Accidental
I...I might have started a little project. Maybe. Possibly. When no one was looking. By accident you understand. And it's not done. Nope, not done at all. But I might possibly have gotten the first draft back. You know, the one where all I can see is the seven tiny things I'm going to tweak, and so of course I cannot show it to you properly. Because showing someone a draft of something when there are still things left to fix is too soul-searingly intimate to be borne by a mere mortal such as myself, because my brain insists [...]
Leftovers
I know myself. I know I believe accessories are more fun in sets. And I keep that in mind when I buy yarn. So when I finished the hat and found myself in possession of an extra skein of each (plus a fairly sizeable leftovers ball of each of the original skeins), I knew what needed to happen Though just because I'm not surprised doesn't mean I'm not delighted...
Double down
Am I going to block this, then fix the goofy bit, then block it again? Yup. Because that's the best way to make the fix damn near invisible, and because blocking takes all of 2 minutes of active effort (get it wet, squeeze it out, plop it over the hat form, smooth it out) and because it's finally cold enough that even I, Ice Princess Supreme, She of the Warm Woolly Sweaters, have finally turned the damn heat on (to a perfectly respectable 55, thank you very much, because frozen pipes are no fun at all) so it dries in [...]
Off to a good start
Well, that's this year's first official knit, and I'm declaring the year off to a good start. Though I have noticed a spot where a decrease is leaning the wrong way. Yes, even though I ripped the whole damn thing out to fix that at the beginning. What can I say, I am a pile of electrified meat, there are bound to be errors. You can now commence everyone's favorite game: Find the Fuckup. I will be fixing it, but in that cheating sort of way where I do it with a bit of extra yarn, not in the proper [...]
What’s this called?
Ok, so the bit where the yellow opens up and we just run in yellow for a we run for a while in yellow with the blue only sort of peeking out in the background...what is that called? It's not just one color brioche. The blue is in there, every other row, just modified slightly. So here's how this works. Normally with two color brioche in the round, it goes like this: On one round, with one color (yellow here): knit 1 (catching the wrap of the other color from the previous round along with the stitch you're knitting), slip [...]
Knitting is Autistic
Knitting is autistic...and so am I! Late last year I spent a truly delightful hour talking with two of the world's very coolest humans and recording an episode of The Autistic Culture Podcast. We talked about knitting and how it does good things for brains like ours and brains like ours are actually pretty damn cool. And now it's out and you can listen to us giggle and talk over each other and get nerdily excited about making loops with pretty string. This is my very favorite podcast. No really, I found out about it when Arielle Juliette did an [...]
Timing
The hat is now ready for the decreases. How do I know? Well, in this case, it's because of where I am in the pattern repeat (this one has a lot of rows, so there are only a couple of set points where it makes sense to do the decreases). But on a less constrained hat (say one with a two row repeat or a four row repeat or a six row repeat), it can be a little tricky to tell. The best method I know is to lay the hand of whoever is going to wear the thing on [...]
Grumble grumble
Was it a promising start? Yes. Did I find something I wish I'd done differently (namely the decreases...I want the solid line to carry from the inside and curve along the expand-y gold bit, not go straight up the outside of each panel)? Alas, yes. Did I consider just dropping back and fixing it, even though fixing stuff in brioche is a bit of a bear? Yup. Did I even, in fact, actually drop back and fix a couple of spots to make sure I truly preferred one way over the other? Yup. That's when this that first picture, needle-less [...]
Monthly Reminder
Abortions are good!^ If you or someone in your household can get pregnant, I think you should have abortion pills in your medicine cabinet. Just in case. Because things are about to get bad. You can order abortion pills online from Aid Access. You can order them even if you're not pregnant. Aid Access will send them to you no matter where you live (they are overseas and do not comply with requests from US law enforcement). They are safe (literally safer than tylenol) and effective, and you can absolutely manage your own medication abortion at home (Aid Access will [...]
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