It’s finished! I seamed it by hanging it sideways on the knitting machine with the wrong sides together (right-side out), and pulling loops through both sides, then binding off those loops. It’s so squishy, just the right length for me, and I think it’ll be very warm – though I’ll have to wait ’til winter to find out, of course. I need to weigh...
Inspired by Sockmatician’s Sanquhar Scarf, but unwilling to do that much double-knitting with sock yarn, I decided to design something similar to knit on the machine. I began by using Excel as graph paper to fill in squares, which is probably not how its developers ever imagined a spreadsheet application would be used, but it works! Then Michael helped by writing a magic spell...
Before last week’s vacation, I decided that I wanted to make a new scarf on the machine (since there was no way I was going to get new mittens finished in time) using Loops & Threads “Woolike” yarn from Michaels that I bought as practice yarn for the machine. It’s a light fingering weight, mostly acrylic yarn with a soft feel to it, and...
Whooooboy, February really threw me for a loop – a phrase which, now that I’ve typed it, looks as if it’s just a wrong way to assemble a group of words. What does that even mean? In this case, it means that the whole month went wrong. :/ I missed a few days of work to take care of family business and another for...
Back in December, inspired by this project and how much I enjoyed making the Rook for Grandma, I started a Rainbow Rook while on a train ride. I had two balls of Knitpicks Chroma Worsted, one in grey and one in “Prism”, the most rainbow of their colourways. (“Lollipop” and “Rollerskate” were close contenders for this one, but I went with the rainbow after...
Last week we had a spectacular snowstorm here in the mountainous DC suburbs. The whole city shut down, as it does at the mere mention of the word “snowflake,” but everyone east of here seems to agree that the storm itself was anticlimactic. After two days of being told “A foot or more of snow! It’s the snow we haven’t gotten for two years,...
I enjoyed making the Rook Scarf for Grandma so much that I immediately wanted to make one for myself, but I wanted the spike stitch pattern to be a little more noticeable. In looking through the pattern’s other projects, I was drawn to this awesome rainbow version. I ordered two skeins of Knitpicks Chroma, one in Prism and one in Grey. I started the...
Well! I am back, after a completely unplanned and unexpected hiatus. I haven’t been doing very much knitting (or spinning or crocheting) lately, to be honest… and I think that’s a rotten thing. So I’m getting back into it! There’s something finished to show off: Way back in 2008 I bought three skeins of Noro Silk Garden at WEBS. For the longest time I...
Not a single stitch. I was having too much fun visiting family, eating a ridiculous amount of food, joining good conversations, and, well, having no need to hide in a corner with yarn. However, I did discover that my cousin Sara knits, and we had a good laugh over our matching Stripey Striped Scarves. Seems that we used at least two of the same...
Although yesterday was Wednesday, and therefore not necessarily a Spinning Day, I couldn’t keep my hands off the new spindle. I’m starting to get the hang of getting it going at high speeds without introducing a wobble, and for the most part I’m drafting while the spindle is still spinning. If the yarn breaks, I have to do a park-and-rejoin sort of trick. Today,...
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