Yarn Love
All of my suspicions about Happy Feet DK have been proven correct! I am in love. It is just the right thickness for my preferred needle/tension/foot combination. It's just thick enough to feel fast. Now knitting is not and will never be the quickest way to get socks. Speed is not the point. But I'm willing to bet that most of us wouldn't mind too terribly much if the process took just a tiny bit less time. This yarn takes care of it. I need about 10% fewer stitches around the circumference of the sock, which makes quite a lot [...]
Testing Testing One Two Three
Short notice I know, but the most recent socks are up for testing over on ravelry. Hop on over for details. I'm picking testers by December 25, so if you want to try you should go there sooner rather than later.
Abominable Snowman Found
Do you see that fluffy white stuff over there? That's snow. Those pink things dangling out in the cold with no protective covering? Those are my toes. Yup, I went outside barefoot in the snow to get a sock picture for you. Well, half barefoot, there seemed no reason for the other foot to suffer too. And just for the record, the white speckles on the leg of the sock up by the cuff are snowflakes, not lint. I keep a lint roller by the camera and am fairly good at de-linting before I take photos. I am, however, not [...]
CraftLit Collaboration
I'm thrilled to announce that my Colophon pattern is going to be available for free for the next two months as part of a collaboration with CraftLit. CraftLit, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of finding it yet, is a marvelous podcast produced by Heather Ordover. It combines knitting and books, two of my very favorite obsessions. When Heather announced that she was looking for patterns to accompany the new CraftLit iphone app, I knew I had to see if I could help. The pattern for Colophon seemed perfect - with a name like that it was [...]
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 [...]
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