Posts Tagged “WIP”

Experimental sock

By | July 18, 2011

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 […]

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Toe #4

By | 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 […]

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Gone

By | 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 […]

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Searching

By | 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 […]

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Bribery, decadence, and guilt

By | April 22, 2011

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 […]

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Three quick announcements

By | April 20, 2011

Stitches South was a blast, as usual. A highlight for me when two students who were in last year’s Charts Made Simple class said that instead of refusing to buy patterns with charts, they now refuse to buy patterns without charts—whoo hoo! Also, Yarn Barn of Kansas reported selling 90+ copies of Charts Made Simple—possibly […]

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Progress

By | April 10, 2011

Sock Camp was a great opportunity to make progress on my Swirl jacket. What once looked like brain coral is now clearly a giant octagon with a hole in the middle. If you look closely, you can see an orange stitch marker clipped to the fabric, at the top of the opening. That’s where I […]

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Pretty sure

By | March 30, 2011

Over the weekend, I finally had a chance to start my Swirl. You’ll notice I decided to go for the gray/black combo rather than the gray/purple. At this point, it looks more like a chunk of brain coral than the start of a sweater, but I’m pysched: after checking a gazillion times, I’m sure that […]

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A pretty package

By | March 18, 2011

Look what came in the mail! It’s from Abundant Yarns—and it came with a surprise. It’s hard to tell in the photo—shoot, it’s hard to tell except in full sunlight—but the marker is a deep purple, to match the yarn. How sweet is that? Actually, much as I love purple, most of the yarn is […]

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Who woulda thunk?

By | December 1, 2010

I had the best time today writing up the pattern for a scarf I plan to knit. This is odd. Most designers (myself included) would say that pattern-writing isn’t their favorite task. Rather, it rates far below sketching or swatching, and somewhere near envelope-stuffing. Apparently, though, it’s been long enough since I last wrote or […]

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