Goodies!
All of the unladylike fuming and vigorous swearing at wordpress were apparently worth it. This website has begun to result in the arrival of real live actual yarn in my mailbox. Yarn - for me! One arrival is a lovely skein of Nichole by Schaefer. It's a hypnotic mix of blues and purples, variegated enough to be interesting, solid enough to stand up to all sorts of interesting patterns. My only complaint about it is that it's a one-of-a-kind colorway and so I won't be able to get more. This will turn into the sock I knit for Schaefer, and [...]
Just How Much do You Like it?
So, the Pedigreed socks are a bit of a challenge. They will be mirror images of each other and feature four different cable patterns and a wrap around rib. They're fun to knit, but they are not an entirely simple undertaking. I actually rather like my socks to be challenging, but I've learned something. The socks that are tricky to knit are also, not surprisingly, tricky to write up. The pattern for these would be by far my most complicated yet. It would need 8 charts, 6 of them full-page affairs. The written text would take several pages. The whole [...]
Progress
Pedigreed are coming along nicely. The current push to write patterns up for publication is doing wonders for my knitting fidelity. I'm just about ready to start the toe decreases and should hopefully finish the first one tonight. I especially like the asymmetrically placed gusset on these socks. On this sock, the right side gusset decreases are in the normal location, while the left side gusset decreases move across the top of the foot forcing the plain rib to wrap around and pull over to the right. It's still quite comfortable and easy to do, but it really changes the [...]
Collaboration
After three whole days of biting my tongue and keeping quiet, I now have official permission to shamelessly blab...I will be designing a pair of socks for Schaefer Yarn Company using their new yarn, Nichole! This is the yarn I used in my most recent socks (Nugatory), and I just loved working with it. I knit a bit loosely and hate working with small needles. I will (grudgingly) consent to use size 1s, but anything smaller is out of the question. This combination means that thicker yarn is my very good friend. Unfortunately, it's hard to find a nice thick [...]
Pedigreed
The next socks are on the needles already. They are based on the idea of a cable work sampler. There are patterned ribs in four widths, each with a different design (three cables, one technically a traveling stitches, but the effect is the same). An unpatterned rib starts on the back and wraps around the ankle and foot. The pattern will be mirrored on the second sock. The first sock is about 75% done. The second may be a bit of a challenge, as I have to figure out how to mirror one of the patterns and am so far [...]
Shiny and New
Well, shiny. Not so much new. All the old stuff is still here, but the shinyness quotient has been raised. There are a few more bits yet to be added (like a way to sign up for email notification when a new pattern is released) but this is the new look. I should, in theory, be posting more frequently now, as the process is much easier. We'll see if the theory holds.
Ta Da!
All done...knit in six days. My hands will likely never be the same. Much of the credit goes to the yarn and all its thick squishy goodness. It's Nichole by Schaefer, and I will be using it again. Now for the shameless photo bragging. Take them home. Make them yourself.
Nugatory
Nugatory \ˈnü-gə-ˌtor-ē\ adjective -- of little or no consequence, trifling I'm pleased to present my newest sock. It's a simple riff on a ribbed sock with some interesting details. The pattern will be available around the end of the week.
Delayed
Well that took a while. Sorry about that. There are grand plans to make the website all fancified and er functional. Lets just say the plans were more quickly made than implemented. Boy assures me things are well underway and should be working any day now. I kept thinking I should wait until this mystical any day gets here. Seems that technique isn't working, so I thought I'd pop back in and do this the old fashioned way. There has been much knitting though. Scads of it. One project for submission to knitty (and it's awfully nifty if I do [...]
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