I’ve been working more on the sweater I started a long long time ago on another continent. The body, collar, and bottom rib are completed and stitched down, and I love how it looks and it seems like a great fit. I started on the first sleeve a couple weeks… Read More »Condemned to Sleeve Island Longer with an Extra Sleeve
or Tale of Two Shawls I know for some people the hardest part of finishing a project is weaving in ends. I won’t claim to like this particular step, but it’s not the hardest thing for me to do. I have a yarn needle sitting among the things on my… Read More »Throwing a Winter Block Party
So my second Birds of Paradise shawl is officially 100% complete. My first isn’t… but I’ll get to it. I tried out my new blocking mats. First, it really brought home how BIG some of the things I make are. I have approximately 18ft2 of blocking mats, and it was… Read More »Birds of Paradise Shawl – Blocked!
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
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
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
As I mentioned a little over a week ago, this past weekend saw a couple different virtual fiber festivals. I joined a couple of the Knit+Escape demos and sessions, and plan to watch some more of them this week while the recordings are available. One of the sessions I attended… Read More »Back and Forth to Go Around
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
But I’ve been busy knitting. Well, and working. Work is getting pretty busy too… So two Mondays ago (whoops! where did the time go?) my Stephen & Penelope yarn package arrived with wooly goodness: I’m thrilled with how the orange and magenta go together, so these are what I’m going… Read More »A bit behind on posting
