Left right left
Yeah, I'm over here loving everything about this. I can't decide which side I like better...they're both pretty darn nifty. And don't stress, reversible cables are NOT hard. You know how normally you're working cables over just knit stitches? Like you cross three knits over three knits? Yeah, well if instead you cross ribbing over ribbing (so think knit one purl one knit one over knit one purl one knit one) magic happens. All of a sudden the back of your fabric gets very spiffy indeed. Take the time to twist those purls, then the front and back look even [...]
Yes, another gray hat…it’s a theme
So look...gray hats are apparently just my happy place. It's true and I'm not even going to pretend I'm sorry. At least this one has speckles (Martin's Lab, Bouncy Sport in the color Candy Sparrow)! And is reversible... Which means I will, generally, make some sort of passing attempt to show you both sides as we go along. I won't always succeed...but I'll try. The side with the untwisted stitches faces out as you knit, and the twisted side faces in. So I'm going to generally call that right and wrong...but really nothing about this is wrong. Not one thing. [...]
Field trip
Went on a yarn field trip last week...needed some stuff to play with my newly developed obsession with two color brioche. The dark purple bit of lovely is Shibui Knits' Silk Cloud in Velvet. The fluff in plastic is two disks of Lopi's Plötulopi, one in white and one in purple, but I don't see color names. And the other goodness is Malabrigo's Lace in Natural (white), Polar Morn (gray), Archangel (pink), and Whale's Road (blue). And no, they're not all getting used together! The Shibui is probably going with the light purple stuff I got from Martin's Lab a few weeks ago [...]
Reminders
This is your occasional reminder to put set your thumb stitches aside on waste yarn (rather than a spare needle or a cable needle) if you have the choice. Yes, that sometimes means finding scissors (to snip off a few inches of the yarn) or a darning needle (to run said yarn through the stitches). But especially if it's the first mitt of the pair, doing it this way lets you try it on and make sure you're happy with how long you've made the mitt before you start the thumbs. I know I had a few pairs of mitts [...]
Reading assignments
You know that feeling when you walk in to the middle of a conversation and you can tell there's something really important going on and you want to know more...but you can also tell it is not the moment to interrupt and ask someone to catch you up? Yeah. That's been knitting instagram for the last week. A massive, important, heartfelt conversation about race in the knitting community has been happening on instagram (and spilling over into twitter and ravelry and facebook and probably other places I'm not seeing it). And It's something we should all be paying attention to. [...]
So let’s talk thumbs
I mentioned last time I had to be a bit more mellow than I normally am and embrace a little bit of chaos because of the long color changes on this yarn. The left and right mitts won't match exactly, and that's just ok. But...that doesn't mean I've totally embraced a go with the flow attitude. I still want to keep the thumbs as tidy and uniform as I can. That means doing a very tiny bit of math. So normally when I knit a mitt, I knit the wrist, then increase for the thumb, then knit up to the [...]
And some matching mitts…
As is traditional in these parts, I decided the hat was lonely and needed some friends. So I cast on some mitts to go with it. (This is the bit where I remind you that today is the last day to take 10% off the hat with the code SUGGEST...so if you're reading this the day it comes out, get on that if you want it on your needles, this is the time.) I'm having to be a little more mellow than I'm normally inclined to be and just sort of embrace the color changes. The left and right mitts won't match [...]
Out of order
So some time very soon now, I'll do the thing I'm supposed to do. I'll show you the first swatch, and the second swatch, and the third swatch, and I'll show you the yarn I bought, and I'll tell you about my thoughts and plans. That's all the stuff I /should/ do before I show you this swatch. But instead I'm showing you this one because I'm so stinking pleased with it I can't bear to keep it to myself one moment longer and am basically accosting strangers on the internet and going 'look what I made' like some sort [...]
Imply (plus giveaway)
It's here! Imply is out today on ravelry. You can get it for 10% off with the code SUGGEST for the next few days. And there's yarn to give away over on instagram if you've fallen madly in love! So I'm not going to lie. This is not fancy. It is not hard. It is not shockingly original. But it is comfy and cozy and fun to knit...with just a little bit of drama from those giant cables. And that sort of sounds like exactly what I want right now! Normally when you make really big cables, you cross one giant [...]
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