Author Archives: JC
Some of you may recall that, years ago, Threads magazine used to include articles on knitting and other fiber crafts in addition to sewing. Fabulous articles, really. Full of inspiration and useful how-to info. My heart sank when Threads decided to focus on sewing only. I mean, Threads is still an awesome magazine, and I […]
Remember the toe I mentioned in my last post? The one with the kfb increases? It’s turned into a sock: For the most part, it’s just a plain vanilla sock. The only decorative elements are narrow columns of seed stitch, just two stitches wide, added more to keep me from falling asleep while knitting than […]
Toe #4
By JC | July 14, 2011
This past week I’ve been on a sock-knitting kick. This is a good thing: with Sock Summit right around the corner, it’s high time to be in a sock-knitting mood. It all started with a stitch pattern that demanded to be in a sock worked from the toe up. (Sorry, can’t show details; it’s a […]
Nadine, you were right: Full o’ Sheep felts up funny. Despite being a smooth yarn, it produces a surprisingly bumpy felted fabric, as if the yarn were a bouclé. The effect is slightly more pronounced with the yellow yarn—maybe because it was bleached before being dyed, and this affected its ability to felt? This isn’t […]
Gone
By JC | July 1, 2011
What do you mean it’s July? Where did June go? Oh, yeah. First there was TNNA, where Sandra McIver’s knit, Swirl! was the hit of the show floor. Then, right on its heels, Knitters Connection. Whew! First time I taught eight classes in the span of four days. No wonder I was exhausted when I […]
Searching
By JC | June 9, 2011
Lately, since finishing my Swirl, I haven’t felt much like knitting because… oh, well, your guess is as good as mine. But I suspect it might be this: while I have a handful of WIP I could work on, the very fact that I arguably “should” work on them makes me less inclined to do […]
As I started reading the latest issue of Knitcircus, I thought to myself, “I ought to send them a copy of Charts Made Simple for review.” And then I turned the page and there it was, a review of my book! Sure enough, I checked my records and, yes, I’d sent a copy to Knitcircus […]
Not true, of course: I came away from The Loopy Ewe’s Spring Fling with a bunch of surprise goodies. But when I won a “Monkey Farts”-scented lotion bar as a door prize… …a group of Flingers decided I needed a T-shirt that read “I went to Spring Fling and all I got were Monkey Farts.” […]
Over the weekend, I finished knitting my Swirl—whoo hoo! So Monday morning found me on my knees, threading blocking wires through the edges of a dampened Swirl and laying everything out just so. Miraculously, despite the wet weather but because of the fan, the Swirl dried in just a day. Then came the seaming. Here’s […]
All week long, I had been dragging on my heels on a task that needed to get done this week. It doesn’t really matter what it was, but it did need to happen today—so I resorted to bribery. I told myself this morning that once I completed that task, I could kick back, watch something […]