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 this way and will totally be doing it again). A toss of the stash has revealed another skein of String Theory (shocked I tell you, shocked). And a few minute's knitting has led to another funny rectangle with stitches on three sides. I can tell already I'm going to like [...]
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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 it threw a little fit.
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 started working in the round, which makes for a slightly more comprehensible shape. I'll have to get a foot form pressed into service to really show off how it works. But the gist is that the back of the heel is over there on the right, and I'm working my [...]
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 at Blue Moon Fiber Arts asked if I'd like to do a sock for their Rockin' Sock Club. I allowed as how that could be fun, yarn went winging its way across the land, and a sock was born. It came out as their July 2013 installment (under the name [...]
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 thumb now and really only needs about two more hours of knitting to be done. Of course then I have to make the second one, and I'm pretty sure second sock syndrome isn't unique to socks... Oh, and just in case you missed it earlier, the little special on first [...]
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 String Theory in a similar colorway (caledonia) with just a bit more heft. I think it's going to work out rather nicely! I promise it will make more sense when it gets a bit bigger. Right now it's in full leap of faith territory. Just hang in there!
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 know this looks a bit odd at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it will straighten up and be quite slipper-like here shortly. Plus building the heel that way is making me feel hideously clever, and I sort of love it when knitting does that.
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 Tosh (I can never resist their colors) and some Faeriegrl Yarns (which seems to be only available at Yarn It, but I liked the speckles too much to leave it behind). And just in case that wasn't enough, I found another new goody in the mail when I came home. [...]
Yup, yup totally cute
Someone linked to this on pinterest, and we've had lots of folks stopping by (hi, welcome!). If you're looking for the pattern, it's called Tacit and it's live on ravelry now. And if you want to be sure to hear whenever I have a new book or pattern out (plus get a free pattern right now), you can sign up for my mailing list. I told you this would come together. I mean I fully admit last time it looked a bit crumpled and um, nondescript. Let's go with that. But now? Now it's got much more character. And as [...]
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