Category: WIP

  • 2014 FO and WIP round-up

    I think most of these links will only work if you have a Ravelry account. If you knit and don’t have an account, I highly recommend it. What did I finish in 2014? Handwarmers for my sister – finished on January 2nd (a late Christmas present Stranded Advent Scarf – finished on January 23rd Socks…

  • New Year New Stash

    Why, yes, it has been a long time since the last post. Thank you for asking. First things first: the winner of the skein of sock yarn from the last post… There were three comments qualifying for yarn. I couldn’t decide between them on merit, since they were all good reasons. I went to a…

  • Writing to deadlines

    I often struggle to write when there is a specific deadline. I nearly always meet the deadline (except writing parish magazine articles), but only get going when there isn’t really enough time left to do a good job. After years of pondering this, I’ve realised that I write best early in the day, so the…

  • The state of the yarn

    Looking in my knitting photos folder for September, it looks like it has been a busy month. I left you awaiting the release of the patterns for Sock Sniper. They were duly released and I fired my first shot across the Atlantic, taking a rookie sniper from Massachusetts out of the game.  Not my fastest…

  • 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.

  • Holiday knitting

    I’m thinking ahead to a trip we are taking before too long: A few days camping, then a few car journeys and staying with people. The big question is what to knit. Space is limited, so I really need to pick one project. It can’t be fiddly and it needs to be able to stand…