{"id":854,"date":"2016-05-13T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:26:42","slug":"no-time-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"No Time To Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever encountered one of those<\/em> weeks, where everything<\/em> sort of piles on itself and there is no time to catch a breath?\u00c2\u00a0 I know you have.\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody has.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, that’s what happened to the last several weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Mom came into town for a visit over Mother’s Day.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fabulous and we had a wonderful time.\u00c2\u00a0 But that meant I was prepping the house, prepping to be off work for a week, then all of the glorious visiting, then recharging.\u00c2\u00a0 (As an introvert, I know the recharging bit is necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 I just didn’t know I’d need multiple days of it.)\u00c2\u00a0 I think I’m out the other side now.\u00c2\u00a0 Which also means there’s lots of stuff to show you.\u00c2\u00a0 Because while my social side has been quiet, my hands have been very busy.<\/p>\n

I finished the miles of stockinette body on my experimental skirt<\/a>, then started the easily memorized lacy texture pattern around the bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 Can I tell you how much I love this lace pattern?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a perfect match for the image in my head of the finished skirt.\u00c2\u00a0 Knit flat, it is prone to biasing.\u00c2\u00a0 Knit in the round, it hangs perfectly straight.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20160429_142457_sm\"<\/a>Once the lace band was finished, I had a decision to make.\u00c2\u00a0 I could work a few rounds of garter stitch at the hem and bind off.\u00c2\u00a0 Or I could work a picot bind off at the hem, similar to the edging on my Lily shawl<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to work the picot bind off.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m glad I did, even though that meant a seemingly endless amount of additional knitting.\u00c2\u00a0 Here it is in an unblocked state.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20160511_134957_clr_sm\"<\/a>You know the first thing I did once the skirt was off the needles?\u00c2\u00a0 Yep.\u00c2\u00a0 I tried it on.\u00c2\u00a0 It fits!\u00c2\u00a0 The waistband is perfect, even without the elastic (though it will fit even better with this addition).\u00c2\u00a0 The length and weight of the fabric are perfect too.\u00c2\u00a0 And that lace band at the hem – including all those maddening picots! – is exactly as envisioned.\u00c2\u00a0 The only thing I’m not happy with is the rate of increase to get the shape.\u00c2\u00a0 It has turned out to be too sharp, and the hemline is wider than it needs to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s the final skirt, laid out so you can see the full outline (again, it’s in an unblocked state so the hem is more ruffled than it will be once blocked).<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20160511_134926_clr_sm\"<\/a>It’s not bad.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just not what I’d envisioned.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what I really had in mind.\u00c2\u00a0 (No, I didn’t cut my knitting.\u00c2\u00a0 I folded in the sides a bit to get this photo.)<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20160511_135037_clr_sm\"<\/a>See how it’s still an A-line shape, but less dramatic?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what the image in my head looks like.<\/p>\n

So back to square one on that project.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve made adjustments to my notes for the next time I knit it.\u00c2\u00a0 My options are to rip this one and reknit it, or to just start from scratch with new yarn.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s going on the back burner until I decide.\u00c2\u00a0 There are other projects screaming for my attention at the moment.<\/p>\n

For the Knitters:<\/p>\n