Hello, internet! I’m not dead! I’m just busy. My knitting has been very existent and very rad this May, with a heavy dose of math that was fun to do but not so much fun to write about. Wouldn’t be fun to read about, either. That particular SWEATERVENTURE will be finished enough to post about soon.

File under NOT going to be finished pretty soon: Grey crochet project. Speaking of mathiness, after you’ve calculated a few top-down sweaters you think you’ve got the whole “geometry of fit” thing under control in a very numerical way. I had no idea just how much I was relying on a certain knitting intuition that doesn’t translate 100% perfectly to other needlecrafts:

I’m trying to say that it’s not supposed to look that way. It should lay flat, with an approximate increase slope of (1 radial):(5 circumferential). It’s not supposed to be ruffly.

Gah, I hate ruffles SO HARD. It’s do-over time.

I spend a lot of time obsessing over a certain hat belonging to Queen Elizabeth, but these photos clearly suggest that I ought to be more wary of her ruff.