Well, on a whim I returned to my stocking designs… refer back to the stocking I made previously, using the tuck stitch, a couple weeks ago. That was done all in one yarn.
This is what the same stitch pattern looks like done up in two colors:
It is white, with [...]
First up, the BigRib Scarf I’ve been working on since before I left New Orleans! This is knit from two different colorways of my Southern Purls fingering weight wool. I wasn’t sure how much yarn would be required, so I just started knitting on the first [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
This is what I stayed up late last night to finish: (Click on either one for a bigger version)
Pretty nice, this version. It’s a remake for the one I did for my daughter in a rush last week at the first really cold snap. [...]
This is what I knit on Thurs and Fri:
It came out better than I expected, and I LIKE the ‘accidental plaid’ patterning of this Nanaberry colorway. It was one that appeared on the Yarns page and I really didn’t like it. I don’t know now if I’ll keep that or not, because [...]
Cutting it Close!!!
Last night I woke in the middle of the night and wrote four pages of notes on a stocking I was to construct today.
After putzing up the ribbing at the top, and throwing away 10 rows of too-tight ribbing, I started fresh and completed this project:
That’s a [...]
I’ve gotten the wool-mohair blend as well as worsted and sport weight of a single-ply all wool, excellent for felting! These will be dyed up and posted in short order. Friday my son is taking me to a HUGE MEGAstore downtown somewhere (?) so I can purchase large quantities of some dyeing supplies, making my [...]
I mentioned (on the other blog) that my son-in-law cut the bottom off my tension mast so that it wouldn’t scrape the ceiling. Here’s a picture of my machine knitting set-up with both masts in place again:
There is a smaller mast attached to the back side [...]
