Yarn Math
I know math isn't everyone's favorite thing, but there's one Very Tiny Math Nugget that comes in super handy pretty much every time I knit something, so I want to make sure you have it in your bag of tricks. There's a point in pretty much every project where I find myself wanting to know 'how much yarn is that?' Sometimes I want to know 'how much yarn did I use in this hat?' Sometimes I want to know 'how much yarn is left in this ball?' Sometimes I want to know 'how much yarn do I need to make [...]
Fickle
Yup, scandalously unblocked, ends flapping in the breeze, and yet I love it still. But...But I want the zig zag on more of the hat. For I am a fickle and prone to exuberance. So there may be another hat in the works, but first, I gotta do that yarn math I mentioned the other day to see if I have enough yarn for what I want to do. Want me to show you how I figure out how many yards of yarn I used on something with multiple yarns, even if I scandalously forgot to weigh a [...]
Reasonable
Two things. One, this is just about ready for the decreases. Two, I am in no way ready to be done knitting on it. The only reasonable thing to do is knit another version. But first? First I have to finish this one and then break out the scale/raid the stash and do some yarn math. In other words, Finish One Project Before Starting The Next. And we all know how well that goes...
Continue down that path
Remember how we talked the other day about doodling out the important bits of a stitch on paper to help you understand it and how that can come in handy if you want to do things like scale a stitch up or down (or tile it...or mirror it...or offset it...or get it to flow smoothly into another pattern)? (It's back a few posts if you want to listen to me flop fabric around and point at things while talking about it.) Yeah, well this is what happens when you continue on down that path. The swatch is a scaled down [...]
Fluffy
Ever see a stitch you just want to burrow into and take a nap? Because I'm pretty sure this is about the closest I've ever seen a stitch get to 'fluffy duvet on a cold, rainy afternoon when you're exhausted and really really really need a nap.' Something about the structure of it just makes it feel so snuggly and welcoming. Especially when it's knit with a yarn combo like this, where it's fairly loosely knit, but the fuzzy yarn keeps it feeling solid. It manages that drapey-but-warm thing that is just pure magic.
Floofy goodness
Ok, here's the color thing I was telling you about the other day. The pink fabric and the orange fabric both use the same background yarn (a single ply from Seven Sisters Arts), the only difference is the floof color (both fuzzy laceweights from Haute Knit Yarn). For some reason, this delights me to no end. I'm going to need someone to provide me with a very convincing reason not to find a purple floof yarn and continue the shenanigans...
Colorful floof
So this? This bit of screaming pink goodness? It's actually the same base yarn as the orange mitts, just held double with a different color of fluffy yarn. It always amazes me how much of a difference that makes, but somehow it really really really does. Now if you'll excuse me, I believe I have to go on a little stash dive/internet wander to see if I can find some sort of neon purple floof to round out the set.
Clearly
Now that the mitts are done, clearly we need to do a hat...
Weather dependent
So these are done. And the general plan is both to have them come back out, and to make a hat to match. And probably to make a little digression on how that stitch works and how to play with it because that sort of thing amuses me. All of which will be available in various forms as they come together. The timing of all that is somewhat weather dependent. It's summer, finding the right sort of day to take photos where they'll come out nicely and I won't keel over from the heat sometimes takes a while. And I [...]
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