Here's another picture of my finished shapely tank. This is like the third time I've worn it already ;)


I started on Mom's fable vest at last. This is sooo nice to work with. It's silky soft. I ended up going down a needle size to 7 to get an even 5 stitches per inch. I think the slightly firmer fabric will work well as an outer garment.


I swatched a ton of different cables, but decided it looked too busy with the varigated gold/teal color. I finally settled on plain old stockinette with double seed stitch borders. I guess I'll save the cables for my next sweater :)

New Yarn!

My first (cough) order of Webs yarn arrived yesterday, the Fable for my Mom's vest. Oh my goodness I love it. I want some for me! It is so soft and smooth. It's going to be so fun to knit with. Gordon helped me wind 1/2 of it last night, I'll take some pictures of it this weekend.

I finished the passport bag for Sherry late last night and didn't get a picture of it. It turns out though, that we're going to celebrate her Birthday on Monday instead of today so I'll get another chance to take a pic. (As well as find a few little goodies to fill up her bag with) :)

I'm so excited to finally get started on this vest. This will be my first use of my "Knitters Handy Book of Patterns" I still need to decide on what cable pattern I'm going to use. I'm going to swatch a few today and pick.

Frogging Fun
So Tuesday I was finishing up my first fuzzy foot when I realized that the first marker was in the wrong spot, doh! I had accidentally pulled out one of my needles 2 or 3 times Sunday morning and had thought I'd gotten the marker back in the right place, but alas no.

So instead of ripping out back to the middle of the instep I decided I'd better get cooking on Sherry's passport bag. This also involved some frogging as I decided that I hated the red and purple stripes I'd added to the charcoal main color. So I frogged 6 inches or so and decided to go with solid charcoal. I got a lot done on it last night at Elliott Bay waiting for Gordon to get downtown. I'm about half way done with the i-cord now and should be finished by the time I get home tonight.

Hopefully I'll have just enough time to felt it when I get home. I think I'll stretch it over a box and put it upright on my sweater rack in the dryer on extra low before I go to aquacize. Hopefully it will be dry enough to add a little embroidery before bed so I can give it to her tomorrow. Nothing like working right up against a deadline ;)

I also decided what to do with my pretty purple peruvian wool from elann. I'm going to get crazy ambitious and try out my gauge conversion skills. I'm going to use the shapely tee pattern as a template and convert it to the 4 stitches per inch gage. Then I'll lengthen the sleeves to 3/4 length, and add a cable up the front. Wish me luck :)

The yarn for mom's vest still hasn't arrived. If it's not here tomorrow I'll have to shoot webs an email and see what's up.

It occurs to me that I should really take a nice end picture of me in the shapely tank to replace the headless one I have up now. First I need to wash and re-block it though. I think I'm likely to make another tank with this pattern this season, I got a ton of compliments on it last week when I wore it. I think it would look really pretty with a nice cable pattern running up the front. I need to wait until next pay day to buy any more yarn though, I've been really bad lately.

I started on my friend Sherry's felted passport bag last night. I made a thin rectangle for the bottom and picked up stitches around the edges like the booga bag technique. (self satisfied sigh at the thought of no seaming, I'm such a geek) I got about 6 inches done last night and it looks really cute. My 10.5 dpns were still attached to my fuzzy foot so I tried out the 2 circ. method; I really like it!

I didn't do much knitting yesterday, just in the morning at the coffee shop. I'm just about done with my first fuzzy foot though, just a few more rows of decreasing, and then I have to look up the kitchener instructions so I can close up the toe. I kept marvelling at how it looked just like the picture, with the distinct triangle pattern made by the cast on instep stitches and the decreases. Yay me. :)

According to Webs and UPS, the cotton/silk blend for my mom's vest should arrive today! I can't wait to get started on it. I guess I'd better figure out which cable pattern I'm going to use. :) My other knitting task for the week is to make a little felted passport bag for my work friend's birthday. It's going to use up some of my misc. purple wool scraps. And of course I'll need to make a matching slipper at some point.