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ext up on the needles is a project that a friend asked for a guitar strap i took him to gauge over the weekend to pick out the yarn and give him a lot of credit for not doubling right back out you see gauge has become my cheers where everybody knows my name and since i haven t been there in over a month it was all about squeeing and catching up and showing off my in progress malabrigo easy flame lace scarf we also walked in on lisa shobana mason s signing for her new book yarnplay at home she was super nice and had on the cutest grey felt skirt despite all the excitement i managed to concentrate on the task at hand and my friend and i picked out these colors to reflect the colors of his favorite soccer team barcelona i think i also may have walked out with a new skein of malabrigo for a hat and neckwarmer more on that next time i was thinking of swatching for the guitar strap a couple of different ways one with a crochet stitch and another with a knitted slip stitch inspired by anna bell s tweed stitch belt pattern the fabric should be firm and not stretch out too much my gut tells me crochet but i m not too confident in my crocheting skills yet does anyone have any other ideas posted by olga 7 31 am 14 comments tuesday january 01 2008 a winter dispatch happy new year i was going to wait until i got back to austin to post about my newest yarn purchase because i forgot to bring my camera cord to chicago for the holiday break but i just couldn t wait and opted to do violence to the beauty of this fleece artist blue faced leicester dk by snapping a picture with my cell phone ohhhh the loveliest shades of pinks touched with a hint of brown the colorway is burgundy but really if you wanted to be poetic about it it should have something about chocolates and cherries in the name yum after a nice lunch of indian food catching up with old friends from grad school hi vim ashley and i escaped from mla madness on saturday and had ourselves a little yarn excursion to loopy on south state street i was going to take some sock yarn but ashley pressed this hank of bfl into my hands and declared that it was the best thing she d ever knit with or some such thing well how do you walk away from yarn with that kind of endorsement it was the perfect way to spend some holiday money and treat myself for post mla exhaustion so now the question is what to knit ashley suggested a hat and some mittens there is definitely serious yardage metrage 450 meters other possibilities i found by combing through ravelry clapotis i haven t knit one yet no really cowl perhaps ala joelle hoverson s in last minute knitted gifts counterpane accessories pouch from handknit holidays entrelac scarf any other suggestions what to do with this pretty pretty yarn in other news i saw this at my local target thirty dollars for a set of six sock type sleeves for the ipod really posted by olga 4 53 pm 10 comments tuesday december 04 2007 no dissertation yet but there s been some knitting how can i account for my time it s easier to answer that question from you guys than if it were coming from my dissertation advisor i m taking a cue from kate and posting my month and a half in pictures because there is no possible way i could catch up otherwise i finished my niece s sweater judy s grandmother s baby sweater from greetings from the knit cafe and made her a little bag i used this tutorial for the drawstring pouch inspired by this i dressed as frida kahlo in drag for the annual dia de los muertos parade this year they celebrated frida s 100th birthday by calling for 100 costumed fridas to lead the parade from the east side to congress avenue i had fun but i discovered i make a damn ugly guy let s just say i enjoy being a girl i swapped socks with a couple of lovely women femiknitter sent me the monkey and i sent ariel the fancy silk sock we must now knit the second sock and given my current state of distraction it may take me a while to have my second monkey thanks to femiknitter though for a beautiful first sock and a new project bag that i love love love elizabeth came for a visit we got stinking drunk on margaritas passed out and woke up covered in yarn just kidding she came for stitch and we had a fantastic time and maybe had a couple of margaritas and did a little shopping she gave me this gorgeous handmade scarf in a fit of knitting add i made a hat and a hat like covering and a couple of washcloths cue the music you know you hear the song people my raspberry beret kat coyle s pattern from greetings from the knit cafe knit with blue sky alpaca silk it took a skein and a little bit of a second the book says it s only one skein and a calorimetry with less than half a skein of malabrigo i cast on 90 sts for this one a sedge stitch washcloth the pattern which is available on the lion brand website i saw laura s and monkey see monkey do i had to pick up my crochet hook even though i can t manage to hold the hook in any other way than with the grip of death and a fun little washcloth pattern i found on ravelry i knit this with lily sugar cream i think in really pretty ombre colors kay kiddos that s all i got for now i m going to try not to let too much time go before i post again i m working on stefanie japel s back to school vest and perhaps another couple of holiday gifts hope all is well with you posted by olga 3 45 pm 9 comments tuesday october 16 2007 this is how i roll things have been pretty busy here at chez yo la tejo what with teaching and grading working and writing and all kinds of looming deadlines it s kind of killing my joy but there are two things that i can always manage to find time for no matter how crazy it gets friends and knitting my good friend marisa came to visit austin a couple of weeks ago for the women s flat track derby association national championships marisa a k a may r daley kicks ass as a member of the windy city rollers home team and she was in town to cheer for the road team woot i d never been to roller derby before so getting to see it for the first time at the finals was really the way to go we got there for the first match at 11 am and then bought ourselves bloody marys and settled in for a full day i d heard that the sport was pretty rough and while that was true i was just mesmerized by the grace of the skaters marisa tried explaining the finer points of the game to me but all i knew was to look for the lead jammer to break away from the pack the jammers score once they catch up again and pass other team members when the lead jammer breaks away the crowd goes nuts and she gets her own referee who follows her from the inside of the rink with one arm raised in the air and the other pointing directly at her it s so cool i want a lead jammer referee in my day to day life giving me points when i teach a good class or make a good cup of coffee on second thought having someone following me around pointing at me might be kind of creepy later that day the windy city rollers went up against the texecutioners but sadly lost after fighting hard it was a bummer but just seeing all the hardcore fans that traveled to austin from chicago to support their team was pretty amazing the second day we went back for the last bout at night and i took a sock project like a big geek i brought it out for a little while and sure enough the derby girl next to me decked out in tattoos and short brightly colored hair asked me about it turns out she s a knitter too but she bluntly admitted to collecting more stash than she was able to knit huh and that s a problem because here s the beginnings of the fancy silk sock from nancy bush s knitting vintage socks in regia silk i ve gotten quite a ways up the cuff and will soon make it to the heel si dios quiere sweet jesus please yes finally it would seem that my birthday keeps getting celebrated waaay beyond the birthday month my friend vero who was in japan for a whole month brought me back some lovely gifts it should be noted that i am famous or infamous for roping my friends into celebrating the birthday weekend or the birthday week but i ve never before succeeded in making it a whole month mwahahaha among the very cool presents vero and her husband mike gave me which included the perfect erasable pen pretty stationery and a cute ass bento box there was this little guy i wish i could tell you what his given name is but the tag is in japanese which i do not read he is wearing a track suit that says hokkaido on the back which is the second largest island in japan according to the infallible wikipedia oh and that codpiece you ask well you can pull it and when you do he vibrates and giggles merrily joaquin looks concerned posted by olga 7 55 pm 9 comments gauge yarn store update gauge is reopening on saturday october 27 at 11 am they are located at 5406 parkcrest drive austin tx 78731 yay this post is for you austinites and central texans out there gauge the new local yarn store that i blogged about recently is temporarily closed for internal restructuring only temporarily i ve been in contact with the owner karli who hand delivered a book that i d ordered ez s knitter s almanac yay to me last night she assured me that the store is not closed for good but that she is working out the business issues and that she hopes to be open by the end of this month i m on their email list so when i get the notice that they ve opened their doors again i ll let y all know real knitting content to come soon i swear posted by olga 8 38 am 1 comments tuesday september 25 2007 cotton knittin blues thanks sweet readers for your comments on my finished lace tank i got some great ideas for layering it and wearing it into the fall although the only layering i can possibly consider right now that it s still 92 degrees is the kind that lasagna does mmmm and the warm weather knitting continues to drag on here at chez yo la tejo as progress on this baby cardigan goes slowslowslow i don t think i ve blogged much about this project it s judy s grandmother s baby sweater pattern from greetings from the knit cafe it s for my baby niece and i specifically looked for a kimono style pattern because they re just so darn cute i found the yarn in the sale bin at my lys it was part of a classic elite sweater kit so old that they couldn t even tell me if the company made that yarn anymore it was in perfectly good condition so i happily started the six month size but the closer i got to finishing the more unsure i became about the measurements specifically i think the gauge is off but because it s for a baby i thought heck it doesn t have to fit like couture plainly speaking though i think it looks a little weird like it s going to be too long and have these little mini sleeves dangling off the top to make my poor niece look like randy bundled in his snowsuit in a christmas story i was on verge of ripping it out before i started the first sleeve after months of work i really don t like the way the slit gaps in the back but then i said the hell with it ya basta enough i want to knit with wool so i m gonna finish this little sucker i m off to knit posted by olga 5 58 pm 8 comments monday september 17 2007 lacey days not lazy days oof i wish now that the semester s started i don t know that i ll see another lazy day in oh probably months and now that i m wait for it actually doing some writing for my dissertation even my stolen moments knitting and blogging will probably be colored by severe guilt but enough with the whining actually i secretly love that i can now whine about writing my diss i feel like i ve joined the club demented and sad but social i have a finished object for you all lace tank this is my dreamily holding the hem like they do in ik pose specs pattern lace tank from vogue knitting spring summer 2007 yarn euroflax linen 2 100g skeins color champagne needles size 6 size made 34 notes first of all don t be intimidated by this pattern or the dumb magazine copy that s on page 71 they say in the techniques section that when knitting the edge it will be helpful to count the stitches at the end of every row to make sure you have the correct number a missing yarn over would be disastrous disastrous way to go vogue you ve just scared away half of your knitters the truth about the edging is that it s only ever 14 20 stitches long so if you make it to the end of your row and you re missing a stitch well you just tink back a row of 14 20 stitches because the lace is double sided i actually was pretty intimdated at first but once you get past the edging and the razor lace you re more than halfway done the more complicated lace near the top demands your attention it s true but it s not that hard there s no crazy knit 5 together through the back loop action going on here there are also charts available on the vk site so be sure to look for those i wore this tank all day today and i m actually pleased with it which surprised me because as i was knitting it i was convinced that it was going to be one of those fos that spent more time in the closet than in the light of day why you ask well i love knitting lace as those of you who ve been reading for a while well know but the tank tops i ve knit haven t really worked out well for me either stretching out or not fitting right and because the yarn was so scratchy to begin with i was sure that wearing this would be akin to wearing a big heavy dishcloth not so i ran it through the wash in a lingerie bag and it softened up considerably i know that the more wash it gets the texture and the drape will improve i did find however that it was just too long on me what they don t show you in the magazine but what you can kind of see here if you look closely is that the armholes are really roomy also i felt that bust portion was hanging too low after cutting into the single crochet edging on the sleeves and neckline i frogged about an inch from each of the straps kind of eyeballing it which was a mistake i botched one of the straps ripping back too much so i knit it again in garter stitch until it was even i wouldn t recommend the reckless approach i would recommend however trying the darn thing on to see if you re happy with the armholes before seaming the straps and working the single crochet common sense yes do i have any apparently not after those adjustments i picked up the crochet and finished the edgings weaved in the ends and ta da the fit is much better in other knitterly news i visited gauge the new lys in town the space is airy and modern with that just painted feel to it yarns are arranged by gauge of course and although the store owners kept saying that they weren t completely settled in yet they had a nice selection i was stupidly excited to see shelves of cotton ease ha i thought this was brilliant since i can t find the stuff either at the other lys or at hobby lobby i was also pleased to see malabrigo worsted weight and brought home two skeins in the american rose color the owners were super sweet and ve...