Saturday, September 15, 2007

Techno troubles

Well, I got the pictures to stay in but they are in the reverse order I placed them. I also couldn't figure how to write about the picture after it was posted. Oh well.
1. The first picture is of Emily's beautiful sweater start. She had never done a cable before this. I am going to get to help her with some of the techniques I have learned in my class.

2. These are the rather plain socks that I made on my cruise to Alaska.

3. The bottom up round neck sweater is waiting for the first set in sleeves we will do for class.

4. The vest, just plain stockinet stitch.

5. The raglan is getting the arms placed now. We learned a very handy invisible cast off for the ribbing.

Friday, September 14, 2007

My very own first blog

I have been reading blogs for about 2 years now and I decided to jump right in and make one for myself to showcase my knitting. I have been knitting since I was 7 with a lot of projects under my wing. Perhaps this will help me to finish up some of my unfinished projects. Right now I am taking a class from Jean Wong on Nihon Vogue knitting. We have started 3 sweaters and are to be swatching on the 4th. This is a really valuable class and I am learning how to pattern design. It is yet to be seen how successful I am at this. I am excited to see how well these sweaters fit. I haven't really made anything for myself, except for socks which will fit almost any foot. Calvin just made us some popcorn to watch a movie. I'll try to figure out how to post the photos tomorrow. Over and out.