I am infused with a spirit of finish-it-uppity, like some sort of dynamic knitting vodka. Finished today: Black mitts for Dadini, Green Sprite (which I mentioned earlier). It’s good to get these done, just in time for spring (I hope I never have to knit my way out of an emergency). It’s good to finish [...]
Also tagged etc., knittingGytha’s done and I can hardly believe it. In keeping with the overall theme of this project, weaving in the ends and sewing in the sleeves was not only easy it was downright enjoyable. I’ve never done such a good job of sewing sleeves into an armhole. I only swore a couple of times and [...]
Also tagged awesome, Gytha(Not featured: awesome photos.) Stats first: Yarn: Araucania Ranco Solid, in a dark teal colour whose particular colourway title eludes me but doesn’t really matter anyway, because ‘dark teal’ more or less covers it. Pattern: None, made it up as I went along. I wrote it down on some paper but I think it got [...]
Also tagged socks…or: Adventures in Self-Portraiture. Let this post be a double-whammy of learningness for you! Self-portraits are not easy to manage without a remote control and a tripod for your camera. Add short arms, poor motor control and and fidgety fingers that keep accidentally hitting the power button instead of the take-a-photo button and there’s a [...]
Also tagged knittingScarves often don’t get FO Reports — they’re a bit like socks in that regard: unless they’re uber-fancy, people act like they’re a non-event. Not ’round here, mother-effers. Behold! A commissioned project! My Brotherini requested a black scarf, and, having recently unravelled a huge jumper-worth of black Merino Supreme, I was looking for a new [...]
Also tagged knittingThe lacey tunic, to my surprise, is finished! I feel like I had no hand in the production of this top. It’s gorgeous, comfortable and flattering, and I feel like it happened without me. Its appearance was effortless. I had some Naturally Haven 4ply merino to use up (a really really really really nice yarn, [...]
Also tagged Lacey tunicDudes, I rock. You’re always the last to know, right? This is the finale of this summer’s have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too knitting. The conclusion of Coachella! Having finished Agave satisfactorily (I wear it as I type), I diverted all remaining yarn to the pursuit of Coachella. Which meant tiny scrap balls and a rogue i-cord from a project [...]
Also tagged awesome, CoachellaMy have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too knitting experiment is concluding and the early signs point to TRIUMPH. Having calculated that I had enough bamboo to make one of the two tanks I wanted, I got a cramp in the brain and decided to make both anyway. The first to finish: the Agave tank. Agave lace in detail (I’ve used [...]
Also tagged Agave, awesomeOnce there lay a sweater, complete and unloved, which ached in its innermost plies to be reborn. Rebirth, like birth, involves pain. Well, no, it doesn’t. It’s mostly metaphorical. But in order to rebuild the sweater into the form it truly desired, to release the truest form of this yarn, I had to break it [...]
Also tagged restartI don’t think I’ve ever had to knit much out of necessity up until recently. Just this winter, I’ve needed to knit a lot more functional stuff than I recall having had to in the past. My thick winter socks, light of my feet, apple of my boots, are a pretty good example. My Wham Bam [...]
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