S4$ 3

S4$ 2

S4$ on model 1

Never mind the setting

Look at the sleeves - they're going on! I'm picking up along the edges for a three needle bind off. Makes the seam stronger and less visible. Neck is done, now I just sleeve 2 and the sides and to block it! Despite my initial uncertainty about the colors, I really like it.

The longest 2 inches

Are always the last of a sweater and the back of the S4$ is no exception. But I will finish that piece tonight.
And we went strawberry picking!
Generally I don't love living down here, it's too hot. But early strawberries? Come on!

Back

At practice, working on the back of the S4M and indulging in my new lame pleasure. KnitPicks podcasts. If you haven't listened to them imagine Anna Gastyre and Molly Shannon doing "Delicious Dish" on SNL (Betty White episode, Alec Baldwin episode), only about knitting. I'm a little worried that if my spouse finds I've been listening to these, he'll mock me mercilessly.

Pieces parts

More than half done with the front of the sweaterformoney ... It's pretty, but it's sort of taking over my knitting life.

Front

Here we are, got a good start on the front of the sweater. I had to make the sleeves match but for the body pieces I've adjusted the color repeats of the 2 balls and I think it's going to be more even and without the grey on grey patches which, while pretty, are hard to knit.

Sleeve 2

I'm halfway done. And we have some driving coming up, so with any luck I'll be working on the back next week. I really like it, but if I had to give KnitPicks a hard time, their skeins of Chroma often have tie offs and the breaks in the color make creating matching pieces sort of time consuming. At least no horrible yarfs (yarn barfs i.e. hopeless snaggy tangles in the center of balls of yarn).

Sleeve one complete

I still need a daylight picture. The more I work with this color way the more I like it. More soon ....

Progress

Progress

Working on commission

Are my 3 readers getting tired of looking at endless photos of the stained glass pattern worked in Chroma Fingering? When I'm done with this one , I may be too.

This is Regency on itself - I wasn't sure at first, and I need to take pictures in daylight to do this justice - the colors are softer than they look here. But it had a rhododendrons-in-the-mist effect that's quite nice. I sent the blue/green version to my mom who has gotten me my first actual commission (second, I guess, since I did the Lions baby hat) to make the same sweater only in Regency.
It's a lot of stained glass, and when I asked hopefully if she wanted something different of course the answer was "no, exactly the same".
;)

Yet another hat

In Chroma fingering - midwinter and upick, which was a combination I wasn't sure about, but it's pretty nice. Largely done while watching Steven Frye crossing America. I just need to put a lining in it.

Beanie hat - stained glass

I really like the way this came out - but I think it still needs to be deeper and/or have ear flaps. Lollipop Chroma, nice.

Stained glass hat

With cotton headband lining. I love Lollipop Chroma.

Finally some action shots

Thanks Urban Farm Wife for taking my picture outside today. I think these give the best sense of the colors of all my pictures so far.

Well, that's interesting

Tonight I made the mistake of leaving a can of refried beans our on the counter, which the cat ate half of.

I wonder if beans give cats gas?

On a less totally disgusting note, here's the front of the stained glass pullover, which most assuredly does not have gas:

That's more like it

Happy fathers day!
We went to a AAA baseball game last night






And to see Super 8 today. I liked the movie, but that could just bey generational thing there.
Started on the back of Stained Glass again, much better



Gag, so not a hand model.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Chroma

I'm enjoying working with it. Yes, it's thick and thin and a bit splitty, but soft and light. Worked in fair isle it makes a lovely fabric.
Apparently (not too surprisingly from working with) it felts like the Dickens but maybe a pair of entrelac mittens then felted would work well?
Anyway, random thought, here's my sleeve: