7/19 - Seascape

I cast on the Seascape Stole that is in this season's knitty.com. I've never worked with lace weight yarn before, and the going is a little bit tricky. Thank god Shannon told me about safety lines, where you thread yarn (or in this case, dental floss) through all the stitches so if you have to rip out, you only have to go to there, and you don't risk dropping stitches. I have a feeling that this is going to be a few rows a day project, which could make it take a really really long time. Hopefully it will get better as it goes on.

Pasha update

Well, two days ago I started knitting a penguin (Pasha from knitty.com) and I finished knitting it tonight and sewed it all up while I watched So You Think You Can Dance? and it actually went faster then I thought.





Emily (emilystarr at ravelry) showed me today a good way to navigate the wrap and turns that the patterns call for. Picking up the stitches when you're knitting is easy, but when you do it on the purl side, it always looked aweful before. But Emily suggested using a crochet hook instead of the knitting needle and it worked famously! So thank to emilystarr for the great suggestions.

I am thinking of starting my toe-up, two at a time, on two circs socks soon, they will be fab.