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And so it begins! Just a heads up, this is going to be one of the very very few things I knit where I don't do a pattern. This color is flat out impossible for me to photograph consistently or accurately. Taking pattern photos of a project made with this yarn would be a constant headache, and I don't want to do it. Now, it is Just Barely Possible that I'll love the pattern well enough that I want to knit it (or more likely, something related to it but not identical) again at some point in a [...]
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Tacit is on sale for 25% off on ravelry or payhip with the code COUNTDOWN. Somehow I've gotten out of the habit of doing stand alone mitts. Not out of the habit of knitting mitts you understand. I've got piles of them (literal piles, by the back door and by my desk for when my hands get cold while I'm typing and in my coat pockets and in the back seat of the car and probably somewhere else I'm not remembering). But lately I've been doing hat and mitt sets (because matching my hat to my mitts is about the [...]
Once again, for anyone late to the party
Here is your occasional reminder that doing the long-tailed cast on over two needles is fine! Not mandatory, not forbidden, but fine. The trick is knowing why you would want to do it and only doing it when it's appropriate. Casting on over two needles does not make your caston stretchier or looser. To do that either pick a cast on that has more stretch (you can google 'stretchy cast on' and experiment with different options to see what you like best), or leave more space between the stitches of your long-tailed cast on. But casting on over two needles [...]
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Permutation is on sale for 25% off on ravelry or payhip with the code COUNTDOWN. This is, as far as I can recall, the only proper colorwork I've ever done (usually I limit myself to the stuff where you work with one color per row and manage everything else through delightfully sneaky slipped stitches). That's mostly because asking me to keep track of two yarns per row is almost certain to end in bloodshed or tears (not necessarily mine). But this is so damn nifty that I just couldn't help myself. Did it convert me to a colorwork fan? Nope. [...]
Shades
New plan. The orange and the yellow are not allowed to be in the same project unless I want to knit in sunglasses. Which I very much do not. So we're going to try something a bit more mellow. Where by mellow, I mean 'only slightly alarming.' Meep. Just so we've got it here at the very beginning, orange is Madeline Tosh's Mo Light base in Push Pop, white is Malabrigo's Rios base in Natural.
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Penchant is on sale for 25% off on ravelry or payhip with the code COUNTDOWN. This is what happens when you have so much fun with hat one that you do not want to stop. But then you also do not want to actually knit the exact same thing a second time. So you tweak just a few very tiny things and somehow get a marvelously different end result. It's also the piece of knitting that had me saying zooooooooooom and swooooooooooszh and vwoooooooooop basically non stop as the swoopy lines on it revealed themselves. Which probably won't happen to [...]
Searing
So, it seems I live in one of those places where people occasionally shoot things in the woods. I am not particularly thrilled by this, as I occasionally am a thing in the woods, and I would very very much prefer not to be shot. And somehow, instead of saying 'be super duper extra careful that you're not shooting the wrong thing by accident' we have collectively decided to say 'wear eye-searing orange so you don't get shot.' Now I am not particularly thrilled by this either (I staunchly maintain that it is the responsibility of the person with the [...]
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Exigencies is on sale for 25% off on ravelry or payhip with the code COUNTDOWN. Do I expect you to make it in these colors? No. No I do not. I expect that you have infinitely better taste and a much more developed fashion sense. But I was making them for a baby. And you can put basically anything on a baby's head and it's adorable (plus they're a baby, they can't fight back very well yet). So I embraced my inner chaos muppet and went a little outside my usual color palette. You can do something all tasteful and sedate [...]
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Circumvolute is on sale for 25% off on ravelry or payhip with the code COUNTDOWN. Do you ever fall prey to the charms of a speckled yarn only to get it home and not actually know what to do with it (this is the part where it would be kind of you to say 'why yes, yes of course, you are not the only one with this difficulty')? Well so here's what you do. You give it plenty of plain stockinette (speckled yarn looks amazing on stockinette). You do not make it argue with lace (speckled yarn hates holes). If [...]
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