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…
I’ve been working on the front panel of my Arequita Tunic, and I’m finally past the lace panel: This is an important progress marker not just because it means I’ve actually been working on it, but now I’m also freed up to work on it away from my computer. You… Read More »Past the lace…
Ready for a new pattern? You won’t have to wait much longer! I finished my cowl this week. It’s currently blocking, but as we are getting some (much needed) rain, the humidity has gone up so this may take a bit. Here it is unblocked, laid out on my ironing… Read More »Almost there!
Transitioning one color to the next & trouble with purls I’ve been working on my cowl, and generally have been very happy with how it’s working up. Except one thing: I didn’t like the way the transition from white to color and back to white looked as I also switched… Read More »The Little Details
Don’t let the momentum fade It’s been over a week now since the protests started calling for justice and reform in how police, the justice system, and society more broadly treat black citizens and other people of color. And progress has been made in some areas – new investigations started,… Read More »Black Lives Still Matter
I’ve started another new spinning project. And this time it really is different from my long term project to create the 3ply pomegranate yarn. First, I’m using a batt which I purchased from Barn2Yarn earlier this year: As you can see, it has little bits of wool locks, and other fibers… Read More »This one really is different
If you knit socks, or anything really, you probably have yarn leftovers. But socks in particular always seem to leave me with extra fingering weight yarn. With a shawl, I can often fudge the pattern a bit to use every last bit. But socks… well, making them longer just to… Read More »So that’s what you do with yarn leftovers…
First, a mea culpa about the website. I tried to make something better, but I broke it instead. That’s on me. I’ll do my best not to do that again. Or at least… I’ll try to keep future down time to under a day. I can’t in good faith promise… Read More »Whoops
I was going to say “last weekend I blocked my shawl” but then I realized its Wednesday and thus it was actually two weekends ago. Oops. So on the last weekend in April I blocked my Fireworks Festival shawl: And it was a good thing I got started first thing… Read More »Blocked and in Use
Over the weekend I was finally able to cast on for the cowl I’m working on! As part of my continuous reporting on “is my new toy useful”? I can say it was useful here during the cast on. I needed to cast on 264 stitches, or 24 x 11.… Read More »Casting on for a New Pattern
