Start: 29th May 2009
Finished: WIP
Needles: 2.25 mm Clover Takumi Bamboo DPNs
Yarns: Zitron Trekking "Pro Natura"; 75% new wool superwash, 25% bamboo; colour #1501 "natural", #1507 "red"
Pattern: "Nordisch inspiriert" from "Socken aus aller Welt" by Stephanie van der Linden
Modifications:
Added 20 stitches of red/white chequered (10 on each side), so total of
90 sts., to accommodate for my size...hopefully it will be enough. In
order to avoid a very long toe area (did Judy Magic Cast-on - starting
off with 22 sts., i.e. 11 on each needle - instead of short-rowing the
toe), I increased up to 70 sts. in total and on the even round of the
last increase, I also increase 20 sts. evenly spread out, then an even
round before pattern begins. Knit according to the pattern, adding
three chequered pattern repeats to the main pattern to accommodate my
foot length, knit one round in MC at the same time, decreasing 10 sts
from the sole of the foot and knit the short-row heel as in the pattern
up to when knitting in MC in the round for 5 rnds. Inc. 10 sts on the
sole on the 4th rnd., k rnd even and then join CC to knit the leg. 5
repeats of 20 rows chequered pattern, break CC and knit cuff in k2tbl,
p2 ribbing for 10 rnds, dec. 22 sts on the second round.
Results tagged “spinning”
Start: June/July 2008
Finish: 14th March 2009
Yardage: ca. 125 m / 50 g skein (2 skeins)
WPI: 12-14
Fibre: "With a Twist", 4.1 oz of 100% superwash merino roving from Lovesticks
Wheel & Setting: Kromski Minstrel, singles spun worsted and navajo-plied on 12:1, double drive
Now that my re-sits are done, we can get back to our previous schedules.
Sorry about the long silence....but well, I broke my laptop last
Wednesday while I got this spurt to clean (which totally subsided as
soon as the computer broke).
I decided that I needed to wash the
table cloth which is under my laptop. I disconnected the laptop, lifted
the laptop up, pulled part of the cloth away and replaced the
laptop....without seeing that part of the laptop landed back on the
cloth. I was listening to some exciting Spanish music (...a tango...and
to be more exact it was "Por una cabeza"...my
favourite one forever...and I was listening to that exact version -
yes, I have the soundtrack) and decided to pull a table cloth out in a
passionate fashion....
...as you can guess, the laptop came
a-flying with the cloth. It landed on the floor with a thud....and when
I tried turning it on, it made a sickening clicking noise and gave me
the infamous Blue-Screen-of-Death saying something along the line of
"Unmountable Boot Volume".
I actually panicked....coz I broke a laptop once already by dropping it on the floor (al contrario, sin tango).
And this time it seemed like history was repeating itself. Back then, I
had to send in the laptop for reparation, which took 6 weeks and EUR
250 (well, actually DM 500). And I didn't want that this
time...especially the six weeks period - not that I would have the
quids to spare either.
I crammed after some contacts and got a
friend of another friend. We met up, he took a look and said that it
definitely was the hard drive. He took my laptop with him and fixed it
for me, i.e. replaced the hard drive, pulled out whatever he could from
my old hard drive and set the laptop up for me again. I paid him
waaaaaaaaaaay less than what I would have to pay were I to send the
laptop in. Thank goodness....but then again, it's not like I have money
to spare, so I'm kinda broke right now. At least til the end of the
month.
Anyway, so now I've got my laptop back, with even more
memory...and it feels kinda new. So, yeah, I'm pretty happy, even
though the darn HP QuickPlay thing doesn't work any more (I haven't got
the recovery CD), but I hardly used it apart from watching DVDs anyway.
And for that purpose, I just downloaded some free third-party programme
and then I'm all set.
So yeah, here I am again. Back in the
beginning of September I had to unplug from the internet unwillingly
for a week because the German Telekom effed up something about the
contract. But I still had my computer to do stuff on. This time around
it was five days completely without computer. I felt as though someone
had cut off my arms....so the only sensible thing I could do was to
knit. Which bore fruit. :-p
I finished my Joukahainen! The
picture above is just a teaser...since I still need to do a proper
photo shoot for it. Here are the specs:
Start: 5th September 2008
Finish: 20th October 2008
Needles: 4.5 mm / 100 cm Addi Turbos
Yarn: Cascade 220, 100% Peruvian Highland Wool; colour 8886, dye lot 7414
Pattern: Joukahainen by Kristel Nyberg. Published in Finnish in the magazine Ulla 03/07. Pattern is available as an English translation as Ravelry download.
