A Few Things Here and There

How the time does fly when I have more work deadlines than I know what to do with. The knitting has been happening, but the photographing and writing have obviously not been happening, for what looks like close to a month now, so without further adieu...

Two more Koolhaas hats in Elann Superwash Chunky (on the road to getting some Christmas presents done sooo early). These were done in the Piquant Green paired with the Evergreen, and same Piquant Green with the Amaranth. I love this hat with a contrasting ribbing (as you can probably tell) and have had fun knitting these up.

And then onto greater and wrappier things: The Honeybee Stole from the lovely Anne, in Amethyst lace weight merino from the equally lovely Anne and her Wooly Wonka Fibers.

Now before I paste the photo in here, a little story that just popped up. I have been working on the stole for the last 3 or 4 nights and had looked at the image that came with the pattern a few times, and thought, hmmm, I don't seem to have the little "Bee" shapes happening in mine, and continued blithely on without listening for one second to THAT voice that I should learn to listen to a bit more, and a bit more closely.

When I took a photo a minute ago of what I had accomplished thus far, I then went back to the pattern on line to link to it for any of you who might want to try this at home, and in the full length photo of Anne wearing her gorgeous Beee stole, I realised, with some dismay, that I had started the whole dang thing on the second pattern repeat.

Yup, didn't listen to the voice... and am I ever sorry now... I have now spent the last 10 minutes looking at the pattern to see if there is anyway I can figure out how to knit the first pattern repeat "down" from where I am, without having it look upside down [delusional thoughts still prevailing] but knowing my limited math and engineering skills, that it could cause me more problems than it would solve. And now I am thinking that I will be starting again, ah well, another lesson and another note to self: Listen to the Voice!

At least I have that second pattern repeat down cold now...

Maybe I'll start another Koolhaas tonight, a blue and brown version.

[Later the same night . . . OK, I have read the whole, and I mean whole pattern and even e-mailed the designer herself, and all is well... how the hell did I miss the fact that the stole starts in the middle... apparently all my deadlines have made me feel tired-er than I thought]

Comments

[Carrie K]

Don't feel bad. I was almost done with Mim's Adamas Shawl before I realized what direction I was knitting it in.

And yay for it not being something you had to fix!

[Jennifer]

I'm glad you were able to figure it out!

[Kathleen C.]

Oh boy! Glad you figured that out before you frogged!

When you did your Koolhaas in chunky did you just do a smaller size and figure the larger yarn would turn out bigger? or did you actually figure some sort of math thing?
I like the idea of doing it in a thincker yarn for ease but I don't know how to figure how that effects size.

[Anne]

Well... um... good? Good that you didn't have to frog absolutely the entire bit you've already knit? I hope that's the case. I can't wait to see the finished version in purple. :)