I’ve started knitting the Drops 88-13 pullover I’ve been wanting to make. I decided to use Douceur et Soie instead of the Vivaldi specified in the pattern. It’s a much lighter yarn (about half the weight), but I think it will be okay. At Tuesday’s SnB, Eileen said that it looked like a cloud. It’s [...]
Read: Cloud Knitting
It’s done! I finished the vest requested by DH, and he’s very pleased. This was the first time he’d ever asked me to knit anything for him. He even helped design it – he was very specific about wanting a very heavy wool vest, and choose garter stitch as the pattern (so it would be [...]
Read: Fully Vested
Yes, it’s true, I finally lost my virginity! It was a bit painful, but worth it.
I’m pleased to introduce “Mocha Parfait”, my first-ever socks. I used one skein of Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock yarn, in color #305 (Safari). Because I only had one skein of yarn, and wasn’t sure how far that would go, I [...]
Read: Sock Virgin No More
Last night I was working on the vest for my husband, and finished the main part. He was very excited about it. I had to look up how to graft the shoulder seams since I was knitting in garter stitch. I found instructions on how to Kitchener garter stitch, and grafted away. It looked messy [...]
Read: Seams Seem Good
Sorry, this post has nothing to do with knitting today. A few days ago, I read Margene’s blog entry about how she’d read on Deb’s blog that “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a complete sentence. I had to tell my husband (who’s a technical writer) about it, and who then had [...]
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