Posts Tagged “WIP”
Fingerless gloves turned out to be the perfect project to take on my trip to Tempe Yarn and Fiber. I got the first glove knit to the thumb opening before teaching All Thumbs on Thursday evening, so I was able to demo the process of setting the gusset stitches aside during class. In the evenings, […]
Tomorrow morning I head off to Tempe to teach for a few days, and as I was gathering samples for All Thumbs, I discovered this: My fingerless gloves are in serious need of replacement. These are the gloves I wear nearly every time I leave the house in the winter, plain black to match whatever […]
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 […]
On the left, needles of a size I normally use: 2.75 mm. Clearly within my happy range of 2.5 mm to 3.5 mm. On the right, a change of pace: 8 mm. Great, big, honkin’ needles, if you ask me.* The 8 mm needles were called into action for a felting project. (Shoot, I can’t […]
I just spent a week in London at Knit Nation, and all I have to show for it is this: Oh, don’t get me wrong. Knit Nation was a blast, as you can see on the other teachers’ blogs. I just couldn’t be bothered to record it in photos. (Go ahead, call me lazy. It […]
Flow
By JC | June 14, 2010
Designing is lot like puzzle-solving. How do you get all the pieces—the yarns, the colors, the stitch patterns, the shaping details—to fit together into a cohesive, appealing whole? My favorite part of the puzzle is getting the stitch patterns to flow into each other, and into the space made available by the shaping. It usually […]
For the past couple weeks, I’ve been adding illustrations to Charts Made Simple. The goal has been to get the manuscript ready for review next week: four friends have graciously agreed to look at this early draft, and tell me where it still needs work. Having that deadline has, understandably, lit a much-needed fire under […]
Whew!
By JC | May 20, 2010
Talk about close! 41.4g required for the first sock; 41.6g remaining for the second sock. ’Course, I can always unravel my swatch if I need a few more yards. And the size of the swatch (16.4g) leads me to believe knitters will have enough yarn to knit size large socks, even though I’m knitting the […]
Remember the stealth knitting project that I mentioned before Stitches South? It finally went off into the mail early last week, giving me time to turn to another, long-neglected project: the Dye Dreams socks. I’m happy to report significant progress in a week’s time. You can see that I decided to go with the fold-over […]