Now with more speckles

The speckly hat has continued to grow.  I'll admit it can be hard to tell, because one row looks rather a lot like the last, but I assure you it is indeed taller. The real question now is do I keep the lines going as they have been for the whole hat, or do I send them careening back the other way for the second half.  I'm leaning slightly toward option one, but I think either would be adorable. And of course I do have a second skein of yarn, so I may well let this one carry on as [...]

August 22, 2016|

Meanwhile

So, it's been sort of all book all the time around here, but I have managed to grab the occasional spare moment and actually knit (not many mind you...but every now and then).  There's a hat underway. It started out something like that. Then it was more like that. And these days it's more like this. It's the simplest little thing ever (two row repeat, mostly stockinette, easy to pick up and bang out a row when you have a minute), which makes it the perfect thing for the craziness of launch week.  All the interest comes from the yarn [...]

August 19, 2016|

Swatches

We're going to consider this a lesson on the virtues of swatching.  I'm dying to do something with this yarn (from Spun Right Round, the color name is Bug Jar, because I know one of you is going to want it too).  But speckled yarn seems to require a bit of extra care in pattern selection. It seems that things with a lot of stockinette show it off best.  But as much as I like wearing things with great huge swaths of stockinette, I can't actually stand knitting it.  So the most low key way I could think of to [...]

August 8, 2016|

Wandering eye

The sock has continued to grow. It's actually even a bit longer than this now (I finished the gusset and got about 8 rows into the foot proper in my last fit of nobility. But I fear for its future, for I have an idea.  An idea for something to do with speckled yarns.  And it just so happens I have not one but two speckled yarns hanging out in my stash.  And we all know the new idea is ever ever ever so much more entertaining than the half finished project...  

July 22, 2016|
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