Cunning Hat and ATL Update
Finally got some pics of P. in his Cunning Hat:
Project Stats
Yarn: Brown Sheep Naturspun Worsted, Navy Blue and Natural. One skein of each, with lots of natural left over.
Needles: US6 16″ Addi Turbo
Pattern: My own. Whenever I design a pattern, I always add fiddly details that are a pain to deal with. [...]
Blue Moon Fiber Arts Sock Club: An Amateur Cost/Benefit Analysis
News of the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Sock Club (hereafter BMFA and BMFASC) is sweeping the knitting blogosphere! Okay, not really, but I have seen a few mentions here and there, most notably over at Kris Crafts, where she makes the argument that $173 is a good deal for the Sock Club.
I’m not convinced [...]
2 Rows!
I’ve finished the hem! It sucked! I am now–finally–on the colorwork:
Okay, so it’s only two rows of colorwork. It’s more than I had before, and now I feel like I’ve really started the sweater–all that hem was just a warm-up, to use an awkward sports metaphor. Hopefully I’ll be able to [...]
Almost to the Colorwork
I’m two rows from the beginning of the colorwork on Above the Tree Line (hereafter ATL). I’ve noticed a few things so far:
It takes a really, really, really long time to knit 416 stitches. That’s how many I have in a round. You folks who are knitting smaller sweaters are so lucky! [...]
And we have a swatch!
This is what I spent most of today doing:
More pictures are available on Flickr.
I am really, really, really happy with how this looks. The gauge is pretty much dead-on at 6.5 to 6.625 stitches per inch and I did not block the swatch is aggressively, which means I’ll be able to [...]
