Phaeodaria (plus giveaway)
You know how sometimes I come along and say 'so I know this looks tricky, but you'll have it down in no time?' Well that's not these socks. Phaeodaria actually are just a tiny bit tricky, but wow are they worth it! The leg? It's one big chart with a lovely, intricate, twirly, swirly extravaganza of tiny twisted cables. I won’t lie to you, you will totally need to pay a bit of attention for that part (really though, I have faith in you, you can totally do it). But I’m not completely heartless. By the time you get to [...]
Any Second Now
I probably can't, in good conscience, continue to pepper you with pictures of these and their incremental growth for too much longer. So it's a good thing they're almost done. The finished mitt has seven zigs, and the almost finished one is just at the end of zig six, so it really shouldn't be much longer at all. And of course it's grown a thumb (which will, I promise, be much more tidy after I block it). So the next time I sit down and knit for an hour or two, they should be done! Pssst, the Phaeodaria pattern is [...]
Continue to zig and zag
Nearly done. The sort of nearly done where could almost talk yourself into just going ahead and banging it out, but your elbow really sort of hurts, and you know if you do keep going you'll totally pay for it the next day. So it's waiting (because much as I love you all, I want to still be able to knit in five years, so I'm not going to knit when it hurts me). But it shouldn't have to wait much longer!
Nope Nope Nope
Every once in a while I get a string of comments in quick succession, and the cumulative effect of them leaves me feeling a bit cranky. I'm sure this makes me a big meany pants. But I am a big meany pants with my very own handy dandy website, so I can actually take a moment and write about two of these kinds of comments all at once and then point people here if they come up again. So without further ado, two things I will not do for you (even if you call me names). Put the pattern out [...]
Closer
Someone swing by and bang this out for me, mkay? It's close. I think I need like four more repeats of the pattern and a toe. Which shouldn't take long, but then again I sort of feel like I have the attention span of a gnat this week. Curls 2 is just about to go off to the printer (days people, days away) and I always get a little frazzled at this point. The good news is I know it's just part of the process and am not freaked out by it anymore. But it still cuts into that productive [...]
So we’re going to need a pair
Slipper the Second is well underway. I'm just about to start the decreases (which always feels like cheating because it gets faster and faster). And very shortly after that I'll join up and knit in the round (which I like much better than knitting flat if we're being honest). So in theory, these should only need a few more hours of knitting. But in reality, I'm hoping this weekend features an awful lot of napping (and I've not yet learned to knit while I nap), so there's a good chance this will look suspiciously unchanged come Monday morning.
Treasures (plus a mystery I could use some help with)
Earlier this week, I found myself typing 'card catalog' into my local craigslist page. This is a thing that happens rather more often than you might expect (along with 'barrister bookcase,' 'dress form,' and 'library,' so now you know all my secrets). Now usually this returns either nothing (most of the time) or some Staggeringly Expensive Bit of Epic Grandiosity (less often, but when it does it's notable). But this time...this time it did something else. This time it showed me a listing for a reasonably-sized, reasonably-priced treasure somewhere not too far away. So I sent a few emails, made [...]
Slipper Phase
So I think I'll just let this one speak for itself, ok? Look at that heel, so tidy I could just about die. The cast on is right there, but you really really can't see it. Doesn't look too bad off the foot either, come to think of it. And yes, slipper two is on the needles. There will totally totally be a pattern. It might not be quite what you think of when you say 'soon,' (I've got to write something about that actually...there's a surprising amount still to be done after the knitting is finished and before the [...]
Nearly
The slipper is very nearly done. It's at the point where I am obsessively trying it on to figure out when I need to start the toe (soon, the answer is very very soon). It's finally at the point where it more or less makes sense to look at, so I figured I'd show it off. So that's laid flat (heel at the right, I'm knitting toward the toes). But it's also dense enough that it will more or less stand up on its own, and it's way easier to see that way. I actually sort of love how it [...]
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