Jenny Check

harold's sweater

Here is Harold's sweater, knit on the knitting machine. The gauge was 5 STI and the back was 25 inches across, so I had to make the back in two pieces and seam them up. I hate to say it, but it may be time for an extension set. This sweater was a breeze on the machine, with sewing in the zipper as the main challenge. Thanks, Nicole! The other problem with this sweater is that my knitpicks merino style in storm is apparently from two dyelots. The difference in color is glaring in fluorescent light. Oh well. This is possibly my oldest stash yarn, so I am happy to have it knit up and out of the bins!

Sweater for Yohana, begun while she was still in the womb and finished this past weekend. I got so bored that I had to make it a short sleeved sweater. Oh well. Knitpicks shine.

I remade ganomy with bigger needles and a different decreasing strategy at the top. I'm still getting the bulges in the front and back. hmmm. Karabella yak, which is 50% yak and 50% merino. It is super soft and feels slightly felty.

baby hat with the last of the yak and handpainted yarn bulky merino. my first pom pom on my pom pom maker! I think I could get obsessed with making pom poms.

gratuitous vince photo

the magic green blankie

Frances, Alma's mother in law, knit this beautiful green blanket for Yohana out of knitpicks shine. It truly is magical because once she is wrapped up in it, she instantly stops fussing. hurrah! Frances is the greatest. I think Yohana likes it because she can poke her fingers through the eyelets.

Michele in the birthday sweater!

Another pic of Nicole's booties. Because they are so cute!

more cuteness

My cousin Paul and his wife, Sydney, just had a baby boy named Marcus. Behold the cuteness:

I was a little slow on the draw, knitting something for this guy, but here's what I came up with, thanks to the incredible sweater machine and Nicole and her sewing machine skills:

I chose a flannel backing with cowboys, to man up the blanket. It has a lot of pink and purple so Marcus can get in touch early with his feminine side. Shine sport, one ball per square which was about a cubic foot before washing. Then it shrank a little. Shine sport on the knitting machine knit at a larger gauge of 4.75 stitches per inch, but the fabric was still pretty soft and nice.

Nicole is a saint. She helped me sew in a zipper for Harold's sweater machine cardigan. This was much more trouble than I originally thought it would be- We used chicknits' guide to sewing in a zipper, but once we got past sewing the fronts closed and pinning the zipper in, it all fell apart and Nicole was forced to improvise. I'll post picks once I do the last finishing bits.

After the blankie was finished, I made this:

The ganomy hat from EZ's Knitting Almanac. My thought was to give it to little Emily because she's moving to NYC and needs warm things for the winter, but it may be a little too George Washington.

Last night I started the wavy scarf from knitty with a cashmere blend from school products. Hopefully I can bust this out before little E leaves at the end of August...

incredible sweater machine!

Emily and I went out and hit Betsy's garage sale (a knitting friend of a friend) a few weeks ago, and I came home with an Incredible Sweater Machine (as seen on TV) for $50. After spending a week figuring out how to use it, I've been crazed. I've been swatching all my yarn. I made a drop shoulder cardigan for Harold using Merino Style in a week. I still have some finishing to do, but- a week! Then yesterday, it was so hot, I was inspired to make a tank top out of Shine. I swatched, decided to make a boatneck, a-line tank that was 40-inches around the bottom decreased to 34 inches at the bust. I knit the two pieces yesterday, seamed it today and crocheted an edging around the armholes and the bottom border. Not bad for a day's work!

In hand-knitting news, I finished a green cardigan for me made out of Knitpicks Panache. I used the moorish lattice pattern from the Barbara Walker Treasury and the set in sleeve pattern from Ann Budd's book.

I am so excited to stash bust. I figured out recently that I have the makings for some 15-odd sweater/vest projects as well as a lace stash and a sock stash. eek.

almost age four

While mom was visiting in San Jose, Emma and Joelle got to open their presents from her so mom could bask in their joyous prancing around in their presents- princess costumes. Here they are saying- we're so excited to open our presents!

The princess costumes. Cinderella and Belle. They really were prancing around happily. They have the old fashioned Korean photo face aesthetic of my grandmother's time.

My mom, wearing a Joelle exclusive.

Three generations of Cho men.

LA

My dad came to LA to see Yohana, and Harold and I went down for a mini family reunion. Nicole made these super-super-cute booties which Yohana wore on her first outing to church.

I made Yo-yo a baby sleeping bag out of Knitpicks shine. It's cooler than her fleece sleep bag, so I consider it a success in this heat wave. Alma came down with Justin, and during nap time, he got ahold of the desitin. Apparently he thought it was lotion because when we found him, he had slathered desitin all over his body. and then went to sleep.

Gratuitous Justin photo. The kid just keeps getting cuter.