Assistance
I don't believe in rushing. I'm firmly convinced that when you rush, you make stupid mistakes. If you feel like you should hurry, it's probably actually time to slow down and take a breath. Which is why, despite the rather frantic pace of the last few days (as explained by the last post), I decided I wanted to whip the current project off the needles to double check that I liked how it was coming together. I'm actually a big fan of this technique. There is (generally) no reason not to put your knitting on some waste yarn, pitch it [...]
Opportune
You know how sometimes an opportunity sneaks up and pounces, all bright and shining and obvious, and you have no choice but to seize it? Right. That's not what's happened here. Instead, the faintest glimmer of an interesting opportunity has twinkled, dimly, off in the distance. It's the sort of thing that could be seriously nifty, but would require me to bust a fairly epic move to take advantage of it. And of course it hasn't come with anything like a firm timeline or even a guarantee of coming fully into existence. Because that would be too easy. That's what [...]
Sharing
The mitts (the ones meant to match The Boy's new hat) are done. Now, because The Boy has a deeply unreasonable lack of love for woolly mitts, these are not for him. They are for me. Definitely his loss. P.S. These are up for testing over here if you're itching to get them on your needles right this minute!
Scribble
I am not known for my patience. I do not enjoy waiting, and I do not do it well. So the less said about the time between when I heard about the sharpie and alcohol thing (Friday afternoon) and when I actually got some markers and started scribbling (Saturday afternoon) the better. The Boy was napping, I was impatient, I figured I'd experiment. Now, there were a few flaws with my experimental setup. First, I didn't actually have any terribly suitable fabric. The only thing I had that even came close was a scrap of linen left over from the [...]
Inside out or Outside in
As promised, a quick look at both sides of the stitch on the mitts. The one on the left is what we've been calling side B, and on the right is side A. The finished mitt has been blocked, so I've stretched the partial one over a bit of cardboard to give a better sense of what side A will look like once it's blocked too. I continue to be pleased with them. I think I may have to play more with reversible cables (hint, the answer is ribbing).
Cozy
Can I distract you from the weather outside with something alarmingly cozy? I told you I was taking the slippers off to Washington with me in hopes of getting some pattern pics. I took the slippers, I took the camera, I even managed to snap a few decent pics. Alas, none of them are quite perfect. I think the trouble was that we were all too busy actually being cozy, and actually being cozy more or less precludes getting photos that look all snuggly and magazine perfect. Getting that look generally requires that the model be doing advanced yoga poses, [...]
Squeak
We can talk about the pattern later (next time I'll show you the two sides together, and then you can revel in the niftiness of the stitches) but for now, look at that loop of yarn. That loop is what happens when you're working the last part of the hand and realize you're going to be really close on yarn. Really really close. Really a lot. And so, in an effort to make the most of the available yarn, you go find the other end of the yarn (hint, it's not very far away, that's the whole source of the [...]
Truth in Advertising
This is for everyone who writes to me and says their knitting isn't as pretty as mine. I'll let you in on a little secret. Mine isn't either. Or rather, the knitting when it falls off the needles isn't as pretty as the carefully blocked and enthusiastically lint rollered knitting I usually show you in pictures. So just to make everyone else feel better, I'll show you the before shot. Ends flapping in the breeze, crown all wrinkly, stockinette less than smooth. It always looks like this at this stage. Always. If your knitting looks like this, you haven't done [...]
Tip Top
I really should be telling you about all the other stuff (slippers, that little experiment in gauge, a book or two) that's making progress in the background. But I'm not going to do that. I've been taken over by this purple hat and its reversible nature. It seemed dreadfully important that I come up with crown decreases that were every bit as reversible as the rest of the hat. I'm sure it's immodest to say, but I think I nailed it. Side A: Side B: It's all so marvelous tidy even I am impressed. The Boy continues to profess his [...]
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