August Knitting

August was a productive time for knitting, as I swore off sewing for at least a month after struggling to finish (ha, yeah right) my brother's trousers in time for the 4th of July. It's not really worth working on something if you don't enjoy it.

At this rate, it'll probably end up being the end of the month before I pick up my sewing again, and then I think the first thing I'll do is finally finish my stays, once and for all. But in the mean time...

Fetching - yes, me and 4 million others. The yarn was supposed to go into a pair of the Twisted Maiden Mitts, but that pattern is ridiculously problematic where the outcome is really something very simple. (There are errata posted, but there's a lot more wrong with that pattern than some missing thumb increases, let me tell you. They're sized to only fit a child with adult-length arms, for one. There's probably several sections of ribbing missing. It was bizarre.) It just wasn't worth the effort of re-writing the thing when all I wanted was something quick, simple, and stress-free. So thus the fetching, in the discontinued Mulled Wine colorway of Wool of the Andes.

Yep! I finally finished my green sweater. (Pictures taken by the incomparable Betty.) My mom called it the 'wooly green monster' when I was nearing the end, as once you get to the raglan decreases and all the parts are fused, it really tends to look like a dog's breakfast. The sweater's Mariah from Winter Knitty 2004. I like this sweater so much that Durrow's gone into the project waitlist, to be made for my brother, who's pre-approved the pattern ("that's so cool!") and picked out a yarn. 

Also finished a pair of Pomatomus from Winter Knitty 2005 with one of three colors of sock yarn I recently acquired. I hadn't knitted any socks in a very long time, so it was fun. Got almost all of the second sock done on a vines field trip to Northern Michigan.

The pictures I have of these are from a whacky angle. I may bother and try to take new ones somehow...

Then again, maybe not. Either way, it was a very fun pattern, though I have to admit that the first sock has some mistakes in it, that just weren't noticeable enough for me to want to pull it all out. I did have to rip back slightly when I barely ran out yarn for the toe of the first sock, but the socks still fit, so it's fine!

Now I've finally got my Muir going, too.

Wow, I make a lot of things out of Knitty...