Katéri's Crafts

Here is an image of what I have completed. I will touch it no further as I don't know how much yarn I need to finish up the "trim". On the right, you can see that there is excess yarn. That's because the yarn is wool, and it turns out that wool is easy to rip ;) Oups. Heather fixed it for me, bless her heart. Then she will show me how to "sow" back in the stiches. I really liked working with the aluminum needles (size 10 US). This thing is made by basic knitting, no "pearling" on the other side. (Fuck, I really need to work my vocabulary. It's particularly intimidating to read other knitters' blogs. I hardly have basic knowledge.) So yeah, all that is left is finishing the trim, fixing the extra yarn and the felting process. I wonder how much it will shrink. I was surprised to see that one ball of yarn only yields a rather small knit square. Wool was pretty tricky to work with. I had no trouble for the first half, and was knitting very tightly. But towards the end, the yarn became rather precarious and threatned to rip/sever all the time. This resulted in me knitting rather loosely. In the end, I don't see a difference ;) Oh! and my hands don't cramp as much :)

Posted by Katrina on Friday, July 14, 2006 at 5:05 PM | Permalink