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So I'm making a pair of horizonally ribbed arm warmers from my own non-existent pattern. For the most part it's been fantastically easy. Basically I've done a ribbed pattern along the lines of a scarf. The plan is to add buttons to it to close it off and make it adjustable since I'm also planning to make it relatively long -- from knuckles to elbow, hopefully.

Here's my problem, the last time I tried to make it, it was strictly an arm warmer so my mini-scarf pattern totally worked. (Tried b/c I had to toss out my project due to a bit of a house disaster.) Now that I'm making it so long, and b/c my arms get kinda fat, I'm thinking that I have to accomodate both the width of my hand and the the width of the upper part of my arm.

Anyone have any ideas? Should I increase for the area around my wrist, and then increase again near my upper arm? Make the whole thing big and just futz around with the placement of the buttons? If it helps, I'm doing this on straight needles, about 91 (or maybe 93) stitches cast on. There's a couple of pictures below the cut of what it looks like now, and what it should look like when I'm done.

( Pictures here )

crossposted to

novice_knitters

This is the 2nd time in about 2 minutes that I've accidentally ripped stitches off my needle while trying to slide stitches on the other needle closer to the end. Erin's right....no way I could eat and knit at the same time.

Why can't I eat lunch and knit at the same time? :(

I don't know if I mentioned here, b/c I certainly burned my coworker's ear with it, but my mother has been getting on me lately about my wardrobe. Or lack of same. Over the last 5 years or so, I've let my "grown up" wardrobe go to pieces since I don't really need it at work. And I usually don't care. Unfortunately this has also included my wardrobe for church. I've lucked out in that we're not a super-fancy church and I don't need diamonds and pearls to be presentable. Showing up fully dressed and halfway decent is really enough for us...but I know I can do better. Heck, yesterday we were going through old family pictures and I was wearing Dior at 4 yrs (admittedly things like that contributed to my mother going into horrendous debt, but that's not the point). My godfather once brought me back a whole wardrobe from Paris. Back before I dressed myself, I was the cat's meow!

Anyway, the long and short is that my mother has been very vocally pointing out my lack, while I've been sub-vocally lamenting my lack.( Read more... )

In other news, I won't be around tomorrow night. For the first time in years we're going to Watchnight service. Usually we're traveling on New Year's Day, and so going to a service that doesn't let out until about 1 a.m. when you plan to be on the road at 5 or 6 a.m. really doesn't work out too well. So, no me tomorrow night. I may or may not be on during the day.

I also finished my first scarf....only to realize that I had no idea how to cast off. Gram and I thought that was a hoot. I've found a page on how to cast off, so I should be straight. Hopefully :D

So in unrelated news: fics that ppl wrote for me for

yuletide have been getting recced...and I admit it's almost like the recs are for me. lol. Is that wrong? But I get as excited that something that was written for me has been recced as I would if it was my stuff being recced. Almost as if it was something for a friend being recced. I dunno. I've been enjoying my first yuletide thus far.

We made it to my Gram's with no trouble and practically in record time. We've actually been here for hours. I had one fitful nap, lots of ponderations about what to do w/my RP char, and now I'm finally watching Tin Man (got to it late) I am having even more ponderations about post-Sorceress-Azkadellia. Dunno if that means there will be more fic or just improved characterization in my current fic, but I guess we'll see.

Um, what else? We opened Christmas gifts. There were tears (Gram's) and slight jeers of the friendly variety. My scarf continues apace :D And I have learned that you really can't sleep and knit at the same time. What else, what else...? I'm extremely tired from being up since 4 with only 5hrs sleep the night before. My own fault. Even Katya told me to go to bed. *snorts*

Nothing else. Now I'm just rambling ;)

Knitting makes my pinkies cramp :(

edit: is 340+ lj icons excessive?

Thanks to

jaguarx13 and

wallflower731 I can now purl! What, you're probably wondering, in the world is a "purl" and why do you care? Purling is a knitting stitchy term, and you care because I've been teaching myself how to knit with the help of a book by Klutz on knitting. For whatever reason it's taken my brain some serious downtime to get certain things working. Like I cast on pretty easily, but the actual knitting took quite a bit of staring. Purling (knitting backwards, sorta) took about 3 days, and two e-consultations. And then....inspiration! lol. Or something like that. Anywho, I was able to take my stockinette stitched (one row of purling, one row of knitting that basically looks like an average sweater) practice piece to my work friend and show her purling, too. She's been knitting a lot longer than I, so once she saw it she caught on ever so much faster than I did.

Anyway...had to share. I am now on my way to....consults book learning how to cast off! Wish me luck!

I'm also a wee addicted to my new craftiness. Which is bad when I owe ppl friendship bracelets which I actually know how to make.

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