Posts from ‘August, 2006’

I took lots of pictures last night of everything I have been working on, but now I can’t find the charger for my camera, so now I can’t post them. Yesterday at the LYS one of the ladies encouraged me to make a purse of a cabled shrug I had started, but never finished. I [...]

As I got close to the end of the yarn on my IHS, I was really disappointed because the yarn was splitting in spots. It was odd, it wasn’t like that on the other ball. It was a ball of cascade 220. I’ve never seen that before. So it truly is a scarf for one [...]

I struggle with depression. It’s an everyday occurance for me. Somedays, I function fine, and then other days, it’s like I don’t function at all. I don’t even get to the point where I am making it through the movements just because. Today felt like one of those days, where I wasn’t doing well. I’m [...]

I’m still working on my illusion scarf. I have made it through three repeats of the pattern, and I’m actually enjoying it. I, sometimes, have a really hard time following patterns, or any kind of directions really, not just dealing with knitting. I love seeing how the illusion suddenly pops. I’ve been trying to decide [...]

I have finished the first letter on my illusion scarf, and I’m still not sure if I am seeing it yet. I had to frog the first attempt as I noticed that the letters were not going to be in the right order to read. So, the first letter is complete, and I am off to [...]

I started off this morning, casting on, and since I am winging it, I cast on too many and the fabric was as long as a blanket, so I frogged it and cast on what looks to be a more managable number. I’ve gotten to the first row of where I want my illusion, but [...]

Starting my first illusion scarf. I can’t wait to actually get to the part where I make the illusion. Just casting on, and slowly finish my irish hiking scarf.