Pocket full of Posies, Part 3
Once your spokes are in place, you can finally start weaving! This is the fun bit. It's shockingly easy and startlingly quick. No really, I have a hard time stopping once I get going. It looks a little something like this once you get started. If you could use something easy and quick to distract yourself from the ongoing horrors, all the instructions live right over here. Come play along! Wondering what's going on? I've taken a bunch of photos and made a bunch of videos while I worked on mending this sweater. I'm putting the videos up in a [...]
Pocket full of Posies, Part 2
Next up, we're making spokes! For you see, these glorious, cheerful little flowers are all built on a set of spokes. This is part of what makes them so suitable for use on knits. Because instead of going through your fabric over and over and over again (which has a tendency to constrain the fabric and make it less stretchy), you just build a framework of spokes and then weave the fancy bits on top of those (rather than stitching them directly into your fabric). It looks a little something like this. If you want to watch me do it [...]
Pocket full of Posies, Part 1
Ok we're trying a thing! I'm fixing a sweater, and I'm bringing you along. Wondering what's going on? I've taken a bunch of photos and made a bunch of videos while I worked on mending this sweater. I'm putting the videos up in a series of posts over on patreon, and I'm turning the photos into a download with written instructions. While I'm working on creating those instructions, I'll make the series of posts available to everyone on patreon (yes, even folks with a free membership). Once the proper written instructions are ready, I'll put them up for sale in [...]
Less hole, more decoration
I tried. I tried 'subtle.' I really did. But subtle mends on fine gauge knits, especially if you don't have matching yarn, are actually far, far more difficult than Big, Boisterous, Dramatic mends. Plus infinitely less cheerful. And I dunno about you, but I don't currently have the necessary fortitude for both harder and less cheerful. So I went in the complete opposite direction. And I kinda love it. There's another hole over on the sleeve, and I'm going to do it next. Want me to show you how? (Where 'show you how' likely means write up proper instructions for [...]
Overcome
I had the best of intentions. When I took the christmas tree down in late December, I fully intended to get the ornaments tidied up and put away in short order. But then I found myself somewhat overcome by events. And then it was January. And it was cold. And it was dark. And events continued, unabated, at an absurd and frankly reckless pace. And time passed. And one day it became clear that the ornaments had been sitting in a pile on the chair on the porch long enough that a second, valentine-themed, dusting of objects had accreted atop [...]
Colonization
The closet was overflowing. The sort of overflowing where finding what you need requires pulling three things out and runs a not insignificant risk of avalanche. The sort of overflowing where you avoid putting things away properly because you know it's going to require a game of tetris, so you either fling and forget or shove and swear. And I? I needed one Very Small Object that I knew was in there. Somewhere. Probably at the very bottom of the bin. Probably towards the back. One small, inexpensive object. One small, inexpensive object that I absolutely could have ordered from [...]
Noteworthy Kit Preorder
Preorders for the Noteworthy Kits are open (but only through the weekend)! If you know you want to knit some paper, but you don't want to go on a scavenger hunt for the bits, this is how you make that happen. You've got three options: Just the Bits (grommets, clasps, plastic canvas, embroidery floss, adorable little pouch, and of course the pattern) Bits and Yarn (all that other stuff plus a special, super secret custom color from @littleskeinyarn) Hold my Spot (if you know you want a kit, but prefer to wait to pay for it until it's ready to [...]
Subtle
Am I now going to try and get you to notice tiny, yellow stitches on a giant sheet of white paper? It would seem so. Am I going to succeed? Who knows. Whether I do or not, I can report with absolute certainty that I have now stitched all the pockets and pleats from the last post firmly in place. That accomplished, I turned under the edges and stitched them down. Then I ran two lines of stitching down through the whole piece to divide the pockets into three columns. So we've gone from one very large piece of paper [...]
Revisit
So when last we visited this project, it was inauguration day, and I was working on iteration two of the wall pocket in a vain attempt to distract myself from the fascist rapist taking over my government. It didn't work. But it's a cool project, and I still want the finished piece, so it's time to revisit it. Iteration two came out like this. Three rows of pockets with lacing to hold things in place. And it is...almost right. Closer to right than iteration one. But not quite perfect... Things I like: the general idea (one spot in which to [...]
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