Well, Maybe a day too late? We have had some proper winter weather this week – several inches of snow built up over several days of regular snowfall and unusually cold temps for this part of the world. Depending on your preference, our lows at night are in the teens… Read More »Finished just in Time
Back in November I preordered the Winter 2020 PomPom Quarterly magazine because the previews for several patterns looked really interested. I received it a few weeks ago. I think I also mentioned I did a little stash toss and reorganization a few weekends ago. In the process, I came across… Read More »Through the Trees – Cast On
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
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
Last week I sent AwesomeE a picture of a finished cowl, and she responded that I must have finished it really quickly. At which point I realized I’ve been working on it accidentally in secret. It’s a fairly basic pattern, so it’s been my travel project for taking the train… Read More »Stealth Projects
I finished binding off the cowl today. I did have to rip back a few rows and use the white handspun for the first two rows of the 8 row edge to ensure I had enough of the tweed 2ply to finish and bind off. I finished it this afternoon… Read More »Patience!
Look, I’ll be honest. I’m pretty proud that I managed to get five days into the New Year before the urge to cast on my first project of 2020 got the better of me. I realize that I cast on two new projects in the final weeks of 2019 and… Read More »New Year, New Beginnings…
I’m making some more headway on my Damask Cowl and I think I’m in the final stretch with just another half a repeat to go. I’m still really enjoying working the brioche colorwork. It’s a lot of fun to have a “row” with the pattern followed by a rest “row” in the… Read More »Saturday knitting
Just how involved blocking is varies based on the object, yarn and your goals. For socks, it’s just giving them a wash and laying them out to dry. For sweaters, it often means simply tugging and pinning the shapes into the right sizes. For lace, it can be more complicated… Read More »Blocking a mobius
