Time for a check-in with Green Sprite! So, I have finished writing up the pattern up to the waist decreases: this sounds like a lot of progress, but actually, I just kinda bashed it all out, from the start to there, in a couple of hours. It’s extremely rough and unrefined, and in the interests [...]
Also tagged Green sprite, knittingI finished my Slouchy Sockhead hat and we’re very happy, thank you. But when I first finished, there was a hovering ‘ehhhh’ about the whole thing. A little post-completion malaise, if you will. I’ve had it before and I’m never sure what to do with it. Finishing a knitted project is like…let me think. It’s [...]
Also tagged sockI am blogging on the go! The old-fashioned way: this post was originally drafted by pen, in a moving vehicle. A long car trip, not of our choosing, appeared on the schedule. As someone who guards their weekend with the snarling jealousy of a griffin defending its hoard of Snickers bars, this was not an [...]
Also tagged banging onThe alert among you will know that telltale wigglywoo yarn. That’s an unravelled Agave tank. Bums! There’s a line of purls between each lace panel, and that’s where you work your increases, so as the top tapers outwards, the vertical purl lines become purl panels. I had worked three repeats of the lace pattern before [...]
Also tagged AgaveThe big, awesome, wonderful thing that knitting has over everything else is the potential for restarting. I can’t be the first person who wishes they could extend this to the other things in their life. Party dissolves into tears and someone locking themselves in the toilet and refusing to come out? Rip it back to [...]
Also tagged restartWhen I was a wee Learner Knitter, I asked my Mumini how many balls of wool it took make a jumper. She said ten, so I bought ten. Thus began one of the longest-running sagas of my knitting life. Cleckheaton have discontinued their Merino Supreme line, and I think it’s for the best. I am [...]
Also taggedOh what can trouble thee, knitter fine, Alone and madly tinking, Your needles are scattered all about But no knitting? Oh what can trouble thee, knitter fine, Tearful and frustrated, Surrounded by miles of fore-knit yarn, Recently liberated? I see the ballwinder spinning fast, With muttered curses and aching hands, And in thy eyes a [...]
Also taggedA couple of years ago (sweet merciful French fries, years? Yes. Huh.) I made my Mumini a sweater. It was in one of my (then) favourite yarns, Cleckheaton’s Merino Supreme, in olive green — and there is a whole rant up my well-cabled sleeve about that particular yarn, the heartbreaker; that callous, cruel, deceptive…focus, focus. Having [...]
Also tagged Purple Olive, restart, socksI love this picture. I have just cast on Baby Cables and Big Ones Too because it is incredibly sexy and funky and a new jumper and I need all those things. It’s a pretty straightforward pattern, once you’ve read it through and grokked it: a simple top-down raglan, with a garter-stitch yoke and garter [...]
Also tagged Mossy TendrilsOh, beloved Everlasting Bagstopper. It is only through laziness that I do not write a sonnet to ye you. I love this pattern to pieces. I posted photos when I first finished it the knitting, but I’ve since attached the handles and…well, I love it. I just love it. Just for reference, here’s the immediately after [...]
Also tagged Everlasting Bagstopper