Omena - Finished!

I finished this up this past Wednesday.  I was going to work nine ripples of the Element 79, but when I got to six I decided it was the right size and cast off.  Getting a good shot was a bit of a challenge, from the front it doesn’t look like much.

 

Pattern:  Omena by Jill Zielinski

Yarn:  Dream in Color City

US 6 (4.0 mm)

Omena - Half Way

Having finished up my Mirror, Mirror Vest, I turned my attention back to my June Camp Loopy project.  This project is also great work knitting, and I have a lot of meetings this week, so I should make a lot of progress on it.  I usually try to remember to weigh my skeins before I start knitting, but sometimes, in my eagerness to get started, I forget with that first skein, which is what happened on this project.  I did remember to weigh my second skein, and partway through knitting that one I decided that I really wanted to know exactly how much yarn I had used.  So I weighed my knitting.  It came out to 201 grams, total.  I had 13 grams of my first skein, the Fancy, left over.  My first skein of Eaten the Plums weighed 116 grams total, and I had 28.4 grams of it left when I weighed my project.  So, doing the math: 201 grams - (116 grams - 28.4 grams) - 13 grams = 100 grams.  So I used 100 grams of the Fancy, less whatever my knitting needles weigh.

The pattern calls for an equal number of the ripples or ridges or whatever you want to call them, but because I could only get one skein of my first color, Fancy, I could only get three ripples out of that single skein.  I figured out that I needed to work eighteen ripples total to get the size I want, so I decided that I would knit six ripples in my second color, Eaten the Plums, and nine ripples in my third color, Element 79.

Pattern:  Omena by Jill Zielinski

Yarn:  Dream in Color City

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)

Omena - Cast On

It is June, so it is time for Camp Loopy!  This year the theme is Science Camp.  For the first challenge you need to combine colors, combine patterns or use beads with yarn.  I went for the Color Lab.  For the first project I picked something from my queue, the Omena Vest.  I’m using Dream in Color City in (from top to bottom) Fancy, Eaten the Plums and Element 79.  The pattern calls for two skeins of each color, but The Loopy Ewe only had one skein of the Fancy, so I bought two skeins of Eaten the Plums and three skeins of Element 79.  I’m going to work an I-cord edging around the armholes using Element 79 and also work an I-cord bind off in Fancy.

Pattern:  Omena by Jill Zielinski
Yarn:  Dream in Color City
Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)