Very bad words
See that? See that set of stitches that is very much not involved in the cable? Yeah...that's not supposed to be like that. So we figure out the stitches involved and we rip. Two of the strands are longer because I needed to rip out more stitches there...the rest are shorter because I didn't need to set as many free down there. And then reknit it, this time actually crossing the cable like a smart kid. And then it's as good as new (er...better actually, what with not having the glaring error and all). Much faster than ripping out the [...]
So very very lazy…
I'm no good at row counters. I generally prefer to just count my rows or find some sort of landmark on the stitch pattern I can use instead of counting rows. But, on this hat, it's all cables. And cables are sort of a pain to count rows (you can do it, it's just fiddly). So I cheat. I tie slip knots in my tail for every plain row. Then when I finish the cable row, I yank them all out. Works great here because I don't need to count very high (4 or 5 knots is practical...12 is not) and because the [...]
Left right left
Yeah, I'm over here loving everything about this. I can't decide which side I like better...they're both pretty darn nifty. And don't stress, reversible cables are NOT hard. You know how normally you're working cables over just knit stitches? Like you cross three knits over three knits? Yeah, well if instead you cross ribbing over ribbing (so think knit one purl one knit one over knit one purl one knit one) magic happens. All of a sudden the back of your fabric gets very spiffy indeed. Take the time to twist those purls, then the front and back look even [...]
Yes, another gray hat…it’s a theme
So look...gray hats are apparently just my happy place. It's true and I'm not even going to pretend I'm sorry. At least this one has speckles (Martin's Lab, Bouncy Sport in the color Candy Sparrow)! And is reversible... Which means I will, generally, make some sort of passing attempt to show you both sides as we go along. I won't always succeed...but I'll try. The side with the untwisted stitches faces out as you knit, and the twisted side faces in. So I'm going to generally call that right and wrong...but really nothing about this is wrong. Not one thing. [...]
Out of order
So some time very soon now, I'll do the thing I'm supposed to do. I'll show you the first swatch, and the second swatch, and the third swatch, and I'll show you the yarn I bought, and I'll tell you about my thoughts and plans. That's all the stuff I /should/ do before I show you this swatch. But instead I'm showing you this one because I'm so stinking pleased with it I can't bear to keep it to myself one moment longer and am basically accosting strangers on the internet and going 'look what I made' like some sort [...]
Yarn…sometimes I just need to buy yarn
So I did, alas, not go to Rhinebeck this year (I've gone before...but I get rather quickly overwhelmed by All The People and sort of want to just...leave...leave at once). But that does not mean I didn't spend the weekend playing with yarn. I ordered myself something new (translation, I've not used it before) and indulgent (translation, it's from far enough away that the shipping feels expensive (even though it is actually totally reasonable) and the yarn takes an age to get here because the post office hates me and wants me to suffer). That's Bouncy Sport in Candy Sparrow [...]
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