crawling
Posted on April 4th, 2007 at 9:10 amSo I’ve been knitting. And knitting. And knitting. Not really a surprise there, but the thing that’s been making me a little nutso is the pace at which I’m making progress.
I’m on what I guess we could call a track of warmer-weather garments that started with my Simple Knitted Bodice in a cotton blend. I have a few others in the queue after my current project, which is the Lacy Waves Top from Lace Style.
The recommended needle size is 4mm but given the amazing change that comes over my tension when I use metal needles like KnitPicks’, I’m using 3.5mm. The massive amounts of tiny stitches, while I’m sure I am knitting at my normal speed, makes it seem like its taking AGES to get anywhere. And that’s ok, but I’m all twitchy because I want to knit the other things too!
Lacy Waves Top, balls 3 and 4
The start of the front, taken in my car during walk-time, about where I am now:
Photodump care of Flickr which doesn’t really like to let me upload all that often. As you can see, I’m really good at picking yarns that don’t like to reveal their true color to the camera. It’s fairly red in some lighting situations, but mostly is dark red/burgandy.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:28 am
The progress looks fantastic to me! If you don’t get to see it every day, you can really see rapid progress.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:41 am
It’s going to be lovely. And just remember, time is relative. If I was knitting a sweater on those tiny needles, it would probably take me a year!
April 6th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Enjoy each stitch…it’s the process of knitting you love, right? There is no race. It’s going to be a beautiful sweater when finished and you’ll be pleased to have taken time and care with it. I’m knitting mine in pieces, too.