Pursuit of Fiber » I do shrug http://www.pursuitoffiber.com/blog This is my pursuit of my dreams and aspirations in college to have a career in fiber. I have dabbled in many things of the fiber world, but knitting is my main obsession. Occasionally you will see the others pop up. Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:06:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 FO Friday – I do Shrug http://www.pursuitoffiber.com/blog/2007/05/04/fo-friday-i-do-shrug/ http://www.pursuitoffiber.com/blog/2007/05/04/fo-friday-i-do-shrug/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 17:01:00 +0000 rchrispy http://pursuitoffiber.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/fo-friday-i-do-shrug/
Pattern: I do shrug on Knitty.com by Jody Prival
Yarn: Valley Yarn Southwick (52% pima cotton / 48% bamboo) on onyx
Needles: US 8 Brittany DPN
Mods: This pattern almost undid me. It was not clearly written. At least I had glanced at Amy’s blog Needles & Hooks where she had documented the erratas which were not all transposed to the pattern. I ripped out so many times. I would be merrily knitting along and realize that I needed to rip out 5 inches of knitting and not once but multiple times. This shrug is done. It looks amazing and my ends are cleverly woven in. I will probably never make this project.

Bud really likes the shrug and as you can see it goes really nicely with her new dress.

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This week has been busy. It was my birthday and I spent most of my time leading up to that day knitting for my sister-in-law Bud and teaching a friend how to knit socks and how to fix stitch mistakes.

I finished the shrug for Bud. I will post about it later when I can get a pic of her wearing it. For now I will leave you with a close up of the stitch pattern.

All in all I had a great birthday weekend hanging out with my husband all weekend. I don’t normally get to spend so much time with him since he either is busy with work or Boy Scouts. This weekend he ditched the scouts to hang out with me. What a special girl I must be.

On Friday we headed out to my fav spot near our home. I am so lucky to live near such beauty. We had fun as the dogs played in the water and snow. The weather was clear and sunny.


On Saturday Churchable took me to the Astoria Crab & Seafood Festival. I was really looking forward to tasting all the yummy seafood. If I am given a choice of meats, then I usually choose the seafood option. The food was good but there was not very much seafood. It was mostly wine. Oh well.

Since we did not have very much at the festival, I made Spicy Steak Tacos from Cook’s Country.
Updated with recipe on Experimentation of Taste.

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This week has been spent sitting and knitting. Some days I get more done than others. While I sit here knitting, I listen to podcasts about knitting and wish that I was finished with my projects that I promised other people so that I could pull out the graph paper and start charting some really cool lace tank top. Oh well that time will be this summer once all the formals are done and all the baby showers have been thrown. For now I have my constant approving audience that prefers I sit in one spot and knit.

The sweater she is wearing is one that I made for her considering she is too small and long to wear commercially made sweaters. Pretty soon she will be ready for a custom made STR doggie sweater. I am not sure how I will make hers, but I know that I will need to make it so that the yarn can be salvaged when she grows bigger.

We have a finished object. I have been knitting along with the Sexy Knitters Club since the beginning of the year. This is my 3rd sweater with them and my 2nd KAL. This is Rusted Root. I really love the fit and enjoy the look I have here. Here are the stats.

Pattern: Rusted Root by Zephyr Style
Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece (80% cotton /20% Merino Wool) 3 skeins in Candy Apple.
Needles: US size 6 circular (unknown maker – an original from before I knew about wood) and US size 5 circular (unknown maker) and dpns (clover) for ribbing on arms and waist. G hook (susan bates, of course) for the neckline.
Mods: Ok here goes. I stuck pretty much to the pattern but took out the puffy sleeves. I really am happy with the lack of puff. I decided since I was making the size down from my chest size that I did not want the ribbing to pull in too much and went up to a size 5 needle for the ribbing. Also the photos of the neckline did not jump out at me as being cohesive to the pattern so I skipped the ribbing and did a single crochet around the neck – going into every stitch on the shoulder sides and into every two out of three stitches on the front and back neck. Also I did not like the look of the p3tog on row 9 of the lace pattern and placed a k3tog instead. I felt this caused the lace to flow more smoothly.

More pictures below:

Last time I mentioned that I had a shrug to make for my sister-in-law Bud. I got to start it Tuesday since I had finished Rusted Root on Monday. The I do shrug has a complicated lace pattern that is different every row. I am using Valley Yarns Southwick (52% Pima Cotton / 48% Bamboo) in Onyx. I am not so excited about this yarn as when I ordered it. The yarn is loosely twisted and thus individual strands snag while knitting. I have the 18 line lace pattern memorized and I am halfway up one side. Hopefully I will get a lot done on it this weekend while I am at a retreat where I get to sit, listen and KNIT.


I am off for the weekend to go to a retreat. On the way there, my friend and I will be doing a yarn shop hop. See ya next week.

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