Swatches are so low commitment, low time investment. Swatches can be unravelled without guilt. Swatches are the one-night stand of crafting.
Knit flat and seamed up the back with a turned picot cuff and stockinette heel.
Because even bad girls need a place to put their coal.
This is a work-in-progress that I have no qualms blogging about because the pattern is probably going to be enough of a pain-in-the-ass that I won’t even bother submitting it anywhere. I like it when the yarn tells you what to do. I cast on thinking I was going to make another towel. [...]
I needed a break. It feels like I’ve just spent the past few weeks waiting for one thing or another. Waiting for people to return my e-mails or my calls, waiting to hear back about a job, etc.
Knitting has been just as much of the same; waiting to see if the recipient of a [...]
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Okay, that’s a bit grandiose for a glorified swatch – after all it’s not like I finished a sweater or even some fancy cabled socks. However, I did manage a proper double knit möbius, and I’m feeling pretty darn special. A quick recap: when last we visited this challenge I had noticed that the [...]
I’m still playing with swatches, the most recent focusing on effects with double-knitting. I decided to throw in a möbius (moebius -whatever) twist for fun. The first scarf I ever knit was a möbius from the pattern at Planet Shoup. At the time I got the math concept of the moebius far better [...]
I’m feeling generally frustrated lately, and I think it’s starting to show itself in my knitting. The kind of frustration were I’m avoiding going out because I fear I “can’t say anything nice at all” and really I’m more frustrated with myself than anyone else, so there’s no point muddling about like a toxic [...]
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Finishing the Knitty project has left me happily without a specific knitting agenda at present. Actually that’s not true at all, I still have a Christmas scarf to finish that should be ready in the next couple of days just in time for Spring. (Bad phoenix!!!) Omigod, was yesterday the first day of Spring [...]
