Week # 4 Create Art
I like to knit... I actually learned how to knit the summer we spent in Ireland when I was 12.. I often do design my own sweaters... but when I travel I usually drag along something to knit... I'm still not sure if airport security allows knitting needles, so I don't tend to knit on planes or in airports. I thought security didaalow needles now. but I had a set of double pointed needles confiscated in Spain last year... This trip I dragged along a kit for a shawl made out of mohair and silk. Totally mindless knitting! The reason why the following picture does not have any needles in it is because the needles called for are entirely the wrong gauge/size. The pattern is American it calls for size 9 doesn't give a metric equivalent size... but since it is printed in the US one presumes that the needle size is American which gives a metric 5.5 needle... well guess what that needle size is going to give me a little neck ruffle not a shawl... so tomorrow I will go buy myself a set of much larger needles! The pattern is actually full of errors.... I don't remember errors in patterns when I first started to knit, now most patterns have errors.
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This was inadvertantly posted on Wednesday... I couldn't figure out how to change the post date once it was live!
I am back to where I was on Wednesday... using 9mm needles not 9 US... It was a US pattern that said size 9 needles so I assumed the meant 9 US which is 5.5 mm... Hopefully now I will end up with a shawl not a neck ruffle!
14 comments:
Beautiful colored yarn
At first glance, I thought it was a Sky Scarf! LOL There is not much that frustrates me more than sliding rows and rows off of the needles to start over. Safe travels!
I'm visiting family in Alberta now...my first leg... but while I was in Toronto waiting for my plane to western Canada the wheel fell off the plane that was going back to Saint John... don't hink it was the plane I had just got off of but it was the same type of plane! Think there was about 10 r=fire trucks and emergency vehicles... right outside where I was waiting!
I think it's going to be lovely when it's done. It looks so soft and what a lovely shade.
(I'm #41 this week)
hahaha - most patterns have errors! THEY DO! :) Beautiful colors!
Very pretty. All the more so with getting off to a bad start.
Fun creating. I tried knitting but never got so far to develop a rhythm so I never caught the fever. My mum does all sorts of embroidery and the bane of her existance are poorly translated instructions
So far it looks very pretty. I never learned to knit or crochet, and really never had the desire to do so.
I can't wait to see the shawl when it is done. That yarn looks gorgeous. I have always wanted to learn to knit .. one of these days ...
A shawl or a scarf it will be pretty either way!
Thanx for sharing. Your shawl looks like it would be very cozy. Please post a finished pic of it.
Very pretty! wish I could knit!! I have a good friend who creates knitting patterns and I know how long the process is for her to design, lay out the pattern and then have test knitters try the pattern. It can take 6-9 months to put out one pattern!
Between wrong needle sizes and errors in the pattern, I would have thrown in the towel! It's going to be a gorgeous color!
I hope you get a shawl out of it Lynne, because the yarn you are using is so pretty and it looks so soft and cozy!
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