Slipped Stitches

Sauce, I am very excited to see Drew's little socklets. I loved the sassy pink wool you were using!

I am pleased to report that Coco's blanket and accessories were well received - I was very flattered when Mama Coco said she might have to start putting in orders with me. *blush* *patting self on back*

Alright people, I was just caught up in a frenzy of online shopping - chapters.ca just reeled me in.

I picked up that great book that I had taken out of the library about Russian style mittens...Knitting Marvelous Mittens has all sorts of patterns that remind me of the mittens that my aunts in Finland used to knit for us, and as I read the book I realized that alot of the designs are very similar.

I went in blind on this one, but it was five bucks - Double Knits - hopefully I won't be disappointed.

I couldn't resist Traditional Scandinavian Knitting - it looks like a pretty complicated book but hopefully I'll get good enough to apply some of the stuff in there.

I did pick up one non-knitting book - Popular Music from Vittula: A novel. It's had some interesting reviews...

Anyways, Paris is done shopping for now.

Well, in the footsteps of Sly, I am trying to make a pair of those cute baby worksocks for Drew. I'm thinking that this is a great small, easy project, that I can complete in the midst of starting a sweater. I was so wrong.

I have now started (over) that pair of socks approximately 12 times - I can't seem to go more than 2 rows without dropping a stitch, losing a stitch, getting a knot in my work, or making a big hole in my knitting by increasing wrong. After I'd started over 11 times, I started to think that I had now worked the yarn way too much, because I kept catching only part of the yarn on some of the stitches, and then there would be a stupid looking knotted type stitch, and I'd try to fix it, but then I'd drop the stitch and of course have to start over. On my 12th time I decided to discard the overly abused strand of wool that I had knit with all this time, and start fresh. So far so good - I have 3 rows done now, and I'm restricting my knitting of this particular project to times of complete attentiveness and sobriety.

On another note of interest I finally opened up the latest issue of Bust, with Susan Sarandon on the cover (I swore I wasn't allowed to open it until I was done the last one). Did you know that Debbie Stoller is coming out with a new Crochet book called The Happy Hooker. I can't wait - I'm definitely putting it on my xmas wish list!!

I need some help figuring out how to upload decent looking pictures. Sly - you and I have the same camera, yet your pics look amazing when posted, and mine are all grainy. Can you give me a play-by-play on how you do it? Here's what I do:

1. I take the pictures, with the camera set on the highest resolution.

2. I resize the picture so it isn't freakishly big. In this case I shrunk it 50%. I actually tried uploading one that wasn't shrunk at all and it didn't look any better, so I don't think this is the problem

3. I upload the pics to my Yahoo, and then "copy image location". Plug this address into Blogger. I think this is it - are you using your webspace from your home account for picture storage?

Help!!!

Well, thanks to the encouragement and enormous help of Sly (undoing my 3 needle bind-off, whoa), I have managed to finish the GD vest!! Here it is in all it's glory:



The picture is a little deceiving as I have all the ends tucked in, and I still have to do the little crochet border around the armhole and neckhole. I am so close....

I have already started my sweater from Yarn Girls and I'm having some Gauge Grief. I've never measured the gauge before, so I'm not sure why I'm starting now. But now that I have I realize that it's less/smaller than the gauge says, but I'm not sure how much is going to matter. I could just make one size up and hope for the best, or look for bigger needles (can't even imagine they exist, I already feel like I'm knitting with telephone poles). I'll have to get a consult from Sensei G. this weekend hopefully!!

I quickly knitted up a final gift for the shower...I made the socks that I mentioned in the previous post, but man, they are huge!! I don't know anything about baby feet though...I'm guessing they grow fast, so I'm not too concerned. I can't believe how fast these knitted up. Baby knits=instant gratification.