Okay, this is just weird. And frustrating.
I’ve been working on this green lacy piece. In a couple of segments I realized I’d missed or dropped a stitch somehow. And then a few rows later, even more segments were coming up short of the count.
Well, I’m no dummy. I knew enough to just put it aside [...]
Okay, scraping the last of the ready-dyed stuff, I have a few yummy-licious goodies for you. This is a BLOG READER SPECIAL, which means it only lasts until I put it on the Specials Page in the next 24-36 yours. Same rules apply — be the first to claim one or more, I’ll send you [...]
Over the past couple days I’ve been working out a project/pattern for machine knitting another hat for the Charity Hats Project.
This is a prototype of what was in my head. I have already modified my instructions for the next one, but I sort of like where this one is going, except for the brim. I [...]
I went looking for some help to soothe my head, and found exactly what I needed — a measured schematic for exactly what I wanted. Duuhhhh…. doesn’t matter that it is attached to someone else’s design for some amazing colorwork (in this case, one of Kaffe Fassett’s sweaters), because it’s all just flat knitting and [...]
This is the pattern for the Tuck-and-Eyelet Prayer Shawl I showed you yesterday.
This is pretty much all there is to it. Mostly I alternated SSK and K2tog just for appearance. It is being done on the LK-150 knitting machine (stitch dial=5), but hand-knitters can easily adapt the pattern to [...]
Here’s what I’ve been working on in “spare” time the last few days. It’s a multi-directional shawl, built on simple garter-stitch geometry. I made one triangle from the right corner of the shawl and built it sideways to the vertical center (about 22 inches along the short edges). Now, I’m [...]
