Swatches are so low commitment, low time investment. Swatches can be unravelled without guilt. Swatches are the one-night stand of crafting.
Every year the tiny village of Arden invites people to celebrate the end of summer with a craft fair featuring arts, theatre, music and food.
This is woven plaid, from Barbara Walker’s 2nd treasury. I actually knit this swatch last May 2007, when I was still a gung ho blogger. Consequently, I don’t have any thing new to say about it, since I barely remember doing it. But, I was really good and wrote up my thoughts at the [...]
plus a bit of ranting, because nothing is ever really free of payment in some form, is it? (If you are only reading this for the pattern skip to the end. )
It’s already been established that I’ve turned into a intermittent blogger. I’d apologize for it, but I assure you I’ve had nothing to [...]
So remember my frustration with lifelines and black mohair? Progress has been made. It’s about 40% done at the moment so I think it’ll be done in time for Christmas. I’d write more, but seriously? I’ve got knitting to do.
is that you have to insert them before you make a mistake. I accomplished the bit in the photograph early Friday morning. I suppose that this little piece of knitting was doomed from the start. I cast on with size 4 needles, which was entirely too small and then switched to 6. After my posts acknowledging that [...]
I’ve noticed an upsurge in people downloading the pattern for the towel. First of all, thank you! You are awesome.
Secondly, I wanted to let you know that an update in the pattern is brewing as we speak. The update will include the fix for the mistake in the written instructions, expanded instructions for how exactly [...]
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” -Scott Adams
This morning’s knitting
in the process of being frogged after I decided that a slip stitch selvedge would in fact make all the difference in the world to the final result.
When last we spoke (the rain doesn’t really count) we [...]
frogged.
Recently I got involved in a discussion about making mistakes in your work, whether you fix them and what lengths you’ll go to if you do. Several theories on the subject were put forth. My personal favorite was this one, “If it doesn’t have a mistake in it, I didn’t knit it.” – adrian [...]
