Progress

I'm nearly done with the vest and I'm really hoping to be completely finished with it tonight if all goes well. I think that I am going to have JUST enough yarn to finish the thing. I may be one row short on the ribbed edging, but I can fudge that to work easy enough.
This is about where I stand on it right now. I'm a little farther along than this picture shows, but I'm lazy and don't want to get the camera out again for a new shot.

Knit on...

The Yarn Crawl

I had a good time this weekend. DF and I went to Seoul on Friday night and on Saturday morning, I got up before him and headed out on an all-day yarn crawl. The first place we hit was Dongdaemun and I could have probably spent all blasted day there. It was huge and was just stall after stall of yarn dealers. Sure, most of them sold basically the same thing, but there were gems tucked in there as well. I came out with all this after the first stop:Wine-colored merino. Enough for a sweater.Australian wool (unknown breeds) in denim colors. Enough for a sweater.A pound of dishcloth cotton. I need to make some since I haven't found dishcloth cotton here before.And lastly I picked up some seed beads for future shawl making.

After the crawl in Dongdaemun, we headed to Myeongdong to Banul Knits. Banul was nice, but it was much pricier than Dongdaemun for sure. Since I had pretty much already blown my budget for the day, I just picked up one ball of Austerman Step sock yarn:After Banul, our last stop of the day was Insadong and My Knits Studio. I ended up going a little crazy in this store because of their huge selection of knitting books in English. I only picked up one, but I also found the KnitPro needles in the bigger sizes I needed to complete my collection of the Harmony wood needles. So here's the haul from My Knits:Dumbledore Sock yarn. I agonized over which of the three characters to pick up, but since that evening I was going to see HBP, I chose Dumbledore. These socks will be known as the Dumbledore is dead socks.The KnitPro needles. Last, but not least, I grabbed this book as soon as I saw it:Been wanting this book ever since I heard that Cookie A was coming out with it. Wonderful layout. Can't wait to read it in detail and pick out the first pattern to make out of it.

I picked up a few other accessory things, but since as of this point I may have caused your computer to freak out, I think I'll call it quits for today. Updates on knitting projects tomorrow!

Knit on...

We Interrupt This Blog...

For a yarn crawl.

A group of knitters...

A bunch of yarn stores...

All congregating in Seoul for the event...

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A Sock and a Vest

I don't have any good pictures of spinning to show you from yesterday since I only plied a few yards of purple. I'll finish the plying tonight and will have pictures tomorrow. I do have some knitting progress to show though. First, it's the Hedera sock. This is my school project that I work on in between classes, so it's fairly slow going since I only work on it for maybe 10 minutes at a time. But I finished the first one and I'll cast on for the second today:I am happy to say that this pair will actually be long enough for my foot judging on how the sock fits on the sock blocker. I also worked a little more on Mom's vest last night:It looks wonky in the picture, but I assure you that it's not in real life. Blocking will make those diamond motif's really pop out too.

That's it for today. Hopefully more progress of knitting and spinning tomorrow!

Knit on...

The Vest

The vest was very nice to work on last night, except for one thing. I finished the first ball of yarn and measured. It was 6.5 inches long. At 12 inches long, it's right around half way done. Now I only have four balls of this yarn, so this means I am either going to have just enough yarn, or I'm going to be short. The pattern calls for less than 800 yards. I bought 800 yards....this could be interesting. But I'm going to keep on knitting for now. I guess worse-case is that I run out of yarn and have to frog and start it in a different yarn. A friend of mine is hitting the yarn store where I used to live to see if she can find one more ball of this color, but I am very skeptical that she'll find any.

But without further complaining, here is the lovely motif progress:It's now over 8 inches long. Cross your fingers and hope the knitting muses are on my side for once! :oP

The pattern for those who want to know is the Greenwood Cabled Vest and the pattern can be bought here if you clicky.

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Whoops

Well, I completely forgot that Monday the 13th was the rest day for Tour de Fleece. I realized this when I got home from work and was getting ready to ply a ball of singles and saw the notice. Well, on my lunch break, I had plied up the green singles:So, since it was supposed to be a rest day yesterday, I decided this morning that today would be my rest day from the tour. I know I didn't do that much yesterday, but you're supposed to do no spinning at all, so today is my official "rest" day.

Since I didn't ply anymore last night, I worked on mom's cabled diamond vest. Here's the current state of the diamond motifs:I'm really pleased with how this is turning out. Hopefully I'll make some good progress on it this evening when I get home and can't spin for the Tour!

Knit on...

Seeing Green

I did continue to spin just a little bit this weekend. I finished the first cop of the green fleece, but that was all. I think I may have burned myself out on the spinning after finishing all the purple as fast as I did. But, I'll continue my tour goal of spinning a little each day.

I also cast on for a garter stitch scarf. I don't know why I was craving simplicity like that, but I certainly was. Anyways, no pictures today. Hopefully I'll have something to show tomorrow!

Knit on...