Tall Tails
Oh, oh I love the tails. The perfect, poseable little tails. The perfect, poseable tails with their tiny little points. I just know they use them to get up to all sorts of mischief!
Toy? Tool? Both?
Do I, or anyone anywhere need this? I'm going to say no. Nope. No one truly needs to quickly knit i-cord in quantity. Has that stopped me? Clearly not. I like this one, by Prym, because it's sturdy and the mechanism works smoothly, even when you do things it is absolutely not mean to do...like use it to cover yards and yards and yards of wire in i-cord. For no particular reason (no seriously, I'm not actually sure what I'm going to do with this, I just suspect it'll amuse me so I did it...) (Standard amazon affiliate link disclosure [...]
Again
My country is inaugurating a fascist rapist today. Again. Instead of a competent woman. Again. And that's doing a number on my brain, so I'm going to spend the day working on the next iteration of this. It's one giant piece of paper folded up to make several pockets. The idea is that I'll hang it on the wall and fill the pockets with things that bring me joy. If you are able to avoid the news and make something today, I highly recommend it. You don't have to watch the absolute travesty taking place. It will still happen whether [...]
Tidy up
Now that all three stitches are in place, you can go back and tidy them up. It's likely to be an iterative process. Tighten them a little, stretch the fabric, tighten them a little more, stretch it again, keep going like that until it looks right. Once it's done, tie the ends off inside the hat. Normally I'm not a fan of knots, but here the yarn isn't structural (nothing will come apart if the knot comes untied, it's just a cosmetic fix not a structural change) and the underlying fabric is textured enough that the knot will just sink [...]
Sloppy
Start by duplicate stitching over stitch below the wonky bit, and leave your stitches big and sloppy. No really, biiiiiiig and sloppy. Looser is better. Then duplicate stitch over the miscreant and just...put it in the right way. I know, you have to look at it and see what the right way is...and that's a little vague. But you can do it. Then do the same thing for the stitch above the wonky bit. Doing three (the one before, the dodgy one, and the one after) helps the whole thing blend in at the end. And again, Loose And Sloppy. [...]
We can fix it
We can fix it…or at least hide it! Way back at the beginning of the hat, I worked a left leaning decrease where I should have worked a right-leaning decrease. And that means the wrong stitch is on top in this column of yellow stitches. Now, the ‘right’ way to fix it would have been to drop back and actually change the decrease. But I didn’t notice the error until after the hat was off the needles. So that…is not happening. What I’m going to do instead is take a scrap of the yellow yarn (literally the bit leftover from [...]
Subtle, or?
The sweater had a tiny hole. I have a pile of pretty silk embroidery floss from Molly Girl Yarn. And also the requisite amount of gumption to tackle this task. The only question is do we go subtle, or...enthusiastic. I'm leaning towards enthusiastic, mostly because once a sweater starts getting wee holes, it tends to get more. And while you can sometimes get one wee hole to go away fairly quietly, that gets tricky the more there are. Plus also I'm more comfortable moving around the world in something I've mended than I used to be. Because really, no one [...]
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...
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