Making snow
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a wife of an exworker -> friend. I knew she knit at some point but it came up during our conversation that day. We made another date to go play with yarn - that was wednesday.
The first display at HTE was a cute fair isle dotted hat and baby cardi. The helpful lady pointed out there is a First Fair Isle class coming up this saturaday (yesterday) and they need more people. She did the "I will if you will" :)
Here is a picture of the hat when I left class. It is UGLY and ICKY. HTE didnt have the ciruclar US#9 in 16" so I ended up doing the project in dpn. I would not use dpns for any fair isle projects. Here it is before wash and block nd the inside. I am not sure Snowball hat is for public consumption so some [un]lucky stuffed animal may take it.
Jule, the instructor was really sweet. She was casual and helpful and all the good stuff. She showed the one color in each hand method. My gauage is super different between right and left hand. I am super awkard but no longer afraid of knitting with the left hand. Must ... practice .. lots.... She mentioned she has mitten classes and likes the Latvian Mittens book. Woo... It was a good knitting day. She said if we had other color projects, we can bring them to class next week.
Comments
Cute hat! You can probably tighten down the floats if you think they are too loose.
If you get less awkward with the left hand, you could also try two colors in one hand. ;)
[And well, you have to use dpns (or magic loop or two circs) anyway for small circumferences anyway, like sleeves or the top of hats. :) The socks I did were all on dpns! ]
Posted by: jess
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February 6, 2006 5:49 AM