What a surprise, knitting content! :P 19 November 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Knitting.Tags: broad street mittens, gloves, laminaria, scarfs, shawls, woodland shawl
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It’s really easy to think to yourself that you need to blog and then to let other things get in the way and take over *cough*Fallout 3*cough*.
So I have FINALLY blocked Laminaria. YAY me. The whole process has made me realise that I really need to get hold of a large amount of gingham, 1″ by 1″ squares, as my god it would be much easier to measure something like this out using that. But I did manage it ok I think. 
Here’s a close up shot.
To be honest I still really need to take a picture of me actualy wearing it. I do think that maybe I didn’t quite use the best yarn, I think it might be a little too verigated for the pattern. But oh well I still love it, it was a great pattern to knit. Although I must confess I have already sort of broken it.. well not broken it, but I seem to have pulled one stitch quite badly. :/
What I have to figure out though, is where on earth I’m going to store this and other shawls I intend to knit. (Heh I like knitting lace, and yet I’m not sure I’m going to be wearing shawls that often… but well yeah I like knitting lace 
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Also I finally gave my friend the present I’d been knitting for her.
Pattern: Woodland shawl
Yarn: Fearless Fibers Superwash Merino Wool Sock Yarn
Needles: 4mm.
I did enjoy knitting this pattern, although in hindsight now I think I would have cast on a few less stitches and made the scarf longer. To my tastes at least it’s a bit too wide and short, but I think (hope) my friend likes it. I didn’t actually use all my yarn up either, there’s only so many repeats you can do before you have to decide that you just need to declare it finished so that you can gift it.
In other knitting news, I’m making progress on Lily, I’ve got the top nearly done shall be casting on for the sleeves, and then comes the hard part, knitting sleeves and top together. >_< I’ve also got some mittens for a friend to do, I’ve made one, need to start the other. It’s a new experiance for me as I’m making these, Broad Street Mittens, I’ve never done fingers or a proper thumb before, and it’s gone quite well I think, but man there’s a lot of ends to sew in!
A little bit of patience never hurt anyone. 15 November 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Uncategorized.Tags: impatience, petrol stations
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Ok this is going to be a a bit of a rant, but some poeple really need to learn some patience, especially when their damned impatience inconveniances others.
My mum stopped for petrol on the way to shopping, it was quite busy so there was a bit of a wait to get to the pumps, then a car moves, and the car in front of us goes to the first pump and we pull up to the second. (So essentially there at the same time.) The lady in front of us fills her car up and goes to pay, my mum fills our car up and goes to pay. The lady in front of us comes out and drives off. My mum pays, starts to come out of the shop and some fucktard decideds that he just abosolutly cannot be bothered to wait just a few more minutes and that for some reason him and his precious fucking car have to have petrol THEN AND THERE, and decides to drive into the space right in front of us.
As my mum gets into the car I point out that we now can’t leave. There are cars at the pumps next to us, and another car right behind us, so we can’t even back out. She sort of gestures at the guy saying ‘well how are we supposed to get out?’ he just gives this look and goes to fill up his car. A part of me wonderes if maybe I should have gotten out and had words with this retard, polite words along the lines of “Excuse me but you DO realise that you are not only holding US up who were just about to leave, but also the people behind us. You only had to wait ONE MINUTE.” Like thats going to kill him… *sigh*
I suppose that might of made things worse, but geeze, honestly.
Ok rant over… I have knitting related things to post but I shall do that later.
knitting update 4 November 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Knitting.Tags: cthulhu, dice bag, Knitting, laminaria, leaf lace scarf, neckwarmer, ravelry, shawl, winter twilight mitts
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Because well… it’s long over due.
First of is this:
Pattern: Cthulhu Dice Bag
Yarn: Left over Acrylic
Needles: 5mm.
A quick and easy knit, although itcame out a lot bigger than I thought it was from the pattern pictures. Made this for a friend of mine, as I’ve been wanting to make him something for ages, but he’s a bit awkward as scarfs and such would make him too hot. A dice bag was the only way to go, and since he’s a bit of an evil GM Cthulhu seemed appropriate. >:) Second:
Pattern: Leaf Lace Scarf
Yarn: 1/2 Skien Mmmmmmalbrigo
Needle:3.5mm
Made this to use up my Malabrigo left over from Juno Regina , I started it in July and had it finished in August or so, but only got around to blocking it yesterday. Not sure what I’m going to do with it yet, whether to keep it for myself or gift it… It’s amazing how much this opened up and became light and airy after blocking.
Third:
Pattern: Winter Twilight Mitts
Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Solids – Black – (Not even half a skien.) NH Knitting Mama Yarns Superwash Merino Fingering – Green (hmm… 0.25 of a skien?)
Needles: 2.25
Heh I love these gloves, I had to fiddle a bit with the thumbs as I realised that while I’d reduced the number of stitches for the main body of the gloves I forgot to do the same for them. But in the end they have worked out great and after blocking them are snug enough to keep my hands warm but loose enough to get on and off easily. Their fantastic!
Fourth:
Pattern: Herringbone Neckwarmer
Yarn: Dream in Colour Classy – Deep Sea Flower
Needles: 8mm
I decided a while back that I wanted a neckwarmer, and when I saw this yarn at the socktopus stand at Ally Pally I knew what it was destined for, plus at 250yards there was enough for a neckwarmer and a hat. (Also I haven’t made the neckwarmer as long as the pattern wanted so def should have enough.). So here is the neckwarmer, it just needs buttons now and for me to sew the ends in. Have started on the hat and progress is going well, I also managed to pick two patterns that pretty much use the same stitch type. I am really liking this yarn too its soo soft.
Other knitting news:
Lily is going well, still on bust increases though (finishing off gloves/something for friend/neckwarmer took precedent.)
I am planning on (FINALLY) blocking my laminaria (god I’m ashamed, I just looked through previous posts, my last post on this was JUNE 4th! I think I finished knitting it around the end of July and its just been sitting around waiting for me to block it. I’ve also (as I just mentioned) finally finished something for a friend, I shall hopefully give it to her this Sunday, then I’ll finally be able to post about it and put it up on Ravelry!
Having blocked two things in the last few days I’ve realised I really need to get hold of some gingham, it’d make my life so much easier knowing that I’m pinning everything to the same length without needing to use the tape measure every few seconds.
Travel and exploration 2 November 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in travel.Tags: cars, hms belfast, Hull, liverpool, london, rock band, st pauls, tate modern, tower bridge, tower of london, traffic, zombie flux
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So this may end up turning into a long and picture heavy post, as I want to sum up my trip to Hull last week with C, and our walk around London on Friday.
As per my last post about what knitting project to take to Hull I decided on taking Lilly as I figured it would just be easier. So me and C caught the train on Friday night up to Liverpool to A’s. (Seriously I wonder if I should come up with better nick names for people using their first initial just almost seems silly and could get confusing? Oh well.)
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