Posts Tagged “FO”
Alchemy
By JC | May 11, 2012
Blocking is such an awesome thing, isn’t it? It can take a ruffled mess like this: And turn it into this: The lace opens up, the peak at the center top disappears, and the ruffled edges turn into smooth scallops. One long blocking wire took care of the top edge, but the scallops required pins. […]
This End Up
By JC | April 27, 2012
I just realized I never posted photos of the finished pedicure socks: I finished these socks just before leaving for Stitches South — as in, mere hours before, late last week Tuesday before getting up at 4:30am on Wednesday to head to the airport. (No wonder I didn’t think to blog about ’em.) Through sheer […]
Ready
By JC | April 17, 2012
Just in time for Stitches South: Vital stats: Going Green from knit, Swirl!, in Mirasol Nuna, on 3.5 mm needles. Oddly, the Swirl is an eensy bit small, despite substantial swatching efforts and my prediction that it might turn out a tad large. Oh, well. It’s still eminently wearable. And the fabric! Nuna’s blend of […]
Blocking makes such a huge difference, doesn’t it? It wasn’t my most patient or meticulous blocking job, but I think it turned out okay. Even the corners look decent: Jane, as always, is ready to model: Vital stats: approximately 21 x 60″ (53.5 x 152.5 cm), with just 4.2g of yarn left over. Would I […]
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 […]
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 […]
FO parade
By JC | November 18, 2010
A couple weeks ago, after realizing I had a few too many WIPs sitting around, I took action. First, I finished this: This scarf had been done for months, except for weaving in the ends and blocking—finishing it off was low-hanging fruit indeed. Knit out of Pico Accuardi’s sock yarn in a stunning Acid & […]
I love my new River Twist gloves. Love the colors, love the way they fit. But I noticed yesterday that they aren’t quite perfect: Can you see this mismatch? Despite counting rows and taking notes so the gloves could be identical, I somehow managed to create cuffs of different lengths: the left is longer than […]
Finished! The slippers felted down nicely, forming a nice sturdy fabric. Even though it was 80+ degrees in the house, I wore them Saturday evening while they were still damp, so they’d conform to my feet. I now have left and right slippers, sized just right for wearing barefoot or with socks. (And they’re surprisingly […]
Jumbotron
By JC | July 25, 2010
Recently I haven’t been blogging about interesting knitting projects because… well, because this is what I’ve been knitting: Oodles of I-cord. Yards and yards of I-cord. Knit by hand, because I don’t have a knitting mill that lets you crank out the I-cord by the mile. And when I asked my knitting buddies if anyone […]