knit along a try. One of the group members designed the pattern and it is for a lace scarf or shawl. There are instructions for making both.

I dug through my stash and didn't have any lace weight yarn that would work with the pattern, so I decided to give it a try with some of the sock weight yarn. I'm using size US 9 needles.

Now, I'm not sure whether it's the camera or my monitor, but the yarn is not blue. It is very obviously purple with just the odd hint of blue here and there. Anyhoo . . . I'm about to start on row 10 of the main pattern.

Dragon Scales Scarf

Begun Saturday, March 4, 2006, and completed Sunday, March 5, 2006. The intended recipient is my sister-in-law.

I made a slight modification to the original pattern. I changed the garter stitch edges to seed stitch.

Yarn: Hand painted 100% merino wool in blues, purples, and pinks from Kindred Spirit Yarn, fingering weight, approximately 440 yards

Needles: Size 7 US

Gauge: Don't know, don't care

Size: Don't know, can't find my measuring tape

Updated March 7, 2006: The scarf isn't completely done yet. I still need to weave in the ends and block it. When it is finished, it will be a Christmas gift this year.

Puddle of green

And I thought I'd start this scarf update with a very glamorous, sexy puddle shot. It took a bit of smooth talking, but I finally convinced her to pose au naturel.




I'm 22 rows into the third iteration of the pattern.

It grew

I spent some of yesterday knitting so the scarf has grown some. I have completed two iterations of the 46 row pattern.

Minor progress

Despite being so tired from work that I didn't know if I was coming, going, or standing still, I did manage to make a little bit of progress on two of the three 'active' projects I've got going.

This is last week's progress on the butterfly fairy . . .



And this is this week's progress photo . . .


The only stitching I did on the fairy this week was on the moon between her wings. Even in the the bright fluorescent light of the company lunchroom, stitching almost white on mostly white is a pain and still my absolutely least favorite thing about this project.

I also managed to knit a few more rows on the Bird's Nest scarf. I like the width it is now, but I'm concerned I might not have enough yarn to make it long enough to drape adequately around the neck. After I get it done, I may wind up having to frog it again and starting over with it narrower to make it longer. Oh, well. I'll see what I see when I see it.

Formless puddle transmutes

Remember the formless puddle of green lace weight yarn I was working on? The one that was off by one stitch and I was trying bravely not to frog? Well . . . I undid it all today and started over. Not only was the count off by one stitch, the scarf was also a lot wider than I wanted it to be. This new version has the right number of stitches and is a width I much prefer. I'm liking it so much better.