Monthly Archives: September 2011

WIP Wednesday – Late edition

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My Garter Stitch Bag class was this afternoon and I have one picture of my progress. 

Those white scraps are my numbering system for the squares.  I had to keep track of where I was and this seemed like the easiest way for me to do that.  As you can see, I started over and lost almost all the green.  I can still remove that little worm of green before I felt this.  I’m still thinking about that.

15 squares finished, 7 more to go.

In case you forgot here is my first attempt.

I still have it intact and may go forward with it at a later date.  Or I might frog it and reuse the yarn for something else.

I knit a square earlier this evening so I could practice felting it and to see how much it would shrink.  I’m thinking this bag might be smaller than I would like and the instructor said I could add some squares before felting if I to make it larger.

Next week is our final class and I will be out of townpart of the day.  If I hurry out of the meeting, I should be able to make it to class a little bit late.

Awesome

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I happened upon the most awesome (and I do mean awesome) rainbow I have ever seen in all my life while on my way home from work today.  Some of you may give science the credit but I give all credit to God for this extraordinary sight.  My photos do not give the full impact of its beauty.  I was driving at the time and yes, these photos were taken as I was driving. 

I have never seen ALL the colors of the rainbow in my life until today.  Unfortunately, you these photos don’t capture all those colors.

But all the colors were there.

Even colors beyond the “normal” spectrum.  I saw reds beyond the red.

And violets beyond the violet.

How I made it home without an accident was also to God’s credit.

  I could see this beautiful arc for at least 10 miles.

I did see both sides of this massive rainbow but could not capture its breadth on my phone camera.

Oh, how I wish you would have been there to witness this… 

Truly awesome.

2 questions

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I started the Garter Stitch bag on Wednesday in a class taught at my LYS (local yarn store).  I decided to make the bag smaller than the sample (17 stitches instead of 25)  and I’m wondering if it will be too small.  That’s really beside the point.

The point is my color placement.

I have 7 of the 22 squares finished and I decided I wanted to add a shock of lime green to the muted ruby-red and charcoal grey.  Anyway, I’m thinking that having a green stripe in every square is not as shocking as say, just one or two stripes of green.

What do you think?

Second question (and I’ve already decided what I’m going to do):

See that arrow pointing to the space between the two squares?  That seam is thicker than any other seam.  Now, I’ve never felted anything before and don’t know if this make a difference in the finished product but I think I want to redo that seam.

What would you do?

Of course if I take out the green stripes in most of the squares, my second question will be answered.

Today’s the day

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My first knitting class is today.

I’m very excited to finally delve into the mysterious world of felting on purpose.  For you nonknitters that means shrinking and making the fibers of a wool item meld together.  I shrunk/felted the first sweater I knit for my daughter and was not happy.  A few other items have gotten felted by mistake but they weren’t as traumatic as the sweater.

Here’s a picture of the project from MoirasMama on Ravelry.  She’s actually teaching the class.

Courtesy of MoirasMama

 My yarn colors are Cascade 220 Ruby and Jet with a bit of Primavera.

Cascade 220 Ruby and Jet

Cascade 220 Primavera and Jet

I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to incorporate these colors but I have a vague idea.  Stay tuned…