A post which is actually knitting related
I’m knitting the Icarus shawl from the Interweave Knits Summer 2006 issue. So far I’m nearing completion of the first part of the first graph. The yarn: Moorit Shetland fiber I bought through Little Barn that I spun up. I finally finished knitting Josey’s blanket and it’s waiting for me to seam the two panels [...]
Sorry for the lack of posting, knitting should make up for it.
Okay this is moderately knitting related– a video of me knitting a cabled scarf from chunky acrylic (mea culpa mea culpa yarn snobbery must be set aside due to extenuating circumstances) Yes that’s me knitting cables without a cable needle. It’s kind of boring so I put a kicky soundtrack to it and edited it [...]
It’s hard to knit with webby fingers
Still wrestling with the hosting situation, there are so many things that I rely on my websites to do that it makes me really appreciative of them when they are down. Finally yarnporn is loaded and I think all the pages are working (I used the link checker, but have to go through with my [...]
Knitting Progress
Yes, progress– much more progress in length and width than I expected (the measure is near the right front meets sleeve angle.) I was a little worried that changing the gauge would alter the angle of the raglan shaping and cause all sorts of disasters, but just by good luck it seems to have had [...]
No pattern goes un-tinkered!
While perusing blogs I found Julsey (Peony Knits)and found myself obsessing over the capelet pattern that she shares. I like the shaping, I even like the color she used. I don’t like the yarn-over treatment of the raglan shaping and I don’t particularly like teeny garments in bulky. And I think that a bit of [...]
Mail Day!
Mail day! Opal aka the AkamaiKnitter sent me some goodies! The teal green wool is amazing to spin, and I’m looking forward to breaking into those cookies and candies after the kidlets go to bed. Well of course Opal deserves a good mail day too so among her stuff will be enough silk yarn to [...]
Beaded yarn!
Merino! Beads! They go together so naturally, like ice-cream and rootbeer. Like anything crafty the more I practice making beaded yarn the more pleasurable the process becomes. I am particularly fond of the light green one, the glass on the beads is actually blue and the paint inside is bright pink. On the light blue [...]