Pattern: Harry by Martin Storey from Jaeger Handknits JB29 Size: 6-9 mo. (20" chest) Yarn: Knit Picks Telemark (100 percent Peruvian highland wool; 103 yds per 50 g ball) in Lichen, Colonial Blue, Delft Heather, Squirrel Heather, Icicle, and Deep Navy; Henry’s Attic Kona Superwash DK, undyed Yardage: Unknown quantity of leftovers Sources: Knit Picks; [...]
Archives for Swatch-o-Rama
Swatch Feature: Skinny Cotton
New ideas are being hatched here at Ruthless Knitting. Maybe it’s because spring finally seems to have arrived, or maybe it’s just that my pesky Secret Design Project is nearly finished, but I have knitting excitement percolating in my brain for the first time in what seems like a long time! To go with it, [...]
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 [...]
Mid-Middlebury
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday Miscellany: Duty Knitting Edition
Since returning from Vermont, in addition to completing the Nine-to-Five Socks and making the XOXO Baby Socks, I’ve also finished up a couple old projects that have been lying around making me feel guilty. First, I managed to reseam and weave in all the ends on the turtle sweater (explanatory backstory is here and here), [...]
Turtle Rescue Mission
Once upon a time, I knit a sweater with a turtle on it for little baby Gwendolyn. I used Mission Falls 1824 Cotton, and I made up the intarsia pattern myself. When I finished it, I was a little concerned that the head opening was too small, but given that Gwen wasn’t exactly born yet, [...]
What About Bob?
I’m glad that several of you picked up on the bit of drama in those diary entries. Rather than worry with Florence about whether her potential husband would turn out to be the kind of guy who gambled away the family silver, you wondered with me, “What kind of woman compares her boyfriend to another [...]
April Showers
Oh my goodness, is it ever gloomy here! It rained all day yesterday, and it is raining again today. I know that April showers are rumored to bring May flowers, but the flowers were coming along just fine until the gloom arrived, and now the blooms on the forsythia bushes are all droopy. Rainy day, [...]