A modest boast
Jan. 6th, 2018 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestI spent a fair bit of time knitting last year, and created a sweater each for my nephew and niece.
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Adorable Nephew is wearing something from Elizabeth Zimmerman's book, a bottom-up seamless sweater with yoke, a first for me, as generally I have done my seamless sweaters top-down. I used a bunch of blues in it, mostly what I had left after a couple of other blue ones, but some strands of mohair got in there, and this and that. It turned out rather well.
Adorable Niece has a textured sweater, also seamless (because, no sewing!), with a big fat cable on one side of the front. Garter stitch for most of the body, and stocking stitch for the sleeves—it was a quick knit, and a bit dull, but very effective.
Beast and I tried a new class today, 'Zumba Strong', which is sort of like minimal dancing combined with boxing, as there's a heck of a lot of jabbing, uppercutting etc. I'd been hoping for a bit more dancing, maybe with weights. Still, a good workout.
*sags into chair*
(click to see full size)
Adorable Nephew is wearing something from Elizabeth Zimmerman's book, a bottom-up seamless sweater with yoke, a first for me, as generally I have done my seamless sweaters top-down. I used a bunch of blues in it, mostly what I had left after a couple of other blue ones, but some strands of mohair got in there, and this and that. It turned out rather well.
Adorable Niece has a textured sweater, also seamless (because, no sewing!), with a big fat cable on one side of the front. Garter stitch for most of the body, and stocking stitch for the sleeves—it was a quick knit, and a bit dull, but very effective.
Beast and I tried a new class today, 'Zumba Strong', which is sort of like minimal dancing combined with boxing, as there's a heck of a lot of jabbing, uppercutting etc. I'd been hoping for a bit more dancing, maybe with weights. Still, a good workout.
*sags into chair*
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Date: 2018-01-08 04:55 pm (UTC)