Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Progress?

So since the Knitting Olympics ended, I've been lazing about (haha), doing homework, and waiting for summer. Since summer started, I've been lazing about, doing astrophysics, and waiting for school while hoping that summer homework would go die.

I went on a crazy finishing rampage during the first week of july or so. Finished the lurid green glovelets, the KO jaywalkers, and helped my mom plan and finish two scarves. I cast on, knit, and finished a purple-and-white Clapotis with Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Worsted, on size 8 clover 13 (14?) inches. This took a day more than a week, although it was only about 17 inches wide, but 5 feet long, perhaps. I cast on during the trip to Maine, and finished on the way back home; actually, in Cambridge MA, at around midnight.
Amethyst and Creme, I believe. I have one skein of each left over, because I downsized the pattern quite a bit.

Hmm. I cast on for a pair of Falling Leaves socks, with some 45 cotton 45 wool 10 nylon (?????) mystery (since I don't have the ball band with me....I'm in Istanbul) sock yarn. I bought it in Cambridge, cost me 8 dollars for one skein and I think I will have enough left over for one single sock when I'm done with the pair. I made them anklet socks, not quite full-length, and they're pretty. I must admit, the wool content bothers me, even in such a low percentage, so I don't know if I will be able to wear them, but it would be nice. I gifted the Jaywalkers to my mother.

Um. Other than that the knitting has been slow, and I've only got one sock of the pair finished. I started the other one with a figure-eight cast on, as a provisional cast-on for a toe-up sock, since I didn't have scrap yarn (*gasp*). It seems to be working and I think I like this method. (You do a figure-eight cast-on and leave the unworked stitches on a holder as you do the decreases etc.)
I don't have SSS but I do have second-sock-not-wanting-to-do-the-boring-toe syndrome.

And I doubt I'll be knitting on the plane, since security is up by quite a bit. 10 hours lost, how sad. Maybe I'll knit on the way back home.

I bought 100 grams of this pretty pink-and-green yarn, wool, made in Turkey, from Feza Iplik. It's literally right down the hill, at least for the summers.

I would very much like to find a proper Turkish spindle, but despite the fact that I'm in turkey, I don't know where to start.

Happy knitting!