I have (almost) finished the baby pants! I just have to put the elastic in the waistband. Aren’t they cute? It’s good that they’re so very adorable, because they were a major pain to knit. Even though I was only responsible for 1.25 legs (Rebecca knit the entire seat and most of one leg), I [...]
Archives for Projects in Progress
Three Things
There are three things in this picture that ought to catch your eye. First, I finished a sock. Isn’t it pretty? You can see the picot hem in the corner of the picture, and it has a garter-stitch short-row heel that I learned how to do from Lucy Neatby. It is an all-round champ of [...]
Wishing Didn’t Make It So
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dinner Blogging: A New Frontier
I wrote a long post earlier that I lost by accident. Then I went downstairs to run on the treadmill only to discover that the DVD of Heroes I just got from Netflix is the exact same DVD of Heroes that I finished watching and returned last week. Feeling a little cursed, I decided to take [...]
Swatch Feature: Twin Rib
Every now and then, I swatch something that doesn’t work out, but I want to keep a record of what I did and spread the swatch love with others. Thus, my first Swatch Feature is born! Twin rib and stockinette stitch swatch in Habu Wool Roving A-81, doubled The twin rib pattern is taken from [...]