Mohair, redux

Well, I suggested the idea that we take out the border and put in one more block, and Evil Twin was willing. So, we spent a bit of time undoing ~9 rows and rethreading the needles, and then Evil Twin did the final block. I just did one row to get the border going again (knit/purl x 5000), and now we're ready to finish it off (again).

Just 30 minutes for me, though that does take me into double digits (10.25 hours overall). Yeah!

Catherine

Miscalculating

It was not great weather this weekend, so Evil Twin and I got a chance to knit on the blanket. We were banking on the border taking more yarn than the blocks, which in fact it did not, so we ended up with almost an entire extra ball of yarn. Is it worth undoing to add in another block before closing it out? Maybe.

Hmm... maybe.

Anyway, I worked for 2 hours to do 10 rows. And in between my two shifts of 6 and 4 rows each, I went and took a nap. What a great day!

9.75 hours for me!

Catherine

Mohair mania!

I'm sorry, but I have a tiny bit of hoarding to report. Sunday (1 hour 20 min) and Monday (5 hours 10 min) I worked on the blue blanket for my friend, to the overall tune of 6.5 hours. The really fun thing about the work I did on Monday is that Evil Twin and I decided that we should take turns doing one block at a time (each pattern block is 6 rows), so that it will really be from the both of us. Evil Twin is just a little bit slower than me, but we are good relay partners. So he also worked many hours that day, with the result that the blanket is nearly done!! Just one block left and then a 10-row border to match the other end; we don't think there's enough yarn for two blocks. And we do have to tuck in all the ends, though we need to buy an enormous needle for that - the yarn is ~1/3 inch thick. The side effect is that Evil Twin's house was fairly covered in mohair dust - it was all over our clothes, socks, hair, and definitely the floor. We spent a good amount of time pondering what alternate purpose the mohair could be used for, but didn't make it very far.

Hopefully my next post - needle pending - will be to show a lovely finished product!

7.75 hours for me.

Catherine

Something blue...

No, don't get excited. My friend and former officemate is getting married in August. In moving out of the office (and country), she left me with a giant trashbag filled with a half-made blue mohair/wool/acrylic blanket with the cutest triangle pattern (from what I understand, made by her mom; it remains unclear to me why it wasn't finished), sitting on size 15 knitting needles. She knows I like to knit, and so was just getting rid of the yarn by giving it to someone who might use it. But what she doesn't know is that Evil Twin and I are planning to finish the blanket and send it over as an early wedding present. Bwa ha ha!!

Somehow I doubt she'll wear it on the big day, though...

1.25 hours for me! Sadly, that's already more than 50% of what I got in the last 3 months...

Catherine

I'm a Hoarder!

It dawned on me that the end of March marks the end of our first quarter of Competition Year Two (if you can call this competition).

I've been teaching Middle to use the sewing machine and making Smallest a poodle skirt for a dance that she'll be doing, so I've done some sewing that I need to report.

It took about an hour for the skirt, then I've worked about an hour on the petticoat so far, and about two hours on Middle's shirt. She lost interest, so now I'm finishing it. We cut it out together and put most of the top together before she had better things to do.

So I'll go with 4 hours.

7 hours total.

And a happy birthday to you, Leetle Seester!

Margie

Strike that, reverse it

I spent the last week grumbling over that square I'd made badly, so I took out the last three seams and redid them. Much improved. I also did one other square. My bad sewing last week made me sufficiently nervous that I sewed really slowly, because all that took me an hour. I had plans to sew more than that, but all this yummy salsa I've been eating all weekend is numbing my brain...

2.25 hours for me!

Catherine

2011: Return to sewing mountain

Finally I have done some sewing. With no particular inspiration, I went back to my quilt, and sewed three squares up in an hour. Except, one of the new ones is pretty uneven - see? I have to think about whether it might even get the axe (or the seam-ripper). How many am I supposed to be making again?? Anyway, I've got 4 more squares ready to go, so hopefully that won't take another month to get to.

Also, a very small amount of hoarding: I spent 15 minutes working on my crochet creature during the Superbowl, and a few minutes the day before that helping someone (who shall henceforth be called 'my evil twin') learn how to knit. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I had some secret tips to pass on!

1.25 hours for me!

Catherine