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Sode Sweater Struggles

January 12, 2025 by Tracy, posted in knitting, stitch

As the title says, I’m struggling with the Sode sweater. It’s a cabled cardigan that you have to use several charts in the same row. The pattern does state that it is recommended for advanced knitters and now I’m guessing I am not an advanced knitter after all. I’m ok with intermediate. Maybe I should stick to intermediate. I’m not giving up. Yet. I need to be in the right mind space and right now my head is going in a million different directions at once. The rows I did knit were done with the help of the tutorials included with the pattern. You can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8WChKL24mQ

The good thing is said direction is cleaning and organizing my house. Trust me, I do not do enough of that. Every year I do Dry January. Basically, I cut out alcohol for a whole month after over doing it between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. This year I’m hyperfocusing on tea. I’ve taken our junk cabinet and turned into into my coffee/tea hutch. Take a look!

I’m still working on two other projects in addition to the Sode. First is my cross stitch. I’m 80% done. The second is a simple shawl which I’ll write up another recipe for. I don’t feel comfortable calling it a pattern because it is loosely created based on common knowledge. I want to create videos that help people knit it from start to finish. It’s just a simple triangle shawl with bilateral increases in every other row. That’s all. It’s spun from home spun and gold thread so I wanted to use the yarn for something simple that will show off the colors. I think this works.

Here is my latest update.

Catching Up

September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 by Tracy, posted in knitting, Spinning, stitch, Thoughts

It’s happening again. I’m falling into that void where depression meets crafts. Normal people get depression, stay in bed for days with no motivation. Not me. I turn my grief, my anxiety, my huge amount of anger and drive it into a need to create. I have a Facebook feed filled with my creations. The worst part was after Christmas my arm hurt so badly (tennis elbow = knitting elbow?) that I couldn’t knit for about six months. I’d try only to be unable to flex my wrist or twist for days.

What have I been doing since my December knitting madness?

January & February were devoted to skiing. You can’t think while you are skiing. It’s waiting, waiting, waiting, followed by an intense one to five minutes and back up again. I put my audiobook on and let it rip.

May be an image of one or more people, outerwear, people skiing and snow

March was just intense. I received some devastating news. I attempted to backpack my way out of the anger and grief. Then my body said, you haven’t been doing this for a year, WTH! Then I flipped to planning my garden and starting seedlings. I finished my cross stitch cross from last year. I also, painfully, finished my kids green sweaters.

April was when I really did a lot of work in the garden, doubling it’s size. Plus we got back into camping and I pulled out the spinning wheel again.

May and June were gardening, camping, backpacking, vacation and so much more. I started to realize I was overscheduling myself and coming off the worst of the March shock.

May be an image of one or more people and outdoors — Hallockville Fiber Festival – First in person (for me) event since March 2020

July and August were overscheduled again, but well worth it. The garden was abundant and we have jars of tomato sauce for the winter. I finished my rainbow blanket from knit picks and started a sweater but more importantly, picked up spinning again.

May be an image of fruit, tomato and indoor

I’ll post about my spinning and dying and sudden returning intense interest in all things fiber in the next post!

Logo

February 7, 2010February 7, 2010 by Tracy, posted in knitting, stitch

In my last post, I said that I would have a new logo by the end of the weekend, but it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. I have completed most of it, but decided to knit a background for my i-cord- which meant that I need more time.
Above is the picture of the incomplete logo. I am knitting an i-cord, which just needs to be a bit longer, on a white knitted background. I used a seed stitch border with a double seed stitch middle.

Seed Stitch/Moss Stitch
Use an odd number of stitches
K1P1 continue to end of row
P1K1 continue to end of row
Continue this pattern. My picture is not great, but you can see the border is knitted in seed stitch.

Double Seed Stitch/Double Moss Stitch
Cast on multiple of 4
K2P2 continue to end
K2P2 continue to end
P2K2 continue to end
P2K2 continue to end
Continue these four rows till end.

The middle of the work is knitted in double seed stitch. This design is great for placemats, pot holders, bath mats, or other similar square/rectangular objects. It keeps its shape well and is quite versatile.

On that note, I have to get a few things together for work tomorrow, finish a few more practice quizzed for my online computer class and work some more on this logo. I have a giant ball of white yarn that I bought from Michael’s years ago that I’m using. I have no idea what brand or type it is, just that I wound it up and now it is no longer portable! However, my cats are fascinated with it.