Monday, September 03, 2007
Here we go again
So you may or may not remember (It's been a while, you know) that I've been working on this great skirt by Jodi Green called Hot Tamale. Hot cool is that skirt?! Plus I have a thing for knitted skirts. Haven't ever completed one, and I rarely wear skirts, but I totally have a thing for them. So early this year I cast on for this skirt. Cast on 600 stitches. Not 60. 600. Yowza. Got em all on there, got the cool ass ruffle started, and realized the ruffle was twisted. But I have a sewing machine! And I know how to use it! So I cut the ruffle, twisted it back, sewed it up, and started knitting again. Coolio!
Then came the long-float intarsia part. Did I mention that I've never done intarsia before on a non-felted project? Hrm, yeah, I didn't think so. So I figure I'm a fly enough knitta to just jump into this long-float intarsia stuff and come out smelling like roses and looking like a pin-up in my bad-ass skirt. Ha! That was stupid. I had bunches and tucks and holes and crikey. So I ripped back to the ruffle and started again. That was stupid too. What made me think I would be doing anything differently this time around? Same problems. But this time when I frogged the intarsia part, I couldn't get the stitches on the ruffle picked up properly, so I decided to knit a new ruffle. 600 more cast on stitches later, I found that I had twisted it again. More cutting, more sewing, more fixing.
This time I decided to go about the intarsia differently. I'll knit each side flat! Then sew the side seams together! I'm brilliant! I'm charming! I'm a knitta! I still haven't done intarsia before! See the holes! See the puffing! See Sharon rip it all out again! Isn't knitting fun?!
But I love this ruffle. I've become very attached to it. And I love this yarn that I've chosen (King Tut cotton). So here's the plan: I'm going to knit this skirt. And it's going to be red and black like the plan. Mostly black, with stripes of red creeping in about halfway down, the red stripes getting wider as they approach the ruffle at the bottom. No intarsia, to fretting, just simple stockinette in the round. That? I can do. I hope.
Then came the long-float intarsia part. Did I mention that I've never done intarsia before on a non-felted project? Hrm, yeah, I didn't think so. So I figure I'm a fly enough knitta to just jump into this long-float intarsia stuff and come out smelling like roses and looking like a pin-up in my bad-ass skirt. Ha! That was stupid. I had bunches and tucks and holes and crikey. So I ripped back to the ruffle and started again. That was stupid too. What made me think I would be doing anything differently this time around? Same problems. But this time when I frogged the intarsia part, I couldn't get the stitches on the ruffle picked up properly, so I decided to knit a new ruffle. 600 more cast on stitches later, I found that I had twisted it again. More cutting, more sewing, more fixing.
This time I decided to go about the intarsia differently. I'll knit each side flat! Then sew the side seams together! I'm brilliant! I'm charming! I'm a knitta! I still haven't done intarsia before! See the holes! See the puffing! See Sharon rip it all out again! Isn't knitting fun?!
But I love this ruffle. I've become very attached to it. And I love this yarn that I've chosen (King Tut cotton). So here's the plan: I'm going to knit this skirt. And it's going to be red and black like the plan. Mostly black, with stripes of red creeping in about halfway down, the red stripes getting wider as they approach the ruffle at the bottom. No intarsia, to fretting, just simple stockinette in the round. That? I can do. I hope.
Labels: Knitta please
idyllicchick, 8:38 AM
2 Comments:
knitted skirts? don't you worry about the way it'd hang?
Alice, at Sep 4, 2007 4:12:00 PM
What about duplicate stitch for the flames? Tidy inside, still gives ya the cool flames, bit more work when the knitting is done.
