Explanations
There's an art to explaining things in a way that leaves your audience energized and eager to get started. You have to provide enough information to make people feel confident but not so much that they start wondering what they've gotten themselves into. In her first book, Everyday Lace: Simple Sophisticated Knitted Garments, Heather Zoppetti does a marvelous job of striking just the right balance as she demystifies lace and shows you all of the lovely ways you can incorporate it into a host of practical, wearable garments. She starts by providing a lace primer (including sections on tools, charts, [...]
Stripes
There is probably some sort of limit to how many times I can show you a rectangle of brown fabric and expect you to continue to feign any sort of interest. We've probably actually reached that limit already, and I fear the addition of a few stripes, no matter how lovely, may not make much difference. They're proving unreasonably entertaining to me though. I'm taking them as a lovely demonstration of how nicely all the various undyed shades of sheep-y goodness seem to go together. The next step is to obtain (and them modify) a pillow form. I have an [...]
Ruling
I need a ruling. When does it go from 'disgustingly premature' to 'perfectly reasonable' to start blabbing excitedly about the next book. It's going to the printer in a little more than a week. It will be out around Thanksgiving. I've been totally focused on it for the last two weeks (making me a very tedious dinner companion I'm sure), and all I want to do is show you the projects. But I've also been led to believe that one must maintain a certain level of mystery lest people be bored by the time it comes out. Hence the need [...]
KCC3 Knit along, Planorbis corneus projects
The knit along for the projects based on the Fucus asparagoides print is starting over on ravelry. That's this super curly shawl, and these lovely socks. I am a huge believer in low-stress knit alongs, so this one is pretty laid back. Come, knit with us, chat, post pictures…I promise we’re friendly! Everyone is welcome, you can use whatever yarn you'd like. At the end of the knit along, I’ll find someone who has posted a picture of a finished project in the thread and send them happy mail. That’s pretty much all there is to it. If these are [...]
Withhold Judgement
I know this looks like a jumbled mess right now (I assure you, I am very very aware of that), but I have absolute faith that it will be exactly what I pictured when I'm done. I'm going for this whole elongated tetrahedron thing. It will be an extremely snuggly pillow (that I can already tell just from petting it), and I will be delighted with it. But right now it looks like a willful pile of mistakes and regrets. I did get more pencil roving (thanks for the suggestions last time, I have a feeling I'm go want to [...]
Plain
I'm as surprised as you are. I know what I normally knit socks and accessories, with fairly small fairly soft yarn, using intricate stitch patterns. So imagine my surprise when I found myself clicking away on the plainest pillow in the world, made out of pencil roving (which is neither soft nor small). I'll be doing something interesting with the shape, but pencil roving does not lend itself to fancy stitch patterns, so lots and lots of stockinette it is. Speaking of pencil roving, I'm totally going to run out. Or rather, I'm going to want to make several of [...]
Nap
Kitten Overlords Barry and Levon would like you to relax. They think you very likely need a bit of a rest. To help you in this quest, they will demonstrate a high quality napping strategy. Please pay close attention.
Storage
I confessed that a shocking amount of last week was spent at the dining room table - pins in hand, the smell of wet wool filling the air - while I blocked and blocked and blocked some more. The natural result of this process is a lovely pile of freshly blocked woolies. But, if your house is anything like mine, it doesn't present a huge number of large, flat, cat-free spaces in which to store great swaths of knitting. At the same time, I very much did not want to fold these bits up until they were safely photographed. So [...]
Introductions
I do not generally support alarm clocks. Working from home and for yourself means they are seldom necessary. But this weekend, I made an exception. I set an alarm. And not just any alarm, a 6:30 alarm on a Sunday morning. That's borderline barbaric. But, there was knitting to photograph, a vacant lot in which to do it, and the sun waits for no knitter. So Alethea, The Boy, and I rolled our sleepy selves into the car along with rather a lot of knitting (and the camera, I was quite proud I managed not to forget the camera, that [...]
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