Posts tagged: MDKR
Confession
By JC | November 19, 2011
After fulfilling my MDKR on my shawl today, what did I do? A. Keep going on the shawl. B. Start winding skeins for my next Swirl. C. Make progress on any other WIP. D. None of the above. Yup, you guessed it: D, none of the above. Instead of turning my attention to any WIP, [...]
Not cheating
By JC | November 3, 2011
It may look like I’m cheating on my shawl project, but I’m not. Not really, anyway. Say hello to Mirasol Nuna, a yummy blend of wool, silk, and bamboo. The desire/need to knit another Swirl hit me while at Stitches East, so I purchased a skein of Nuna and a couple skeins of other yarns [...]
Maybe by March
By JC | November 1, 2011
Remember that Haapsalu shawl I wrote about in my last post? I decided to place a narrow border around the whole thing. Traditionally, that’d mean knitting the body of the shawl, then separately knitting the edging from the outside in and sewing it in place. I may decide instead to pick up edging stitches from [...]
Winging it
By JC | September 13, 2010
Sometimes, I can really crank out the knitting: That’s the body of a cardigan, knit from the bottom up through some subtle waist shaping to within a couple inches of the armhole shaping. It’s the Creative Focus Silk I mentioned in my last post. The game plan—after much head scratching and some sketching—is to have [...]