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July 15, 2005
Creelin' In The Years
At long last, we've entered the home stretch on the Irish Creel pattern! It just sort of happened one Thursday in Watertown, I measured the strap and Holy Cow it was sixty inches! The applied i-cord turned out to be one more stitch than the pattern actually called for, but when I started it that Sunday in Somerville, I forgot the book. Still, that only leaves me with two i-cord button loops (and buttons) before this thing is totally done.
Still, the sixty inch cord isn't really enough for me to really sling it over my shoulder, and the six-stitch wide cabled cord seems a little flimsy at first glance. Still, until I get my act together about the embroidery, this might stand in as my "small project bag" until the sling bag is done.
This was my first foray into mattress stitch, and so I pretty much ended up winging it all the way around the edge. Still, I think it turned out alright.
And this, as usual, is my sorry attempts to photograph the stitch pattern and cabling. I feel I need a better lighting set up or something.
Posted by omar at 11:48 AM | Comments (2)
4 MORE SQUARES!
Could it really have been March when we started this thing, and we're only at twelve squares? Sheesh. Anyway, Betsy has had plenty of other projects to keep her busy, but every now and then I needed a little project to tide me over between prcrastinating on other things.
Posted by omar at 11:30 AM | Comments (2)
July 12, 2005
Just a quick note
To let you know we are still alive and knitting.
Summer has hit full force, and we're living in one room of our apartment in close quarters with the bunnies and the AC.
My knitting has had to take a backseat to the joyride of my job search. I finished my Master's in Teaching this month and I'm deep in interview mode for my first teaching job. We will be moving at the end of the summer, and we don't know where until I get a job.
I have been a slow knitter, I don't have pictures. :) I have one stripey sock done, that's about it as far as FOs. The WIPs will be flashed later.
Word on the street is that Omar has a brand spanking new FO that is bee-yoo-tiful. I bet you'll get to see that soon, along with some afghan squares.
Maybe I'll finish another sock by the end of August =P
Posted by Betsy at 05:01 AM | Comments (24)