Progress on Flower Basket is of the slow but reasonably steady variety. Here’s where I am…
I knit a little on it each evening, while I’m still awake enough to pay attention – this doesn’t exactly make for leaps and bounds in progress, because as the rows get longer, it takes longer to get through each repeat. I also got through two repeats on the weekend, in between other activities. I’m really enjoying the process now that I have figured out how the pattern is engineered. This yarn is an absolute joy to knit with. It’s just a teeny bit splitty, but soft as a baby’s behind. So I won’t hurry.
I’m not using lifelines because I can’t figure out a good place to put them in this pattern – maybe after a purl row, but all the rs rows include copious yarnovers. I am getting pretty good at seeing where I am, though, both by comparing the chart to my knitting, and by looking at the knitting itself. I am also religiously counting my stitches each time I finish a half row, so if I do have to tink, the damage is somewhat limited.
I’m still fooling with the cardi but there’s nothing exciting to show there but more long rows of stockinette.
I also cast on for a sock yesterday just to change the pace, but I decided I really need some size 2 bamboo needles. So I frogged and will resume after procurement of same.
Who is still knitting lace?? I heard a rumor that Sandy finished her Forest Canopy and is still in possession of her arm, and Stacey was somewhere in the final throes last time I heard. Cookie got herself some glorious new yarn and is already kicking my behind all over the place on Flower Basket. Angie just took a whole class on lace knitting, so she’ll be kicking all our behinds shortly.
Updates, questions, comments, suggestions?? Let’s have ‘em!
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April 28, 2008 at 5:46 am
My Forest Canopy is finished but not yet blocked. I have been trying to get it done all week but it just didn’t happen. I’m hoping for better luck this week. As far as lace knitting is concerned I don’t have anything on the go at the moment because I started mystery lace last week over on Yahoo and the group went bad so I am keeping busy with the socks.
April 28, 2008 at 6:07 am
Forest Canopy has been stalled but I plan to try an hour with it tonight to restart. The Catharina shawl is zooming along because it is on Cascade…very satisfying. Time, I need time and a clear mind before anybody’s rear is in danger……
April 28, 2008 at 6:17 am
Still “Moth-ing” along. Although other things keep intruding, it’s still has the potato chip effect – it’s hard to stop at just 1 repeat!
In my NSHO it sounds like you’re getting to be Pretty Much of a Knitting
April 28, 2008 at 7:07 am
My blog is suffering from lack of documentation of knitting per se, but Forest Canopy is at the point where, if I were knitting as written, I would have already been on the edging rows. But since I’m using fingering (sock) weight yarn instead of sport weight yarn, and it’s already sized as a shoulder shawl as written, and I don’t need a neckerchief (wink), I’m keeping on keeping on and will start the second skein of yarn soon. Other projects horn in, but I knit a little here and there.
I also have my second lace project simultaneously knitting, since this is a herd-a-cat knit-a-long after all, a test knit in lace weight which you saw barely begun a few weeks ago on m’blog, nestling by my crocuses. Knitting/life opportunities for this kind of more intense concentration seem to be limited, so I’m still on the setup rows, but I got some done in the car yesterday, and I hope this weekend to make progress. And even take pictures. It’s knitting up lovely, all kudos to the designer and hand-dyer.
When I was in Seattle, I got some Mountain Colors yarn in lovely greens, a worsted weight, that I thought would be great for a chunky quick knit slightly larger Forest Canopy. It is a rather addictive easy lace pattern, people are right!
April 28, 2008 at 8:52 am
FC has been put with the charm school of yarn (ask Cookie
) and is being taught how to behave. FB is sitting on my bedside table. Neither have been worked on. IT’S ANGIE’S FAULT!
I think I have to be home to actually work on it. But, life is fun!
April 28, 2008 at 9:14 am
I restarted Forest Canopy on a larger needle and have been making some nice progress with it. I’m glad I went up a size. The lace looks lacier, and the subtle colors of the yarn are showing more clearly.
April 28, 2008 at 9:56 am
so pretty!
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btw, for what it’s worth – I think you take pretty good pictures. ;o)
April 28, 2008 at 9:58 am
I’m still knitting (slowly) on Swallowtail…
April 28, 2008 at 10:45 am
I’m still plugging along. I’m on my third hank of yarn and feeling good. (Don’t be impressed. The hanks are 146 yards each.)
Now do you see why I think FB is a great first triangle shawl? It’s easy to read the lace once you’ve done a few repeats and it’s easy enough to memorize.
April 28, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Lace schmace. I’m over it.
April 28, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I think I have at least another two weeks before I finish Frost Flowers and Leaves. Then it’s Icarus or back to the cardigan I abandoned. Don’t ask which cardigan, I fear they would rise up and get me if they knew about each other.
Your progress looks lovely. How many repeats are you planning?
April 29, 2008 at 12:55 am
I’m still Icarusing along. I do not have any impressive photos at the moment.
April 29, 2008 at 6:47 am
I’m still knitting lace… me me…
Perhaps I should just call ALL of my lace knitting Knitting with Nora knitting. What fun!
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Or…
I could assign Willow, the long languishing lovely in cashmere dental floss (with beads) to Knitting with Nora. That would force me to work on her at least once a week. Heavens, she might be finished by Stitches this year!
April 29, 2008 at 10:11 am
Tried to comment yesterday & couldn’t (no, no, it’s me, not you!) Let’s try again:
My blog is suffering from lack of documentation of knitting per se, but Forest Canopy is at the point where, if I were knitting as written, I would have already been on the edging rows. But since I’m using fingering (sock) weight yarn instead of sport weight yarn, and it’s already sized as a shoulder shawl as written, and I don’t need a neckerchief (wink), I’m keeping on keeping on and will start the second skein of yarn soon. Other projects horn in, but I knit a little here and there.
I also have my second lace project simultaneously knitting, since this is a herd-a-cat knit-a-long after all, a test knit in lace weight which you saw barely begun a few weeks ago on m’blog, nestling by my crocuses. Knitting/life opportunities for this kind of more intense concentration seem to be limited, so I’m still on the setup rows, but I got some done in the car yesterday, and I hope this weekend to make progress. And even take pictures. It’s knitting up lovely, all kudos to the designer and hand-dyer.
When I was in Seattle, I got some Mountain Colors yarn in lovely greens, a worsted weight, that I thought would be great for a chunky quick knit slightly larger Forest Canopy. It is a rather addictive easy lace pattern, people are right!