Back to the wild

It has been such a long time since I’ve last written, and I think the starting up again is based on, not really peer pressure, but more, uh, unknowing urging. I’m not the only twenty-something named Adam who has a knit-blog of sorts, and some new posts have started popping up on adamknits.com again. So here goes!

I think today I’ll just start with some of the knitting that has actually been accomplished. My first fair isle project ever was started and finished soon after the new year. There were several pairs of socks, and my first ever sweater. I’ll keep it short and simple today, just look at the pictures.

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jerkameleon/lillehammer


http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jerkameleon/mad-color-weave


http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jerkameleon/seamless-saddle-shoulder-pullover


http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jerkameleon/gunpowder-eyes-neko-case


There will be more to come. I’ve actually finished too many projects recently that I haven’t had time to properly take pictures of them all. The list includes several hats, my first ever washcloths (which come with their own story) and my version of the Hemlock Ring Blanket (which if I had known exactly what was going to ensue during the bind-off I may never have started).

Across the hands that are changing

I've been listening to my music on shuffle for the better part of the past month, which is a bit strange for me. It feels perfect like that lately though.

It's been a while, and that's not really due to a lack of material. Like I've started my very first sweater. I'm doing the seamless saddle-shouldered sweater from Elizabeth Zimmerman's "Knitting Without Tears" in Cascade 220 in a purple color. I expect it to turn out great. maybe a little bit bigger than I intended, but that's okay. I'm about 8 or so inches into the body right now, and have about 10 inches of one sleeve done. I'm holding off for next Friday to buy the rest of the yarn for it. Michelle has been holding the rest of the yarn for me so I can just buy it as I need it, but she is having the annual anniversary sale on the day after Thanksgiving where all yarn will be 20% off, so I will be buying the rest then, and likely enough yarn to make another sweater out of Donegal Tweed.

The only other project that has had any progress on it since the start of this sweater has been the scarf I started this summer. The weather has gotten cold enough that a scarf will soon be a necessity. I'm already thankful for several of my hats and the yet-to-be-felted mittens.

It's been snowing in Houghton, MI already, and this year I'm less nostalgic for that particular aspect of life there.

What would you yell into your well?

The Internet is filled with amazing things, like YOUNGME - NOWME, a project that is collecting photos of submitters at a young age and comparing them to pictures of them now, generally in the same pose. Check it out.

In knitting related interests, I've started three projects since I last mentioned anything. I started a ribbed sock, a scarf knit on a bias, and a twisted rib watchcap. The sock has become my traveling project, and the cap is now my watching-Pistons-basketball-on-TV project, mostly because it is on circular needles and has a simple pattern, so that when the game comes back from commercials I can just put it down. I also started to teach myself to knit English style, just for shits and giggles.

P.S. Smog shouldn't have written so much great music. "Knock Knock" is probably my favorite album of all-time, and I just got "Red Apple Falls" and "A River Ain't Too Much To Love" and am just smitten. And the only reason I bought those was because Amazon had "Sun Giant" by Fleet Foxes on sale for 3 dollars and I was damn well not going to pay as much for shipping as I would for the cd, so I aimed for the $25 free shipping mark. "Sun Giant" is better than I expected, which means that it is great.