December 5, 2006
A friend of ours recently got married and we will be attending the wedding reception soon, more friends are celebrating anniversaries. It seemed like a good excuse for me to get back to dishcloth knitting. I guess it helped that I already had the yarn waiting to be used, and things are tight enough that it’s not an option to just go buy something. Anyway, I resurrected the dishcloth links like Dishcloth Boutique, and of course there’s a wealth of patterns and links available from the Yahoo Group MonthlyDishcloths (Knit-A-Long), like KnittingKnonsense.com among many others. So far, one dishcloth, and one potholder done. Guess I’d better pick up the speed a little.
November 23, 2006
I’m working on Elizabeth Zimermann’s Baby Surprise jacket. It is such an ingenious idea that I just couldn’t resist. I got the supplies for it as a kit from Schoolhouse Press. I made a bunch of rookie mistakes on it, but since it was such a puzzle to me, I didn’t really know what to do to fix it. It came out pretty cute in spite of me!
I used an applied I-cord to finish the edges. Since I didn’t have a double-point needle handy, but DID have a shorter circular needle handy – even though it was a sizesmaller than the one I was using to knit the BSJ I used it for my DPN. I can’t really say I’d recommend doing that, because it does kind of pull in the edges a little tighter than you may want, especially with something done comlpetely in garter stitch, but I like the looks of it. Actually, I kind of wish I’d used this size needle to knit the jacket in….
So, need I say, it was a learning experience? 
I love the smell of the Jameison & Smith shetland yarn. It reminds me of when I had sheep to care for. Hope my son and DIL don’t mind their new baby smelling “sheepy” every now and then. This was the first time I’ve used this yarn. It reminds me of homespun and I absolutely love it.
