I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again… knitting has not taught me patience the way that everyone assumes. For instance, it seems as though the printed silk cardi is very slow to knit.
I’ve knit the left front, one sleeve, and half the back, so I’m about 50% done, although I’m just starting the diamond pattern on the back, and it seems like that’s going to be very slow. I do really love the way it’s coming out though, so I will try to have more patience! All that 1×1 rib on the sleeves really killed my wrists, although they are very nicely fitted!
I cannot work on the diamond pattern at work (too busy) so I started a pair of socks in plain stockinette.
This is Yarn Pirate sock in the Neopolitan colorway. I bought it ages ago, but I was convinced that it would pool. Fortunately it’s striping nicely, so I should have pretty ice cream colored socks!
This morning I sat with Leon for an hour at the coffee shop (we were outside) while the house was being shown. There is another showing tonight, but I will be at work, so that’s Marc’s responsibility! I’m trying to ignore negative feedback that isn’t helpful. Our condo is laid out like a shotgun house, (I love the most of the photos on the wiki article are from Louisville!) which means that one of the bedrooms is a walkthrough from the front door. This is a challenge, but it isn’t something we can change.
Patience again… I need some. I know I’m a little crazy here, but if I am anything it’s a worrier!
Thanks for the feedback on my color choices! I want to be clear that there are neutrals in the house, grays and various browns that you can see in the big fan of colors, I just didn’t photo them because they aren’t as interesting! I’m still undecided on the chairs, but I’m waiting because I want to refinish the table they go with (it has multiple white spots, I think the finish was not so good.)
Green apples - Stitchywitch Creates 
The printed silk cardi is looking beautiful and well worth all the painstaking, hand-aching work 🙂
You can often get rid of white spots on finished wood furniture by smearing the spots with a generous coat of mayonnaise and letting it sit for several hours or overnight before wiping the mayo off. I know it sounds weird; my mom used this method all the time when I was a kid, and it usually works.
I’m really loving the Printed Silk Cardigan more with every picture you show. That color is so nice that I might just copycat it for my own! Yours is turning out beautifully.
To piggyback on Suzanne, you can also add ashes to the mayonnaise. That’s worked well for me.
I love the sweater its going to be lovely. I’ve been working on the Central Park Hoodie and its coming along slowly because of all the other knitting I’ve needed to do, baby sweater , socks, and etc. I think if your a true knitter you need three items on needles going at once.
I’m afraid I have some bad news for you. Your blog posts (and mine, and many other peoples) have been scraped and republished without your permission on knittingclub.org. Here is one of your posts on their site:
http://knittingclub.org/holding-patterns/knitting/2008/06/09/
I have already tried emailing the web host for this site, and the domain name owner, and he/she/they did not reply or do anything. So I am telling the other blogs whose posts have been scraped because there are things we can all do about it:
– Put a copyright notice in your blog feed, or at the start of each blog post (there is a WordPress plugin for this called Feed Copyrighter). The blog scraper does not remove these notices from the posts they copy, as you can see here:
– Report this site to Google as a spam blog using this form (takes about 5 minutes):
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
If they are trying to make money from search results leading to the site, this will hurt them in the wallet.
The form asks you for a query string that gives bad results. I would suggest using this (including the quotation marks):
“your blog name” “title of stolen post”
That should give you a Google search results page showing your original content and the scraped content. In the comment box on the form you can say that this site has scraped your blog and republished your copyrighted material without permission.
– Post a comment on your stolen posts. You will need to register as a user (the blog scraper is running WordPress) and provide a valid email address to receive the password for the account. If you chose to do this, I suggest that you use a junk email account you don’t intend to use again. The link to register an account is here:
I’ve left a comment on your scraped post stating that I have told you what’s going on. The scraper has comment moderation on, so it won’t show up to anyone but them.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, hopefully we can stop this thing. Please don’t let this put you off blogging, this scraper is one bad apple in a really big barrel.
Regards,
Ali
I love knitting plain stockinette stitch socks….they are so soothing to knit and a real joy when the yarn stripes nicely.
The Cardi looks fabulous. I always love your color choices. Those socks certainly are going to be yummy! ^_^
I can understand your needing to take a break from that pattern and work on socks. Socks are relaxing and fun.
I have just mastered knitting 2 socks on 2 circular needles. If you love to knit socks….this is the way to go.
Oooo! It looks great–Gotta hate those projects that seam to take forever though!