Growing
I'm loving this more and more the taller it gets. This is three days of knitting. (The rounds are longer than you'd expect. Those cables are rather big and draw in the knitting a fair bit, meaning you need more stitches than you'd think to wrap comfortably around your head). I'm absolutely itching to have it done and have already hatched plans for a set of mitts to match. But I do feel like I need to mention something. Come here. Right up close. This is important. Listen carefully. Please do not get in touch with me and express your [...]
Non-linear
If I were feeling oppressed by the tyranny of a linear chronology, I would show you some of the things I worked on at the retreat. But I'm really really not. I am, instead, feeling incredibly distracted by the shininess of the new. So I'm showing you the hat I cast on Sunday night. That's one side, and the other side looks like this. I truly have not decided which is the outside and which the inside (and since it is The Boy's hat, I suppose he gets to make that determination for himself). So while it's not reversible in [...]
In which Knitters live up to expectations
Yes, I was gone. And yes, I have returned. Normally, on trips like this, I do my very best to either go a bit early or stay a bit late or carve out some time in the middle to go exploring. Alas, this year, that didn't happen. The current spate of snow storms meant flights were a mess, and I couldn't make it on time. (As a side note, I was flying United, and they were less than impressive. Once it became clear snow was going to mess up my travel, I asked if I could take the exact same [...]
Homeward Bound
The exigencies of winter travel and the dictates of large group schedules have meant that not only have I not blogged while I've been here, I've even been so unreasonable as to not have any blog-worthy adventures. Today, as I begin my travel home, I will do my best to partially remedy this. After a close consultation with the weather gods, the ferry schedule, a host of maps, and a variety of folks more versed in local traffic patterns than I, I have decided that the signs augur well, and I'm going to attempt to make it over to Orcas [...]
Options
The more I knit, the more I find myself interested in options. I almost never knit something without thinking 'hmmm, I could do it this way, or I could do it this way, or maybe I could try this other thing' and wanting to more or less do them all. Now often, this is a bit impractical. Eventually I just have to settle down and knit the thing. And if I'm writing a pattern (which I do for almost everything I knit), I don't feel good giving you options for variations I'm not showing you pictures of. Doing that would [...]
Modern Colorwork Collection, review and giveaway
[note]This giveaway is now closed, the winner has been notified.[/note] Knitters are a clever bunch. We take very long pieces of string and a pair of sticks and tie giant knots. Beautiful, useful knots that you can wear. It's a neat trick. I really appreciate it when designers realize just how clever knitters are and write their patterns accordingly. Miriam Felton has done just that with her recent Modern Colorwork Collection. The six pieces of this collection (three sweaters, a cowl, a shawl, and a pair of mitts) draw their inspiration from quilting and modern art. The result is projects [...]
Bloom
I mentioned last time that I loved how the Bare Naked Wools yarns bloomed when they hit the water. Then I showed you a picture of them still on the needles where they were totally 100% not blooming. So let's fix that, shall we? I just finished up the second slipper (well, finished the knitting, I still have to attach the strap). The first one has had a soaking, a nice vigorous thrashing, and a good blocking. The second is fresh off the needles. Look at the difference. See how the top one is nice and fuzzy and happy? You [...]
Fitting
I am, for reasons that seemed extremely good at the time, knitting with gray and cream yarn in the middle of a very long winter. Normally, this would be enough to drive a knitter around the bend. But somehow this yarn is so snuggly and cozy and textured and just downright knitterly that it feels right. This is take two of the strappy slippers ( you guys wanted them enough that I've gone ahead and started working on them as a stand alone pattern instead of waiting until the end of next year and putting them in a book you've [...]
Golden
People, it's cold outside. Cold and very very snowy. So I am not going to go outside to try and find a spot with little enough snow that I can take a picture of these. I know I should, but I'm just not. You'll have to settle for a uncharacteristically well-scrubbed kitchen counter and a rare streak of January sunlight. I think it will serve to show off the pretty quite well enough. That's the fat socks (String Theory Caper Aran in Melon) on the right, and the skinny socks (String Theory Caper Sock in Beach Plum) on the left. [...]
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