February 04, 2003

I'm impressed.It looks great.Not long until it's done. :-]

That's amazing! I can barely keep track of my stitches. Are you going to embroider eyes on?

such cute colors! a little giraffe head! :) a looong-necked animal for a looong little boy!

Looks great! I made lots of errors trying to read that teeny tiny chart. I managed to fix all the ones I spoted while knitting, but when I get to weaving in the ends, I'll have to go back and fudge a stitch or two with duplicate stitch. That's what I get for trying to knit with a perfectly clear head. Next time (and as we all know, I always have to knit two!) I think I'll have a little drinky-poo myself.

It's beautiful!! I love the contrast of those two colours. I cannot do intarsia - everything gets pulled and distorted. I suppose practicing might help, but I can't make myself do it.

That is too cute. I've decided to use the pattern for the giraffe and the ones for the elephant on a project for a friends son. I'm not going to make the garments exactly as in the magazine but I love the little animals, they are tooo cute. Don't you just love intarsia?

Un kir! sounds scrumptious right about now. I'll settle for my root beer instead. I think the baby craves root beer. I'm duly impressed with your intarsia swatch. I haven't been bold enough to try any intarsia yet but I suspect I may be using some intarsia techniques when I try to replicate the burberry plaid in knitting. It sounds very tricky and I Think it is... but I've charted it out and I have bought the yarn I need... it will be interesting!!

cute!

my kid's growing obsession with giraffes is making the idea of those giraffe sweater more & more appealing -- although I think I'd have to either do some serious resizing or copy Kerrie & just put the motif on something else.

I love the look of intarsia, but dealing with the ends drives me up the wall. almost makes me wish I was still knit-naive enough to just tie a whole bunch of knots & get on with the rest of my life!

Thanks, all!

Su-Lin, the whole giraffe is outlined in embroidery, using the same yarn in the main color. You can get an idea of it here: http://www.phildar.fr/script/fatb.asp?IdCatalogue=56# (look on page 23)

Alison, the chart was *so* hard to read because the colors weren't contrasting enough. I did fine until I got to the part with the ears - I had to undo those particular stitches a few times and do them over.

Shetha, I feel your pain. I craved Dr Pepper (not to be found ANYWHERE here) during the first five months of my pregnancy. I thought I was going to go bonkers, until a pal in N.Y.C. sent me some. Bless her heart.

Daria, do the pattern. You know you feel the need to do the pattern. Come into the light ;-)

Excellent job. I can already tell that giraffe is going to have some personality.