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ysobelWhen I got up this morning, I could not get my brain to click into gear. I had food, I had tea, and yet everything was just ... totally off.
I then managed to zone out for a few hours. I had been contemplating a nap -- not getting into bed, which takes more energy than it's worth for something as short as that, but maybe going into my room and tilting back and closing my eyes -- but I hadn't quite gotten there. I just kind of. Zoned.
...in a room full of light, sitting up, not even reclined. I /do not do that/ wtf o.O
I do feel marginally better. But today is kind of wtfy.
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Tomorrow after church, I get to go to a BUDGET MEETING yey. *waves tiny little flag with a complete lack of enthusiasm*
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I am stuck on the orange-wedge bag for conceptual reasons. The bottom (peel side) of the bag is done, a pretty doodadwhatsit made with short rows. The two sides get picked up from the edges of the doodadwhatsit and are worked separately, both flat of course, and then the zipper gets sewn on in ways that I am having trouble visualizing.
That is not the problem.
Picture an orange wedge, kind of like this
but less than the half-circle, a bit more than a quarter wedge but not much, so it's kind of more like a triangle with a curvy bottom. So, blobs of orange, separated by small columns of a lighter color. Which, when translated to knitting, means the lighter color yarn will have long floats across the orange, and also means that I will have to do WS stranded stuff which is apparently a PITA, but this is not the problem either.
Here is the problem:
The "lighter color" is, in this pattern, actually two colors, "daffodil" (light yellow) and "cloud" (creamy offwhite). And for a majority of the wedge, the two colors alternate; one row is orange with spacers of yellow yarn, the next row is orange with spacers of white yarn.
If I were working in the round, this wouldn't be a problem. As I am working flat, it /is/ a problem -- the orange is fine, but the yellow and white will constantly be Not Where I Need Them. Unless I strand /both/ colors across, which seems kind of unwieldy. (This is a bag, not a plushie, so there needs to be, you know, room for stuff.) And I considered having two skeins of orange going (one to travel with yellow, one with white), and doing, like, two RS rows followed by two WS rows, but there is no way of doing it without having at least one row of decreases done on a WS row, and I am not good enough to figure out the purl equivalents of ssk/k2tog.
*flails in frustration*
I then managed to zone out for a few hours. I had been contemplating a nap -- not getting into bed, which takes more energy than it's worth for something as short as that, but maybe going into my room and tilting back and closing my eyes -- but I hadn't quite gotten there. I just kind of. Zoned.
...in a room full of light, sitting up, not even reclined. I /do not do that/ wtf o.O
I do feel marginally better. But today is kind of wtfy.
#
Tomorrow after church, I get to go to a BUDGET MEETING yey. *waves tiny little flag with a complete lack of enthusiasm*
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I am stuck on the orange-wedge bag for conceptual reasons. The bottom (peel side) of the bag is done, a pretty doodadwhatsit made with short rows. The two sides get picked up from the edges of the doodadwhatsit and are worked separately, both flat of course, and then the zipper gets sewn on in ways that I am having trouble visualizing.
That is not the problem.
Picture an orange wedge, kind of like this
but less than the half-circle, a bit more than a quarter wedge but not much, so it's kind of more like a triangle with a curvy bottom. So, blobs of orange, separated by small columns of a lighter color. Which, when translated to knitting, means the lighter color yarn will have long floats across the orange, and also means that I will have to do WS stranded stuff which is apparently a PITA, but this is not the problem either.
Here is the problem:
The "lighter color" is, in this pattern, actually two colors, "daffodil" (light yellow) and "cloud" (creamy offwhite). And for a majority of the wedge, the two colors alternate; one row is orange with spacers of yellow yarn, the next row is orange with spacers of white yarn.
If I were working in the round, this wouldn't be a problem. As I am working flat, it /is/ a problem -- the orange is fine, but the yellow and white will constantly be Not Where I Need Them. Unless I strand /both/ colors across, which seems kind of unwieldy. (This is a bag, not a plushie, so there needs to be, you know, room for stuff.) And I considered having two skeins of orange going (one to travel with yellow, one with white), and doing, like, two RS rows followed by two WS rows, but there is no way of doing it without having at least one row of decreases done on a WS row, and I am not good enough to figure out the purl equivalents of ssk/k2tog.
*flails in frustration*
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Date: 2010-06-06 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-06 02:04 am (UTC)o o o o y1 o o o o y2 o o o o o y3 o o o o where y1, y2, and y3 are separate bobbins
(you could do both colours on bobbins and still alternate row by row if you want, it's just more bobbins to deal with, or bobbins spinning as you switch colours. but either way the bobbins and just carrying the colour up instead of around would get rid of the long floats of the lighter colours)
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Date: 2010-06-06 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-06 07:11 pm (UTC)First, here's a raveler who did the orange wedge bag, half by carrying loads of floats, and half with bobbins, I think. But she also twined her yarns with every stitch.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Outlander/orange-wedge-elegant-edibles
Here's where she got her ideas from, with pictures:
http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/knitpicks-lovers/1025033/26-50#40
HTH!