Sunrise Circle, Quickie Update
As I expected, I did end up finishing the first piece of my Sunrise Circle yesterday. Last night, I sat on the couch and strung sock yarn through some of the edges of the thing while I watched a scary movie, and then proceeded to start on the second sleeve.
The scary movie was The Orphanage, and this time I was grateful for the subtitles because my knitting project was simple and I was able to mute the volume during the scary parts without missing any words - I find that turning off the scary, suspenseful music makes it easier to cope, as well as sometimes setting the speed to 1.5X fast forward. I like scary movies, but they kinda scare me.
Anyway, the kids stayed asleep for once and some progress was made. This morning, Sophie and I shipped Julie off to pre-school and then my littlest helper helped me block out my curlycurly piece of knitting.
She just couldn't resist the bubbles from the Eucalan bath that the sweater was briefly soaking in. Luckily, I had chosen to postpone worrying about the breakfast dishes till after I had done my blocking, so I was able to pull the sweater piece out of the bath, wrap it in a towel and let it sit while Sophie played in the bubbles and I unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher.
On to the office room, where I remembered SouleMama's trick of letting her little one (who is much younger than Sophie) move straight pins from one pin cushion to another. I don't actually own a pin cushion, so instead I gave Sophie an extra box of T-pins and the rice bag thingie that I still had in my office from last week's sore neck episode to stick the pins in.
She loved it, and it kept her busy while I pinned out a sunrise. Don't worry - I was right there watching her the whole time, and there was no trouble at all. I don't think I would try this trick with Julie around - different personality and more creative trouble-making skills and all.
So anyway, this blocking job involved a lot more pins than my last one. I used my sock yarn trick for the straight edges, but the curved one I found to be easiest by just going to town with the pins. It blocked out right on the mark size-wise, and I have to say that I just love the way the stripes are turning out.
So the knitting on this project is more than a third done already! Trouble is, all accounts tell me that the sewing on this project is quite a bit of work between the side-seams, the arm seams, and most abundantly tacking down all the facings. Not to mention somehow creating the button-loops, which is totally new to me.
For now, the littlest helper is napping and I have another half hour before I have to wake her up and take both girls to the dentist. We have done lots of talking and book-reading on the subject of dental visits since the last time around, and hopefully Sophie will still be happy to show off her chompers and Julie will at least agree to let them look in her mouth.
The scary movie was The Orphanage, and this time I was grateful for the subtitles because my knitting project was simple and I was able to mute the volume during the scary parts without missing any words - I find that turning off the scary, suspenseful music makes it easier to cope, as well as sometimes setting the speed to 1.5X fast forward. I like scary movies, but they kinda scare me.
Anyway, the kids stayed asleep for once and some progress was made. This morning, Sophie and I shipped Julie off to pre-school and then my littlest helper helped me block out my curlycurly piece of knitting.
She just couldn't resist the bubbles from the Eucalan bath that the sweater was briefly soaking in. Luckily, I had chosen to postpone worrying about the breakfast dishes till after I had done my blocking, so I was able to pull the sweater piece out of the bath, wrap it in a towel and let it sit while Sophie played in the bubbles and I unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher.
On to the office room, where I remembered SouleMama's trick of letting her little one (who is much younger than Sophie) move straight pins from one pin cushion to another. I don't actually own a pin cushion, so instead I gave Sophie an extra box of T-pins and the rice bag thingie that I still had in my office from last week's sore neck episode to stick the pins in.
She loved it, and it kept her busy while I pinned out a sunrise. Don't worry - I was right there watching her the whole time, and there was no trouble at all. I don't think I would try this trick with Julie around - different personality and more creative trouble-making skills and all.
So anyway, this blocking job involved a lot more pins than my last one. I used my sock yarn trick for the straight edges, but the curved one I found to be easiest by just going to town with the pins. It blocked out right on the mark size-wise, and I have to say that I just love the way the stripes are turning out.
So the knitting on this project is more than a third done already! Trouble is, all accounts tell me that the sewing on this project is quite a bit of work between the side-seams, the arm seams, and most abundantly tacking down all the facings. Not to mention somehow creating the button-loops, which is totally new to me.
For now, the littlest helper is napping and I have another half hour before I have to wake her up and take both girls to the dentist. We have done lots of talking and book-reading on the subject of dental visits since the last time around, and hopefully Sophie will still be happy to show off her chompers and Julie will at least agree to let them look in her mouth.
posted by Shelly Kang at 1:01 PM
2 Comments:
Nothing like a little helper, to make a future knitter! Can you imagine knitting along with your two daughters? Whoooo Hoooooo!!
My youngest loves to wind up my yarn scraps into balls on the winder...
The sweater looks good so far.
Evil temptress. You are making me (re)consider the SS. I have lots of stripey yarn. Or I could buy some. I say again, evil temptress enabler. ;-)
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