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February 24, 2005
WIP from the gift
Yesterday Tokyo was really, extraordinally hot day. It was like at the end of March. Today, though, the weather backstepped a little to winter....BUT it is nothing, anyway, we are heading to the spring!!
Yes. I know. I KNOW. However. I casted on this some days ago:
It is glove for myself. I just cannot help leaving these yarns untouched until next winter....these are, the part of gift from my secret pal. This heavenly soft silk-merino brend yarn, Giada by Mondial, invited me. That delicate assembly of sandy colorways of alpaca yarn, Top print by Grignasco, was whispering me to knit. I assume my secret pal got this perfect matching of colorway intentionally, to be used togather. So far I am making this glove, using these two yarns alternatively. Here is the close-up:
I LOVE this soft shade....thank you again, my secret pal! I am really glad, so glad that I have casted on this at the end of winter.
And also, I have finally finished this mittens last weekend:
So as a reward, I let me cast on another stuff. I brought this to Rowan shop last weekend. They are happy about it, even if I brought it completely out of season.....the lady was generous enough...lucky me!
Posted by trico at 10:53 PM | ???? (2)
February 21, 2005
excnanging stash season
Some days ago I decided to tidy up my stash at the corner of room. It is rather to exchange the yarns from wooly stuff to cotton, summer yarns. It was a mess like that:
I put most of them into a closet(the correct place for stash) and instead picked up some cotton yarns for spring and summer knitting. Two years ago I started a cardigan with a Rowan pattern by Filatula di Crosa's yarn, and left it whole year untouched. Oh yes, it should be nicely fermented and in good condition....ugh. Because, last year I had a baby and last February I have knitted a baby blanket and baby cardi with cotton yarn and All season's cotton....so now, it is my turn. Last year, though, I have casted on a lacey tank with a pattern from Vobue knitting, so I have to continue that too. I picked them all, and then, I found this:
I have knitted all parts and left them apart. It was a sweater for muself, with Bouton D'or yarn. After knitted up, it looks too dull and granny for me, both the color and design. I felt no interest on it, so far I have abandoned and forgotten....long time WIP.
But looking at it, I think I don't want to waste it. I joined the seams and weaved yarn ends. Now I have to set sleeves, and it would be completed. I will show you when it made.
Posted by trico at 09:39 PM | ???? (1)
February 19, 2005
Looooooooook!!!
Today I received a package from my secret pal! Heeey, look!
What a gorgeous gift!! The left skein is Mountain Colors hand dyed wool, Lodgeglass colorway, do you want to see the close up?
how rich, fabulous, beautiful colors...I immediately fell in love with it. And the other two balls are a incredible Merino and silk blend yarn, Giada by Mondial, and a delicate sandy colorways Alpaca 100% yarn, Top Print by Grignasco....with two cutest flower and card pins!! These are just lovely, I assume I would put one on Monday to go out...
Oh, you can read my mind, my secret pal, I am really touched by your gift, thank you soooooo much! I cannot get these yarns here in Japan, you don't know how I am glad to heve them! I am afraid that you have already consumed the whole budget for this gift with the shipping cost.....but don't worry, I am truly happy with this, so if you just send me some postcards or so afterward, it would be just nice!
Now, I am itchy because, I cannot keep me to wait to cast on with these yarns.....yes, I've got an excellent idea for a project with these soft, delicate and nuanced colorway's two balls of yarn. Oh, I cannot resist, you know, I would start maybe today after this post....or tomorrow at the latest. Dear my secret pal, I wlll show you very soon what I would make with yarns from you!!
I had some stuffs to report today, but all others are pushed to the next. Thank you again, my pal, for these awesome gifts!
Posted by trico at 09:53 PM | ???? (0)
February 16, 2005
No photo
I have completed DS's red cashmerino superchunky scarf on Sunday and didn't take the photo, he puts it on since Monday. It is NOT YET destroyed nor lost...we will see. After I get back to my Elise cardi, at the first sleeve. I frogged some rows, for I have left it so long....if I just start from the point I stopped, I assume the rows would not be even. That's all I could do for knitting for these days. My baby got cold again and he cannot sleep well at night due to his nose troubled, so far me neither. Recently I feel I have no time to peek blogs, eBay, etc...I just don't have a force to do so, and yesterday I was just in the mood and looked into ebay, and you know, I ended up with buying 20 balls of Debbie Bliss Cotton Cashmere and one of her book. Gee. Will show you when it arrives.
Posted by trico at 10:42 PM | ???? (0)
February 12, 2005
Knitting red
I really, really want to come back to Elise, my frilly cardi which has been left aside so long. I cannot now, just because I have not yet completed my secret WIP. AND also, I am always so ficle and cannot bayond temptations of tons of other projects and yummy yarns, so far unfaithful to my main WIP....I have just casted on yesterday for another NEW scarf, for DS who has destroyed this year's first knitted scarf the day after. Since he used an old yellow scarf, and this time he promised to keep it carefully....
The yarn is Debbie Bliss's Cashemerino Superchunky, and knitted up magically even and fast. Actually I took this photo in the afternoon but it is completed, I am fringing now. Very easy, garter scarf.
And this is my secret WIP, only one finished finally today:
A toddler's mitten by Rowan's 4ply eighty, my original design. This yarn is so fine that you cannot knit something big. Usually I love knitting gloves and I am fairly used to use fine yarn for them, so I don't know why it took time endless and so exhausting....anyway, I made up and noted the pattern on the way of this knitting, so the second one for right hand should be more fast and easy. I casted it on today too.
And Elise, why, I noticed today all I knit now are Red!
Posted by trico at 10:02 PM | ???? (0)
February 09, 2005
Can knit anything
Yesterday my DS's kindergarten had a festive event. I didn't know what it was, but anyway all the kids have been required to disguise for a kind of fancy dress parade. My DS chose to be "Oni", a Japanese demon from every Japanese old stories for kids. It is like this:
He had prepared a paper mask for it, so far now a mystery FO from last post got its role like that:
He put on his red jeans, red pullover shirt and that order-made "Oni-no-Pantsu"(Demon's shorts) and matching wrist bands. Actually it is rather a skirt, but it is like that! I even made "Tsuno"(Demon's horn)with some leftover yarn.
It was so much fun and very fast knitting. I knitted that shorts by "Dali" of Filatura di Crosa with 8mm needles, all garter stitch, one edge kept straight and the other increased and decreased repeatedly, at random. I was lucky, because when I've got this idea of knitting the garment, I dashed to LYS and found that yarn on sale. Dali is a perfect yarn for this purpose! So far I understand, that if I want or need, I can knit any bizarre stuff...
Posted by trico at 09:42 PM | ???? (2)
February 06, 2005
Leftovers of leftovers scarf completed
I finished that scarf this weekend:
This is not long scarf, but it is just enough to cover the neckline. Very soft and thick, and coloring makes me think the spring. I consumed all the leftovers, so it is really leftovers scarf.
By the way, ladies, what do you suppose this is?
This is another FO of this weekend. I suddenly got that idea and bought the yarn on Friday, and knitted it up yesterday. what it looks like? The size is 12 inches wide and 8 inches height. And This is for my older son.
I will reveal it next time, on Tuesday maybe. Got your imagination!
Posted by trico at 09:40 PM | ???? (2)
February 03, 2005
Leftovers scarf
I have to complete my secret project, but now I am rather picking up this one:
This is knitted double-stranded, by Rowan's Kid Classic and Jaeger Matchmaker Merino Aran. So far the needles I use are 7mm. As a result, it is knitted up very fast and "thick and warm", as I intend to. Kid Classic is itchy for me, so I use mostly Merino Aran (pink yarn)and another non-Kid classic yarn(red) for the part around the neck. As you see, I am changing one strand of yarn sometimes, the other continues, and again I change that I have continued, and so on. That method is from the necessity, for these are leftovers yarn, but the effect looks not so bad. Now it looks around a half or so of the needed length, I will continue until the yarn ends. That is a good point too to knit a scarf with leftovers, to be able to knit until all yarn consumed!
Posted by trico at 10:20 PM | ???? (2)
February 01, 2005
The club of Bliss
Last December, I applied The Club of Debbie Bliss. The subscription should be made by letter mail, not online. I printed out the PDF form and filled it out, sent by airmail. Since, I have received an e-mail to comfirm my subscription, and finally last week I received this:
Beautiful Alpaca Silk!! We knew we could get that yarn as welcome gift, and we could choose the color, bordeaux or pale blue. I LOVE this yarn but I would not make beret nor crabat....I rather make a heavenly soft scarf. I don't know yet.
By the way, I casted on a scarf with the leftover yarn of "Leftovers" vest. Because, as I am knitting a secret project with really fine 4ply, it makes me exhausted and I wanted or NEEDED to knit something more thicker and more speedy. Will show you next time.