More Progress on Boyfriend's Belt

I'm pleased to say I've made quite a bit of progress on the grey garter stitch belt. I've been trying to work on it some each day because while it doesn't necessarily go quickly, it is easy, and it is helping to improve my knitting speed.

For whatever reason, the camera decided that this grey looks kind of purple today, but it is grey.

That being said, it's now about 6 feet long! I know in my last post I said I thought that would be about as long as boyfriend wanted it, but I've talked with him more about what he wants, and it turns out I was misunderstanding him some. When he said sash, he didn't mean shoulder to hip sash, he meant, well, he meant a type of belt. What he wants to be able to do it loop it twice around his waist and have it dangle some so that when he's all dressed up for Dagorhir (his LARP thing) he'll have places to tuck things into the belt. I'm not sure if it's going to work, but that's what he wants. He also wants it to be twelve feet long, so I'm only half way, but it is going faster than I thought. Then again, on a Friday night after a few adult beverages, it is the project I still feel confidant picking up and not messing up, so it does have time available to it that other projects don't.

This project has size US 3 needles.

All in all, I'm very pleased with how it's coming together. I'm not sure it will totally work for what boyfriend wants, but so far so good, and I think it should work for a while at least.

Happy knitting!

Progress on the Grey Belt

I pulled out boyfriend's grey belt again last week and have been working on it for hours most days. I have come to a new level of annoyance with these small needles because after the first day when I worked on it for about ten hours, I found it had only grown about ten inches. I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't also cooking and watching tv and trying to pick up a little in that time, but still.

As for technicalities, I realized in my last post about the sash that I neglected to say it is 15 stitches across and the yarn is Red Heart Super Saver Charcoal. I know I'm lousy about saying what type of yarn I'm using, but I'm trying to remember. One would think that it would be pretty quick work, but it is not so! So I'm soldiering on. I think it will be nice once it is finished, even if I suspect I'm going to have to put the gold tassels on myself. I also think it will be a while before it's finished. Like next March for the season opener for boyfriend's LARP thing a while. I know last year I said I hoped to have it finished for Christmas or at least March, but this time I mean it.

It's over two feet long now, and I imagine he's going to want it to be about five or six feet. Then again, I'm not really sure. I guess I could measure him to see how long it ought to be from shoulder across the torso to the hip and then back up across the back to the shoulder again, or I could just keep knitting and every foot or two hold it up to him and check it out. Let's be serious: it's going to be the latter. I think he wants to be able to wear it as a sash and a belt which is going to affect length because it can't dangle too long as a belt, and I imagine it will need to be pretty snug as a sash, but obviously those are two different lengths. The reason for those specification is that while he's wearing it he's going to be fighting. I almost put quotation around fighting, but I think he would have been offended if he ever saw it. The reason is is this LARP thing; well, it's where everyone dresses up (hence the sash that will be part of his garb or costume) and hits each other with foam weapons like foam swords and even foam-tipped arrows that they shoot out of real bows. There are all kinds of specifications of which I'm unsure, though not as unsure as I wish I were, and I won't go into them here, but I wanted to give an idea of what this project was for. Hats and scarves and headbands have obvious uses, so I didn't need to extrapolate, but with this sash, I felt as though I did because it's use isn't as clear.

Happy knitting!

Grey Sash/ Belt

I recently picked up some more yarn, and came home all excited with no idea what to do with any of it. All but one I at least had ideas of for whom I was going to use them, but I couldn't think of who would really like the last one. It's a really gorgeous grey, and the feel is just great. After I stared at it for a while, boyfriend asked if I wouldn't knit him a sash/ belt that he could wear for this LARP thing he does. . . . Yeah, I won't explain it. But I said of course and that he won't get it for Christmas. I'd like to have it done for March or April or whenever their season starts, but we'll see.

When I asked him what he wanted it to be, he communicated that he wanted it to be about two inches wide and that he wanted me to use the smallest needles I have. Well, the smallest needles I have are US 0 (2mm). I've never used anything smaller than US 6 (4mm), so I thought this would be a great learning experience on something that doesn't have to be beautiful. However, I have to admit I had had a few adult beverages at that point, and I just couldn't do the 0s. I also skipped over the US 1 (2.25mm) because that also seems quite ambitious. However, I don't have US 2 (2.75mm), so I settles on US 3 (3.25mm).

So far so good I'd say. There's not much to it yet, and it's nothing remarkable. I'm not even sure if it will work the way boyfriend wants it to. But he seems to have a plan for it that involves gold tassels that he swears up and down he'll put on himself.

I also recently discovered Ravelry. I feel like I came to it pretty late in the game, so once I get it caught up a little, I'll link to it.

Happy knitting and happy holidays.