I’ve been knitting away on my Middlebury sweater, which you may recall temporarily stumped me a while back with its tendency to scrunch up on the needles. I needed to figure out whether it would hold a lengthwise blocking or whether I had to make it longer to compensate for its desire to be scrunched [...]
Archives for September 2007
Quickie Finished Object: Cashmere Baby Hat
What do you do with a single skein of cashmere when you don’t want wrist warmers or an ear warmer or a lacy scarf or a neckwarmer, and when it’s variegated so that some stitch patterns just won’t look right? What do you do when it’s been in your stash since January, and it was [...]
Finished Object: Frances
A headless shot of Frances to show off her shaping and what the sleeves do Another headless shot, this one tall, to show how long she is and how she looks with jeans (even jeans that are too big, like these) And a shot with a lot of head but not much sweater, because this [...]
Swatch-Sized Pieces
It’s been about a week since I blocked Frances, and this is all I have managed to do so far toward remedying the sleeve situation: The sleeve now looks like a murder victim. Should I have drawn a chalk line? To tell the truth, I also got most of one sleeve rehemmed, but then I [...]
Vagaries of Blocking
Sometimes, it takes two pictures to replace a thousand words A disheartening before and after As I feared, Frances’s sleeves are too long now. Way, way too long. But I am not excessively sad about it — otherwise, the sweater looks pretty good. It’s longer and wider and drapier than it was when I finished [...]
Blocking and Swatching
I finished up Frances over the long weekend. I didn’t think the last bits would go so quickly, but somehow I managed to fit in quite a bit of knitting while also cleaning and painting the garage floor with David, mountain biking, cleaning all the floors in the house, doing the touch-up painting in the [...]