The neverending project

Back to working on the Wedding Afghan. Remembered why I don't work on this during my lunch break: too difficult to read pattern, wield cable needle, and eat lunch at the same time.

Two panels

Rather horrid photo of the Celtic Wedding Knot ... two panels being worked upon at once, on an extremely long US 10.5 circular needle. When watching Doctor Who the other night, I realized I had made a glaring error with one of the cables. It's fixed now. Phew.

Erm, anyone remember that wedding gift I'm knitting?

The Celtic Wedding Knot afghan is chugging along, and I finished knitting up the first panel last night. Then I immediately cast on for the second panel. I have about two or three rows done of the second panel, and I'm wondering if my Addis can support two panels at once. It's not very long (about... uh... twenty four to thirty six inches? Math and I don't get along).

As it is, when the wedding rolls around Labor Day weekend, my cousin and his bride will receive a photograph of the afghan in progress.

Yardage Concerns

I've been bad this past week, as I have hardly knitted at all. Today I picked up the afghan again, and realized that I am now on my third ball of Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash in Jelly Bean. However, I am still working on the first panel of the afghan. I am beginning to worry that I may not have enough yardage to complete the darn thing.

Off by .5mm

As I was knitting and watching Bones tonight, I realized something.

I've been using the wrong needle size.

See, the recipe for the Celtic Knot Afghan calls for US 10.5 /6.5mm needles. I grabbed what I thought was my US 10.5 circs, cast on, and have been happily knitting this thing for a week. I am a row or two away from finishing the first repeat of 40 rows.

What I grabbed was my US 10/6.0mm circs. It's not that much of a difference, though my gauge may be a bit off (I'm curious to know what the gauge is myself, actually).



Edit: This Friday afternoon I went to the nearest yarn store, where I reluctantly bought the correct size needle. Reluctantly, as Addi Turbos were the only needles in stock (and Susan Bates are much cheaper), and as I am really not looking forward to frogging this beast.

Not your average wedding afghan

I haven't been blogging as much as I would like to, and I've fallen quite behind in keeping up with my blogroll. I have a vacation coming up, so there will be some time reuniting myself with the knitting blogosphere.

Last week I cast on the Celtic Knot Afghan, and I reached row 19 tonight. I'm enjoying the pattern so far, though why, oh why, Nicky Epstein, did you not chart this?

Progress so far...

There would have been more progress made this weekend, but I idiotically left my knitting behind when I went to a lecture. I picked at my nail polish in sheer frustration.

Celtic Wedding Knot

Light Iris

Jelly Bean

I love my local yarn store, Knitting on the Lamb. The owners are incredibly helpful, and fun to talk with. After work today, I drove over to Huntington to get around 1700 yards of worsted weight wool for the Celtic Knot Afghan that I will be giving to my cousins as a wedding present, come September.

Five skeins of Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash Paints in Jelly Bean and three skeins of Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash in Light Iris... I think I might have enough yardage. I just need to scare up a size 10 1/2 circular knitting needle, my trusty cabling hook, and my row counter so I can cast on tonight.

My cousin and his bride-to-be already know they are receiving an afghan as a wedding present, and I doubt they know about this blog. So there will be sneaky pictures posted every once in a while!