Posts Tagged “WIP”
It’s amazing what a little time spent on airplanes does for my knitting productivity: Before heading to the DFW Fiber Fest – which was wonderful, by the way! I hope to be invited back for an encore visit! – I had completed just a short bit of the first sock. By the time my flight […]
Which means
By JC | March 28, 2012
Friday is the first day of the DFW Fiber Fest (whee! can’t wait!), which means Thursday is a travel day, which means today is laundry and packing day, which means yesterday was start-some-travel-knitting day: I plan to produce socks that pretty much match the photo in the pattern that my mom sent: über-plain stockinette, with […]
Really?
By JC | March 16, 2012
Really? It’s Friday already? And the second half of March? How’d that happen?? Oh, yeah. It’s because I’ve been deeply submerged in a secret project. It’s big; I’ve been having fun; you’re gonna love it… but it ain’t ready yet. Coming up for air only occasionally means progress on my Swirl has been a little […]
It’s been a couple weeks, but I still have a story to share from my trip to Stitches West. Stitches was fabulous, as usual. A real highlight was getting to see the projects in Betsy Hershberg’s new book, Betsy Beads. Jeez, now I have a hankerin’ to knit some beaded I-cord… But the story in […]
In a couple hours I’m off for a fun-filled weekend at Stitches West. But first, I wanted to update y’all on my projects. The Swirl has really grown: Kind of funky looking, huh? Over the weekend, I bound off across the back neck and along the edges of the lapels, and started increasing for the […]
Last Friday I finally finished binding off the second edging piece for my Estonian shawl – despite the aggravation of having three stitches get away from me and start to unravel. As luck would have it, two of ’em were nupps. When those puppies unraveled, the edging started to dissolve into a mess of long, […]
This weekend I totally surprised myself by finishing the first edging piece for my Estonian shawl. Granted, it was a long weekend, and the weather was miserable, so I had plenty of knitting time. But with so many stitches on the needles, you’d think I’d be tempted to work on other, less tedious projects… you […]
I don’t suppose it’s any surprise I’ve been dragging my heels on my Estonian shawl project. I mean, really, who looks forward to casting on 565 stitches? Fortunately, the traditional cast-on is a knitted cast-on. It’s a fast cast-on, especially if you transfer new stitches from the right needle to the left as I (and, […]
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 – […]