Flyby Stardancer

( I knit a pair of Hurry Up Spring Armwarmers from SnBN. )

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I posted when I finished the first one, and now I've got them both finished!

( Pictures behind here! )

As recap, I made these out of Cascade Fixation Effects in Hot Pink. I used the Universal Toe-Up Sock Formula, but switched out the short row toe for the Magic Cast-On for Toe-Up Socks. The hearts on the front are from the "Heart" scarf in Knitty's Breast Cancer Awareness issue.

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First, bad thing: I had my computer on a good part of yesterday and all night, so I shut it down this morning while I went to get breakfast. Came back and it wouldn't turn on! I thought it had finally given up and crashed on me. Called Mom in a panic and she got me calmed down. I waited a bit, working on my sock, then turned it back on. Luckily, it came back on.

Then good: I finished my sock! Yay! More on it later, though I still need to make the second one.

Then another bad thing: My chair that I bought and brought up and is so lovely and perfectly sized for me and not hard? It broke when I sat down on it wrong. ;_; One of the plastic pieces that holds the structure together came apart. Now I'm stuck with these stupid hard uncomfortable school chairs.

( Now, more on the sock. Including pictures! )

Here's pics of my scarf and the incognito hat. If I were to make one again, I'd probably modify the pattern to do fewer decreases per round and more decrease rounds, and to do a k2tog tbl for decreasing the knits.



( More pics under here! )

Scarf Tech Specs: Used Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Cranberry and Gold. Casted on 70 stitches on size 7 needles and used 1x1 ribbing. Stripe pattern was 30, 4, 8, 4. Guage is 8 stitches and 6 rows per inch. I ended up using just over 3 skeins of the cranberry and way less than 1 of the gold.

Hat Tech Specs: Used Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Cranberry and Gold. Casted on 144 stitches on size 7 needles and followed the Wizardly Incognito pattern. I used the same stripe pattern as the scarf. I used way less than one skein of each.

Cross-posted with hp_knitting