No, I Did Not Make My Annual New Year's Eve New Piece of Headgear This Year



I did have one all planned--the Pleated Cloche from the Alterknits Felt book that I received for Christmas (thanks, Vic!) but I didn't make it to the yarn store to get yarn for it (I really don't keep much of a stash and yesterday was one of the days that I regretted that). I was going to walk over to downtown, get some milk and stop for yarn but the wind kicked up a little too much and I stayed in. I will be going to Yarns in the Farms tomorrow, however, to find something for it.

I did finish the other front of the Winter Star Jacket and put all of the body pieces together. Normally I would do the neckbands next but I'm a little confused. This sweater has a hem and the finishing instructions don't say whether you turn up the hem before or after you pick up and knit the front/neckband (it's all one piece in this sweater). It looks to me as if the front band is hemmed also but the instructions for picking up the front band doesn't seem to have enough stitches before you start patterning to make that work. Unfortunately, no one else on Ravelry has done this sweater so no help there. I'm sure I can make sense of it if I think about it hard enough but my brain is off until Monday so I think I'll start a sleeve instead.




This is it with half of its front.


I'm also about two inches into the sock though it just had a little cat induced accident --all picked back up and happy again.

It was too cold to really do anything outside today so we went and used up our bookstore gift cards. I finally bought Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks--even if I never knit any of the patterns (and I will) the history and technique parts of her books are valuable enough to justify the purchase.

No new knitting pictures today so I'll leave you with


a polar bear at the Detroit Zoo.

Posted: Thu - January 1, 2009 at 05:30 PM          

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