Finally posting pictures!

So here are some relatively unflattering pictures of me in my IC when I finally got to wear it for a summer wedding. (Have you ever bought a dress top in summer? There was nothing that wasn't sheer at the dept. stores.) Anyways, I think it looks really good on me when I'm not being blasted by a flash. I got quite a few compliments, and when people found out I made it, they thought it was even cooler. I think if i ever went out with it at night, I'd switch to black ribbon though.

Its done!

After 6 months of working on my IC on and off, I finally finished last Sunday! I don't have any pictures yet because it is waiting to go to work with my mom (she works for a dry cleaners and is going to clean off the cat dander and steam block it). I'm really happy with how it turned out, except for the fact that I am really bad at crochet and the loops in the back don't really line up exactly. I think everyone will be too distracted to notice that though, lol!
Pictures soon!

Well, after the strangest blogger antics I've seen in awhile, I'm finally a member of this KAL! My name is Meg and I've been knitting for 13 years. I'm looking forward to starting Cruelty but I have to finish a pair of socks and a pair of gloves first. Both of those are soo close to being done but still need the niggling little bits of finishing.
I look forward to seeing how this comes along!

New Cruel Chick!

Hiya, all! I just joined the knitalong and I have a couple moments to spare, so I'm pseudo-introducing myself. ;D I'm doing the Intolerable Cruelty skirt for part of my "costume" for my Significant Other's annual Christmas party ... a.k.a. Pimps and Ho Ho Hos. ;) The party is next Friday, so we'll see if I manage to get it done by then -- ha! It'll be a superfast knitalong for me. I'm bending a bunch of guidelines and living on the wild side with this skirt, actually: using a yarn with silk content (only 20%, and the other 80% is half wool and half acrylic, but still), knitting with a slightly lighter weight yarn ... but hey. At least I did do a gauge swatch or seven.

Right now I'm eleven rows in ... woo. I know. I'm so far. ;) Still, I did just cast on last night, and I'm in the middle of spinning something for a swap, too. I'm hoping I'll have more time to sit and knit this weekend, since I'll be away from home on the crew for a cannon demonstration at a pirate fair, and we only have two demonstrations per day, plus the show itself opens at, like, eleven a.m. and closes at five, or something like that. Short show + only a couple of demos = lots of down time ... hopefully. I'm crossing my fingers.

Wish me luck? ;)

A Mention, Sorta

HI, your lackadaisical hostess Velma here (I still haven't ordered my yarn for this project yet; WTF?!?). I ran across this article on Venus Zine about Knitty and Amy Singer, via Knitgrrl (if you spin or knit with handspun, you really need her new book, Spin to Knit, IMHO). While not mentioning "our" skirt in the article, the author did include a photograph of it and a reference to designer Ashley. Just thought I'd let everyone know we are obliquely in the news!

Happy Halloween, all!

Hello!

Hi everyone, my name's Claudia. I kinda fell in love with this skirt the moment I saw it, and I knew that it must someday adorn my curves. I don't have yarn yet; I'm considering Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks because it's approximately the same as the Peruvian wool from elann.com that the designer recommended as a substitiution, only even cheaper (as in, the skirt will only cost about $30 in yarn). And it has more colors available at the moment. I just have to pick one. There are several shades of brown I'm considering.

I have a tendency to start projects and never finish them, so I'm hoping this KAL will motivate to keep working on one thing until it's done. As soon as I finish my friend's baby sweater that I started in April. Ha. Haha. I'd like to get this done quickly, because my boyfriend's leaving in a week or so for Korea for a year, and I want to make him really, really regret going. Because I will be hot in this skirt. (Me, vengeful? Noooooooo!) But I'm in grad school, so I won't always have knitting time. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Nice to "meet" you all!

Royal Blue Ornaghi Filati Bamboo

It's here! I do not usually get particularly worked up over the arrival of yarn (until you've swatched you just don't know if it will work) but I thought I would post about this because Bettina was expressing some dissatisfaction with the color selection in the SWTC bamboo. This Italian yarn is very silky in feel and sheen and is plied with a little bit of texture (I know that is an inadequate description for those of you who spin and ply your own) that should make it more forgiving of any uneven stitching. I got mine from: One Fine Yarn There is another Czech made bamboo yarn called Cloud, that comes in a more conservative palette. It can also be viewed at One Fine Yarn. Anyway, I should think that Bettina should be able to find either of these fairly readily in Europe.

I'm scrambling to meet a birthday sock deadline (and getting really bored in the process), but will make an effort to get a swatch made, photographed and posted, so you can see this yarn for yourselves.