2 posts tagged “peekapurpleboo”
A quick update with some photos...
The top picture is the completed peekapurpleboo (no one else around at the time to wield the camera, so I couldn't wear them to photograph them).
The second picture is an idea from the Twisted Sisters' Sock Workbook: the endless circular swatch. I purl looser than I knit, so I need to swatch circularly, but casting on enough stitches for a decent-sized swatch is a pain, and I don't like the thing where you leave long strands of yarn behind a flat swatch in order to knit every stitch (I have a vague recollection of once inventing a much better way of making a flat swatch and still only needing to knit, but I can't for the life of me work out what it was, so I might have dreamt it). The idea is that, unless I need to cannibalise the swatch to finish the project, this will just be an ongoing swatch tube, possibly to be made into a little bag or something eventually, but just sitting there, waiting for the next needles and yarn that need to swatch. And the cast on is Judy's magic cast on (which I got from New Pathways, but is also IIRC on Knitty somewhere), which really is magic.
The third and fourth pictures are the Riverbed BMP in progress. There's an unfortunate problem: I didn't anticipate what the effect on the fabric would be of me switching which hand I hold which yarn in, hence the line where the red suddenly becomes dominant. I like the red dominant better, but not enough more to frog the whole thing and start from scratch, so I think I'm just going to live with it.
The different yarn in each hand technique is loads of fun, and - colour dominance problem aside - I really like how these look.
The last picture is of my solution to the only problem with the otherwise gorgeous Harmony interchangeable needles. These needle tips are not marked with their size, and although the bag includes a number of perfectly needle-sized pockets, the needle tips come tucked into elastic on a piece of card with their sizes marked, and this annoyed me. I have now written their US and metric sizes onto both sides of little card labels (which I otherwise use for labelling skeins of handspun), and tucked a label and a pair of needle tips into each pocket. And added a needle gauge in case needles get separated from labels. This is a much more sensible arrangement, and I'm a bit cross they didn't come like this :-(
I've been knitting the Peekaboo gloves from Magknits, and I've just finished all but the thumb of the first. And in honour of having figured out iMovie and the camera attached to my computer, here's a video! (The colours are better in the photos, because they had benefit of flash. The video was filmed directly under a bare light bulb, but I think it would have been better if I'd done it in daylight with the light on.)
