Glutton for Punishment
More non-knitting stuff today. I promise next time there will be pictures of yarn or at least discussion of it. We're off to the Great Lakes Fiber Show this weekend, and that should be good for some yarn-y indulgence. On the plumbing front, the dismemberment stage seems to have reached its conclusion, and the reconstruction has begun. We now have drywall instead of holes. It is an improvement, but the upstairs bathroom still has no actual plumbing fixtures, just a lot of pipes. This fairly severely impedes its utility as a bathroom. Despite this rather glaring lack, I am assured [...]
Disruption
The plumbers are here. They are competently and industriously doing...stuff. From a lay perspective, it looks and sounds rather as if they're trying their damnedest to murder my house by driving a stake through its heart. I am finding it disconcerting. It is rather disruptive. Allow me to demonstrate. This is my very favorite spot in my whole house. See that bookcase? It has a twin on the other side of the fireplace. I love those bookcases, love that whole wall, it's the first thing I see when I walk in my house and I just adore it. The chair [...]
My Own Personal Horror Movie
If, when you turn on the shower upstairs, water runs down your living room wall downstairs, you can pretty much guess the next few days are not going to go as you had planned. Nor is your budget for the month going look like you had expected. Not really at all. Especially that last part. As you might perhaps imagine, this will cut into the production of scintillating knitting content over the next week. It will likely also cut into my reserves of patience and sanity. With luck, I will return victorious in a few days.
Sneak
One wee quick peek at the sock for Schaefer - just the barest glimpse. I predict these will be seriously nifty.
Goodies!
All of the unladylike fuming and vigorous swearing at wordpress were apparently worth it. This website has begun to result in the arrival of real live actual yarn in my mailbox. Yarn - for me! One arrival is a lovely skein of Nichole by Schaefer. It's a hypnotic mix of blues and purples, variegated enough to be interesting, solid enough to stand up to all sorts of interesting patterns. My only complaint about it is that it's a one-of-a-kind colorway and so I won't be able to get more. This will turn into the sock I knit for Schaefer, and [...]
Just How Much do You Like it?
So, the Pedigreed socks are a bit of a challenge. They will be mirror images of each other and feature four different cable patterns and a wrap around rib. They're fun to knit, but they are not an entirely simple undertaking. I actually rather like my socks to be challenging, but I've learned something. The socks that are tricky to knit are also, not surprisingly, tricky to write up. The pattern for these would be by far my most complicated yet. It would need 8 charts, 6 of them full-page affairs. The written text would take several pages. The whole [...]
Progress
Pedigreed are coming along nicely. The current push to write patterns up for publication is doing wonders for my knitting fidelity. I'm just about ready to start the toe decreases and should hopefully finish the first one tonight. I especially like the asymmetrically placed gusset on these socks. On this sock, the right side gusset decreases are in the normal location, while the left side gusset decreases move across the top of the foot forcing the plain rib to wrap around and pull over to the right. It's still quite comfortable and easy to do, but it really changes the [...]
Collaboration
After three whole days of biting my tongue and keeping quiet, I now have official permission to shamelessly blab...I will be designing a pair of socks for Schaefer Yarn Company using their new yarn, Nichole! This is the yarn I used in my most recent socks (Nugatory), and I just loved working with it. I knit a bit loosely and hate working with small needles. I will (grudgingly) consent to use size 1s, but anything smaller is out of the question. This combination means that thicker yarn is my very good friend. Unfortunately, it's hard to find a nice thick [...]
Pedigreed
The next socks are on the needles already. They are based on the idea of a cable work sampler. There are patterned ribs in four widths, each with a different design (three cables, one technically a traveling stitches, but the effect is the same). An unpatterned rib starts on the back and wraps around the ankle and foot. The pattern will be mirrored on the second sock. The first sock is about 75% done. The second may be a bit of a challenge, as I have to figure out how to mirror one of the patterns and am so far [...]
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