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Sleeves

Holly Doyne Posted on 2009-05-05 by Proseknitic2009-05-05

If I did not know better, I would swear that these sleeves are bound and determined to drive me nuts.

Pyramid

Pyramid

It is an optical illusion. I knit, and knit, and knit some more. And what do I have? Stripes. Stripes on a sweater sleeve that look no longer than what I had before I started knitting.

I have counted the edges. There are fewer stitches on the needle every six rows. I must be making progress, really, after all if one knits and knits and knits – (well, let us not talk about the knots and tinks) then the sleeve should be growing?

I managed to finish up the next section of Pagoda. Doesn’t look like much here does it?

next section complete

next section complete

I am listening my was through the Miles Vorkosigan series (Lois McMaster Bujold). They are twisty enough themselves that they complement the knitting.

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Pagoda

Holly Doyne Posted on 2009-05-04 by Proseknitic2009-05-04

Mindless knitting, that is what I am doing. Back and forth in endless contemplation of stitches sliding along my needles too many to count.

starting the stripes

starting the stripes

I am doing well to remember to change the colors in this section every four rows which means every two ridges. The decreases are on the right sided rows. As it gets blurrier with the rows increasing my mind has been known to wander. In contrast to the other HF (Pyramid) on the needles where I am down to double digits for the rows, I think I am still well over 800 stitches per row. It takes forever to knit a row (she whines further).

and more to go...

and more to go...

Can you blame me for being a bit bleary eyed after a full day of staring at the computer screen at work followed by this?

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Blooming

Holly Doyne Posted on 2009-05-03 by Proseknitic2009-05-03

It only takes a couple of days of sunshine and the back garden is starting to get lush.

I have the small bells –

some kind of flowering bush

ready to open

ready to open

and

and of course, the holly

of course, the holly

Not too shabby, I can identify one out of three…..

Pagoda

Since it is hard to see what this jacket is going to look like when knit, here is what the original looked like –

Pagoda - colorway 5

Pagoda - colorway 5

borrowed from the Hanne Falkenberg site. See what I mean about knitting it in one piece? Starting at the top outside of one sleeve, down the front, out to the side, across the back, into the front, up and out.  It …..should… work with me having to complete only the top half of the back when all of the decreasing is done. Where you see red – think burgundy. Purple has become grey Black the outline color.  That weird berry color changed to navy. Now, only if I had remembered to weigh the cones and balls as I went I could be more assured of not running out of yarn…..

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Start – Pagoda

Holly Doyne Posted on 2009-05-01 by Proseknitic2009-05-01
working in

working in

I have mentioned Pagoda, right? Knit as written it would be two fronts and a back seamed together for ever under the arms. I looked at it and thought about knitting it in one piece till the decreases ate up all the fronts. About half way up the back if my memory serves me right.

I was only drinking coffee when I figured this out. Not any alcohol containing beverage, just swiss mocha. Perhaps it was the chocolate and coffee together? Even without caffeine?

Did I give you the numbers? 130+170+86 per side + 142 for the back. With four paired decreases every ridge that means that my total number of stitches only goes down 8 (eight!). At this point, I am knitting just over 800 stitches per row, rather than 9xx+. It is still insane and it seems like forever till that last of the six markers hoves in sight.

The only thing I can say with certainty (other than I have no clue as to how much yarn this is going to take) is that at least the sides will exactly match….. There is that. Matching is a good thing. I have to keep telling myself that. And that I will be able to finish it prior to going completely grey.

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falkenberg patterns

Holly Doyne Posted on 2009-04-30 by Proseknitic2009-04-30

are kind of addicting.

I tackled Mermaid last fall on the Black Sea Cruise. Solo was up next (if you want to look at her whole line – go here). None of them are all that complicated or difficult, even allowing for knitting forever on size 3.00 mm needles. Garter stitch does get boring. But as one woman mentioned in a Ravelry Forum – “You don’t have to worry about running out of knitting while on your trip.”

I started Blues while in Egypt this past Dec, but lost interst in it after I returned home. Some how a summer vest just did not hold a lot of fascination while the inside temperatures were holding just a few degrees above freezing.

Pyramid

Is constructed by knitting from the outside in. Front and back as separate pieces are joined at the shoulders. I have to tack down the neck placket, then knit some i-cord around the neck for a finish.

shoulders sewn together

shoulders sewn together

Stitches are then picked up along the sides and the sleeves are knit down in pattern

the first sleeve

the first sleeve

leaving the whole thing looking like this at the present.

body + start of first sleeve

body + start of first sleeve

It doesn’t take that much concentration, but it does take some so that I remember to do the decrease at the far end of the row.
The good thing about this kind of construction is that the rows are longest at the beginning and it does get better.

Pagoda

Which leads me to Pagoda. I bought the kit in Demark, so that must have made it back when Ms Soprano was a toddler. It could have been as late as 1999, but I rather doubt that. In any case, the kit was well aged. So well aged, as it turned out, that the wool was a casualty in the 2003-2004 m*th invasion.
(the one that happened while I was downrange for 15 months and some people in my house didn’t understand some basics about closing up rooms, keeping doors closed and killing off weird flying things. Our house in Germany, like most, does not have screens.

Why am I telling you all of this? Silly me, while I was substituting yarn I looked at the pattern. Danish pattern. I can’t read Danish. But I can look at pictures and I can count rows when looking at other peoples pictures on Ravelry. First off, I finally realized that I don’t have to worry about the sleeve decreases for a while. The second was that I really didn’t have to knit this thing in three pieces and sew them together. Since I was already doing a yarn substitution, I could knit the most of it in one piece. Off I go with hardly a thought. Left front, back, right front. It works until half way up the garment at which point the fronts are finished and I only have the upper portion of the back. Knit from the outside in.

9xx is a freaking lot of stitches on a needle. It takes a long time to knit a row.  Listening to audiobooks is the only way to maintain sanity. (who am I kidding, this jacket is thousands of stitches, each and every flipping one of them a knit stitch. garter.)

this is only 8 rows with dozens to go....

this is only 8 rows with dozens to go....

Media

finished the new Nora Roberts, couple of hours to go on Callahan’s Key. Now – I can go on to Lois McMaster Bujold (more SciFi) or I can switch over to Simon Winchester and listen to Krakotoa.

OH! If you have not listened to The Takeover (Mur Lafferty) – go directly here at Podiobooks to get it. Unless of course you don’t like fun lyrics, have never dealt with office politics, or had the suspicion that some of the people with whom you work are a bit different.

Posted in Books & Tapes, Knitting, Uncategorized | Tagged Pagoda, Podiobooks, Pyramid | Leave a reply
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