Small Projects Abound
I hope everyone has had a good week and weekend. I have been very busy at work in a good way. Evenings were short due to long work hours and I had the choice of blogging or knitting. I chose knitting, which makes me a boring blogger, but at least today I have some progress to show. Right now, everything on my needles is a small project, and there are quite a few of them. Here’s what saw some knitting time this past week.
Two repeats of the Japanese Feather Wimple done. Julia is using this lace pattern for a lovely top she is designing. On her post it is much easier to see what the lace pattern looks like when not smushed up on a 16-inch circular. Two more repeats to go.
The bottom and 1/3-of the sides of a tote to be fulled/felted. The yarn is Lambs Pride Bulky in Fuschia. This bag is easy to knit, but the finishing techniques (laddering down 48 rows and then using a crochet hook to work back up 2-stitches together for sharper corners) and the fulling will be new for me. The yarn sticks to the bamboo needles (US 13s), so after a few rounds I want to put it down for a rest.
One Regia Cotton Surf sock in Pacific is done. The rib pattern is the Oak Rib Sock from Vintage Socks. I finished this Saturday evening and debated casting on the second sock. I have some gift socks to make, and I think I’ll want the needle size I used here, which is of course the only set I have in that size (3 mm). So, after making fun of the single sock revolutionaries, I may become one. But the socks are for a the very nice, 80+ year old lady who hosts the book club I belong to, and she thought it would be the most wonderful thing if I were to knit her a pair of socks. I can eat a lot of humble pie for that.
Finally, what would a post be from Molecular Knitting without a Rib and Cable Sock Variation? Pretty lame. I started Variation 2 in Black Bunny Fibers superwash merino, color Aquamarine. Scrumptious is not too strong a word for this yarn.
That cable is an “Uneven Cable” according to Ms. Walker. She claims this is an archaic or ancient form of the standard rope cable. For this left crossing cable, transfer 4 stitches to a cn and leave at the front of the work, K2, K4 from cn. Why “ancient” knitters didn’t start with even cables, Ms. Walker doesn’t say. The rib on this pair of socks is “beaded” in that the middle of the 3-stitches is garter stitch. A new cable, a new rib, a new variation. All is good in my sock knitting world.
Happy Knitting!
Love the uneven cable pattern! And that lace wimple is very intriguing…
Ohh, I love the faint stripes in your cable rib socks! All your “little projects” are quite lovely.
Brenda- Love the aquamarine color. The cable is very intriguing.
You’ve inspired me to look at the Treasuries again- Barbara Walker is pure genius!
All the projects look great! Hope you have a good week! 🙂
I really like your new rib & cable sock. It’s too bad I can’t also feel the yarn through your post!
I think that you need to get some more 3mm needles. You never know when you might need to have two projects on those needles at once! 🙂
The wimple looks pretty. I love the yarn!
The new rib and cable variation looks great! I’m so glad you are doing this series.
Keeping busy! I have a few of those lumpy things lying around my house too 😉
Very nice! You get a lot of knitting done!
*sigh* I just love your socks… She will be very lucky indeed to get a pair!
I have to pick up the Barbara Walker Treasury books, I’m missing out on a lot!
I love that stripey sock – I may have to get some of that yarn for my sockapalooza pal, I think it’s just what she described wanting.
I understand, sometimes you just have to put down your own stuff to make a gift. I don’t think it should really count as orphaning your sock in this case. The wimple looks lovely! The color and lace are a lovely combination.
Scrumptious is right! I really love that aquamarine yarn. It’s pretty damn near perfect: a little light variegation, just enough to make the yarn interesting without interfering with the stitch pattern. Yarns like that are surprisingly hard to find.
Man. You make me want to put everything down and spend my whole summer knitting nothing but cabled socks!
Wow, pretty! The wimple, the yarn, the cable sock.
That wimple looks seriously lovely. I might have to knit one of those up.
Hope you stay migraine free! I feel like I’ve had one more often than not in the last few weeks.
Oooh, the Black Bunny Fibers sock looks wonderful! The colors are great. I can’t wait to see the finished bag.
Oooh, I love that Black Bunny cable & rib sock. The yarn is gorgeous and the pattern shows it off nicely.
I love me some BBF sock yarn. It’s very pretty! Nice WiPs!
Awesome socks! I love the cables 🙂
I am rather partial to small projects. And your small projects, lovely one and all.
Wow. The wimple is lovely, the Lambs Pride Bulky is a wondrous shade of fushia, and those socks are to die for!
You’ve been busy. I should probably take a cue from you and knit for a night instead of blogging (and Ravelry-ing).
(((hugs)))
Love both the socks! The colors are great. 🙂
Great colours! Love the Japanese wimple especially…..