After my virtual class on how to design my own color palette for the Shetland Muse hat, I wasted very little time in selecting and ordering yarn. And “by very little” I mean I’d picked them out and ordered within days. The color design sheet I’d made served me in… Read More »Sheepses
After flying through the socks for my aunt, and then working at consistent and fairly rapid pace to complete TheEnablers’ Zauberballe socks… I am working a bit more slowly on my own pair. I’m getting a few rounds done here and there, and they aren’t sitting idle for more than… Read More »So Many Fluffies, so little time
I took two classes at Unravel over the weekend on Baltic knitting techniques, both taught by Aleks Byrd, a knitwear designer and illustrator with family roots in Estonia. The first was on Saturday on Baltic Braid techniques from Estonia and Latvia. I’d heard of Latvian braids before, and even did… Read More »Weekend Trip to the Baltics
This past Thursday was the start of the Farnham Malthings Unraveled Virtual Festival. I kicked it off with a class by Felicity Ford called “Sunsets & Sheep: Recolouring a Stranded Colourwork Design – Felicity Ford” which said it would build “confidence around changing the colours of a stranded colourwork design.… Read More »Sunsets, Sheep, and Shades
It has been a busy two weeks… and last weekend didn’t get me much of a leg up on this past week. That’s because it was spent getting vaccinated, and recovering from getting vaccinated. My husband and I both had our appointments for our first shots on Saturday. His was… Read More »Whew, still here
It’s been a fairly cool and rainy spring, which is OK. Northern Germany tends to stay cool well into spring, and we needed rain after a couple years of drought. But still, some days have felt more like February never quite left, than like it was late April or early… Read More »Impeccable Timing
About a week ago, I finished up TheEnablers’ Crazy Zauberball socks: I was even pretty good about getting the ends woven in and giving them a nice bath, so by the end of the weekend my husband had a fresh new pair of socks to wear. I checked my project… Read More »Him and Her Socks
I finished knitting my Oppositional Cardigan over the weekend. It took a little to block it as the weather turned cooler and damper at the beginning of the week. I also had to be careful to pat it into shape and not stretch it, or the superwash wool was ready… Read More »Opposition(al) Conquered and Snuggly
In 2020 I signed up for Undercover Otter’s Clan of Igor club. This left me with lots of yummy Undercover Otter yarns, but I also received little goodies each month of various types, from gummy worms to rainbow pens. One of those goodies was a little progress keeper in the… Read More »Might have gotten carried away
A common problem many knitters have is that their cast on edge is too tight, particularly with a long tail cast on. There are various solutions people propose, and others suggest some of those solutions won’t work. The most common suggest is to either go up a needle size or… Read More »Long Tail Cast On – How to Loosen Up
