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 [...]
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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 [...]
Stripes and Bikes
Is it possible to take an interesting picture of a sleeve? I am not so sure. Here are two attempts: Frances sleeve, take 1 Frances sleeve, take 2 “Frances” is what I’m calling this sweater now. I gave up on “Wine-Dark Sea Pullover.” Too flowery for me, and too many words. I have reverted instead [...]
Becalmed
Thank you for your many compliments on the Florence progress pictures! I ought to have finished it by now, but instead I started something altogether different. For lack of a better name, I’m calling it my “wine-dark sea” pullover. Because of the dark blue and the wine-y brown. And because of the nautical stripes. Please [...]
Sickbed and Recovery
Lately, I haven’t had much to say about my knitting. I’ve been doing a lot of what I think of as Duty Knitting — working on things I have to finish so I can move on to other things. I got myself into this mess by knitting one sock for my mother that doesn’t fit [...]