New and Improved
The new slipper is coming together nicely. I think this version will stick! It's weirdly difficult to make sense of it at this stage, but maybe it will help to see it sort of propped up. The bit that's knit so far wraps around (and under) your heel. In a [...]
One down
Well then, that came together rather nicely. That zig-zag thing is way more entertaining than it has any right to be (and easy too, it's just cables). And with something that showy going on in front, it seemed best to keep the rest of it fairly plain, so the thumb [...]
Third Time…
So I've decided to listen to the little voice whispering 'toooooooo striiiiiiiiiipey' and rip the slipper before I put any more time in. But I thought I would snap a quick picture on a handy foot form just to show you how it works (still quite taken with building them [...]
Submit
Every now and then we have to remind our yarn who's boss. If it helps you can totally chant 'I am smarter than the yarn, I am smarter than the yarn, I am smarter than the yarn' under your breath. Totally worth it in the end though, you'd never know [...]
Slipper update
Ok, let's check in on the slipper. When last we visited, it was more or less a slightly confusing rectangle. These days it's an equally confusing and much less describable shape. Something sort of like this. Or rather, it was like this. I've since joined those two sides up and [...]
Lithic (plus giveaway)
While normally I like to be all curmudgeonly and pretty much only work by myself, every once in a while someone comes along who can talk me into playing nicely with others. Lithic is the result of one of those collaborations. You see, a few years ago, the good folks [...]
I didn’t forget
So normally I'm a one project knitter. I almost never have two projects on the go at once. But the slipper distracted me and I jumped ship, right in the middle of the zig-zag mitt. Lovely though the slippers are, I haven't totally abandoned the mitt. It is getting a [...]
Try again
So it turns out that yarn, pretty as it was, was not actually destined to be slippers. I wanted something a bit thicker and cozier. But I liked the construction, and I liked the color, so I went on a little stash dive. Turns out I had a skein of [...]
Phases
The yarn from Tuesday slipped and fell and jumped on the needles. It chatted with me and explained how it wants to be a slipper. I seem to be having something of a slipper phase, as I can think of about four pairs I need to make. And yes, I [...]
Goodies
I am, usually, quite restrained in the face of yarn. I tend to think of trips to yarn stores as more research visits than shopping expeditions. But when I stopped in at Yarn It & Haberdashery in Columbus, I sort of slipped. I grabbed a few goodies. That's some Madeline [...]
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