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January 26, 2007
Looking like a sweater
Look out! Knitting content!
I'm very proud because the pea-green loveliness that is the sweater I began making for Joey Helpy-Chalk last summer (with the really nice Sirdar pattern and yarn purchased at Sea Needles) is beginning to look like a proper garment for a smallish person!
Check it out~
For some time I procrastinated because of the instructions, which are written in British-English, which is a whole other thing from your regular American-English, were odd and messed me up, as far as how to put in the collar ribbing. Where it meant "pick up" stitches, it said "pick up evenly and knit" x number of stitches, which, for some reason threw me way off. I kept trying to pick up one, knit it, and then pick up the next. Weird, I know. Retarded? Yeah, maybe. Just a teeny bit. (holds up thumb and index finger close together in the air and squints through them.) It took David to straighten things out for me. "I would just pick up the stitches" he said. "Duh." No, he didn't say duh. Maybe he thought it but he didn't say it. Oh, he's a much braver man than I!! Thanks David!
I'm particularly proud also because it has this wacky buttonhole thingy at the shoulder which I managed to navigate ok, although having put down the pattern entirely in a fit of pique over the whole "pick up and knit" wackiness, having one of the buttonholes be in the collar stitches, I have to admit, also freaked me out. Freaky British pattern writing freaks. Just when I thought I was done with buttonholes, it was all like "rib to the last 5 stitches, cast off 2, rib 3." And the next row~ rib 3, cast on 2, rib to the end." Totally freaked me out until I realized I had only 2 buttonholes and there were 3 in the picture. Dudes. There ought to be a law, man.
ta-da!!! Buttonhole. Yay.
Here's all three~
And plus, more knitting news and photos for your entertainment and edification! Because! Dan is now the proud wearer of these Lorna's Laces Daffodil (don't tell him the name of the colorway! If he knows he might never wear them again) socks, which were, and are, in fact, the first pair I ever made, which accounts for why they fit Dan, and not me, as I had intended. I got a little carried away. But they look awesome on the man-size, manly feet, no?
Magnifique! I'd say. And peep the sexy tattoo.
(You can look, but you can't touch, ladies. That's all I'm sayin'.)
And look! The feet in action. Woo!
I might have to order more of this colorway, but would it be too cute to have matching pairs?? Probably, but when has cuteness been a problem? That's the thing.
One more shot of a boy and his socks~
And finally, for your viewing pleasure, or pain, Dan goes all Salvador Dali on our asses! (Is that a lobster on a leash, Dan?? Or are you glad to see me??-Sorry.)
Oh, and for some face-melting rock 'n' roll, do go see Indigo, Dan's daughter, rock the school talent show. She will kick your ass. Its a fact.
And hey, while you're there, stop by and visit our very own Lucy rockin' in her inimitable way. The cuteness, oh! The cuteness! The cheeks. You will be awed.
Posted by at January 26, 2007 10:31 AM
Comments
Warning: Joey is not so much of a smallish person anymore!
Posted by: rob helpychalk at January 26, 2007 12:13 PM