A little hand holding, part 3
And there we are, done with the knitting and ready to put everything together. Again, the idea here is not that these are proper patterns. Think of them more as what I'd be telling you to do if you sat down beside me and said 'oooooh, cute pencil, I want one' and then I proceeded to spend twenty minutes telling you how to make that happen. Which, honestly, is a danger. I'm notoriously bad at picking up on social cues. But at least here, the only way you're getting the whole excited infodump is if you seek it out. And I'm [...]
A little hand holding, part 2
Last time we did materials, this time we're talking about the actual knitting. Video walking you through it (plus a couple of charts to get you started) are up here on patreon should you be so inclined!
A little hand holding, part 1
As I suspected, while I cannot quite manage to get a traditional pattern ready for this one in anything even resembling a timely fashion, I could indeed make a video about it (or rather, three videos about it) wherein we talk materials, knitting, and assembly. If you've ever looked at something I've made, though 'I bet I could do that without a pattern...but I'm just not quite sure where to start...' this is likely what you need to get you going. Videos are up here on patreon now!
Perseverance
I, brave and valiant soul that I am, persevered in the face of innumerable distractions (naps, cats, shiny rocks, pretty flowers, and that glowing rectangle of doom we all carry in our pockets) and actually finished the thing! No really, all the way done, ends woven in and everything. Now to be fair, the thing in question is both small and completely without practical function. But that's true of fully half the things I knit and I don't see any reason to start being bothered about it now. I don't think there's going to be a proper pattern for this [...]
But first, we block
Yes, I am absolutely itching to start the embroidery. No, I will not do it just yet. First, I'm going to block the hat. Now, someone, somewhere is grumbling that they hate blocking and aren't going to do it. And that's fine, you are the boss of your knitting and you get to do or not do whatever you want! However I, being the boss of my knitting, very much do want to block anything I'm going to embroider on before I work on it and then again when the embroidery is done. That's because blocking evens out my stitches, [...]
Done but not done
Right, so, I knit a hat. And you're only seeing it now, when the knitting part is already all done. And at least some of you are probably thinking 'my, that's a rather unassuming little hat, there's usually a bit more drama in these parts.' And you're right...but don't fret...because this hat isn't done. Remember these embroidered ornaments I did last year? Remember me saying at the time how I longed for them to be hat crowns? Well I remembered, and then I remembered that I was an adult, armed with lots of yarn and free will, and set out [...]
Help me decide…
I'm trying to decide if I should get us some icord machines to have as an optional add on for the next kit (which will be for string lights). I haven't shared much about this yet because it's not quite ready. But the pattern involves a fair bit of icord. I'll have options if you don't want to do it, but some of the super cool light stuff needs it. You can always do it manually! But it's faster with a machine. And once you have the machine, you tend to find other things to do with it! So I [...]
Robot helper
A new icord machine has come into my world, this one with a bigger opening, which means I am about to have the very prettiest charging cables you ever did see.* And I need to know, am I the only one sort of entranced by this? Because if I'm not, I sort of have a small scheme that is...manageable without an icord machine but even more fun with one that I kiiiiiind of want to talk about. Psst, if you want to watch me crank it, there's a video up on this patreon post over here (it's free, anyone can [...]
Tie one on
So when last we left the skirt, we had a waistband and we had the body of the skirt, and the goal was to join them together. The way I do that is by first trimming the top of the panels to make them nice and even, then running two lines of the longest, loosest stitches my machine will make all across the top of the skirt. Then I pull on them to gather the fabric to the width I want and carefully slide and adjust those gathers so that the seams on the panels line up with the sections [...]
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