Posted in January Aran Sweater, Knitting on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finished the knitting of the sweater, sleeves and all! Here is the sweater, pre steeking.
Got to love all that natural wool goodness – I’ve become quite spoiled, fiber wise. The blanket that the sweater is being displayed on is another Elizabeth Zimmerman unvention, her cushy blanket from The Opinionated Knitter, also knit for my [...]
Posted in January Aran Sweater, Knitting on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve worked my first sleeve, and started it on a 16 inch circ, and hated how it was stretching out my stitches – EZ recommends just putting the 42 stitches right on the circs off the bat, but I can’t adjust my gauge like she was able to, knitting master that she was. At any [...]
Posted in Family, January Aran Sweater, Knitting on January 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Done!
And yes, we will be refinishing our floors soon, why do you ask? If you notice, I worked the back higher on the shoulders, as per EZ’s advice. Usually when working a sweater in the round like this, you insert a few short rows so the back doesn’t ride up (I see London, I see [...]
Posted in January Aran Sweater, Knitting, Tutorials, tagged Bavarian twisted stitches, Elizabeth Zimmerman, right twist, sweater, traveling stitches, wool on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, now that we have twisting your stitches to the left covered, let’s twist to the right. Again, please excuse my stone age Paint program – it is all I have!
So, again you have your knit stitch and your purl stitch, this time the knit stitch needs to travel right to continue that great diagonal line.
Just like on the left twist, you slip both stitches as if to purl to the right needle.
So this is the tricky part: you dig into the back leg of the purl (second) stitch with your left needle. Remember, your two ’active’ stiches are now on the right needle.
The next move is similar to the last move of the left twist- you slide the left needle so the knit stitch pops off (your purl stitch stays safely on the left needle). Catch the knit stitch with your right needle. Now your knitting should look like the picture above.
Slip the knit stitch back on the left needle, so you can work both stitches.
All you have to do is knit, then purl, making sure your stitches aren’t twisted (unless your pattern says to twist). As for me, I’m going to see a woman about a manicure!
Posted in January Aran Sweater, Knitting, Tutorials, tagged aran, Bavarian twisted stitch, Elizabeth Zimmerman, fishtrap, January, knit, Knitting, sweater, traveling stitches, wool on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since it is January, many people have taken on the challenging January Aran Sweater from Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitter’s Almanac. The biggest hurdle for me (so far – we haven’t gotten to steeking yet, but I’m in extreme denial about that) has been mastering the traveling stitches, of which there are hundreds in the fishtrap pattern [...]
Posted in Cooking, tagged cod, Cooking, scandanavia, sweater on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is the salt cod stew from the Scandanavian Cooking Show. The recipe is linked here.
Very tasty, and surprisingly easy! After soaking the salt cod for about a day and a half (I refrigerated it, as the fish does smell a bit…fishy), all you really have to do is chop the vegetables and [...]
Posted in Knitting, tagged haiku, knit, Knitting, sweater, tweed, wool, yarn on January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
fluffy and warm, speckled tweed
strangely feels linty
why were you unpopular?
Goodbye, Skye Tweed!
Posted in Knitting on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My husband was flipping through stations yesterday and he came across this show on PBS that is a 13 episode series on Scandinavian cooking. The recipes are pretty great, as they were featuring bacalao, known to us here as salt cod. Around Boston, we see a lot of it in Portugese and Brasilian cuisine, but [...]
Posted in Knitting, tagged aran, Knitting, New Year, sweater, wool on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Okay, so my first New Year’s resolution is to post on this blog much more, as sometimes life gets in the way of blogging. The baby is much more manageable, and I’m able to get more stuff done. The more daunting resolution I have is completing the Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitter’s Almanac. Yes, the entire year. [...]
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