Lamentation and Woe!

[lwood]

Dagnabbit, I was chugging along quite well on Eunny Jang's Print o'the Wave Stole in the ever-popular Sea Silk yarn as a gift for erynn999 with a shout-out to Manannan MacLir...

...and I realised I'd used the wrong cast-on.

So it all has to come out, lest there be an unsightly ridge at one end, and really, that just won't do.

On the bright side, it means it'll be that much longer before I have to buy the second skein. Nova Scotia colorway, friends and neighbors, which wobbles through many greens, teals, and surfaces to peacock blue. Yum!

-- Lorrie

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[wednesday]

Yeah, I've gone straight to a knitter's review thread to see how people have done with the laceweight/size 4 approach. Durable Is Good.

The seaweed yarn's out of my budget at the moment, which is okay -- I got the "okay, you're making a BAG" headclock first to worry about.

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Durable Is Good.

Silk is very, very strong, as is rayon/tencel. I usually bite through my yarn by rubbing my incisors to and fro, grinding it, and the sea silk takes longer to cut this way than any yarn I've worked with--including a lot of worsted weight stuff.

"okay, you're making a BAG" headclock first to worry about.

Groceries? Ritual doodads?

What size? Method?

I worked out a crochet/knit combo bag once, 'cos I wanted, essentially, a Crown Royal bag: stands flat, is otherwise a cylinder, has a nice drawstring. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[wednesday]

Silk is very, very strong

I believe it. It's the finished garment I'd be afraid for, though, thus, well, the likewise Wariness of The Wafty Thing. I break things by coming near them.

Groceries? Ritual doodads?
What size? Method?

Groceries are ritual doodads half the time, so answering is difficult. :) This is probably not the crane bag.

Backpacky-thing. Felted knit thing. This, except skipping the colourwork (the cord and straps will be white, but the rest dark green). Right now, I'm trying to work through the calculations to sort out whether I have enough of the Chosen Stuff on hand to finish it.

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I believe it. It's the finished garment I'd be afraid for, though, thus, well, the likewise Wariness of The Wafty Thing. I break things by coming near them.


Mind you, ahead on my devotional queue is one from a Japanese-inspired pattern that will be all delicate and wafty, but when it's not part of the job requirements, well, I don't wanna so I'm not gonna so THERE.

8-P

Groceries are ritual doodads half the time, so answering is difficult. :)

True, that.

Felted knit thing. This, except skipping the colourwork (the cord and straps will be white, but the rest dark green). Right now, I'm trying to work through the calculations to sort out whether I have enough of the Chosen Stuff on hand to finish it.

While I realise that the exact color combination may be a Requirement, and you have already bought yarn, using white for anything that:

1) Is going to see real use as a practical object.
2) Cannot, feasably, be run through the wash with bleach.

...probably shouldn't be white.

If it is not preaching to the choir to say it, you will want much more yarn than you think for a fulled (mmm, technical pedantry) project like this one. Plus, you will want to...I know, we all hates it...knit a test swatch and run it through to see how it shrinks, as proportion of shrinkage in fulling will vary a lot between makes and models of yarn.

Double-stranded Cascade 220 is often recommended to me for fulling, but what seems to really be important is that it's smooth, non-superwash wool (or otherwise all-mammalian and non-superwash), and not too tightly spun.

By the way, for the cost-conscious knitter that's not currently laboring under crazy requirements like "OMG SEAWEED!"?

Knit Picks (http://www.knitpicks.com/) FTW.

-- Lorrie

[wednesday]

"White" is flexible enough and a small enough component that point taken. (Would also be processed -- yeah, I know, but the relationship between me and the word "full" is Frought -- separately, avoiding bleed problems, so the main detail would be day to day wear.) I am not opposed to replacing that with J. Random Natural Organic Pale Neutral Brown Thing. It's the main body I've got to hand, and swatches of it have already been run.

'Course, am spoilt -- just got through an improv project with a striped dice bag, and the black didn't even *bleed* into the white.

I have a bunch of Nashua Creative Focus Chunky -- wool/alpaca, non-superwashy, single-ply, pretty darn loosely spun (not quite to the point of derogatory metaphor, but getting there)... and 3st/inch instead of the requested 4. The math involved kills me. The math is A Big Stupid Issue. But the yarn kind of jumped on my head.

Knit Picks seems to make a *lot* of people happy. Vote of confidence is a Good Thing.

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"White" is flexible enough and a small enough component that point taken.

Undyed is naturally dingy, so are some of the paler, frothier greys--any of these would show dirt less readily.

3st/inch instead of the requested 4. The math involved kills me. T

Have you considered changing your needle size? Going down one or two should bring you back to spec.

But the yarn kind of jumped on my head.

Yeeeeeah, I know that one.

Knit Picks seems to make a *lot* of people happy. Vote of confidence is a Good Thing.

Just don't take their standard shipping--it's parcel post.

Well, okay, do take it if you don't need that yarn before, say, the next Ice Age.

-- Lorrie