Knitting update!

[jaina]

I have been doing lots of knitting lately! I'm finding it quite soothing, except for today when I ended up doing one toe three times over. But mostly very soothing. Pictures of my finished objects lurk behind the cut!

	Red Scarf Project This is my scarf that I knit for the Red Scarf Project! Here it is being blocked on a sheet on my floor, cause it was the best I could come up with last minute. It's black, maroon, and forest green Wool-Ease, and I don't know what the stitch is properly called but it's where you do k2p2 for two rows and then p2k2 for two rows.
	Red Scarf Project And here it is all finished and pretty! I sent it off at the end of January.
	Dulaan hats These five hats are what I've made so far for the Dulaan project. They're all made from worsted-weight Christmas present leftovers. Four of them are the half-assed hat pattern, as linked by knitress, and the other is this double-knit hat from knitty. It was my first foray into double knitting and I think it went pretty well!
	Fingerless mitts I hopped on board the fingerless-mitt bandwagon when wisteria_ linked to knitty's Fetching mitts. I figured it was a good way to learn cables, which turned out to be really easy! For the yarn, I used a ball I'd picked up in Boston last year, a really pretty lavendar with a lovely sheen. It was in the discount bin and unlabelled, and it was only after I made the mitts that I thought to burn test it. It turned out to be cotton, which isn't really the best choice for this pattern, but they're pretty and I like them. I'll probably make a wool pair too, in a slightly more practical color.
	My first socks! So, these are my first socks, made from the Generic Socks for Rank Beginners worksheet that kelbebop sent me. The yarn is Regia Jubilee in color 5468, because it was what I liked best of the selection at the LYS. These socks have some very serious issues. Which is why I made them for myself, because I knew I was going to screw up my first time around. The most glaring problem is that they are TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SIZES. I did this deliberately. Why, I really can't tell you. I knit the first one on size 3 needles, and the sock turned out too big, and so I made the second one and very consciously knit it much tighter (but on the same size needles), so it would be smaller. I really don't know why I thought this was a good idea. I also have no idea why I decided to knit the entire cuff in k1p1 rib. So both of these are getting frogged and reknit on size 1s. But later, when I'm done with my current pair of socks (going much better!), because I'm really quite cranky with these socks at the moment.

Comments

[amizada.livejournal.com]

YAY!! A fellow knitter!

Everything looks fantastic!

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you!

[cran-apple.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I wish I knit faster (or didn't be in the middle of four projects at once) so I could post some results. I am gonna have to try the fingerless mitts very soon though.

I love the scarf. I might call it a double seed stitch, but I'm no expert on terminology. :)

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Oh believe me, it took forever to finish these projects. The fingerless mitts are relatively quick though! I made them over two weekends. :)

I think double seed stitch is where you go k1p1 for two rows, then p1k1, but I could be wrong on that. Not so much up on my knitting terminology!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

You're incredible!!! I can't believe you not only KNIT all these things but got it together to post them! They look FANTABULOUS. And wheee, first socks!! :)

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! *blushes* I love to see when other people post pictures of their knitting stuffs so I figured I would put my stuff up. :)

My first socks are now two balls of yarn, waiting to be reknit into socks that don't suck. I am far more enthusiastic about this than I thought I would be!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

There's something rather carnally awesome about ripping out a whole huge chunk of knitting, isn't there? I mean, everyone will tell you "OH MY GOD IT IS SO PAINFUL!!!" And it is. But there's also part of me that is just "MWAH HA HAAAAHAHAHAA" and feels all Godzilla-y.

Just me? Got it.

The re-knitting part I'm yet to be quite as enthused about, but perhaps if I actually ripped out the pieces that currently need re-knitting instead of glaring balefully at them for months on end, I might be inspired. (I forgot A WHOLE CABLE CHART on the back of a sweater. The 12-row repeat? Didn't even put it in, wtf. GO ME. I don't even know if I kept all the yarn for that project, though, so I should check...)

[moorina.livejournal.com]

Bravo on the first socks! I felt so accomplished after doing mine. :-D

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I did feel very accomplished, specially when people would be like "what are you knitting?" and I'd say "a sock" and they'd say "oooooh." :)

[knitress.livejournal.com]

Wow! Knitting for Dulaan and the Red Scarf folks, hooray! And your first socks! They look way better than my first socks, and you're braver than I was; mine were worsted weight.

And so didn't fit into any shoes, but that's another story.

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely bound and determined not to build up a yarn stash! So anything left over from a specific project (that's not acrylic) gets knit up into charity stuff. That's the theory, anyway, in practice it's a little wonky.

Technically, I *have* made socks before-- the giant ones that I felted down into the fuzzy feet. But with those, mistakes were OK and size did not so much matter and they knit up WAY quicker! So my first real socks, yeah. :)

[wendyhouse.livejournal.com]

cooooool.

I am so scared to make socks.... I don't know if I ever will :)