Joy to the World - Body Done!

When last we met on this project I had finished both triangles and had 84.7 grams total of the mini skeins left.  I also had 88.9 grams of the teal.  I weighed one of the triangles and determined that it took 91 grams total.  So I knew that I did not have enough yarn to make two more triangles, but I had plenty to make one.  So I started a third triangle using the mini skeins, working them in reverse order, starting with 10.  I switched skeins only at the beginning of a right side row to keep things looking neat.  Then when I ran out of the mini skeins I finished off the triangle with the teal and then joined them using a three-needle bind off.  Now I need to do the finishing work, which will all be done in the teal.  I’m thinking of working an I-cord edge along the top, just to create a neat edge, and then working a knit on lace edge on the rest of the edges.

Pattern:  Joy to the World by Louise Robert

Yarn:  Biscotte Yarns Bis-Sock & The Unique Sheep Kiri

Needle:  US 3 (3.25 mm)

Beaded Earrings

The next project was these earrings.  It did take me two tries to get the tension the way I liked it, and I ran out of one of the beads, but a quick email to Potomac Beads and they sent me more right away, no charge. The earrings are on one of my cool beading boards that I bought at the last Bead & Button show that I went to in 2018.  There are no more Bead & Button shows.  They cancelled the one in 2020, and the magazine stopped publishing in October of that year.  So now I will have to get my bead fix some other way.  Of course I have lots of beads already, and a number of kits that I need to make up.

Holiday Earrings & Bracelet

I have also been doing some beading.  I ordered a bead Advent Calendar from Potomac Beads and these were the first two projects.  There were some beaded dangles I could have made for the bracelet but they didn’t hang well from the chain so I decided not to do them.  The biggest challenge with the bracelet was just getting everything attached and evenly distributed.  I do like symmetry.

Science Experiment - Finished!

While I was letting my subconscious mind work on the question of what to do next on my Joy to the World project I focused on finishing up my Science Experiment shawl, completing it on December 16.  After finishing up 3 repeats of pattern B I switched to pattern C and worked the rest of the shawl in that pattern.  I didn’t quite work 6 repeats of pattern C, finishing on row 12.  When I bound off all the stitches I had about 1 foot left of color 25.  I love it when I use up all of my yarn, and win at yarn chicken.

Blocking took me a bit longer than I thought it would. And used up most of my blockers.  I ended up blocking the lace edge straight.  It just seemed to want to do that.  I absolutely love the gradiance of this set.  It is just so perfect, and goes so perfectly with the theme of the set - the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram for categorizing stars.

Day 1: Xi Persei

Day 2: 10 Lacertae

Day 3: Spica

Day 4: Achernar

Day 5: Regulus

Day 6: Deneb

Day 7: Vega

Day 8: Altair

Day 9: Canopus

Day 10: Polaris

Day 11: Procyon

Day 12: Delta Draconis

Day 13: Capella

Day 14: 51 Pegasi

Day 15: Epsilon Indi

Day 16: Aldebaran

Day 17: Arcturus

Day 18: Pollux

Day 19: Proxima Centauri

Day 20: Trappist-1

Day 21: Bernard’s Star

Day 22: Gacruxx

Day 23: Mira

Day 24: Antares

Day 25: Betelgeuse

Pattern:  The Science Experiment by Melinda Measor

Yarn:  Mad Scientist Yarns Hybrid, 2020 Jekyll Advent Calendar

Needles:  US 6 (4 mm)

Joy to the World - Two Triangles Done!

One of these days I will learn to actually read the directions all the way through.  I sort of read them, and then I didn’t go back and look at them when I started knitting, so instead of decreasing the number of rows that I knit with each of the mini skeins I knit the same number of rows - 10.  And then wondered how that was going to work for making 5 more triangles.  Of course it wasn’t going to work.  I realized my mistake as I was knitting the last couple of mini skeins, but at that point I decided that I was committed and did not want to rip back or change what I was doing, so I just went with it.  I do like the size of my triangle.  The original pattern was more of a long scarf, which I’m just not that in to.  I did manage to get a second matching triangle out of the yarn.  Here are the weights of the mini-skeins after knitting the second triangle:

1 - 15 g

2 - 13.8 g

3 - 12.4 g

4 - 10.8 g

5 - 9.7 g

6 - 6.9 g

7 - 6.2 g

8 - 4.9 g

9 - 3.4 g

10 - 1.5 g

Just made it.  Now I have to decide what to do next.

Pattern:  Joy to the World by Louise Robert

Yarn:  Biscotte Yarns Bis-Sock & The Unique Sheep Kiri

Needle:  US 3 (3.25 mm)

Duha - Finished!

I actually finished this up almost a month ago, on November 28, over the Thanksgiving week holiday (I took the entire week off from work), then I almost forgot to post a picture in the forum thread in time for the final drawing.

Pattern:  Duha by Janica York Carter

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Luster Superwash Merino Sport

Hook:  US H-8 (5 mm)