Knitting Fresh Brioche
Check out the latest addition to my knitting bookshelves:
It’s Knitting Fresh Brioche by Nancy Marchant, and it’s fabulous.
The …
Travel knitting
Lately it seems I get most of my knitting done while traveling. Case in point:
Before Stitches Midwest, knowing that I would …
...moreAn experiment
Remember the center-out square of Fountain Lace that I knit a couple weeks back? I decided to turn it into a stole, extending two sides of the square to …
...moreIrrestistible
When I finished Daphne, what did I do next?
- Repair the tattered fingers on my gloves?
- Re-sole DH’s house slippers?
- Fix the hole in my …
Ready to travel
With the repair of DH’s socks out of the way, I’m back to making good progress on my toe socks:
Having grafted together …
...morePotato chips
Right after completing the dubbelmossa, I needed to cast on for another project. (Because none of the UFOs hidden under the end table would do, of course.) What did …
...moreMore toes
Grab a cup of tea; this is gonna be a long one.
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I’d like to tell you that I finished two pairs of socks in the past …
...moreOn hold
My crescent shawlette project is on hold. I’d predicted fairly early on that I’d need a second skein of yarn (Valley Yarns Charlemont Kettle Dye in dark olive – …
...moreDeviating from Plan A
Lately I haven’t been knitting much because another project has grabbed all my interest, but I still need to have something on my needles, you know? So I’m futzing around …
...moreOn target
The Swirl progressed nicely over the weekend, thanks to knitting while watching The Help (that’s a solid 2.5 hours right there) and knitting while on the front porch Sunday afternoon …
...moreWorking backwards
It’s amazing what a little time spent on airplanes does for my knitting productivity:
Before heading to the DFW Fiber Fest – …
...moreWhich means
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 …
...moreReally?
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 …
...moreSurgery at 30,000 feet
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 …
...moreWIP report
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:
… ...moreAll sewn up
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 …
...moreReassurance
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 …
...moreSanity savers
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?
Decision time
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 …
...moreAdditional mischief
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, …
...moreHere we go again
So I’ve started my next Swirl.
The butterfly is leftover tail from the long-tail cast-on. I could’ve used a separate …
...moreConfession
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. …
Asking for it
Speaking of never having enough yarn or time to play with it, look what came in the mail yesterday:
Containment
A few days ago, the shawl reached the point where it needs to be contained – not so much to keep floppiness in check, as with some other projects I’ve …
...moresigh
The Estonian shawl remains at the top of my knitting basket, but I’m still finding bits of time here and there to swatch for my next Swirl. So far, …
...moreOverdue
Today I finally got around to something that I arguably should’ve done weeks ago: estimating to what length I can knit my Estonian shawl, given the amount of yarn that …
...moreNupp paranoia
Astute readers of last Tuesday’s post might have noticed a thin green line running through my WIP:
That’s a lifeline, a bit of waste yarn run …
...moreNot cheating
It may look like I’m cheating on my shawl project, but I’m not. Not really, anyway.
Suggestions, anyone?
As much as possible, I try not to whine on this blog. And when I wrote last week about having to rip back a sock, I didn’t think I …
...moreGood news, bad news
Good news: I’m really digging a sock design I came up with just before Stitches Midwest. Any spare moment I had outside of class, I worked a few more rounds.
… ...moreExperimental sock
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 …
...moreToe #4
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. …
...moreGone
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. …
...moreSearching
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 …
...moreBribery, decadence, and guilt
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 …
...moreThree quick announcements
- 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 …
Progress
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 …
...morePretty sure
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.
A pretty package
Look what came in the mail!
It’s from Abundant Yarns – and it came with a surprise.
Who woulda thunk?
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 …
...moreMore than halfway
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 …
...moreTime for new ones
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:
Winging it
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 …
...moreA change of pace
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, …
...moreSo little to show
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 …
...moreFlow
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, …
...moreAvoiding hiccups
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 …
...moreWhew!
Talk about close! 41.4g required for the first sock; 41.6g remaining for the second sock. ’Course, I can …
...moreWhat’s your guess?
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 …
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