The Electric Sheep shawl is done, but it still needs blocking. It totally illustrates my love of the color palette in the yarn I used for this – I had a hard time finding a surface in the house that it really contrasting with. For my next project, I’m going for some stash reduction. This […]
Decided to combine knitting and embroidery this year, because otherwise it’s a pretty small end of year collage. There are a few reasons for this: As far as the cursed sweaters are concerned, I did finish one. And I know what I’m doing with the other yarn. But I definitely should have gone for a
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With a Boreas chart done, I’m back to knitting. This is the Electric Sheep shawl by Beata Jezek. I’m using a gradient set of Sundara Extra Fine DK Silky Merino called Night Skies. It’s three skeins going from blue to teal. (I saw it and had to buy it immediately – they are my colors.)
I really enjoyed making the Argus sweater. It had some really interesting construction details, and I enjoyed working with the yarn. However, it didn’t really fit right. The neckline was definitely bigger than I would have liked, so I’ve ended up not wearing it. (This is the downside of not really having the extra time
Pattern: Summer Fjord by Trin-Annelie Yarn: Knit Picks Lindy Chain in the Harbor, Mist and Silver colorways Needles: Size 3, 4 and 5 circs Cursed sweater #2 is done. And I’ll never wear it. I think my yarn choice wasn’t good. Despite ripping it back to do the medium size, it’s still too big. I
I’ve faced the two sweaters that I dropped earlier this year because they had both pissed me off, in separate ways. The first was the Orbits sweater, the remains of which you see above. Unfortunately, there’s colorwork in the sleeves. And I knit sleeves with DPNs. And the tension on the floats was not good.
Pattern: Musselburgh Hat by Ysolda Teague Yarn: Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat in the Camelot colorway Needles: Size 3 circs and DPNs This is a great little pattern – very easy (which was exactly what I needed right now) and I think it’s going to be nice and warm (which is my holy
I have two sweaters going right now. I really need to decide what to do with them. I suspect the colorwork sweater may not survive – I’m not sure I can do the sleeves without making them too tight. But I feel like I also owe it to myself to try. The other is more
So this happened. I could have sworn I checked well enough for twisting when I cast on the middle stitching, but I think the back was actually twisted, so when I went to join the front and back, well. There you go. So I’ve put this to the side before I tink it back, in
This was as far as I got on the large size of the Summer Fjord sweater. When I tried it on, the neckline was just huge. It’s supposed to be on the looser side, but this was fall off both my shoulders loose. So I frogged it, and am going for the medium. This may
