Wow! Thanks for all the suggestions for the post-zested lemons. I know I'll be trying this recipe again, so I will keep those in mind -- and also I will suggest to Santa that I might like a microplane in my stocking. Sounds like a handy tool. Plus Santa will get better cookies on his stopover at our house!
We had a good deal of fun at our party. Good friends and good food always make for a winning combination in my book. I love our party, but it's always a bit of a relief to have it wrapped it up for the year. Then we can take a breather and think about other things. Like how much Christmas shopping we still have left to do!
Seriously, the knitting product has been low for the past week or so. Not even so much as a baby sock has been completed. So I had to reach back into my few weeks ago wayback machine to pull out a few pictures that I hadn't yet talked about: the start of a new project, Z's Zebra Striper Sweater.
Like the Zebra Striper dress, this little sweater features the intersting two color knitting (including that un-memorizable zebra stripe) at the bottom of the sweater and then shifts to single color per row knitting farther along. What makes this garment different than the dress is that the sweater is a cardigan and is steeked after the knitting is complete. So, having gotten comfortable with two-handed two color knitting on the first project, I'm now moving to the next phase of two color knitting: taking scissors to a garment. But that will be sometime down the road, as I am essentially knitting a sweater in sock-weight yarn. So there is much to go before I have to get too worried (and find some way to sharpen my scissors).
What I have been very happy with so far on this sweater is my tension. On the dress, before I blocked it the stitches definitely pulled in. With this garment, my stitches are laying well and are relaxed and happy. That makes me feel that I am getting better mastery of two-handed two color knitting. Clearly practice helps ingrain those important rhythms that bring manual dexterity skills together.
With our holiday party in the history books, this sweater will recapture it's place on our couch and I will plug away at the remaining inches of straight color knitting. I still have hope that I'll at least be able to try this on Z before it gets too warm for sweaters again -- even though the incredible subarctic weather we're having makes it almost impossible to believe that it ever will be warm again...
We had a good deal of fun at our party. Good friends and good food always make for a winning combination in my book. I love our party, but it's always a bit of a relief to have it wrapped it up for the year. Then we can take a breather and think about other things. Like how much Christmas shopping we still have left to do!
Seriously, the knitting product has been low for the past week or so. Not even so much as a baby sock has been completed. So I had to reach back into my few weeks ago wayback machine to pull out a few pictures that I hadn't yet talked about: the start of a new project, Z's Zebra Striper Sweater.
Like the Zebra Striper dress, this little sweater features the intersting two color knitting (including that un-memorizable zebra stripe) at the bottom of the sweater and then shifts to single color per row knitting farther along. What makes this garment different than the dress is that the sweater is a cardigan and is steeked after the knitting is complete. So, having gotten comfortable with two-handed two color knitting on the first project, I'm now moving to the next phase of two color knitting: taking scissors to a garment. But that will be sometime down the road, as I am essentially knitting a sweater in sock-weight yarn. So there is much to go before I have to get too worried (and find some way to sharpen my scissors).What I have been very happy with so far on this sweater is my tension. On the dress, before I blocked it the stitches definitely pulled in. With this garment, my stitches are laying well and are relaxed and happy. That makes me feel that I am getting better mastery of two-handed two color knitting. Clearly practice helps ingrain those important rhythms that bring manual dexterity skills together. With our holiday party in the history books, this sweater will recapture it's place on our couch and I will plug away at the remaining inches of straight color knitting. I still have hope that I'll at least be able to try this on Z before it gets too warm for sweaters again -- even though the incredible subarctic weather we're having makes it almost impossible to believe that it ever will be warm again...
I can completely understand about the weather. We got socked with a double header storm this weekend, but the old adage in New England holds. It will probably hit the 40s by the end of the week.
That colorwork is looking fine!
You can get your scissors sharpened at Joann's. A friend recently had an old pair that had belonged to her Mother sharpened there and she said they did a beautiful job. It probably depends on the location since they do it in house. Good luck with it. Love the color work!
Judy