Post the sweater photo to the flickr group? Ravelry wants a log-in to see the picture.
So you say.
Maybe you should boil the giant sweater and see how it comes out.
Wow, that looks really great for Fixation! I've never managed to get decent tension with that stuff. The Mini Mochi fair isle turned out adorable too, though you're right that it doesn't look terribly fair isle-ish.
I'm currently deciding on what sort of lace I should do with some cobweb weight wool I bought on vacation in California and finishing a miniaturized Goodale for Mara after making a miniaturized Iced.
Don't wool sweaters shrink if you wash them wrong? Google turns up this link. Might be worth a try.
I concur with everyone that you can try to felt it, though it's probably already pretty dense and you may just end up turning it into a suit of armor rather than anything smaller and wearable. Better might be steeking if you know how to sew (or know someone who can) to just cut out areas of it and reseam it smaller. But that's a lot of work.
It's already very heavy -- felting it would make armor. Tailoring it is a new thought: I doubt I will, because I've never cut into a piece of knitting in my life, and it scares me. But that would work if anything did.
Your new sweater is very nice, but it's only in your photostream, not the group's. There are people who will cut and reseam your sweater for you, for money. It might be worth it, considering the cost of the wool, rather than letting it sit. But maybe you could trade it as-is for seats at the playoffs or something.
but quit after I spent a year of my time in Samoa
You know, it's weird. Sometimes I get the sense, having enough similarities in educational background, that LB has done all the things I told myself I was gonna do.
Oh hey I just started knitting. (Well I mean a friend taught me in 1993 and I forgot and another friend retaught me two years ago and I forgot and now I've started again.) I'm pretty sure the same spatial brainfail that means I can never tell which direction a the thingy at a gas station is telling me to hold my card also means I will never really get the hang of this. I thought I taught myself (via youtube) how to purl yesterday but it seems I am still knitting. The great thing about being terrible about it is that it's meditative because just getting through the row without dropping a stitch drives all else from your mind.
s/b "terrible at it."
(The lousy thing about being terrible at it is even a scarf seems awfully ambitious. I have this fantasy I might work my way up to making a hat one day but the idea of a sweater--it is to laugh.)
8: Whoops, now it's in the group.
10: Meditative is exactly it. It's not that it's consuming enough (after a certain amount of practice) to make other thought impossible, but it does make it possible to stop thinking -- if you want to turn off you can just watch the needles.
Hats are nice because they're smaller even than scarves, so you finish them fast. Once you've got purling down this hat was way easy, although the kids lost it before I got a picture.
I just started knitting again this fall and have made several small things over the past few months. I don't have the confidence for a sweater yet, though.
Although I technically learned to knit when I was young, I only learned how to make the actual knitting stitch. I never made anything and I think my mom used to cast on for me. So over the winter I had to learn all the other things necessary to actually make something: casting on and off, adding yarn from a new ball, as well as purling and a few other stitches.
I do like it and find it meditative, but it strikes me as a cold weather activity. I can see myself not picking up my needles again until the fall.
As long as you're not using that sweater, I think urple has some tests he'd like to run.
I am thinking about knitting at this point. Having the last kid really put the end to knitting for a while. Also, I find with a dvr that I knit less while watching tv--no commercials to knit through. As soon as the little one is less destructive, I have a few unfinished projects to work on--scarf, hat, baby sweater, etc.
You could frog your sweater--it sounded like the yarn was wonderful.
4: Those are both very pretty. How'd you do the minaturizing? Fuss with the pattern, or lighter wool/finer needles for a smaller gauge? (Come to think, I don't see how you could change the size the latter way enough to get a sweater down to three-year-old size, you must have rewritten the patterns.)
19: If there are enough sizes, it's easy enough to get an adult size where a three-year-old (okay, five-year-old, since she's huge) size is 1/2 or 3/4 what you'd be going for and then adjust accordingly, which is what I did with both of these, though I also made other adjustments because I'm ridiculous and like to make more work for myself.
I've added a photo of Mara (face partly cropped, because she had a great and typical grin) in her sweater and also my very first knitting project, because we all start somewhere.
I've succeeded in making some scarves, some fingerless gloves (i.e. rectangles that I sew into tubes w/ a hole for thumbs), and one remarkably shapeless sweater - I think two dimensions is all I can handle at my current skill level, so my next project is a baby blanket. I love knitting for tv/long car trips/social events where I need something to conceal feeling shy or bored.
Knitting for a toddler seems like trying to hit a moving target.
Eggplant, it's totally ridiculous, but I'm always knitting something anyway and so knitting for her is just something I'm doing to pass the time and impress her social workers. I'm making things big enough that in theory they'll last her a little while, but she grows constantly and so there's really no point. On the other hand, toddler sweaters are tremendously quick to make, which is satisfying too.
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Unexpected good news!
So, faculty salaries have been an issue lately because we're paid something like 20th percentile compared to our peer institutions. When we were trying to hiring a math prof last year, seven candidates turned us down based largely on the salary, and the 8th ended up getting an offer that's about 5% higher than what I make, (and I've been here five years.)
So I knew that I was due for a raise. I was expecting a 3% raise, and I was going to argue it up to a 5% raise. We just got contracts for next year, and I got a 20% raise. This wildly exceeds anything I was expecting. I'm totally blown away.
Off to teach!
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Also, LB, your sweater is gorgeous.
25: And you can hand them down to the next toddler in line. There's always another toddler. (The neat thing about having a big kid is that their clothes can go to their same age friends. Sally had a beautiful, elegant winter coat with velvet edging and a little silver embroidery on navy blue. She wore it at four, and gave it to a smaller friend who wore it at six. Then it went to the friend's little sister. Then it went to a friend of the friend's little sister, and then to the little sister of that girl. I still see the coat at Chanukhah.)
Congratulations, heebie. Money is always welcome!
27: Woohoo! Drinks on Heebie!
28: Thanks!
27: Wow. Awesome. That seems like they want you to stick around.
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I feel like a complete sucker. I woke up at 4am last night to buy Buck an iPad for his birthday next week. That shit is expensive. But he should like it.
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33 - If he doesn't, you can always felt it.
I suppose I could knit it a cozy, to go over its little foldy lid thing. There must be iPad cozy patterns out there.
My mom gave me a cross-stitched velvet foam-padded laptop case for Christmas. It is awesome. I think you should definitely knit the ipad a cozy.
Come to think, Buck would go apeshit for an iPad cozy in navy with the Penn State logo embroidered in white. I wonder where I could find a pixelated version of the Penn State kittycat at an appropriate resolution.
Luckily, he never reads the comments.
37: You could try running the logo through this (I've never tried it myself, but have been meaning to).
LB, that sweater is lovely. Would you share the pattern?
I've added a photo of my most recent project to the flickr pool. Pretty close to finishing the current, maddening, lace project, and then I think it'll be time for some nice plain stockinette for a while.
41: It's on Ravelry, and dirt simple (really, a very nice piece of design.)
Here's the link: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/easy-peasy-tee . It was free a couple of months ago, but seems to cost two bucks Australian now.
I've been knitting for some time, although lately it's more dyeing and spinning. I did knit this up into a cute little skinny Möbius scarf last week, just in time for the weather to warm up.
I need to get back on Ravelry and keep things updated over there.
You spun that? Wow. I have no idea at all how to spin, so I find it completely impressive.
Amber, I followed the link from your blog to etsy a week or two ago and am really impressed with your dyeing too. Next time I'm in the market for something, I'll definitely be hitting you up!
Thanks! Spinning and dyeing are great because the time to finished skein is usually a lot shorter than time to knitted FO.
37: I don't know if it is an "appropriate resolution" but my daughter knitted a Penn State scarf for one of her cousins this past Xmas. Detail of the Nittany Lion here (both photos in the pool). If you are interested, e-mail me and I'll see if she has the details on what she did (and she is conveniently home on break this week).
Who could have imagined that Unfogged would be the place to come for knit pics?
That looks great, actually, and I can get everything I need from the picture (not sure what technique she used, but I'd just be doing duplicate stitch embroidery).
39, 49: I kind of liked 'Knittany'.
50: I'll ask her if there is anything special that helps or to watch out for. This was her note beneath it on Facebook, but don't think it addresses anything: Penn State scarf I made for Alphonse. I actually made 2 and crocheted them together, which means there's a nice pattern on both sides and it won't curl up even if I knit it in stockinette. So this is how I'm doing all scarves from now on even if it takes twice as long.
The post presents an answer to the very puzzle it poses. Surely you must know a Samoan in frosty exile who would appreciate a large sweater.
46: No matter how beautiful they are, be careful not to masturbate to the photos of stuff that's dyed.
There shouldn't be anything special -- I don't need a knitting pattern, I just needed a low-res copy of the logo to copy, so I didn't have to do it myself manually. All I'll be taking from the picture is counting three blue, two white, four blue, next row one blue, two white, six blue and so forth.
53: My social world is Samoan-free at the moment -- NY doesn't seem to have a big Samoan community, so far as I can tell. (Also, you're underestimating the length of the arms here. Samoans run big, sure, but I need someone very tall and very wide. I should get in touch with Labs -- if he ever gains a hundred pounds or so, I've got a sweater for him. I'll dig it out and put a picture on flickr to get the full absurdity across.)
Hand-crafted for Labs's enormous hand-stretched arms.
Yay Heebie! Next year, when I start my t-t job, my salary will rise more than is ever likely to happen again in my lifetime. I'm gonna be hella rich! ($64k, in case anyone is wondering what a t-t prof at a second-tier R1 in the soc sci might start at).
Back on topic, knitting intimidates me, but I finally taught myself how to crochet a few years back, mainly by using books geared towards kids and preteens, and the occasional YouTube video. If anyone wants to find me on Ravelry, I'm at http://www.ravelry.com/people/RobotJenny
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Re: the Flickr group, is there anyone who can add me besides Cappseus? I'm there as Jenny Robot.
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Also, I just created an Unfogged group on Ravelry, if anyone's interested in joining.
I just decided my next project is going to be this shawl because I might as well aim high to make something lovely and ethereal that I will never, ever wear. Hooray!
And JennyRobot, I really admire people who can crochet. I can knit just about anything, but crochet is just a mess for me. I know so few people who are truly competent at both.
And yay for heebie! I was just notified I got a 1.08% raise or something like that and I was happy with that. Still am, but I'm especially excited for you since you have two little ones to feed and a pit to build.
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Ok I finally stumbled upon the other Kentuckians' photos on the flickr stream and I don't know either of you. I didn't have any reason to think I did but hey.
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62: Facebook leads me to believe you and I have a friend in common, but not via Kentucky-specific channels. She went to your high school and is sort of an alternate universe version of me, but I know her through her writing and her blog and the internet, though not in that order.
Thorn: Kids Learn to Crochet by Linda Guy was a super-accessible introduction to the basics. My projects are still quite unambitious, at least in terms of the stitches required, but I've found crochet to be perfect for folks like myself with poor hand-eye coordination.
Stormcrow! Have there been other times we've talked about how cool your daughter is? There should be! Thanks for sharing the photos.
63: oh now that's mysterious. I don't know your name so I've never stalked you on there. Now who did I go to high school with that has a blog...must go sleuth.
I have a guess, actually, and she's my best friend from high school.
55: My lack of understanding of what is important in knitting or other needle stuff, let me show it to you.
Knittany Lion, also by my daughter but from a pattern. She does others of her own design, seal and dragon in the pool, others at my photostream (which I think anyone can look at).
63: I didn't mean to stalk you, but it was pretty obvious it was you after I clicked to see who had made a clever comment. I'd actually thought about her back when we were talking about high schools, but for some reason I'd thought you'd be more like her sister's age. She's got a book coming out in the next year at last, I hope, and went to essear's undergrad school. I don't want to say anything that outs either of you, which is perhaps silly of me.
I really, really can't use the numbers. Response to 66 and 67 is right, I think.
I just sent you an email at the address on your blog, because I'm awfully curious.
Somehow I'm thinking that the ratio of "people on Unfogged" to "people who would possibly even be remotely interested in Unfogged" is highest for people in (or from) Kentucky than any other state or country.
60.2: Let me attempt to impress you, then.
($64k, in case anyone is wondering what a t-t prof at a second-tier R1 in the soc sci might start at).
I feel like I should start some kind of campaign to equalize pay across the disciplines, because I always feel guilty when I read things like this.
$64k is low for starting salaries of tenure-track profs?
74: I don't think that's a particularly good idea. Academia needs to compete with alternatives. Some disciplines have much more competition from the private sector than others.
75: It's very discipline-dependent. At my current (R1) institution there's a gap of ~$20K between starting salaries in the sciences and those in the humanities.
Heebie - yay, money!
C got a whole 0.4% cost of living increase last month, but this month - ah, *this* month his regrading (for being brilliant) was approved, and they decided on a roughly 10% raise, and decided to backdate it for a year (because he has been being brilliant for well over a year). So we have a nice lump sum coming at the end of the month and are writing a shopping list ...
Ah, money. We're getting two 3 percent raises this (calendar) year, but our new governor has proposed yanking back the second to shore up the pension system. I guess I can't really complain.
Somehow I'm thinking that the ratio of "people on Unfogged" to "people who would possibly even be remotely interested in Unfogged" is highest for people in (or from) Kentucky than any other state or country.
On a per capita basis, I'd wager that Montana is the most overrepresented state on unfogged, followed closely by West Virginia (though the stats for the latter are inflated by the observable tendency of people born in the mountain state to self-identify as West Virginians no matter how many years they have lived elsewhere).
Next year I get a 42% pay cut!
I'm looking forward to when I do, cos it'll mean I've retired.
Who could have imagined that Unfogged would be the place to come for knit pics?
Somewhere, Ogged is weeping.
ms bill is a demon knitter and has been since high school. She knit me a sweater a few years ago out of yarn she bought in the Four Corners area of NM that is used for Navajo rugs. That's one heavy sweater. I'm chagrined to say that it seems to have grown a little smaller over time.
84: Maybe not, check out these cables.
So, I unintentionally go into perma-lurk mode back in 2007. I check up on you guys from time to time, like today, which prompts me to actually log into my flikr account. Nice knitting, I still wear the socks my wife made me when we were dating 18 odd years ago.
And what the hell? I see baby pictures! Which is not surprising in and of itself but it means there have been some serious life changes for some people who presumably lurk here from time to time.
With that, I am casting out belated congratulations in a vague enough way to a person who will likely never read it. Congratulations on the birth of your kid!
Holy crap, this Sad Etsy Boyfriend Tumblr is hilarious.
