10th Progress

The Petitpointers list I'm on does a "progress report" on the 10th of the month, just to show what everyone is working on -- I like this because not only do you get to see what others are doing, but it keeps the list active as well.  Since I do have a petitpoint project this month, I thought I'd cross-post, as it were, and do my knitting as well!  I might make this a regular thing, as I know I have a couple of half-knitted projects stuck in a drawer somewhere, and this would keep things a bit more towards the forefront of what I still like to call my memory.

I am almost finished with the Teatime socks! hallelujah!  I'm pleased with them, but gosh, it seems like they are taking just ages.  I have I think one more pattern repeat left, and then the toe.

This is Sue Bakker's Turkoman miniature carpet from the Dodge Dolls' House Needlecrafts book.  It may come as no surprise that there was a big problem with the chart, but upon pondering it for a long time, I now suspect that the reason that so little of it made sense -- the estimated finished size compared with the chart, the photograph ditto -- is that the chart is meant to be "flipped", i.e., you get one-quarter of it and you just repeat it, mirrored or flipped as necessary, for the other three quadrants, but presumably Dodge or the publisher said, "No, sorry, it's far too big!" and adapted the design without modifying the chart to have only three guls in the main field instead of the original ten (!!).  Since I wanted my carpet at a smaller gauge anyway, I am working it to what I think were Bakker's original intentions. 

That said, this has just been a tough chart!  Maybe this is because I decided to work most or all of the gold before adding in the dark colors, and it is certainly more difficult to keep things in the right place when there isn't anything close by to "spot" off of.  Please tell me now if you see anything that looks out of place, as good grief I've picked out yards already, including one I think you can still see the ghost of, when I miscounted those hourglass figures along the long edge and started going across a whole inch or so early.

The two-end-knitted mitten is still languishing without its mate.  The wool is quite hairy and raw, as it were, which I like, mind, but makes it difficult to knit with in hot weather, which has been both hot and humid here for quite some time -- the pink Shepherd Sock above is cottony enough that only on the muggiest days is it unappealing, luckily, but the mitten will alas have to wait until October or November, I suspect.

Comments

[Mary Lou]

I still have some unfinished twined mittens. Thanks for the reminder. It is cool in the mornings this week and it feels like late september!

[juliet brown]

Beautiful delicate colours - I think the dog days of summer can be hard to keep the knitting cracking along, it is too soon to feel that chill in the air to get us all excited about autumnal knitting, new seasons knitting books are almost here, there are all sorts of odds and sods sitting around waiting for their knitted mate... Everything can just feel a bit "meh" before it all cranks up again. I like to think of this season as the calm before the knit-storm, useful for gathering knit-strength