Thursday, May 19, 2005

Is Anyone Still Working on Tempting?

I haven't seen a post recently on everyone's progress on Tempting. How's everyone doing. I was away for almost two weeks in training for work and also traveling in NYC with my bf. I did get to work on Tempting somewhat and have a little bit of progress to show. I'm at 12 inches now and only 3 more to go before I begin working on the sleeves. I see all these people out in blog-land who say Tempting is such a fast and easy knit, which it is simple, since it is such a K2,P2 ribbing, but I am finding it a bit tedious. It seems like I can knit and knit, but I barely make any progress. But I know I'm in the home stretch now, less than 10 inches to go on the whole thing before I'm done.

Here's a picture of my progess thus far:
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I guess that's about it. I'm going to try and work on it some more tonight to make every so slowly progress.

Talk to you all later,
Wanda

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

I finished Tempting today!!







I used the recommended needles, and got on gauge with GGH Samoa. I started on April 23rd, and finished today. I liked the three needle bind off-someone said it'd be a welcome break to the ribbing, and they were right.

I used the striping instructions given here, only repeated it once, though, and for decreasing instead of eyelets, I knit only two, two and a half inches of yoke, then purled 2 every other purl set, did a straight row of knitting the knits, then purling the purls, then purled 2 the remaining 2 purl sets, then knit 4, purl 1 for a row or two, then Knit 2 together every 8 stitches (or as close as I could get while still purling the remaining purls. Then I bound off.

I would have increased the space between the k2 togethers, like every 14 stitches or so, if I had know it would have made Tempting cropped and cap sleeved, but still, I really really like how it came out.

Monday, May 02, 2005

Done!

I am finally done!



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Tempting
Yarn: Katia Diana
Needles: Size 6 Circs & DPN's
Ribbon: Something from my LYS

Ok, it gets a little boring after a while, but I love the way that this came out. If I were to do this again, I think I would decrease after a few rounds from attaching the arms. I would also lengthen the arms a little bit more.

All in all, a pretty easy project!