Damn
After four years of consistent masking, boosters, and other precations, covid has finally come for me and everyone in my household. I'll be back when I can, but for now, I'm resting as much as I can to hopefully help stave off long term complications. Posting will be light to non-existent, and I will not be checking email much for a while either. My apologies, but this is a one person show, and that person is currently sick and in bed.
A little extra
Ok so yes. The way I block these is a little extra. I have lasts (that wooden, foot-shaped thing there that shoe companies used to shape their shoes around) in there doing most of the work. And then I have a flexible plastic cutting board in there too to help hold the top open and out and under a bit of tension. If I didn't have lasts (which again, I realize most of you will not, I have this stuff because taking pretty pictures of my knits is literally my job, and so I have specialized tools to do that [...]
Never seen a foot
Look...there are very good reasons I don't normally show you this stage of the slipper. It's because it looks like someone who has heard of but never actually seen a human foot has decided to try and make toe mittens. But I promise...I really really really promise...that it looks good when you get it onto a foot! Wiggly version over here...
Halfway
Ok so think of this as a halfway point between crumpled heap and properly blocked. This is just shoved onto a foot form (they're called lasts, they're what they used to make shoes around, they're damn handy for blocking slippers), but not actually off the needles or subjected to the indignities of an hour or so in a bowl of water. This is just because I couldn't bear to leave the other pic as your last sight of the slipper for a while, crumpled as it was, so I needed to give it a slightly more structured view. Just in [...]
Foot-ish
Those of you who said slipper are absolutely correct. Those of you concerned that this looks like a crumpled heap of bad ideas and dashed dreams are also correct. But blocking fixed a multitude of sins. And every slipper I've ever made looks real damn funny at this point in the proceedings. And then you shove something foot-ish in there, and it springs into shape, and all your doubts are assuaged. At least all of the slipper-based doubts. I'm not really qualified to handle any larger concerns. But I can confidently say this will look more like a slipper and [...]
Peculiar
There, does that help a bit? I mean possibly not, I fully admit it's still a bit...peculiar. But at least it feels a little more intentionally peculiar to me at this point! Do you know what it is yet?
Deep breath
This is one of those projects that absolutely will look like you're doing something wrong for quite some time. It eventually sorts itself out, I promise. But there's a good long while early on where you simply have to take deep breaths and trust the process.
Counting rows
So I'm working on a thing with cables every eight rows, which means I often find myself thinking huh, is it time to do the next cable yet? But counting rows on cables can be...not immediately obvious. But don't worry, there's a trick to it. As usual, the thing to do is...learn to look at your fabric. I know. I know! It's annoying. But it's the way you actually start to understand what's going on, so it's pretty much always going to be the answer. Ok, so, cables happen when you yoink one set of stitches over across some neighboring [...]
Monthly Reminder
It's been two years since the Supreme Court reminded everyone that you don't have bodily autonomy if you get pregnant. Since then, many states have made it had or impossible to get an abortion, others are doing the same, and yes, some are trying to restrict birth control and fertility treatments, too. Despite the barrage of new restrictions, the number of abortions actually went up in 2023 (by ~11% as compared to 2020). This is at least partly due to the increased availability of and awareness about abortion pills by mail. Abortion pills give people back some of the autonomy [...]
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