Bunny sweater progress

But first, I'm so happy that Cass likes her socks! They were fun to knit and I like that they look more complicated than they really are.

I've finished the front of the bunny sweater. This is really my first intarsia project, and it shows a little. The right side of the bunny face has vertical bars between the green and white stitches which might have been caused by picking up the strands in the wrong direction or could be poor tension (though I'm not sure in which direction). The inside of the ears should be pink, but when I knit with that the tension was worse, so I ripped back and I'll duplicate stitch the pink later. Even now, though, the ear on the left has a little pinch where I stranded the green behind it. I will use the standard knitting get-out: "Hopefully it will block out." Wish me luck.

(The pink spots on the bunny face that look like eerie eyes are actually bunny cheeks. Eyes and mouth outline will be embroidered later.)

Also a little bit of a new challenge was doing the fair isle back-and-forth at the top and not in the round. It wasn't bad, really. My purl with the British method is extremely awkward, but certainly passable. The knitting looks fairly even, so it should be ok. Hopefully it won't need to rely on the miracle of blocking!

Now I'm starting on the back, which has no bunny and virtually no neck shaping, so it should go quickly. The sleeves have the striped hem at the bottom and the same top pattern as the shoulders, so the non-fair isle parts should make good class and meeting knitting. Maybe this will be complete in a few weeks...

Other Projects Update

The only progress here worth noting is on my Rowan sweater. No picture today, but the sleeves are in and the seams are sewn. There are a few more ends to weave and I need to finish the neckline. The concensus this weekend was that an attached I-cord should set it off nicely. That should go quickly, as soon as I have a chance to sit down and do it! It would be easy to do during meetings, but it's not very subtle to have an entire sweater in your lap.

I haven't really been working on anything else. The hours available seem small. Maybe that's because I did rip out the foot of that sock again, so I'm knitting, but not producing anything.

Why yes, Nancy, that is a spinning wheel!

And it's Nancy's spinning wheel. I had to give back the Guild's wheel, but Nancy loaned me her spare. I haven't had a lot of time to spin, but I am taking spinning class (yay!). After missing the first week, Maggie (the instructor) caught me up on carding and drop spindle spinning. I brought home a Louet this week, but I haven't had time to card and spin. I have a math test on Wednesday and another cume on Saturday, so the week is fairly full. I guess that's not so different than all the other weeks...