Back in January, I made a New Year's resolution (which I rarely do) that, this year, I was going to make a sweater that fit and that is flattering. The problem has never been with my technical knitting capabilities, but more with knowing what adjustments to make so that it fits my body, and not [...]
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Thanks for all of the wonderful comments on Noel's Blanket! As promised, I have written up a tutorial for the technique I used to make the blanket piece using short rows. You can find it here (and there's a link to it on the sidebar). Since I don't seem to be able to have comments [...]
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Finally, I get to blog about a stealth project that I've been working on (off and on) for months. I've been so excited about sharing this project, but I know that the Nicole occasionally reads my blog, so I had to stay quiet. Trust me, that's not easy for me This will be a very [...]
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
At the end of December I posted about my Travelling Roses the Sequel, that curled into a little tube and broke my heart. At the time, Dephal (who was the recipient of the original scarf) left a comment that hers didn't do that, to my great relief! I also posted about the scarf on the [...]
I'm having trouble getting into a comfortable blogging rhythm. I would love to be one of those bloggers who writes a great post every couple of days, but it's just not happening. I have trouble getting posts written in the evening, as after spending the day at my paying job, I don't really feel much [...]
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Muhahahaha So today during my lunchtime knitting club at work, I took out the messy grafting job from yesterday and started again. Having finally figured out which way the yarn needed to go to graft garter stitch, it was like I was channelling Elizabeth Zimmermann herself. Without hesitation the needle went in and out of [...]
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
I haven’t had a lot of knitting-related stuff to blog about lately. I have a couple of new FOs (a hat for me and a hat for Rabbitch‘s Hat Challenge, but one still needs blocking and both need to be photographed, and I haven’t gotten to that yet. I still haven’t been inspired about any [...]
Remember the crease that resulted from folding the stole in half before blocking it? Well, a few pins And a little steam Equals no more crease
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
I finished knitting Scheherazade (aka Mystery Stole 2) sometime last week, but I’ve been suffering from blocking anxiety ever since. I’ve never blocked anything this big before. My first issue was where to block it. I played around with a few ideas, and then decided the only viable option was to use the bed. So [...]
Have I mentioned that I’m obsessed? Well, I am. Big time. When I get started on a new project, I go crazy on it until it’s finished or until I find something else to intrigue me, whichever comes first (unfortunately, it’s usually the latter!). I’ve been obsessively knitting on the mystery stole for the past [...]
