academic woes and knitting

[frualeydis]

I am currently trying to tie together the last loose ends in my chapter. I'm not totally happy with it, but I think I need to finish it and leave it to Thomas (the professor) and get on with the next chapter. Then I can have a new look at it with fresh eyes in a month or so. I'm going to bind together some sections and then I'll print it and read through it and make some changes and then I'll give it to him.

I have finished my shawl now, but I'm not totally happy with it. Firstly it's smaller than I thought it would be (I also used less yarn than expected, which is odd). Maybe I knit too firmly, it's much denser than in the pictures for sure. It is also very uneven, very far from a perfect triangle. I have followed the description, but maybe I knit more firmly at the end of each row or something like that. We'll see what pinning it to a blanket and a sheet and pressing on it with a damp towel and an iron will do. I think it will be pretty anyway, but now that I have finished it and really have gotten into knitting that pattern I feel that I really want to make another to make it properly. I won't do that, but I would love some help to find a victorian knitted bed cap or something like that. I have seen pictures of them, but no descriptions.

Comments

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

Perhaps when you re-look at the chapter it won't be as bad as you think? You may be too deeply into it to do that at the moment.

Good Luck

Teddy

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

That's what I think too. Actually I think it's a very good chapter, but I strongly feel that I can't improve the things that _need_ to be improved now, it's too close. So next week I will start on chapter 4. "The development of dress in Sweden and Norway".

Eva

[myralea.livejournal.com]

>> I would love some help to find a victorian knitted bed cap or something like that. I have seen pictures of them, but no descriptions

i think i have a couple of patterns (either in swedish or in german) one would be able to adopt as they might be somewhat later than 1860s. could be a good start point anyhow.

when i finished the back of my knitted bodice (am just about to cast off for the neckline!), i'll start with the corset and a pair of stockings or knitted... "legwarmers" (?? hm, seems i've lost the correct term right now, but am sure you know what i mean)

i have several patterns of very sweet and lacy knitted half-mittens too! also found an easy pattern of knitted garters! (it's only a one-evening project)

been planning to post some patterns and plans for these projects on some webpage or the other, probably my knitting section ;)

knitting have become an obsession taking over my life...

/m

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Is it a lace shawl, or is it solid? If it's lace, then pinning it out and letting it dry a little stretched out will really bring out the structure of the stitches and will fix little unevennesses like you say you've got. Blocking it out the same way, if it's solid, will probably help, but it's not guaranteed.

I cast on 375 doubled stitches in a really nice black alpaca, thinking to do a lace kerchief. Knitted back on the first row, which includes umpty-zillion repeats of knit 5, yo, k, yo, knit 5, then slip as to knit, k2tog, psso, knit 5 and my freaking stitch count is off.

ARRRRGH!

The picture of the scarf/kerchief is here: http://www.knitpicks.com/projects/projects_display_yarn.aspx?itemid=30529221

It would be gorgeous in this black alpaca I've got, if I could just get beyond the first row!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Oh, that one is beautiful! I would love to have a shawl like that, and in that colour too.
I have pressed the shawl and it is more triangular, but definitely not symmetrical. Apparently I have a very different tension when I decrease in the beginning of the row and when I do it in the end of the row. It doesn't show so much when I'm wearing it drape dover my shoulders, I just have to think of it so that it hangs nicely on my back.

Eva