For months now one of my knitting projects has been languishing in it’s project bag, untouched. This isn’t so much because I didn’t want to work on it, as that I feared working on it. It’s a lace shawl with a heavily beaded edging. I’m still working on the edging,… Read More »Brave or foolish?
I finished my WestKnits “Clawed” shawl about a week ago. It was definitely an excellent project to work while integrating a kitten into the household. All the following made it easy to put down quickly if a kitten was getting himself into trouble, whether knitting related or other trouble. simple… Read More »A good kitten project
So I finished my Arequita Tunic a little while back, and just realized that you never actually got pictures of the finished product. This, even though I’ve worn it several times already. Suffice it to say… I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The contrast panels look great, it… Read More »Only worn about four times
Back in 2018, one of my yarn buys was the Unplanned Peacock morphic colorway “Strawberry Fields”. It’s been hanging on my bedroom wall ever since, until it was bumped from the wall in my enthusiasm to hang up my needlefelt sunset. It’s the last if the Unplanned Peacock I bought… Read More »Morphing plans
My Arequita Tunic is FINISHED! It’s currently having it’s bath and I’ll lay it out flat to dry as soon as I am done with this post. So ok… there’s still blocking to complete. And then trimming the ends. But I finished knitting it, seaming it, and weaving in the… Read More »All Sewn Up
I’ve been plugging along on the Arequita Tunic, and while I know I’m only a few inches from the end, I feel like I’ll never get there. I’ve been on staycation all week, which you might think would lead to spectacular knitting progress. But it’s been bloody hot, and also… Read More »Will it ever be done?
I am slowly making progress on my Arequita Tunic. The front and back are both well into the hip increases now, and are starting to look less like a crop top and more like a tunic: I have had two challenges in making progress. First, I’ve made mistakes in the… Read More »Progress despite the heat
I made a little more progress on my Arequita tunic. The front is now only a little bit shorter than the back and once I finish the decreases on the front, I’ll be able to knit the front and back at exactly the same measurements throughout the remainder of the… Read More »Sooo many tangles
Or… I can’t resist making changes It’s been a busy week, hence the gap in posts. In what time I’ve had to knit, I’ve been working on some modifications to the Arequita Tunic. I a) realized I wouldn’t have enough dusty rose yarn and b) the lace panels looked a… Read More »Color and Balance
Crafting this week Mostly this week I’ve been working on my Arequita Tunic. I finished the bust increases: As you can see, I did increases in two spots – just inside the edging and further in where the increase will sit along the side of the breast. Pro tip: avoid… Read More »Just wow…
