Third Time’s the Charm
I've cast on three new projects since I last spoke with you. Three! There are two pairs of socks and one pair of fingerless mitts loitering about in various stages of completion. Despite this alarmingly promiscuous knitting, not one project uses the La Luz. I had the best of intentions, but it just wasn't the right yarn for the job. Pics, and news of another exciting collaboration in the next post.
Resurrection
I promised to bore you with copious details of a new project. Now I'm not quite ready to cast on, but we all know that casting on is not the first step in a project. Before you cast on, you need to find some yarn. I've got some that's been hibernating in the sash for far too long. Long long ago, when I was just a wee baby knitter, I decided to make my first venture into a Real Yarn Store. I had finished a grand total of three socks (not three pairs...three socks, there is a fairly substantial difference), [...]
Move On
Move on, nothing to see here, keep going, move along. Lots of knitting, and yet not a thing to show. I've got three, count them three finished pairs of socks and a fourth sock on the needles and not a thing to show you. As soon as the current deadline is met I'm casting on something for no other reason than to take excessive pictures of it and bore you with the details of its progress and construction. For those calculating along at home, my estimate was a tiny bit off. I had a whopping 40 inches of yarn leftover [...]
Perfectly Normal
I think I'm running out of yarn. Not in general (perish the thought) but for this particular sock. In this situation, it would be perfectly normal to: knit 1 full round, rip it out, carefully measure the amount of yarn used, and do the math to determine how much yarn each stitch takes. Then calculate the remaining number of stitches in the sock, measure the amount of yarn remaining in the skein, and do more math to see if you have enough yarn. Entirely reasonable. According to my measurements, I should have about 26 inches of yarn left over. I'm [...]
Not Empty
Now for some actual knitting. That empty box over there, the one under "On the Needles?" It's a lie. The needles are not empty. They are, in fact, quite full. Alas, almost all the current knitting is secret, so I can't show you pictures. I'm realizing now that this was poor planning. I can't show you pretty pictures, but I can let you know a bit about the schedule and what you can expect to see over the next little while. The next pattern you will see is part of Penny Rose's Wicked Women yarn club. While only club members [...]
Progress, Part the Second
So there I was, feeling awfully pleased with myself. I had made socks, two whole pairs. They fit. They were lovely. I was quickly approaching smug. You know those lists you see detailing why you should knit socks? The ones that talk about the practicality and the comfort and the portability and the reasonable cost and the creativity? I proudly 'discovered' each and every one of these marvelous traits and was completely sure I was the very first to do so. There was just one problem. A pair of socks has an ungodly number of stitches. Do the math. It's [...]
Progress
I get a fair number of people asking me how I learned to design socks or asking if I've been knitting for ages. This is very flattering, but I feel the need to confess. I've only been knitting seriously for about two years. I'll explain. About seven or eight years ago, I decided to learn to knit. I cobbled together something resembling the knit stitch and made a large and very ugly rectangle. Having never been very good at taking small steps, I then decided that I was destined to create intricate cables. I got Elsebeth Lavold's Viking Patterns for [...]
Driven to Distraction
I painted my fingernails with a deeply immodest shade of glittery red polish, and I'm finding the constant flashes of shimmery awesomeness seriously distracting. I try to look at the stitches on my needles and am sidetracked by the shiny. It's possible I'm just easily distracted (um, it's more than possible, it's medically documented), but this is just ridiculous. I could just take the polish off, but that simply won't do. Instead I'll just have to keep it on all the time for a week or two until I get used to it. This will be the perfect excuse for [...]
A Shameful Lapse
It's the last day to get any of my sock patterns for $4.00. The sale ends tonight! So while we were on our impromptu pizza run, we just sort of happened to stumble into two yarn stores. They were (more or less) on the way home. And really, it's not a trip unless you get some commemorative yarn, right? The first was City Knits in Detroit. It's in a gorgeous building and was full of lots of lovely yarn. My resolve remained strong, and I bought only one skein of yarn. It's not even for me. The Boy saw some [...]
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