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November 01, 2004

Unexpected Find

On Saturday my belle soeur wanted to stop at the fabric store on our way into town. The frog and I went in and looked around. They had a little knitting section with really horrid acrylics plus the typical French needle selection. There were lots of metal straights, a few bamboo straights and some circulars that were the kind with REALLY thick and stiff cords (you know the ones?) and then I saw these other circs that looked nothing like what I had seen in France.

The label said BOHIN like all the other needles in the store, but when I looked really closely, the cord said this:

I'll tell you what it says since I imagine you can't read it: addi Made in Germany

This is the only time I have ever found addis in France and little did I expect to find them in Bohin packaging in Mondial Tissues in la Nièvre! They only had three sizes and I had them already, but I bought all three anyhow. How could I not for 4.50?!

My unrealistic goal this weekend was to start and finish Anouk. The more realistic compromise was to get a lot done on it.

And I did. I started making stripes and I just didn't like them, so after a few inches, I ripped them out. I didn't really feel like sitting down and planning stripes and I knew I would never be happy with unplanned ones so I decided not to stripe. I didn't have the colors I really wanted for striping anyway. So I did the skirt in pink and then I'm going to stripe the top... maybe in blue and green... or blue and pink... or all of the above. I don't have that much pink and I really want to avoid the horror that is La Droguerie, so I'm going to try to use what I have and limit my usage of pink from now on. That's why I worked one skirt from each end of the ball instead of continuing into the bodice.

I didn't have the chart for the pockets with me so I re-made it up. I worked the flower in fair isle (nope, not intarsia) but I got lazy and decided it would be easier to duplicate stitch the stem and leaves. I actually worked the pockets from the top down and then knit them right into the last row of green. It will only save me a tiny bit of sewing but somehow I felt like it was worth it. Now I'm not so sure.

I'm working at a totally different gauge so I'm kind of redoing everything as I go along, but I'm being pretty loose about it instead of working out every last detail like I usually do. I'd like to get it done quickly to get it out of the way.

Posted by kate at November 1, 2004 12:47 PM