JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

Archive for November, 2008

…the one with all the bags.  This pile is a beautiful thing (to me, anyway)  ;o)

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In sweater news, I’m almost done with the yoke and ready to start the body.  Exciting times!

Even MORE exciting, today is RR’s birthday!  Happy Birthday, hon!  Love you!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

…and work within them.  At least, when it comes to knitting and possible sweater-related injuries.  ;o)

As mentioned in my previous post, St. Patrick is in time out due to excess cabling.  I did some major stash digging and managed to turn up a bunch of Wild Apple Hill in Peacock and a couple of balls of Noro.  I had an idea that I wanted something along the lines of Cobblestone but I didn’t have enough plain yarn to do it so I decided to do a top-down raglan with a garter stitch yoke.  I threw in the Noro on every other row and this is what I have so far (I cast on Monday afternoon):

[Raveled here] Trust me, it’s prettier in person.  In fact, I’m smitten with this sweater and can’t wait to finish it.  ;o)  The collar appears to have decided it wants to be a stand-up collar and if I can’t manage to wrangle it into submission, I’ll be doing a short steek and making it a v-neck (how’s that for showing your knitting who’s boss?)

In geek/website news, I’m having an issue with my hosting provider.  The server on which JessaLuKnits.com resides has been having problems for over a week now.  This means I’m not receiving some comment notifications and every once in a while they throw in a 503 error just to make things interesting.  I am communicating with them (okay maybe there was a bit of yelling via email *ahem*) and trying to get my site moved to a server that is more reliable – in the meantime, I apologize for any errors you receive and please keep trying if you get one when you’re leaving a comment (because, as I’m sure you all have guessed, I’m a comment wh*re.  ;op ).  Thanks!

…this past weekend but what I did make on the CSM is still pretty cool:

Fingerless mitts.  How cool is that?!  Last week I found the pattern here (you have to email and ask for it) and finally had time to sit and play on Saturday.  FOUR. HOURS. (and one severe temper tantrum) later, I had these.  They’re warm and squishy an have 10% cashmere and I love them.

Yarn:  Hand Maiden Casbah (holy heart attack batman, I thought for sure that my machine would eat it just because it has cashmere in it); Colorway ‘Seastorm’

Gauge:  uhm…the middle line on the machine using the 54 needle cylinder.  I finished the thumb by transferring the stitches to a size 1 needle, knitting four rows of 1×1 rib, cast off and stitched the thumb together with the tail.  I also transferred the top stitches to a size 1 needle and cast off that way.  I could have cast off with the waste still attached with no transfer but I didn’t want to have to learn something else new, my brain couldn’t handle it at that point.  ;op

In other NaKniSweMo news…St. Patrick did some major damage to my hands last night so he’s on time out.  I think I have to try to do something a little less cable-y for this month’s challenge so I’m doing some quick thinking and stash diving.  I still have 20 days so I’m not worried, the sweater I’m going to make is knit on 8s which is bigger gauge than my Olympic Sweater that I finished in 16 days AND that one had a hood.