Month: August 2013

  • Ready, aim, fire!

    Tomorrow is one of my favourite times of the knitting year. Sock Sniper begins and I (hopefully, if all goes to plan) get to kill someone with a pair of socks. I didn’t get the orange cabled socks done in time, but one of them is finished, so the needles are free. I was getting…

  • All a-swirl

    There is an essay by the Yarn Harlot where she talks about how being a process knitter means that, when you spot a huge mistake that requires ripping back a big load of knitting, it is strange that it doesn’t make you happy to have to do all the knitting again. Yesterday, I was puzzled…

  • Knitting to plan

    A progress report of my attempt to be more focussed. Here is the plan, with updates: Finish the cabled orange socks – deadline 1st September. Still on the first sock Frog the fair-isle hat Done. Yarn is reskeined and ready for a bath Knit socks for sock sniper Make gradual progress on the cotton blanket…

  • Here’s a plan

    Looking back at the year so far, my knitting has been rather below par in terms of volume. I think I need to be more focused in choosing what to knit and when to knit it. So, let’s have a round-up of WIPS and queued yarn and patterns. My ravelry project list is pretty honest.…

  • Knitting and Computation

    I’m enjoying this series of posts linking knitting with various computational concepts. Post 1: Towards Computational Craft Post 2: A Computational model of knitting I’m back from holiday now, with a few inches of Trillian knitted and I’ve got to the first heel turn of the heavily cabled socks.