Gather ’round for a tale of knitting gone awry. It all started more than a year ago, when my good friend Rebecca sent me an e-mail link to a garment at an online shop known for its beautiful knitwear, along with the question, "We could knit this, couldn’t we?" The garment in question was a [...]
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Something Orange
I had a cold earlier this week, and I wanted to work on something fairly simple, so I pulled some orange yarn from Gryphon out of storage and started making a top that ought to be good for the transition to spring, should the transition to spring ever arrive. The project is certainly keeping me [...]
Finished Objects: Easter Dress and Peep
Pattern: Dress is my own pattern; Peep is Bluebird by Berrocco. Size: Dress is 22" at the chest, sized to fit an 18-month-old. Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Worsted Hand Dyes (50 percent wool, 50 percent alpaca; 100 yds per 100 g skein), petal and chocolate Yardage: About 280 yds Source: Jimmy Beans Wool Needles: US [...]
Finished Object: Kinari Cardigan
Pattern: My own Size: 34" bust, 42" at bottom hem, 18" total length, 7.5" sleeves Yarn: Habu Wool Roving A-81 1/6 (100 percent undyed wool; 186 yds per oz) Yardage: About 2,000 yards, held double Sources: KPixie; Purl Soho Needles: US 5 (3.75 mm) and US 6 (4.00 mm) Knit Picks Harmony circular needles Gauge: [...]
Nearly There
I have (finally!) finished all the knitting on the Kinari cardigan, and this morning I figured out how I want to do the button closures. I extend my deep appreciation to Ysolda, who has posted a very good tutorial with photos on how to make sewn button loops. I modified her instructions to make this [...]
Second Time Around
After feeling stalled out for a few weeks, I’m making visible progress again on the Kinari cardigan. I’ve finished up the body edging for the second time, and this morning I started the second sleeve. When I tried the partial cardigan on yesterday, it looked much more like my sketch than it had the first [...]
Light and Shadow
The Kinari cardigan continues to require a great deal of patience. As you can see here, I have finished a sleeve, and lo, it is glorious. But the part of the picture that’s in shadow isn’t going so well. I did finish knitting the body. It took a week to do the edging: because the [...]
Patience
The Kinari cardigan has reached a tough stage. Progress seems slow, the sweater is all scrunched up on the needles, and I’m having periods of doubt about some of my decisions. Will it be too wide at the bottom? I don’t own anything swingy, maybe for good reason. Will the bright white of the buttons [...]
Kinari Introduction
I’m someone who can’t manage to keep a white shirt long without staining it. Come to think of it, I don’t actually own a white T-shirt (long- or short-sleeved) at present, probably for this very reason. Thus, the fact that I’m designing an all-white wool cardigan should be understood as an indication that my practical [...]
Free Pattern: Tokyo
I got the Tokyo pattern written up over the weekend, so I offer it to you for your knitting pleasure. You can do a direct PDF download (2.4 MB) via this link or visit the Designs page at your leisure and follow the link there. Or, if you’re a Ravelry user, you can download [...]