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Two more complete

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In spite of not getting started as early as I planned (isn’t being on line and cruising around Ravelry good for burning up lots of time?), I managed the following:

Pyramide

sides sewn together

sides sewn together

followed by

neck edging started

neck edging started

which meant that sweater, hanger, camera and I headed outside.

Finished - front

Finished - front

Finished - the back

Finished - the back

(slight detour involving teenage son, a meal, and a ride to the train station so that he could catch the 1614 instead of a later train back to school).

moving on to the

Textured Sleeveless Vest

I managed to figure out an alternative way of constructing the next and binding off the shoulders together that did not involve more than two rows of frogging.

shoulders bound off

shoulders bound off

Since it looked like it was going to take longer to knit the collar than the armholes – I went there next, increasing needle sizes about every inch plus increasing a few stitches in the back of the collar.

start of collar

start of collar

This particular color has never photo’d well, and it is worse at night.
Finally, I used a much smaller needle for the armhole ribbing and was done.

Finished

Finished

Being as how it was only 2100, I moved on to

Faery Ring

and finally got past the cuff on the first sleeve

progress on first sleeve

progress on first sleeve

If I can finish the first sleeve tomorrow, then I will let myself start Brage on the 15th.

I am off to update my Ravelry Project page since I finally have progress to show and only two (Pagode and Faery Ring) left as WIP.

At day’s end

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I had been to Reading and back to join a knit meet up (lunch at Wagamamas and a wander through John Lewis), with a chance to see this wonderful reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry made in 1885 by 35 Victoria embroiderers. That they were ladies goes without saying).  Ok, for those who are not history buffs – 1066 and the Norman Invasion? Battle of Hastings? William the Conqueror?

UFOs

Confirming my conclusion that I loved the pattern but did not like the colors (have already picked out new) – Stillwater

30 cm or so

30 cm or so

became this

two nice balls of Kauni

two nice balls of Kauni

Pyramide

Arriving back home – I was here

12 cm to go

12 cm to go

and ended here

lacking only the finishing

lacking only the finishing

I always underestimate the amount of time it takes me to knit miles and miles of garter on 3.00 mm needles.

Sleeveless KAL

ready to start shoulder and neck shaping

ready to start shoulder and neck shaping

Since I got to here without bothering to read the directions, I need to rip back 5 cm or modify the neck a bit. Well, duh, modification it is. Armhole as written was a bit shallow for my taste.

Audio

There are those times where I stop listening to audio books part way through. Sometimes it is boredom, sometimes I am just not in the mood and others? Perhaps it is a mismatch of reader and material that is too annoying. The following three fell into none of those categories – I had just misplaced CDs or files.

Decided to finish listening to several partly heard books since I am in a finish things up mood. Retrieval Artist – Kristine Kathryn Rusch which is the novella that started her series. Second Sight and Sizzle and Burn (Jayne Ann Krentzs Arcane Society Series written under Amanda Quick for the historical novels)

Moving on – Starship: Pirate – Mike Resnick, the second book in his Wilson Cole Series has now only an hour to play. After that, I think I am up for a bit of non-fiction before moving back to Mercedes Lackey’s Phoenix books (which just seemed to drag on and on in the middle).

Progress

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I went ahead and frogged the second sleeve of Pyramide.

hours worth of knitting, gone

hours worth of knitting, gone

leaving only the first pattern repeat, I picked up all the stitches and am working my way back down the sleeve.

forever to go

forever to go

This time I will check regularly to make sure that the sleeves match.  I know that I will be much happier with the result, even if it was painful to undo all that work.  The good thing is that I am decreasing on both ends of everyother ridge, so each pair of ridges is just that little bit shorter.

Moving on – I took a spinning break

shetland singles

shetland singles

testing some commercial Shetland roving that I got in the UK Swap.

I still haven’t come up with a name for her although I really did decide that this Louet is a she, rather than a he. Calling her the brand name of “Victoria” just seems a bit much, but selecting a name from the Victorian Era might just do it.

Finally, I made a bit more progress on the textured sleeveless pullover. Working past the split in the neck, I am now in the not fun position of having three balls of yarn dangling so that both fronts and the back are proceeding at an even pace.

sleevelss pullover, neck split

sleevelss pullover, neck split

Since I managed a bit more after the picture, I have only a couple of cm to go before starting the shoulder shaping.

Obviously, my goal by the end of this coming weekend is to have completed three outstanding WIPs (pullover, Pyramide, Pagode) if not a fourth – the Faery Ring so that I can start Brage (Lavold Sweater) on the 15th.

Two/three are safely back at school and I survived a second night in a row at the gym.

Pyramide – the problem

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Sleeves

Sleeves

You see it, don’t you?

The sleeves just don’t match. Oh, the patterns line up perfectly, but the size is not right. I am going to frog the second sleeve and knit it again instead of fixing it by seaming.

Now, I thought I had the decreases down properly, but obviously it just was not happening.

Pyramide revisited

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Rather than give in to temptation, I pulled out one of my stagnant projects. The first sleeve is now finished.

first sleeve complete

first sleeve complete

Since garter stitch is great video watching knitting, I kept on going and completed almost two repeats of the pattern on the second sleeve.

and progress on the second

and progress on the second

Why was I watching video’s?

The Croughton Library has the new Dr Who series on the shelf……

Heidelberg Castle

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High on the hillside over looking the Neckar sits the Heidelberg Castle. One of these days, I will wander across the river and increase my photo collection.

Meanwhile, here is the castle and the view from the Castle quite early in the morning (avoiding the herds of travelers by tour bus).

You can see age, time frame and the multiple periods of construction by looking at the stones, walls, and multiple layers.

Knitting

Messing around with the Sock cotton – I have no idea what it will look like when completed.

outside, in

outside, in

and the front is now done. On to sewing together the shoulders.

front completely knit

front completely knit

Arches

hello? look above (grin)

Long way up

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Looking again at the conference schedule, I realized that the actual presentations finished up at 1230. Then there was lunch (2.4€) followed by a ride to the U-Bahn. My train was scheduled for 1900 since I thought it was a full day.

Does this sound reasonable? Hanging out and waiting for a later train? Since I have both a bag and a backpack, it is not like I am completely light on my feet able to whip around town and cruise through museums. And I really, really should stay out of yarn stores. Seriously, I need nothing. Except a long 2.00 circ. And some yarn needles, could use extras since they seems to vanish all the time.

My train ticket has no restrictions; there is a nice easy connection in Stuttgart if I catch the 1340. Reservations from the ticket machine just in case.

The train is late. No sweat, says the announcer – 10 minutes late arriving due to issues at the border and 10 minutes late leaving here. The other choices are worse, by the time I figure them out, the last option is pulling away from the station two tracks over.

We arrive in Stuttgart with 2 minutes to go on my connection. Arriving on track 9, it is leaving on track 8. But that is not the same platform, other side. It is down, under and up. Dodging people with trundling suitcases, strollers and groups greeting I get to this insurmountable mountain of a staircase to platform 8. I am tired, carrying suitcase and backpack. I hear the “door closing announcement and force myself up the stairs at a dead run. As I top the rise, I can see the conductors. Stumbling I head for the nearest door, motioning at the other track. I don’t care that it is the wrong car, I just collapse in the entry and pant for a couple of minutes.

Suddenly I feel old. I should just not be this tired, heart thumping after a dash of only a few hundred meters.

I am glad to find I am only a car off and fall gracelessly into my seat. I can hardly hold my knitting needles and just listen to more Callahan on my way to Heidelberg. By the time I get there, the Straßenbahn seems like a perfectly reasonable way to get home.

It is only a small mountain side to climb to the house.

Pyramid

Packing up just before I headed to the train station, I have less than 10 rows to go. Nice thing about steadily decreasing garter stitch – each row gets easier and easier and shorter.

about to start the neck

about to start the neck

Messing around

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All right, I will admit to stopping at Karstadt yesterday on my way to the SanAk.

I got some clown colored yarn……

messing around

messing around

I am also making progress on

Pyramid

Pyramid

as this is the front (back is just out of sight above)….

Listening to various Callahan’s Stories (collection downloaded from iTunes).

The day’s worth of lectures were not too bad and my mind is not completely numb.

old photos –

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I agreed to contribute some old photos to a project and then had to dig through our photo cupboard in an attempt to locate anything appropriate.

I found pictures of the kids –

The Eldest - 1982

The Eldest - 1981

Ms Soprano - 1989

Ms Soprano - 1989

the Mole - 1993

the Mole - 1993

and finally

Ms Copper - 1993

Ms Copper - 1993

the last two were taken the day after Ms Copper joined the family as far as I can tell.

I found no early pictures of me in uniform (which was the original request). In fact, the earliest I can find dates from about 1982-83

fall 1982?

fall 1982?

In fact, I have few pictures of me from anytime. Mostly there are pictures of the kids, scenery and the occasional shot of a house where we lived.

And knitting, one can not ignore the knitting and weaving. I might post a few old pictures of those over the next few days.

Meanwhile, I am making progress on this project.

progress

progress

Believe it or not, the dark heavy stripes are three ridges (6 rows) wide and the white ones only two ridges (4 rows) wide. Up close, it didn’t quite look like the illustration, but the photo matches really well.

Audio

Listened to Mercedes Lackey – Valdemar Foundation then moved on to Kelley Armstrong – Women of the Otherworld (book 9)- Living with the Dead.

This week is the annual Medical Service Corps Officers conference in Garmisch. I am an “invited speaker.”  The bus leaves at 0730 in the morning and I return on Friday.  I know that there is Internet at the Library but probably limited opportunity to upload photos.  Hopefully I won’t be completely email and blogless for the week.