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My Favorite Rectangles
A. Tubey B. Sassy Stripes C. Accidentally On Purpose Vest D. Summertime Tunic E. Oh God I Suddenly Want Knitted Cotton Pillowcases What Is Wrong With Me Most of the time I really enjoy my career as the eternal grad student, but some weeks (especially right at the end of the quarter) it’s like a…
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Sweeeeet.
I have, no lie, been waiting for Interweave to make the Diagonal Rib socks available for years. Years! I had a copy on a old computer, but that old computer seems to have hidden the pattern in its binary depths far away from my reach. So thank you, Major Laura from Knitting Daily interview, for…
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I hate you again, Stripey Thing.
While watching Heroes, I put about another four inches on the thing. Then I picked it up, looked at it, turned it around a few times, looked at the pattern… and realized that I have been knitting the text backwards.
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The Exciting Conclusion of my Leaf Tie Cardigan
After a wash, it returned to the perfect size. Unfortunately, the surface now has a fine allover pill, kind of like those one-piece napped footie pajamas I had as a kid. You can kind-of see the fiber-trading between stitches in the photo there. I should have seen that coming. While I was knitting, the yarn…
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Gentlemen, Behold: Finished Leaf Tie Cropped Cardigan
Leaf Tie Cardigan by Stefanie Japel Size M sleeves, size S body 6 skeins of Cascade Pima Tencel yarn on #7 needles I-cord on #5 DPNs. My obvious modification was to replace the cute eyelet edges with some generic 1×1 ribbing. The eyelet and the color and my decidedly ungraceful elbows… well, I looked like…
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I’m on the Ravelry Beta now
and I scored the coveted “Stef” username. There are so many Stephanies of all kinds and spellings in knitting, so I figured that I’d have to get some kind of lame username like XXXSTEFWANTSYOUTOKNITTHEHELLUP37. Anyway, if you’re in there, look me up and say hi! Thank you, Melissa!
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If minisweaters are good retro fun, then so are tunics.
love that roaring 20?s style. Though I’m really competent at crochet, you’re unlikely to see a crocheted item on this blog anytime soon because I can’t seem to stop trying to replicate the fine lacework from my modest 1920?s crochet pattern collection. (I took a brief hiatus from the tiny microhooks to make seventies socks.)…
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The Persistence of Minisweaters
My knitting mojo has been pretty weak lately. Last weekend I cleared all the frustrating knitting off of my TV-tray and sofa to cast on the Leaf Tie cropped cardigan minisweater object, in neither-serious-nor-useful bright aqua. It’s already 80% finished. Leaf Tie will be my third minisweater for the year, and I’m vaguely bothered by…
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The Mother Of Invention
For the young and the swiftless: It is a working swift made from Tinkertoys, and it is totally awesome.
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Nobody except the Wall Street Journal is outraged about price fixing anymore.
All of the yarn consumer watch blogs ended in a whimper. Now I have to go back to places like the Wall Street Journal blog if I want to see people debate antitrust. “Can Fixed Minimum Retail Prices Be a Benefit for Consumers?” Sadly, the experts in the article don’t actually answer that question. Larry…