Happy Hallowe’en from the other Rainey Sister! The doorbell just rang — our 4th set of trick or treaters. Seriously! It is 9 pm and hardly anyone came to our house! Anyway, it was eldest daughter and her friends who greatly profitted from the fact that we had had so few children stop by. I unloaded a lot of candy on them. DH did the candy shopping this year and did “okay” — but he bought those peanut butter thingies in the orange wax paper wrappers — OMG! I gave away a lot of those! Ish…
Unlike Surly, I have not knitted half a Ballerina in the past week, but I have been plugging away on Lyra. I’m on about the 117th round. The rounds are incredibly long at this point. I’ve made a couple of small mistakes, but corrected them and moved on. If I ever see my camera again I’ll post a blob picture.
Lyra is what I work on at home and Plisse goes to work with me each day. That is not good news for Plisse! I have been too busy at work to take breaks so her progress is greatly stilted.Â
The pattern stitch is somewhat annoying. The right side is plain knitting, but the wrong side moves from rib to garter. If you are not paying attention (and it is hard to see from the WS), it’s easy to make a mistake. The yarn is a gorgeous color with bits of bright teal green and yellow mixed in. The picture color is very true.Â
I broke down and ate one (well, two; OKAY, three) of those peanut butter thingies. I think they changed the formula in the last 40 years — they’re not too bad 🙂 !
Thanks to all for the kind words about Roslin and also for pointing out a couple of mistakes. I added a Roslin Errata page (in the upper righthand corner, above the pattern link) which will have a running list of all the corrections that are made along the way. The pattern link will have the current, most up-to-date and “error-free” version 😉 — hey, we never claimed to be perfect!
PS — how cute is that jack o’lantern of Batman???
PSS — in response to Anne: I hope that the yarn you are considering has both weights: dk and fingering, or else the transition will not work. Thanks!
Peanut butter cups? I need to give that another try. All the Twix and Sickers the kids brought home (over 7lbs between the two of them) are mine 😉
Might be annoying, but it looks lovely!
Comment by Marina — November 1, 2007 @ 6:42 am
From Susan to Marina — No, NOT peanut butter cups! I LOVE peanut butter cups! These are like peanut butter taffy with a small blob of peanut butter embedded in the middle. They are wrapped in waxy orange (and also black sometimes) squares of paper, twisted at each end so they look like regular taffy. When I was a kid, we made fun of the people who handed them out — the cheap bums — and threw most, if not all, of them away!
Comment by lv2knit — November 1, 2007 @ 7:15 am
You are so right about those candies! I used to throw mine away too – I’m surprised they’re still on the market. And I’m somewhat glad to hear you had only a few trick or treaters, just as I did. I live in the same house I used to trick or treat from 50 years ago, and there were mobs and mobs of us for hours! Last night I had about 7 cute kids, most accompanied by costumed parents. I’m always disappointed by the low turnout.
You and Sally continue to be my knitting inspiration. Thank you for all you do to make knitting fun and exciting for the rest of us!
Comment by Ali — November 1, 2007 @ 10:41 am
I love your Roslin Fair Isle hoodie — so much that I may just have to knit one up for myself! I’m going to do the body in the Simply Shetland Lambswool and Cashmere DK weight yarn. Even though I sell this stuff myself, I wasn’t inspired by the designs in the latest book……not enough color for a fair isle knitter like me…….but I love your Roslin — a very practical sweater with enough stocking stitch to make it a quick knit, with just a touch of fair isle to make it interesting.
Congratulations on a great design!
Comment by Anne — November 1, 2007 @ 11:15 am
You are right about the stitch pattern for Plisse, I found that I was stopping frequently on the supposedly quick right side rows to fix the pattern. I love the color of yours.
Comment by Joan — November 1, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
Peanut butter taffy? Well, I do love all things peanut butter, so feel free to lob them my way. But I’ll bet they vanish. Tiny candies seem to do that pretty easily.
Plisse looks great but it does look hard to see the stitches! And I can imagine how big Lyra’s rounds are. [goggles].
Comment by Carrie K — November 1, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
I had the opposite reaction to the peanut butter cups — used to love ’em, now I hate ’em. Changed ingredients? Spoiled by too much premium dark chocolate? Probably some of each.
Comment by AuntieAnn — November 1, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
You are brave to eat those peanut taffy things!!! The last time I tried them, it made part of my mouth numb and the other part felt like it was stuffed with cotton…yikes! I hope they have changed the formula for your enjoyment!
Comment by Minty — November 1, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
Susan and Sally – THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THE BEAUTIFUL GIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE this pattern!!!!!!
Everything about it! THANK YOU!!!!!!
Comment by Susan — November 2, 2007 @ 5:39 pm
I love the plisse color…is it lagoon or peacock or ??
Comment by karen — November 4, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
The color you picked for Plisse is just gorgeous!
Comment by Octopus Knits — November 5, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
I just found your website; WOW, you are both amazing.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Comment by lois — November 27, 2007 @ 12:05 pm