Posted in All, Knitting, Weaving on Jan 3rd, 2012 Comments Off
And, here you have it — a year in yarn! (Finished objects, that is). Click on any image for more project details. Four of these projects were started and finished in 2011. Four were carried over from the previous year. And one (the crochet cable cardi, which I’d bought as a kit in 2007) [...]
Weaving is fun and rhythmic — once you have the loom set up. And, you can’t really set up a loom until you have the parameters of your project pretty well nailed up, including the yarns for warp and weft, as well as the sett and specific threading pattern. While you can vary the weft [...]
How do you spell “frustration”? Two runners up: half-baked iPhone blogging software and craptastic (Future) Internet connections. But, the real winner for frustration — being 5,000 miles away from the next ball of yarn for the knitting project which is on a Christmas delivery deadline :-(
Posted in All, Knitting, Photo Op on Jul 15th, 2010 Comments Off
I laid the washed swatch out to dry in the sunspot. It was mere seconds until the cat was there to “help”.
And, weaving fun was had, for sure! So, the first thing off the loom is not “a piece” or really even an “FO”. It’s just a sampler, warp that I filled with weft as I was playing around to get to know what this weaving thing is all about. I won’t even begin to discuss [...]
Oooh, lookey! Another weekend! More Quality Time with the Baby Wolf. I managed to thread the heddles on the shafts, in the appropriate order, and get the warp threads actually attached to the front and back beams. And — treadled! Don’t look now, but this warp is ready to be woven!
Posted in All, Knitting, Weaving on Jan 19th, 2010 Comments Off
On the weekend, I finally had the opportunity to spend some Quality Time with the Baby Wolf. I measured 120 warp threads (in 2 colours), and got as far as getting the reed sleyed. Still a ways to go — have to thread the heddles on the shafts, in the appropriate order, and get the [...]
Best wishes, from Grand Manan. And, by request — socks in the window: Those are, in fact, new socks (old feet). There’ve been a few end-of-year Finished Objects here at KnitBot central, and they are duly posted up on in the KnitBot Yarn Gallery. And, for fun — here is the year in review (all [...]
Every now and then, the question comes up on knitting message boards — “can I take my knitting project on the plane?”. There is no uniform answer across the globe. Generally speaking, knitting needles are allowed through airport security in Canada and the US, but not allowed in a number of European airports. And, there [...]
Perhaps — just perhaps — I am learning. I have previously observed, on more than one occasion, that I really should swatch for colours and pattern realities before I embark on a project. I’m now playing with some ideas for a multicolour, textured sweater in Rowan Cocoon (chunky merino/kid mohair). I bought the yarn with [...]
The other day, DH approached me with a box of yarn in hand, prompting me to retreat and utter some sailorly language. The attentive will note that this is not my expected reaction to yarn; certainly, it was not what DH might have expected. The problem was that it was a box that had been [...]
Okay, so here is the revised pattern, instantiated in the new sock: The 2-knit-stitch welt is progressing properly; the stockinette panels are oddly parallelogrammed, and the moss stitch is setting up in modest diamond shapes… I think it mostly works. I think the next time I’ll keep the stockinette panels diamond-shaped, and let the moss [...]
After I’d done these “diamond moss stitch” socks, I chided myself for not having adjusted Lesley Stanfield’s stitch pattern (for the diamonds) to work in the round. You can see the “disconnect” between the segments of welt here: I decided to make that adjustment and use the same motif in the current sock project (which [...]
No, not a dromedary — camel & silk blend (YUMMM!) from Hand Maiden Yarns (“Camelspin”, 70% Silk, 30% Camel), purchased at Cricket Cove in Blacks Harbour, NB. I don’t know how many times we’ve driven by that store and not been able to stop in — either we’re rushing to catch the ferry to Grand [...]
Well, after about 4 weeks of meetings and travel, I have a new pair of socks. I guess I must not knit very quickly — to take so many weeks to produce a pair. But, I’m on to the next pair already. These are done in White Birch Fiber Arts sock yarn, knit toe-up with [...]
I mentioned that this burst of blogging is somewhat inspired by the (writer’s block busting) activity of NaNoWriMo. It turns out that I am hardly alone in this aspiration. Someone else has coined the NaBloPoMo term for national blog posting month — blogging every day this month. That certainly captures the spirit of what I’ve [...]
Posted in All, Knitting, Net Working on Nov 18th, 2008 Comments Off
The other day, with some new laceweight yarn in hand, I was browsing for patterns for shrugs. (I could make a lace stole, but I think it would be nice to have a colourful shrug to wear over a sleeveless dress, as an alternative to having to balance drapey fabric all evening). More specifically, I [...]
As I was writing the entry about my current sweater design effort, I surprised myself by reaching the tentative conclusion that I should rip the whole thing back (frog it) and do something more compelling with the lovely yarn. I really had not thought about that before sitting down and writing out the text. It [...]
It happens that there are 2 baby blanket projects I have done that have each achieved a level of fame. This was not an intended outcome – it just seems to have… happened. In both cases, the receiving baby seems to have enjoyed the blanket, which is all that matters. The first blanket to achieve [...]
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