Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Endless sleeves

The sleeves for Twist & Shout are giving me problems. They are not behaving.
First I made an error at the start, I knit the wrong rib pattern and only noticed after 30 rows.
Then I knit the main sleeve part to long, the pattern is for bracelet length sleeves and I added to much. Of course I only noticed after I knit almost the whole sleeve cap.


I am hoping this one is OK. I will ignore the wrong cable and call it my ID. I just have to make sure the second sleeve is perfect.
Tara is as busy as ever, I had forgotten to put the child look back on the cupboard which has my knitting needles in it.
Clever girl grabbed the fat long ones.
See how fast she is 'knitting'. She is no match for the iphone camera, hence the blurry photo.
I better go back to my sleeve, hopefully I can finally finish the first sleeve and the second one will be much easier.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Disappointed

Rather than raving about the new Debbie Bliss baby and toddler knits book, I am greatly disappointed.
The book is a reprint of the 2002 Cotton knits for all Seasons book.
The big difference is the 2002 book includes some adult patterns and two patterns for knitted bags. The 2009 book has 20 of the baby and toddler pattern.
Every thing else is the same, same garments with same instruction and photos.

On the left is the 2009 book and on the right the 2002. The big difference is the yarn, the 2002 garment is knitted with Debbie Bliss Wool Cotton yarn. It is discontinued. It know tells us to use Baby Cashmerino, with the same quantity and stitches.
I had been really looking forward to a new book, I guess I am lucky I did not have the 2002 book in my library. I got the 2002 book from my local library. Now I am just disappointed. I'd rather have the 2002 book, it has more patterns for the same price.
I had ordered the book through Amazon before it was published. I don't think I will pre-order Debbie Bliss book in future.
At least I am making steady progress on Twist & Shout, the back and two fronts are finished. I have started the collar. I was thrown by the differences in American and English knitting instructions. I kept reading BO = Bind off, and CO = as cast off, but CO stands for Cast On.
I don't know how many times I read the instructions and could not figure out what to do.
In the end I read a whole thread on Ravelry and the penny or should that be the cent finally dropped.
I hope the sleeves are more straight forward.
I also had some fun with worlde.
  



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