So I haven't felt chipper, cheery or alert, but the fingers continue to knit. Fall-back is to cast on 100 on a circular needle and k2p2 for 6 inches with oddballs, then place a marker every 25th st and k2tog after the marker every row , move to double points, and carry on to 12 stitches left. run the tail of the yarn through them, draw it up, sew it back and forth across the top a few times, and fasten off.
Hats for the orphans.
And then there was these couple of balls of gray poly/silk/rayon weaving thread that I had in the stash that just wound up on the needles somehow. I have been quite happy with a nice little thermal layer at work the last few months. I really ought to sew the ends in before I wear things, but oh well.Lordy those are matronly hips!
You must be feeling better!!!! Yeah! Lovely knitting...lucky kids!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the first knit cap and its fluffy look---like a kitten!!!! Purrrrrr...........
ReplyDeleteThose hats look so comfortable!
ReplyDeleteI think you have a beautiful figure! Women deserve to be curvey and not sticks.
ReplyDeleteI do love the vest, though. It looks very feminine and warm.
Cute sweater. If you was your age and looked like a stick, I'd wonder what incurable disease you had.
ReplyDeleteYou're beautiful & if you didn't have the camera in your hands you could totally be Vogue-ing (it's a dance thing)!!
ReplyDeleteWow--you can even knit when you're sick! (I love the thermal layer-- so versatile:-)
ReplyDeleteSee, now I know (as if I didn't) that I am more obsessive than you.
ReplyDelete(Smily icon.)100 st. in 2x2 rib divided at 25 st.? I'd probably try it at 20...couldn't bear to put it in the middle of 2 knits or purls.
My go-to easy hat is the 1x1 rib watch cap from Charlene Church's hat book. So far I haven't been obsessive enough to master and use the tubular cast-on she specifies.
I just did a 2x2 rib shallower cap on 76 sts - 50 grams of rather chunky yarn. That is NOT a good # from which to reduce and the directions in the pattern made an ugly crown,too flat and with big holes. In my obsessiveness I reworked it 3 times. I like what I came up with. I'll bring it along Sat. for your comments.