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10.25.2004 :: Blogging late on a Monday! will you read it anyway?
I can't help it! I love magazines this time of year! The turkey! The stuffing! The pumpkin pie! It enables me to eat with my eyes! And a happier person I couldn't be!
A feast for the eyes
You can even spot my new additions to my salt and pepper collection. This one sports a squash and a pumpkin. I'll have to show you the others some day.
My favorite of these magazines happens to be this one:
Why? Come on! "24 SWELL side dishes for your holiday table". Doesn't everyone want swell side dishes, especially on Thanksgiving? I know that I do.
Yeah, Yeah, but what about the knitting?
I guess that's what you came around here for. I don't want to dissapoint.
Flower Basket Shawl
Pattern from the Fall 2004 issue of Interweave Knits, knit in Inca Alpaca, color number 1186. I can't find any evidence that this color yarn exists. And yet, here it is.
Problem:
I suspect that the problem is that Sandy should not knit shawls. I need a flower basket Uli chart. Leaving it up to me is just not cutting it. It leads me through the pattern and charts and then says, "repeat 10 times". Being a visual person, I guess that is too abstract for me. I have done as much unknitting on the last two rows as I have done knitting. Maybe more. I can't get the left side to match the right. This was intended to be a quick gift and it is becoming my stumper. Stumper Stinker. I can't hack it. So, I will gently set it aside and use plan B for the gift. What's plan b? What would yours be? Mine is fuzzy feet.
Thief
I bought a great fleece blanket from Kohl's recently, my newly favorite store. I couldn't wait to snuggle up under it on these nippy evenings.
At least someone is enjoying it!
Posted by Sandy on 10.25.2004 AT 04:50 PM
Comments
I don't know if you took this into consideration (or even slightly care...) but here's a potential solution...
You're using a worsted-weight yarn (Inca Alpaca) and the pattern called for doubling a lace-weight yarn (which would approximate about sport weight). That would mean you'd have to use a significantly larger needle (3-4 size up) from what the pattern called for.
If you think your work is too tight or too messy, this is a possible solution, cuz!
Posted by: Rob on 10.27.2004 AT 12:11 PM
I, too, started that shawl and I, too, gently put it aside. After the 4th attempt it just wasn't fun any more and life's too short for un-fun knitting!
I'm hunting down that magazine - my Thanksgiving dinner needs some swell additions. Cute S&P's - someday I'll post my collection too!
Posted by: Bron on 10.26.2004 AT 10:15 AM
I love the inca alpaca. I have it in the rust. I have it languishing in a scarf somewhere...It's very very very delish!
It'll look gorgeous as flowerbasket. :)
Posted by: Heather on 10.26.2004 AT 09:07 AM
I love the mustard colour of the Inca Alpaca. The salt a pepper shakers are to cool for school. Everything sounds better when it rhymes. Don't you wish they included a chart with the flower basket??!!
Posted by: Tiffany on 10.26.2004 AT 12:33 AM
FF? Ahhh, fuzzy feet. Okay. Whew--that one had me stumped for awhile.
Girlfriend, you can knit ANYTHING you put your mind to. But if you're not having fun with it, it ain't worth it.
xxoo
Posted by: Kim on 10.25.2004 AT 11:37 PM
Of course we'll read it, it's a great way to avoid writing my own late post, LOL! Oh hey, what is the soup on the top cover, YUM!
Posted by: Crissy H on 10.25.2004 AT 06:41 PM
Of course we will read. Who can go a day without Sandy? :)
Love your FBS.
Posted by: Annie on 10.25.2004 AT 06:25 PM
They say all great minds think alike - I started my Flower Basket shawl yesterday, too! :)
Posted by: Donna on 10.25.2004 AT 06:18 PM
Swell side dishes sound super! I think your FB looks swell! And so does your cat! But if FB is giving you grief, I think FF are the way to go!
Posted by: Mary Beth on 10.25.2004 AT 06:10 PM
P.S. CUUUUUUUTE S&P's!
Posted by: Norma on 10.25.2004 AT 05:28 PM
Oh YEAH, I'll read, even if it's late. In fact, the timing is perfect for me, as I'm just getting around to it. So it must be custom-made for me, esPECIALLY with those SWELL side dishes to contemplate. Swell.
Posted by: Norma on 10.25.2004 AT 05:27 PM
I hope you don't give up on the FSB. When you get it to come out right. Put a life line in to mark that it is a error free row. Just thread a piece of contrasting yarn through that row. Then if you need to rip back you can pull it just to that row. It is much easier to get the stitches back on the needle. Good luck.
Posted by: Maureen on 10.27.2004 AT 08:23 PM