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oyceterI am currently gorging myself on all the figure skating Tivo has recorded for me. This is one of the reasons I love Tivo -- I always want to watch things like figure skating, but I never know when they're on or what channel they're on. With Tivo, I can just plug in keywords and it finds them all for me. Unfortunately, each competition is about 3 hours worth of viewing time. And they record even more for the big ones, so I have about 10 hours of the World Championships recorded! But... pretty people doing pretty things on ice. I am susceptible.
The plus is that I have mostly mastered knitting while watching TV, so I can at least be somewhat productive. Today's figure skating watching has produced four inches worth of the front right panel of my hooded sweater jacket. I think I'm even starting to work out a system. I've got sticky notes all over the pattern so I can keep track of my rows, as well as the stitch and row ratios. The pattern is supposed to be knit using Lion Brand Color Waves, but all the colors they had when I checked out Jo-Ann were really ugly. So I'm using Homespun. It knits up nice and nubbly, especially with garter stitch, but the problem is it's not really a twisted yarn. Instead, it's a whole bunch of fibers wrapped around with a thin thread, which makes the bumpy texture. But that means it twists up very easily. Grr. And I had to translate the gauge and everything, because it's not quite the same gauge as Color Waves. So far it seems to be going ok. I've found I knit mostly to gauge, although mine is just a wee bit larger than normal gauge. Sigh. It's frustrating because it measured out fine in the beginning but ended up changing! Also, despite tightening my end stitches, they're still a little uneven. Actually, all of my knitting right now is a bit uneven, but luckily I seem to have gotten out of the habit of dropping stitches. Amazingly, all those dropped and added stitches back in childhood seem to have helped.
Forthcoming projects include a mini afghan, a short-sleeved top in lavender alpaca, another cute top knit in the round (haven't tried that yet) in black cotton, hopefully with a pink ribbon, because if nothing else, I am incredibly girly, and this in green and gold yarn. elann.com is evil and tempts me with cheap yarn. I'm also tempted to pick up the yarn for this, but I think I should probably finish something that's not a scarf (and the dozen other projects I have planned) before getting even more yarn!
Luckily, I have a knitting group once every two weeks and another one every week at work. And lots and lots and lots of figure skating to watch....
The plus is that I have mostly mastered knitting while watching TV, so I can at least be somewhat productive. Today's figure skating watching has produced four inches worth of the front right panel of my hooded sweater jacket. I think I'm even starting to work out a system. I've got sticky notes all over the pattern so I can keep track of my rows, as well as the stitch and row ratios. The pattern is supposed to be knit using Lion Brand Color Waves, but all the colors they had when I checked out Jo-Ann were really ugly. So I'm using Homespun. It knits up nice and nubbly, especially with garter stitch, but the problem is it's not really a twisted yarn. Instead, it's a whole bunch of fibers wrapped around with a thin thread, which makes the bumpy texture. But that means it twists up very easily. Grr. And I had to translate the gauge and everything, because it's not quite the same gauge as Color Waves. So far it seems to be going ok. I've found I knit mostly to gauge, although mine is just a wee bit larger than normal gauge. Sigh. It's frustrating because it measured out fine in the beginning but ended up changing! Also, despite tightening my end stitches, they're still a little uneven. Actually, all of my knitting right now is a bit uneven, but luckily I seem to have gotten out of the habit of dropping stitches. Amazingly, all those dropped and added stitches back in childhood seem to have helped.
Forthcoming projects include a mini afghan, a short-sleeved top in lavender alpaca, another cute top knit in the round (haven't tried that yet) in black cotton, hopefully with a pink ribbon, because if nothing else, I am incredibly girly, and this in green and gold yarn. elann.com is evil and tempts me with cheap yarn. I'm also tempted to pick up the yarn for this, but I think I should probably finish something that's not a scarf (and the dozen other projects I have planned) before getting even more yarn!
Luckily, I have a knitting group once every two weeks and another one every week at work. And lots and lots and lots of figure skating to watch....
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