WIPs and YARN!!!

Happy May Day to everyone!

Here in Germany that means that I have the day off from work and have the time to take pictures and update my blog.

Some non-knitting related content first. C (what I will be calling my boyfriend) arrived here late on Sunday exhausted from the 10+ hours of travelling and lugging 3 large bags along for the ride. We have figured out a place for most everything (including the yarn!) and have been having a great time actually being able to see eachother.

Of course that is not all without knitting. I taught C how to knit back in October when he visited and he has been steadily working away at some garter stitch "scarves" for an afghan. Now that he's here I can teach him how to purl, etc. and maybe he can get a little variety in his knitting. I have a feeling he's getting a little bored with it. We watched some Tigers baseball on the computer (mlb.tv is a lifesend!) and I knit. It was great!

Anyways, on to what I know you've been wanting to see: YARN! I took some pictures of the stash that I have here with me in Germany. Some of my stash was sent home recently with my parents when they visited. I figured I could get sock yarn so much cheaper here, I might as well buy some and send it back. So I did. Here's what's left though:


Starting in the upper left: Some Regia fingering weight in a very pretty green (bayerische socks are the plan), unknown brand sport weight in blues and greys (socks for C), Meilenweit fingering in various blues, Meilenweit fingering in pretty, tweedy jewel tones. Next row: Fortissima Socka fingering weight in a grey tweed (socks for C maybe), Schachenmayr Nomotta in a DK weight red/orange tweed (socks.. maybe?), Meilenweit fingering weight in teal and yellow tweed, Four Seasons fingering weight in blues and greens, and OnLine Supersocke 100 fingering weight in dark greens and black tweed (socks for my dad).

Not as exciting, but starting in the upper left: Feria chunky weight in red/orange/browns plied with a cream... very pretty!, Bernat worsted weight maroon and cream, Schachenmayr Nomotta ribbon yarn in German flag colors (don't ask.). Next row: Fabiani yarns from bulky to chunky (leftovers from the Danica scarf I made).

That's about it yarn wise... other than a few things that are WIPs or slated to become so. Speaking of WIPs, lets get into those.

First: in the "Austria" bag.. Tubey! I am knitting this from DK weight? (125m/50g) Lana Grossa Numero Uno in a black tweed and a very pretty green (the same color as the yarn for the bayerische socks!!) on 5mm (US size 8) needles.

I have the back and almost one sleeve done. It's seeming a little baggy in the arm, but I think it'll work out. I'm going to change it up a bit and do an i-cord bind off at the end. As you can see from the 3rd picture, I haven't quite mastered changing colors in the round. Hopefully that will be on the underside of my arm, haha. The color seems to be a little washed out. The green is more like the sock yarn above. I've made my own stripe design for the sleeves and body, so we'll see how that turns out. It's loosely based upon the Fibonacci sequence. The body will be mostly the green color with black striping at the top and bottom.

In the "Germany" bag I have a lace scarf for my mom. It's made from OnLine Supersocke 100 in a magenta/white/black self-striping tweed. The pattern is from the Harmony Guides Vol. 2 stitch dictionary and is called "wavy eyelet rib." I've adapted it slightly by taking out one of the repeats of the second half of the lace repeat. Kind of confusing, but you would understand if you saw the pattern. Anyways, here are some pictures:

The second picture is a little truer in color, though not quite as bright. More subtle color changes.

Last (and perhaps least) I am working on some Jaywalkers.

I forgot, however, to try them on sooner than this, and have come to discover that they do not fit over my foot. SAD. They now look like this:

Yup. Ripped out. I decided I didn't really like how the yarn pooled at a wider width (you can kind of tell at the gusset in the above picture) so I am considering using my German flag sock yarn (ok, so I became slightly obsessed with the German flag.. I am living in Germany right now..) to do the pattern. Decisions to come on a later post.

I was going to entertain you with some recent FOs such as my Danica scarf, etc., but now realize this post is excessively long. Really. I'm sure you stopped reading a long time ago. I'll do another post in the next few days with some FOs.