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Victorian Adventure Socks!
Still trying to recapture the ol’ knitting mojo. It’s a good thing my grad knitting group cancelled itself today, because I’d have showed up with nothing but gauge swatches to work on. While I try very hard to answer the important questions of pre-knitting, I’d like to share a few of my triumphs from The…
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Don’t Do What Donny Don’t Does #2
Sock The First is finished, and I already have to make a repair on it. Let me tell you about the sewn kitchener bindoff in Kureyon Sock– don’t. The yarn broke while I was binding it off, so there’s a spit splice in the bindoff somewhere. (Kureyon Sock spit splices like a champion.) After finishing…
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FINAL YARNY CONQUEST FOR 2007/INAUGURAL YARNY REVIEW FOR 2008
Happy new year, folks! It’s time for me to get started on what I hope will be a fine year of knitting stuff, documenting it, and complaining about the results! Whooo! I am pretty satisfied with my yarn collection. I have enough for most of what I want to make, and I’ve found myself really…
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Sock Wars on the Wall Street Journal
Many thanks to Julia for the link. Cute article from an outsider’s perspective. I always love it when the WSJ puts out stuff that relates to knit culture. From the article, Julie Gardner: “The whole ‘knitting is the new yoga’ cliche had been irritating a good few of us”. Is “knitting is the new Assassins”…
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October Roundup, Pt. 1:
So! October is generally my favorite month, but this year I rate it a capital SUCK. I want October back. I hear people gearing up for NaNoWriMo and NaKniSweMo, but I’m getting ready for October II: The More-Better October. To anyone who didn’t get an email reply to their comment in the last non-month: Sorry.…
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Last Week, Part II.
Which, I guess, is actually two weeks ago now. The story behind the following picture is that I didn’t actually rendezvous with my Pure Knits yarn until I got back home to California. Instead, some serious sockage happened. I finished a mate to a single sock that has been hanging around since like 2005, and…
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Breeze.
These are “Breeze” from the most recent Knitty. Yarn: Mandarin Petit fingering weight cotton, 1 ball (180m). I used all but 3.75 yards. Needles: US2 (2.75mm) Start: June 11, 2007 Finish: June 16, 2007. Such an economic use of yarn, and such cute socks! I loved making these. I foresee an orange pair in my…
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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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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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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…