Emily's Knits » Baby http://knitting.tigersdawn.com Tue, 18 May 2010 06:46:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Et le Deux http://knitting.tigersdawn.com/2009/10/05/et-le-deux/ http://knitting.tigersdawn.com/2009/10/05/et-le-deux/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:47:25 +0000 Emily http://knitting.tigersdawn.com/?p=65 A second balanced skein! It’s not nearly as tightly plied as the first, and I (somewhat) succeeded at making a thicker yarn. I’ll wrap it to get a better measurement of weight when it’s finished drying. For now I’m pretty pleased with myself. Maybe soon I’ll get practiced enough to spin something aran weight -grin-.

I’m glad leaving this merino in hot water for a while doesn’t seem to injure it. I put the skein in a pot of hot water to finish and accidentally left it there on ’2′ for at least two episodes. Oops! I suppose I should get myself a kitchen timer and start using it.

The Baby Surprise Jacket isn’t going quite as well. I’m having some issues with counts and can’t seem to figure out what went wrong. Increases should be 4 every other row, and I’m off count by two stitches. In addition, the increases keep trying to get done on the wrong side of the work. I’ve put it away for tonight – I think when I pick it back up I’m going to have to rip out at least 6 or 8 rows before I can get back on track and I’m a little too sleepy to do that tonight.

Good night!

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First a few things for a coworker whose wife will have a baby boy in January.

Baby Boy 5-Hour Jacket
Yarn/Yardage: Paton’s Decor, just over one ball
Needles: US7
Progress: Just have the ends left to weave in.

Baby Surprise Jacket
Yarn/Yardage: Bernat’s Baby Jaquard in blue and green
Needles: US2
Progress: Still working on the sleeves. I’ve got a way to go still but this is fun!

Sjaarte’s Booties
Yarn/Yardage: KnitPicks Felici in Aquarium
Progress: Need to weave in the ends and attach buttons.

(Can you see a theme of what I haven’t gotten around to doing yet?)

And soon I’d also like to get my Melusine finished, followed by the much-overdue Atlantis shawl for mom.

It’s going to be a busy weekend – San Francisco has lots of events going on plus I have two close friends in town. When interesting things rain they pour!

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