FO: Dashing

I meant to post this a few days ago, but I've been incredibly busy dealing with school. It's good and weird to be back in school, and there are a thousand little things to keep track of. Thank goodness for planners. Plus, I need to eat, so there's cooking and shopping and planning for the cooking and shopping. And then there's laundry. Let's not forget the laundry.

Thursday two people who have had a huge impact on my life died - Madeleine L'Engle and Luciano Pavarotti. I'm no huge fan of Pavarotti, but his impact on music (both classical and pop, the definitions of which are currently being hotly debated in my American Music class) is undeniable. I do not discount what he has done to allow me to pursue my passion. And Madeleine L'Engle is one of my favorite authors of all time. Her books A Small Rain and A Severed Wasp are particular favorites of mine. Her words have been comfort and inspiration to me, and I am unspeakably sad to know that she is no longer on this earth.

On to happier things. Dashing is done!

Dashing by Cheryl Niamath
Yarn: 1 ball Rowan Yorkshire Tweed Aran in #416
Needles: US6 dpns
Modifications: I kind of ran out of yarn, so I had to shorten the length of the fingers. If I had known I was going to run out of yarn, I would have shortened it somewhere other than there - like on the arm part, but even with careful calculation I came up short.
So these join the Gentleman's Shooting Socks in waiting for Christmas morning!

FO: Thermal

Well, I'm all moved... mostly. Let's just say that I'm here, I'm registered for classes, I'm studying my butt off for my entrance exam on Thursday, and I'm practicing hard for my auditions on Thursday and Friday. The rest is just frosting.

Speaking of frosting... or not... here's Thermal!

Love, love, love the fit. The sleeves really are the same length, in spite of what you might assume based on this pic and my whining. I promise.

The one thing I would have changed would be to make the armholes shallower. There's a kind of bat-wing thing happening.

See? But it's also not blocked yet.

Thermal by Laura Chau
Yarn: Knit Picks Gloss in Woodland Sage
Needles: US 3
Modifications: Added 2 inches to the length. Haha, can you imagine what it would look like if I'd made it 2 inches shorter? It's barely long enough now. Would maybe add another inch next time. Decided against making buttonholes for the buttons since they aren't buttons anyone would actually use anyway, plus I wanted to minimize any pulling at the placket. I just sewed them through both layers.

And, hey, I've got 2 3/4 skeins left. Socks, I'm thinking. I've also got about 3/4 of a skein of the burgundy left from my mom's Christmas socks last year (before I had the blog.) So, I don't know, stripes or colorwork or something. Mittens might work, but I'm not sure a silk blend is really the ideal thing for mittens...

Moving right ahead, here's Dashing for my brother, just missing a thumb off the left mit. You know, I just typed "mit" and it makes perfect sense when I say it, but no sense when I type it. I mean mit, like as in one mitten. "Hey guys, do you know what happened to my other mit? I just have the one." I'm really not sure that's a word. Maybe it's "mitt?"

And I got my shipment from Webs.
I thought the black was dark heathered grey when I bought it, but oh well. Black will work just as well for my $1.50 Cardigan. I'm dying to swatch but my patterns are in a box that's still out in my car, and besides, I really should finish Dashing. And yet....