Posts tagged: swatching
Swatching yet again
By JC | June 14, 2012
Last month while at Churchmouse I scored a couple skeins of Loft: Oh, such lovely stuff. For a month, those skeins sat on my coffee table where I could pet them daily, and imagine what they might become. Last week I finally wound them into balls, and got started swatching. First up, basic garter and [...]
Fitting
By JC | June 5, 2012
Remember how I said the Be Sweet Skinny Wool clearly wanted to be brioche? The Fyberspates Scrumptious Lace clearly wanted to be lace. And not just any lace: I pictured it looking fabulous in Estonian lace, complete with nupps. I was wrong. Lace, yes. Estonian lace, sure. But nupps? Not so much. Working my first [...]
Playing around
By JC | May 29, 2012
Lately, I haven’t been able to commit to any long-term projects. Shoot, I haven’t been able to commit to anything bigger than a swatch. But that’s okay. I like swatching. Case in point: along with a number of my fellow Stitches teachers, I volunteered to create swatches for the Great Wall of Yarn at next [...]
On a rock
By JC | February 16, 2012
You might think from my lack of recent posts that I’ve been hiding under a rock, but the truth is I’ve been on a rock: San Juan island, site of Cat Bordhi’s Visionary retreats. It’s where Charts Made Simple was incubated, along with knit, Swirl! and Beyond Toes and so many other books. Oh, the [...]
Decision time
By JC | January 8, 2012
Remember that Estonian shawl I’ve been working on for months? Back in November, I estimated that I could knit 15 or 16 vertical repeats of the main pattern before I had to start on the edging. Well, I’m just shy of 15 repeats. And updated estimates – achieved with scale, calculator, and conservative guesswork – [...]
Additional mischief
By JC | November 27, 2011
Yes, yes, I know I’m in the midst of an Estonian shawl, and that I just cast on for a Swirl. But that hasn’t stopped me from contemplating additional mischief, in the form of a scarf or maybe a shawl. See, DH* and I are planning to take some time off together in December. And [...]
Hexipuff #2
By JC | November 25, 2011
As suspected, knitting from the center out gave me exactly the kind of hexipuff I wanted: Vital stats: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock mediumweight and 3.25 mm needles (again, as with hexipuff #1). Pinhole start, kfb increases, k2tog decreases, and pinhole finish. Working 6 increases on 2 of every 3 rounds gave the [...]
No rest for the process knitter
By JC | November 21, 2011
As promised, a hexipuff photo: Here are the vital stats: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock mediumweight, using 3.25 mm needles. Started with Judy’s Magic Cast-on, increased via paired M1L and M1R, decreased via paired k2tog and ssk, and finished with grafting. You can see it’s a little short and squat, no doubt a [...]
Translating
By JC | November 20, 2011
I’m pleased to report that my last Nuna swatch has finally finished drying, and it measures 23½ sts per 4". I figure that’s close enough to the target of 24: if my Swirl turns out a tad larger than intended, so be it. Now all that stands in the way of diving into the Swirl [...]
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, [...]