Weather dependent
So these are done. And the general plan is both to have them come back out, and to make a hat to match. And probably to make a little digression on how that stitch works and how to play with it because that sort of thing amuses me. All of [...]
Shorthand
This? This is alas another of those things best done by pointing and gesturing and talking. The video that goes with this is up on a public post on patreon and also on instagram, and you should go look at one of those for a second first so this makes [...]
Oops
Oh. Oh dear. Oh dear there seems to have been an incident. And I suspect there may be further incidents in the very near future. Oops.
Blocked, and not
You know how I'm always um, let's say 'encouraging' you to block your knits? Yeah. Here's why. This is the same pattern (Constellate, it's not out now, but the clever among you can probably guess that this little stack of goodness means it will be soon), knit in the same [...]
Mind the Gap
I warned you I was going to indulge myself and talk about the nerdy bits of these mitts, so let's just do that. Let's talk about how to handle that little gap you can sometimes get between the hand part of the mitt and the thumb part of the mitt. [...]
Discontinuity
Let's talk about thumbs on gradient mitts. First, this is a very long gradient with subtle shifts. The color change over the course of the mitt is slight, so you could get away without doing this! But it's a neat trick, so it's worth talking about. Usually when I knit [...]
A general plan
Ok, so I'm feeling a general plan for these. Yeah, the mitts will come back as a pattern, and yeah I wanna do a hat to match. But I also sort of want to talk about the nerdy parts of that stitch. Like the mechanics of it. Because you [...]
Inadvertent
Yeah, so those purple mitts were a lovely reminder of just how much I enjoy knitting mitts. And how long it had been since I knit some. And how quick they are to bang out. So I might have cast on for some more. Accidentally you understand. Totally inadvertently. These [...]
Limitations
Ok so the second mitt isn't hard. But somehow getting thumbs (as in, the teeny tiny tube that's often only about a hundred stitches and takes literally like half an hour to knit) taken care of often proves a surprisingly difficult task. What can I say. I am aware of [...]
Coordination
I'm not sure why, but somehow knitting two mitts never feels as dire as knitting two socks. The second sock is always a slog, but the second mitt pretty much always just zooms along. Does anyone ever do the two at a time thing some folks like for socks? Full [...]
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