{"id":148,"date":"2009-08-31T14:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2010-06-24T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:05:11","slug":"17-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/17-months\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Berry<\/a><\/p>\n

After a healthy 17 months on the needles, I finally finished ye olde Berry Nice Socks.<\/p>\n

I used Knitpicks Felici in the Mixed Berries colorway on size US 1 DPNs. For my sizing, it was 80 stitches on US 1 needles with a 3×1 rib over the whole thing. Easy peasy but I guess I was bored by them. At any rate, they are finally done!<\/p>\n

I like the yarn a lot, so the fact that these took so long is stupid.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Felici, I cranked out a quickie stockinette scarf on the knitting machine on Friday.<\/p>\n

\"Felici<\/p>\n

It’s also out of Felici, and knit at a loose gauge. It’s an experiment that worked out all right, though I’m not in lurve with it or anything. I will have to tighten up the gauge a bit for future experiments.<\/p>\n

But all things considered, I made a six foot scarf in a half hour, so whatever. \u00a0I blocked a little bit and it curls less. \u00a0I’ll probably block it a bit more another time to see if I can kill the curl some more. \u00a0Hopefully that will work. I just pinned it this time; I didn’t use the blocking wires.<\/p>\n

It’s a good way to use up that self-striping yarn, because despite its flaws, it turned out fine, so more will probably be on the way.<\/p>\n

I also finished a scarf I knit the summer of 2004 while I was staying in Leon Springs, TX – house-sitting in BFE, basically. \u00a0I’ll post pictures of that another time. I found the scarf when I moved again in January, and I finally wove in the ends and blocked it this weekend, so technically speaking it is a 2009 FO. Heh.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m working on some socks and also thinking about a sweater with all this dark grey Wool-Ease I got on sale awhile ago. We’ll see. \u00a0I’d knit the front and then machine knit the rest because I am super lazy and product oriented when it comes to sweaters.<\/p>\n

I also got a bee in my bonnet about hats, so next time: a finished Norah Gaughan hat from the latest Vogue Knitting, and maybe, if I crack the whip, a Koolhaas, which is a hat I’ve wanted to make since its debut in the 2007 Interweave Knits holiday issue, and finally found the perfect yarn for it – the blue lagoon Dream in Color Classy I got for my birthday. \u00a0The Norah hat is also knit with Classy, in Spring Tickle. It’s been a busy week, and I haven’t really been home when there’s been good light, so no pics just yet.<\/p>\n