In top knitting news...THE shawl is FINISHED...OK, so I need to weave in the ends and block, but the knitting is done. She is beautiful.
The picture doesn't do it justice since I had no patience to lay it out all nice...just pictorial proof it is finished.
I am still knitting daleks, like, DUH. Right now I have been commissioned by a group of David Tennant fans on the Doctor Who Forum to knit David Tennant a dalek. There is a whole nother blog about that here. This is what it looks like right now.
It is SO much nicer knitting a dalek out of the Cascade 220 than acrylic. The ladies at the yarn store thought he was the best looking dalek I have made. I hope David thinks so!
I also started a pair of arm warmers for my friend of 20 years, B_. Bless her, she has had a series of bicycle/falling accidents which leaves her now in a removable cast on her left hand and a crutch for her right leg...NO JOKE. Now this is the woman that got ME started in knitting in 1995 and she made a request of me. How could I say no? She wants to cover most of that cast on her arm with a pair of arm warmers.
She found the pattern and I will be her hands on this project. This is the pattern she picked Basically I will be using all those worsted weight left overs and creating the arm warmers. This is what I have done so far.
I like it, I hope she will. I am using a certain technique to choose the number of colors (8) and the number of stripes. It is called the Fibonacci number sequence. To learn more about that in knitting GO HERE.
So I have two plastic cups. One has pieces of paper with the numbers on them. The other cup has the color name on them. After each patch of color, I pick the next color/number from the cups and continue to knit. It is kinda fun knitting by chance, but still in a pattern.
Oh, and I have been commissioned to make another fauxhawk for a friend's niece. Now this is a little girl (age 9) after my own heart. She wants a red, black and white (sound familiar, mom?) fauxhawk with a skull on the side! I love it. I have picked a chart for the skull...I probably won't get to starting the actual knitting on it until this Friday.
Yeah, it's too bad I hate to knit so much...
DAILY DAVID
2 comments:
Wow! what a great update. Glad that things are going well for you and you are finishing so many projects. Take care.
"The Shawl" looks wonderful! Let me help you block it?
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