Saturday, February 17, 2007

continental knitting demo

this is too cool. i've always wanted to learn how to knit continental. it looks so elegant somehow. and sleek. and apparently it is faster. having watched the demo and knitted along with it (pausing and rewatching as i went), i can certainly see how it would be a more efficient way to knit. at the moment i am merely awkward. but maybe in time? i'd have to work on something small and inconsequential, like a scarf, before tackling a garment. hmmm.

in clapotis news, i discovered yesterday that i did not have enough yarn to finish the decreases. curses! so i ripped again. third time's a charm, right? i'll probably have lot of yarn left over now but c'est la vie; obviously i can't gauge it any closer. the boy keeps listening to me curse and watching me frog and he finally asked if it would be possible to just get more yarn. i can't bring myself to tell him how much a hank costs. i just keep repeating, i am not buying any more yarn! i could have finished the damn wrap days ago...

other knit news: my guild has a swift and ball winder available to members. sweet! i emailed the keeper of the swifts and winder and i can have it at the next meeting. in march. i kept meaning to email before this month's meeting (this past tuesday) but always forgot. now i have to wait. sigh.

i checked ebay and found a swift for $36 and a winder $29. tempting. but not right now. my sister in law has both but lives in london. i should see if they are heading this way any time soon. we'll be seeing them in march (around the same time as the guild meeting). or i could just suck it up and wind all of my yarn by hand. i just had visions of all these cute little cakes of centre-pull yarn lined up on the dining room table.

in baby j news: our little monkey is seven months old today. oddly, he was absolutely irate at 12:36pm for no good reason. flashing back seven months to the moment of his birth?

2 comments:

Ms. Hedda said...

That's a wicked demo. I'm SO trying that at home.

Have you had any more luck with it?

Trixie said...

i haven't played with it since sunday except for briefly at knitting on tuesday night. i showed another girl and i was surprised at how easily it came to me. but oh my how loose my knitting was. i do think i will try to continental knit that scarf for my SIL using the soho. i'll let you know how i do.