Kimchee Jjigae
Gotta love comfort food! I made some kimchee jjigae and pot of rice last night... Luckily, I have some leftovers, so another night of comfort! Kimchee is the national dish of Korea. The proto-typical kind is made with Chinese cabbage (or Napa cabbage), and it is pickled (i.e., fermented) and spicy. To be honest, I'm not particularly fond of this type of kimchee, but I absolutely love all the dishes you can make with it, usually when it's gone a bit sour. All I did was boil some kimchee with some pork and added a bit of water. You end up with a kind of spicy stew that is just so yummy! Add a bowl of rice, and you have a simple but filling meal. This is one of my favorite dishes!
In knitting news, I'm knitting away on my first real sock! I'm using the Knit Picks yarn my secret pal, Genevieve, sent to me. I love the colors and how they are knitting up! Since this was my first time knitting a sock and since I have rather big feet, I'm doing a toe-up sock. That way, I can be sure that I have enough yarn. It's coming along nicely (I've already turned the heel), though the foot looks funny... I'm just doing k2p2 ribbing on the top of the foot and on the cuff, but it makes the foot look very narrow. And since it is rather long, it looks like a sock for a clown! Luckily, though, it fits very nicely and that's what matters, right? ^^
My baby vest for my Norwegian circular knitting course was started, almost finished, ripped out, and restarted. I initially envisioned a colorful vest with five stripes of colors... My first combination was red with blue... When I was almost done, I decided I really didn't like the combination... It hurt my eyes to look at! So, I started over, this time with colors that more or less go together.... Yellow on blue, green on yellow, and then blue on green. I'm almost done with the second version... Now, I just need to practice keeping the tension even in the two strands... Any suggestions? ^^
In knitting news, I'm knitting away on my first real sock! I'm using the Knit Picks yarn my secret pal, Genevieve, sent to me. I love the colors and how they are knitting up! Since this was my first time knitting a sock and since I have rather big feet, I'm doing a toe-up sock. That way, I can be sure that I have enough yarn. It's coming along nicely (I've already turned the heel), though the foot looks funny... I'm just doing k2p2 ribbing on the top of the foot and on the cuff, but it makes the foot look very narrow. And since it is rather long, it looks like a sock for a clown! Luckily, though, it fits very nicely and that's what matters, right? ^^
My baby vest for my Norwegian circular knitting course was started, almost finished, ripped out, and restarted. I initially envisioned a colorful vest with five stripes of colors... My first combination was red with blue... When I was almost done, I decided I really didn't like the combination... It hurt my eyes to look at! So, I started over, this time with colors that more or less go together.... Yellow on blue, green on yellow, and then blue on green. I'm almost done with the second version... Now, I just need to practice keeping the tension even in the two strands... Any suggestions? ^^
posted by gearncniht at 11:09 AM
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I just finished my first pair of socks a month ago - they are so fun! Are you fair-isle knitting the baby's vest, I couldn't tell. If so, try turning it inside out and knitting on the other side of the round (if you usually hold the needles tips closest to you, hold it so the center is closest to you and the tips are at the other side. Its a bit awkward at first, but it really works and smooths out the tension between the strands. If you have questions about it, I will try to find the book I got the idea from, let me know.....
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thanks for the suggestion, sunneshine. next time, i'll try to knit "inside". of course, i hadn't heard of doing it that way until after i had finished the baby vest. oh, well. but how do you hold the two strands? the way i do it, one always seems to be much looser than the other... wouldn't that still affect the knitting, even if you knit "on the inside"?
Do you knit continental style or (what I know as) british style? ie do you hold your yarn in your right or left hand? I've been practising trying both - but since I'm a brit knitter I'm a bit cack handed at holding the yarn with my left hand. Before doing it this way, I would use one yarn, drop it and pick it up the other - slow and laborious.
The only tip I can give you to try and get the tension even is to really stretch out the knitting as you do it - that makes the stranding much more even and prevents puckering.
BTW Nice to meet you! I've popped over by way of swop bot - I'm doing the sassy sockyarn exchange too. And I've signed up for sp10 (I first did SP8 then gave SP9 a miss). Good fun aren't they?!
hi tutleymutley! i am a continental knitter... for my first color-stranding project, i also dropped and picked up the yarn each time... it was time-consuming, but perhaps my best color-stranding work. the second attempt, i held one strand in my left hand and one in my right. that was easier to work, but the tension wasn't even (since i'm not normally an "english" knitter). then, with my course, i learned to hold both strand with my left hand. it's much easier than the other methods, but i still have problems maintaining even tension in the two strands. i tried stretching out the work as i went, but i don't think i was as consistent as i could have been. so, next time, i think i'll try knitting "inside-out" as sunneshine suggested and just stretch out the work as i go, as you suggest. hopefully it'll come out more even than this last one!
it's nice to meet you, too! i find all the exchanges extremely fun! but i need to slow down a bit... too much and you can go crazy! i've also signed up for sp10 as well as for the punk secret pal exchange. i'll be putting up my questionnaires soon...
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