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Sunday, October 21, 2018

What's Next?

With the Silky Wool Cardigan finished, I postulate to origin planning my side yesteryear side project.

God Forfend...

Couldn't perhaps imagine beingness "in betwixt projects" when it comes to my knitting.

I'm non certain I desire to accept on exactly about other sweater immediately.  I definitely don't postulate a sweater together with I discovery it hard making a sweater that Thaddeus looks practiced inwards together with enjoys wearing.

Knitting a scarf or shawl or lid for arts and crafts demo sales seems together with then out of season.  It's together with then hard knitting something that has no feel of urgency to finishing it.

I get got the Millard Fontenot blueprint for The Brethren Sock that I'm working (see below) together with I've too got the Knitted Sheet that volition endure an ongoing WIP for years.

Should I become dorsum to the sweater projection that came inwards minute the concluding fourth dimension I surveyed yous all?


The minute alternative was the Briar Rose yarn called Wistful.


It looks similar I get got well-nigh 2,000 yards of worsted weight yarn (50% Alpaca, 20% Merino together with 20% Silk).  Maybe I'll swatch it upward to encounter what I tin come upward up with.

Current Knitting

As noted previously, I finished the Silky Wool Cardigan.




The neckband is merely a metro of stuff inwards contrary stockinette run upward which is slightly wider at transcend than on the breast together with the follow photos demo the item downwards the centre of the sleeve together with upward the centre of the breast on either side of the push band.



And hither is my progress amongst The Brethren Sock (have yous favorited it on Ravelry yet?)


This isn't typically my type of sock projection equally it requires a lot to a greater extent than attending together with counting of rows, but the stuff is turning out to endure thick together with lush together with I'm enjoying honoring Millard equally I knit it.

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Visionary Knitting


It's difficult to imagine that individual could cause got re-imagined knitting in addition to depict it inwards a whole novel agency that would brand equally much or to a greater extent than sense than how I've been doing it for over xxx years now.

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After knitting for decades now, diverse components of repeating sew together sequences has occurred to me equally an interesting concept, only I never actually delved into it, in addition to and hence I started reading through a novel mass I got that the recent retreat...


Sequence Knitting yesteryear Cecilia Campachiaro has combined a novel (maybe non new...but newly formulated) thought of creating unique in addition to interesting fabrics using elementary techniques.


First of all, the mass is substantial...it's big in addition to heavy, physically in addition to it's completely total of succinct in addition to easy-to-read descriptions of a novel agency of agreement repeating sew together patterns.  It likewise has tons of beautifully photographed examples of the technique.  The pattern designs that utilize these techniques are strategically placed inside the description of the technique (also beautifully photographed) to hand concrete examples of ways the ideas tin move used.

This coffee-table-quality hardback mass serves both equally a revolutionary new-ish technique, equally a sew together lexicon in addition to equally a template for creating your ain sew together dictionaries.

It's expensive equally hell, only I cause got a feeling ane time knitters larn a gander at this volume, they volition realize the importance of having it inwards their reference library.  Just to hand y'all a betoken of reference, it is WAY to a greater extent than useful than Principles of Knitting (in my humble opinion) in addition to I would cause got easily paid to a greater extent than for POK dorsum inwards the day.

If you've got a birthday or gift-receiving upshot coming upwards inwards your life...this would move a perfect detail to request...you'll definitely non regret owning this radical in addition to ground-breaking tome on rethinking your sew together designing.

Current Knitting

All that beingness said, I cause got decided to purpose a complimentary pattern for the babe blanket that volition larn alongside the booties I knit upwards final week.


It's a rattling simple heart/block patterned blanket in addition to at that topographic point are tons of mistakes inwards the pattern, only it's slowly plenty to  follow fifty-fifty if alongside the mistakes.

Readers' Comments/Questions

sprboston writes, "ooh, cute bootie pattern! I'm ever interested inwards a novel bootie pattern. volition y'all percentage the name, please?"

Yes!  It's from a High German knitter's spider web log alongside an English linguistic communication translation of the pattern that is good written in addition to has tons of non bad progress photos - Bootie Pattern

Regarding my appearance at the retreat inwards drag, Matt Senger writes, "To move honest, when I get-go saw y'all inwards the non bad room I thought what is this adult woman doing hither raining on our parade only in addition to hence thought, why not, equally an afternoon guest. Glad, however, y'all are non considering opening the weekend up. We would speedily move outnumbered. It is a sacred space, time.

Sacred infinite indeed...it's been a fantastic realization at what an amazing infinite gets created when nosotros celebrate the communion of men alongside yarn obsessions.  

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Flurry Turns Into Storm

Monday, I posted that at that spot were a flurry of novel knitting projects inward my in-box...now that's turned into a torrential downpour!

Mailbox Stuffed!

I alive inward a townhome complex where nosotros don't each bring private mailboxes at our doorstep...we bring clustered mailboxes.


Our postal service deliverer jammed v catalogs, seven letters, a box, a puffy-pack CD, in addition to a tyvek packet into the box yesterday.  Lazy bitch could've at to the lowest degree walked the 50 yards to my door to drib off the 2 packages similar close of the less-incompetent ones do...but at to the lowest degree at that spot was no damage.


The Franklin Habit Dolores Kit in addition to the Kyle Kunnecke Finish The Dance Cowl Kit

Namoli Brennet's The Simple Life CD, USB alongside engraved woods illustration in addition to sticker

So straight off I've got 2 KAL's going, finishing the secret/gift knit projection in addition to a few things waiting inward queue.

Retirement tin endure exhausting!  Just kidding...it's awesome!

Current Knitting

First of all, I finished knitting the gift object in addition to I fifty-fifty finished the embroidery business office (badly).  I all the same involve to stitch the embroidery onto the knitted object.  I volition endure able to post photos of this inward a twosome of weeks.

Then, beingness the competitive somebody I am, I had to commencement Kyle's Finish the Dance Cowl.


This is genuinely a well-thought out design...each comes alongside a hand-sewn projection pocketbook inward beautiful fabric, is numbered out of the 49 kits (to tally the discover of people who died inward the Pulse shooting) alongside yarn that was donated yesteryear Skacel in addition to set together yesteryear Kyle to back upward the Lambert House in addition to fifty-fifty the blueprint incorporates 49 repeats...a constant reminder of those who died every bit I'm knitting this beautiful cowl.


Im on the minute colouring of the rainbow, in addition to it is done inward stranded knitting, hence I'm locking every other stitch float.  It's taking a piffling longer alongside all the float-locks, precisely I'm loving the result.

Finally, inward add-on to ignoring the Teddy Bear Baby Blanket (for now), I started my ain KAL for the guys currently registered for the Fall Men's Knitting Retreat at Easton Mountain inward September.


This is the commencement of a pair of Men's Slipper Socks I designed a field agone when I saw a similar pair for sale from a commercial shop in addition to I figured I could easily brand them...here's what the looked similar means dorsum then.



Simple in addition to slowly knitting that I should complete upward pretty speedily in addition to allow me larn dorsum to doing to a greater extent than or less plow over off the Teddy Bear Baby Blanket.