Category: WIP
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Sniper season
Tomorrow is the first of September and that means only one thing, as far as knitting is concerned: open season on sock-knitters. At 2pm UK time, a variety of sock patterns will be released on the Sock Sniper website and I will choose my weapons (yarn and needles) to commence an attack on my target.…
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Yarnalong
The beaded socks are coming along nicely. Back on the needles for two at a time down the foot and they should be done this weekend. Something a little different for the reading matter this week. I’ve been reading Linux Format magazine off and on since about 2005 and I’ve been a subscriber for the…
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End of term
Things have been getting very busy here as we head towards the end of term. My boss has been away a lot (and is in fact leaving soon, but that is another story), so it is my phone that seems to be taking up the slack and ringing off the hook. Of course, it is…
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Yarn along
I’ve discovered the yarn along on the blog Small Things, so I thought I’d join in this week. Here is my picture of what I am reading and knitting. The socks are still the stage 1 socks from Tour de Sock, although you can see some progress from the last post. I’m now up to…
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Go to the mattress stitch
I’ve discovered mattress stitch, or as June Hemmons Hiatt (in the enormous brick that is The Principles of Knitting) has it, running thread seam. The main annoying thing about that book is that she refuses to use common parlance, in favour of renaming almost everything. What is worse, is that the index then becomes less…
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The end of an era and a new start
Yesterday morning, at approximately 5am, a significant milestone was reached: I finished listening to episode 91 of Cast On. When I started listening to Cast On, I downloaded the most recent series at that point, beginning at episode 92. Then after I reached episode 98, there were no more new episodes for a few months…
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Sweet Tomato Eskarina Coriolis
For the first time since last July, I had no socks on the needles, and not even a second sock to do. This state of affairs began at the end of February and continued until yesterday. Of course, there was a scarf being made with sock-weight yarn, but it didn’t have the portability of a…
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Elektra – part the second
Since I last posted, I have mostly been knitting away on Elektra, which is now completed and sitting on the blocking board. The pattern starts with a cast-on of just over 100 stitches, increasing to a total of around 450 per row by the end. The yardage in the pattern was slightly more than in…
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Elektra
Having been especially virtuous and finished two long-standing wips (yes, the Paintbox Socks are complete – see right) in February, I had the luxury of casting on for absolutely anything I wanted. I’ve been considering shawls for a while, and bought the 7 Small Shawls e-book last month, so I decided to pick from my…
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Smaller needles
I’ve already mentioned that the Neckdown Wrap Cardigan is my first adult-sized cardigan. I expected that there would be a fairly steep learning curve, but didn’t realise quite how that would manifest itself. Some people read instructions, others prefer to wing it. Some people treat instructions as a prescriptive method to follow, for others they…