It’s been a knitterly few days.
I re-charted the Monkey pattern chart to include one extra stitch on both sides. I also accomodated or an extra “widening” row so the pattern would be a bit larger, and would have 5 repeats instead of 6, and be just slightly shorter a sock. I’ll try it out after I unravel the first try, and if it works well, I’ll email it to Cookie A. for an optional size-up.
Last week, while recivering from the swollen mouth, I finally stitched on the straps for this:
Based on the Punk Rock Backpack in SnB, this was my very first knitting project. I knit all the blue pieces, every single one of them, and the two black straps. I had decided that an 8-bit black mage will adorn the front, no questions asked. That was to be it. Then I tried, as my second “project” ever, intarsia.
Oops.
I didn’t go back to working on this backpack until a few months ago, about four years after I had first taught myself to knit, and… the intarsia worked. Still hard,of course, being intarsia, but… it worked. I had this lovely black mage panel ready to sew in to the backpack.
I’ve been puttering at sewing it ever since, and it’s finally done. I used it to haul some stuff to the warehouse I work at, and got some nice comments. So, first UFO has finally become an FO.
Yesterday I cast on for an altered Bunny Hat from SnB Nation, using Rowan Calmer in this lovely light green shade.
It shall not become a bunny, but it shall be awesome.
I don’t know if I like the short-row earflaps though. I think if I knit this again I’ll make my own earflap hat pattern. I’ve gotten rather good at it.
I need to purchase several skeins of Alafoss Lopi to make Jayne hats for some fellow Browncoats, that are long overdue. However, when I went to the yarn store the other day to pick up needles to knit Boogie out of the recycled yarn(yes, I’ve decided), I found this instead.
The colours were what caught my attention. I went all “ooo ahhh” and realized that I had to have this yarn, despite not having a project for it.
The yarn is by Naturally New Zealand Yarns, but is apparantly discontinued, “Fleece & Fur”, 70% merino wool, 30% possum.
The possum content sold me. I am weak.
Tomorrow: Potential vest cast-on.
Hooray on finally finishing the backpack! Ohhh, the possum yarn… that looks *awesome*. How much yardage is there? It looks like it would be a spiffy armwarmer-hat set to me. The colors are very “you!”