Field trip

Went on a yarn field trip last week...needed some stuff to play with my newly developed obsession with two color brioche. The dark purple bit of lovely is Shibui Knits' Silk Cloud in Velvet.  The fluff in plastic is two disks of Lopi's Plötulopi, one in white and one in purple, but I don't see color names.  And the other goodness is Malabrigo's Lace in Natural (white), Polar Morn (gray), Archangel (pink), and Whale's Road (blue). And no, they're not all getting used together!  The Shibui is probably going with the light purple stuff I got from Martin's Lab a few weeks ago [...]

January 17, 2019|

Out of order

So some time very soon now, I'll do the thing I'm supposed to do. I'll show you the first swatch, and the second swatch, and the third swatch, and I'll show you the yarn I bought, and I'll tell you about my thoughts and plans. That's all the stuff I /should/ do before I show you this swatch. But instead I'm showing you this one because I'm so stinking pleased with it I can't bear to keep it to myself one moment longer and am basically accosting strangers on the internet and going 'look what I made' like some sort [...]

January 10, 2019|

Avail (plus giveaway)

Do you ever get a mental block about something...you tell yourself it's going to be hard, or fiddly, or you're going to feel like an idiot while you try it?  Well I had that mental block about short rows...but then I had a hat in my head that just flat out required short rows...and then I decided to get over it.  Avail is the result! Now if you're where I was and thinking short rows are hard, here's the part where I say that they're not.  All you do (for this hat at least) is stop knitting in the round [...]

November 7, 2017|

Two at a time

Cuff the second is well underway.  And it's actually gotten seasonably cold around here, so I'm eager to have them done (and photographed...around here 'done' also includes 'has had proper pattern photos taken') so I can wear them. I'm totally holding the green yarn (it's Silk Cloud by Shibui) double as I work it.  That's both to make it a bit more substantial (though really, it's pretty darn sturdy even with just one layer, I love how these cuffs worked with just one strand came out) and to give me a bit more of that delightful halo you get with [...]

February 2, 2017|

Faith

No really...I totally know it looks funny.  I do.  But I've been trying it on and I have faith in the powers of blocking, and I am pretty darn confident it will work out. I sort of love the way it sits on my hand.  I'm finding myself fond of asymmetry these days. And I'm also sort of loving putting it on inside out and folding the top part back and giving it a bracelet feel. And yes, it will look much better after I weave in the ends and block it properly.  But I totally think it's going to [...]

January 29, 2017|

Chicken

So the hat needed some cuffs to go with it (this pretty much always feels like the go to move in my world...I love having matching head and hand things more than I can possibly explain).  But I knew I was rather short on yarn.  So I carefully carefully divided the yarn in half (if you don't have a scale, do yourself a favor and get one, I have and love this one).  Then I cast on and distracted myself as I slogged through a tube of ribbing. Then came the ever so much more entertaining swoopy bits. And the [...]

January 27, 2017|

So worth it

Done!  And all the ripping (yes, even of lace weight mohair) was totally worth it.  The wobbly lines wobble in an ever so much more pleasingly rounded way. The whole thing has retained its endearing rocket ship vibe. I expect it all to mellow out a fair bit with blocking. And even the crown (admittedly less energetic than most of mine, but still satisfying) is amusing me. Now, of course, I think we need some cuffs to match, don't you?   [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]

January 26, 2017|

Version 2

So the good news is that last time's mistakes mean I knew just what I wanted for this iteration.  The green was too pretty to use such narrow stripes, so those are wider. And the curve wanted to be much more evenly rounded. Decreases are underway, and the rest won't take long at all.   [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]

January 24, 2017|

All’s well…until it’s not

Things had been going along swimmingly.  The green yarn came (Shibui Silk Cloud in Apple, and yummy stuff it is), wobbly bits continued to wobble, and all was well. Until I took it off the needles and laid it down to really look at the shape of the curve. At which point I decided the bottom was too flat and the top too pointy and had a bit of a sulk. And then had a bit of a rip (anybody else think it looks like ramen when it's ripped?). And then shortly after that had a bit of a reknit, [...]

January 22, 2017|
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