Well would’ja look at that, it’s a stripy sweater! All four pieces are done. I basted them together and tried on the sweater, and it doesn’t not fit! It may be one stripe longer than necessary, and there may be a little weirdness with slight tension differences between the blue yarn and the others, but I made a sweater! Well, almost. I still have...
Remember that time I knit a sanquhar-inspired scarf with little skulls hidden in it? It’s not that it was a bad idea, it’s that my execution was off, and so was my estimation of whether I actually wear scarves. I’ve been looking at this thing all winter going “okay, but it’s too long and too thick to be comfortable, and not only does my...
It’s (finally) time for a machine-knit fingering weight sweater! I chose three yarns out of my stash – two skeins of gray, one of a bright kelly green, and one navy blue. First, swatching. I tried each of the three yarns on tensions 5 and 6, and decided that T5 felt better, and was less see-through, without being so stiff that it won’t feel...
The surprise part has to come first, because I am just so excited about it – I put my name into Spinolution‘s annual drawing for a Pollywog wheel and… I won! I got this email yesterday: And I’ve spent quite a bit of time since it showed up in my inbox alternating between dazedly commenting, “I won? A spinning wheel? Whoa!” and reading reviews...
With Michael’s assistance in wielding the measuring tape, not to mention with the gauge math, I was able to convince Designaknit to provide something resembling a pullover pattern. I don’t really understand a lot of the UI choices in DAK, but I’m trying to ignore that and move on to just making garments. So! I began with a sleeve… And then I knit the...
So… when we left off, I’d just picked up a standard gauge punchcard knitting machine and garter carriage. And that got me thinking that it’d be nice to upgrade my entirely manual bulky KH230 to a KH260 punchcard machine. It didn’t even take a month before one came up on FB marketplace, and when I told Michael about it, he said I should buy...
There I was, at the National Museum of American History (one of my all-time faves) and there it was… THE SWEATER. Well, one of many sweaters, anyway – but it’s The Sweater that was donated to the museum. It’s been rotated out of display for a while, but there it was… Mr. Rogers’s sweater. I took some more pictures, of course, because one doesn’t...
Once upon a time, I had two wool sweaters – one in solid blue, and one in an all-over colourwork pattern. In the style of their time, they were rather boxy and unfitted, but they were warm and wool, and I wore them to do things like shovel the driveway or go ice skating. One sweater was lost to the washing machine (“But I...
I’ve gotten some great suggestions in comments, twitter, and email – thank you all! You’ve helped to narrow down my options quite a bit. I’m definitely leaning towards a pullover sweater in a 9-12 month size, which should fit the twins very nicely just as they come into their first winter. Here are the four finalist patterns, in no particular order: Henry’s Sweater from...
Friend Adina recently went on a two-week trip to Ireland with school, and brought back a present for Pirate-Husband and me – YARN. (Does she know me, or what?) I’ve been tasked to knit Pirate-Husband a sweater. He wants something traditional and cabled, of course, and is actually *happy* that the wool is so scratchy. It is, he says, how a sweater should be....
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