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Don’t Do What Donny Don’t Does
Oh sure, the first BMP sock appears to fit my gentleman companion perfectly. In fact, it does fit him perfectly, thanks to the narrowed cuff (78 stitches instead of 91). If you make these, don’t get any ideas. Just go with the 91 stitches. Spare yourself the pain of watching your beloved try to shove…
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Reading Roundup
Did you know: Back in ye olde early days of the internet, the purpose of a ‘weblog’ was generally to provide a digest of links? TMYK, baby! Here are a few things I’ve read recently that are worth sharing. Mintyfresh‘s finished Shocking Skirt, from an IK in 2004. Minty took a pattern that had fallen…
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Grace Companion Post
Here’s a PDF of revised instructions for the front shaping, plus a couple of hints (so that you can learn from my mistakes, heh). Grace Companion Basically, these instructions change the shape at the neckline and front shoulder so that Grace doesn’t try to ride up in front and shove herself back. (Clever photography nearly…
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Grace
It’s Grace. You may notice that it looks a bit different from the original– some modifications were in order. I’m thinking of posting detailed modifications as a pdf for interested parties. I’m so pleased with this sweater that I wish it could be re-published so that other knitters could see it afresh as a cute,…
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I’ll Start At The Toes And I’ll End In Your Dreams
‘Just yesterday I was complaining about the nasty infinity of knitting men’s sized black socks. Today I’m ready for the green row of invaders! High five! t’s BMP, an awesome pattern by Aija Goto. It has been pretty simple to knit them toe-up. I highly recommend converting to this direction if you want to make…
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Lucky Clover Math
Joanna kindly pointed me in the direction of official Lucky errata. I’m going to share my fix with you anyway! My method is worthwhile because it also accounts for the possibility of off-gauge knitting. First, let’s examine the problem. After some 7? of knitting on the front, you start the sweeping decrease that makes the…
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A Brief Return to Internetland
It feels like gasping for breath. Our new place now has working interweb functionality, but tomorrow I’m headed to the ol’ family seat in NJ. I predict that there will be little web contact during that time. Lots of bowling, though. I’m hoping that all of the box-hauling I did this week has strengthened my…
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Comics friends, help a knitter out.
I’m pretty sure that this blog gets more hits from my comics buddies than from actual knitters, and I think it’s pretty rad that you check in here at all. This message is mostly for you. Over on Needle Exchange, Eve is trying to gather data for what seems to be some really awesome comics-related…
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Yep, this blog sure does bring the belated research.
When Interweave Crochet goes quarterly, it too will have an editor who started out in internet-land: CrochetMe’s Kim Werker. The intent of this post is not at all to cast aspersions on the accomplishments of Eunny and Kim. God knows they deserve to be editors, and they both will do awesome jobs. Nay, the purpose…
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The other type of object that I finish…
…is a term project presentation. I don’t usually get horribly worked up about ten minute presentations, but now that it’s over I feel all kinds of great. I presented on root canals, so at least I can rest assured that the whole audience had a great time sitting around contemplating the decay and subsequent hollowing…