Here’s how I spent yesterday afternoon: That’s the beginning of the cabley neckline for my Corona hoodie. The cables aren’t really popping, but I kinda like the textured pattern anyway. I’m not sure why the cables aren’t standing out, though: in the pictures on the pattern, they’re really strong and clear. Still, spending the afternoon [...]
Also taggedI can feel it coming: a gust of make-everything-perfect. I want to reset my knitting buttons: frog those that have lingered too long; finish those that deserve to be finished; correct the errors that are cluttering my needles. I’m sure I’m not the only one who loses momentum the moment they realise there’s a mistake [...]
Also taggedSo the other day I cast on Corona, an awesomely cool hoodie that I’m sure is going to make me the coolest kid in the playground. (The link is for the archives for that month on Canary Knits’ blog — you need to scroll down about a third of the way to see the awesome [...]
Also taggedI couldn’t say for certain where these babies came from. I’m not sure how it happened. One second I was trawling patterns, wishing that I had a set of DPNs between 3.25mm and 4.5mm (theoretically, I’ve got a set of 4mm somewhere, but I’m not sure what they’re doing at the moment), and the next [...]
Also tagged FO ReportYou’re not going to believe this. So, I finished my Christmas shopping the other day, which was a tremendous relief, and I realised that there was one beloved lady left out. My Nan, who has had a pretty rough year, and with whom I am very close. I had not decided what to buy her. [...]
Also tagged FO ReportI wrote a little while ago about the start of my Anxiety socks, and now I’ve finally completed them. Huzzahs are in order! I finished the first one in a fit of unhappiness and anxiety, in a situation where there was a lot of driving in the car, a lot of waiting around, and a [...]
Also tagged FO Report, socksMy little woolly chum is finished! Aww, look at him there, being all evil. He’s going to take over the universe! Isn’t that just darling? Pew pew pew! Heh. Look at his big, huggable bottom. Oh, who’s a cute, sinsiter little alien? You are! You are! (And check out the adorable triffid next to him!) [...]
Also tagged dalek, FO ReportGuess what I’m knitting! No, you never will — and even if you could, I couldn’t hear you, because this is a blog and not a conversation. I’m knitting a dalek! Or, as I like to call him, a darlingek. The pattern is here and I really can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s clear and [...]
Also tagged dalekFlounceypants is still magically perfectolicious. I was working on it in my lunchbreak at work and realised I had reached the end of the lace portion (18 repeats, not 15), and became a little nervous. I’ve satisfactorily completed the lace, and I’ve even scanned over it with a fine-toothed eye or whatever and…well, it’s perfect. [...]
Also tagged Purple FlounceypantsI have had a stressful week. In preparation for a long car journey on Friday morning, I cast on this lovely sock. This is where it stood mid-Saturday. By Saturday night, I had a completed sock, kitchener bound-off and all. I cast on the second. Here we are on Monday morning, after another long yet [...]
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