Alanna's Christmas stocking
Oct. 10th, 2007 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyToday I cast on for Alanna's Christmas stocking. I am using the KnitPicks Swish Superwash wool, in Fired Brick, Squirrel Heather, and Jade. And I am using the size 10 needles. (well, 8 and 10, mostly 10)
I have been pretty intimidated about this, because eek, colorwork. I don't DO colorwork. I've sorta tried it twice - once way back in an SCA class to make an Islamic style knitted bag, which I never finished, and once with Maggie's Christmas stocking, which had a few two-color bits. They didn't come out so well.
Now, it's probably too early to tell. I'm only 17 rows into the thing, and the first 12 were solid red. But - so far, this is not as bad as I'd anticipated. Slower than solid color knitting, yes. But not as bad as I'd thought.
Well, I suppose I did become a better knitter in the last 5 years since I've done this.
There was an option to have the band I'm currently in be solid color, and then later duplicate stitch a name in. I was going to do it - but then I thought about it, and Maggie's and Jamie's knit stockings don't have their names on them. So I think I will leave it without. They're all distinctively different. And this way I can at least imagine that they'll pass them on down to their firstborns.
I have been pretty intimidated about this, because eek, colorwork. I don't DO colorwork. I've sorta tried it twice - once way back in an SCA class to make an Islamic style knitted bag, which I never finished, and once with Maggie's Christmas stocking, which had a few two-color bits. They didn't come out so well.
Now, it's probably too early to tell. I'm only 17 rows into the thing, and the first 12 were solid red. But - so far, this is not as bad as I'd anticipated. Slower than solid color knitting, yes. But not as bad as I'd thought.
Well, I suppose I did become a better knitter in the last 5 years since I've done this.
There was an option to have the band I'm currently in be solid color, and then later duplicate stitch a name in. I was going to do it - but then I thought about it, and Maggie's and Jamie's knit stockings don't have their names on them. So I think I will leave it without. They're all distinctively different. And this way I can at least imagine that they'll pass them on down to their firstborns.
