Emily's Knits » festive fish

Festive Fish Complete!

Emily — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:28:24 +0000

I finished this blanket and sent it to my brother and his girlfriend a bit ago. Sorry for the long delay in posting pictures, I just got them off my camera.

finished blanket

finished blanket (wrong side)

a single strip

close up of fish

Fish Update

Emily — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:11:06 +0000

This afternoon I finally got the border on the Festive Fish blanket I’ve been working on! Now I’ve only got the ends (but oh my are there so many of them) to weave back in, and I’m officially finished. I’ve been snapping pictures, I’ll put those up when I’m done.

Half-way Done?

Emily — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:23:20 +0000

I’ve got 9 finished strips for Festive Fish, working on the 10th. I’ve seamed 8 of the 9 together so far. It looks great, but it does seem like 15 rows will be needed to give the proportions I’m looking for. At that point it’s going to be a pretty hefty piece of fabric. I do want it to be able to cover two people, but in comparison to most throw blankets, maybe sizing it on my Queen bed is a little big…

Hopefully being a standby inspector for tomorrow’s election will be a good chance to get some more work done. If not, it will be a good chance to be a poll inspector, which will also be great.

Also, I finally broke down and bought myself a knitting machine Sunday morning. I think it barely counts as such – one of the cheap Ultimate Sweater Machines from Jo-Ann. I’m curious to see what it’s capable of.

Atlantis and Festive Fish

Emily — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:33:27 +0000

Last night I found an interesting pattern, Pink Lemon Knits’ Atlantis Stole. It’s intended for lace beginners, using fingering weight yarn and size 7 or 8 needles. I think I’ll start this up in some of the Jojoland fingering weight I got for mom, and see how it comes. If I can get it done by Christmas she can have it if she likes it.

I’ve made good progress on the Festive Fish blanket. Despite the setbacks of losing my needles and one of the strips a few weekends ago, I’ve now finished my 6th strip. I had originally planned on 9 more, I’m excited to get these put together and see how the length is coming along. I have a long history of making blankets, etc way too large :)

Definitely Not Finished

Emily — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:32:07 +0000

On hint 3 of SotSiii and not even selecting yarn or beads for MS4, I’m significantly behind all the talented knitters who finished or nearly finished both this week. I’ve downloaded all the hints for both, and look forward to possibly getting to them in the future.

The fish blanket isn’t quite going swimmingly, but it’s getting there. I set myself a deadline of wanting to be done by Halloween, but that’s certainly a little too ambitious.

Status Update

Emily — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:12:21 +0000

On Hold

I’ve been on the Secret of the Stole III list since the end of July, and am partway through Clue 3. I recently joined the Mystery Stole 4 group, but haven’t chosen yarn or beads yet. I’m waiting to see how the rest of the pattern turns out, since I don’t have much time to devote to it anyway.

I set aside the baby blanket I was working on – I was uninspired, and the fish edging was harder than I had originally hoped. There are a few easy solutions to that (create the border pieces separately then join, forget about the fish) but I don’t want to think about figuring it out right now.

Current

Right now I’m working on the Festive Fish blanket I started a while ago from Lion Brand Homespun in blue and green. It looks like 2 balls of yarn (one in each colour) will come close to making three rows of five fish. I’m very pleased with the way they’re turning out, though a little worried about the ultimate washability of the yarn. I’ll take some pictures of the fish and post them soon. I also have several thoughts of making the small daisy pillows quicker by using the same Homespun for those as well, and maybe some flat coasters in addition.

In projects that I need to finish off there are the final touches on Rosemary’s prayer shawl and then the rest of the SotSII-inspired shawl I started for Irina.

I’m tempted to stock up on Koolaid tomorrow when I go shopping – Safeway currently has the small packets on sale.

Future

I’m looking for a nice shawl pattern that will only require around 880 yards of fingering weight yarn. The beautiful teal and blue wool that Jess and I dyed needs to be used!