11 March 2010 · No Comments
Caprice is up!
I know these have been a while in coming. I finished them way back in December (and have been happily wearing them in the months in between). I thought that, since there was snow in the pictures, I’d better hurry up and release them before all the snow in my yard finally melted.
These started as an experiment to see what would happen if I switched stitch motifs whenever I got the least bit tired of the last one. I think it worked quite well, and definitely kept the knitting from getting boring. You’d think I’d be able to pay attention all the way through a single sock leg, but sometimes that’s just asking too much.
If you want to do your own short attention span knitting, give them a try!
10 March 2010 · No Comments
Lest you be worried I’ve abandoned socks (perish the thought), allow me to set your mind at ease. I’ve got the newest sock, greenhorn, up for testing. Click the picture for a much bigger version. As usual, the place to volunteer is on Ravelry.
I need several testers for these, as they come in two sizes and the left and right socks are mirror images of each other. If you’ve got time to knit one sock over the next two(ish) weeks and want to get first crack at these (you know…while the pattern still has mistakes and lacks pretty pictures and isn’t yet quite perfect…gee don’t I know how to sell and idea), I’d love your help.
The pattern talks in some detail about how the sock is constructed. Once you’ve made these socks, you should be able to use this construction in other projects. It’s a handy thing to add to your sock toolkit. There is a tiny bit of math, but it really only involves basic addition and subtraction, so I’m sure you can do it.
10 March 2010 · No Comments
If you’re itching to make them, the pink frilly confections I posted about the other day are up for testing. The thread with instructions is on Ravelry. If you’d like to volunteer, head on over. I’m picking testers Thursday morning.
9 March 2010 · No Comments
The pattern for adumbrate is up. These are free and are meant as a sort of thank you present to mark the one year anniversary of this website and of my adventures in designing. This has become a much bigger part of my life than I ever thought it would, and I’ve found it tremendously rewarding. I can’t tell you what it means to me that you take time out of your day to knit my patterns, say hi, or even just drop by to read my rambles. Your encouragement means the world to me. Thank you.
8 March 2010 · No Comments
So I sort of did it, but only sort of. The official goal was ‘don’t cast on any new projects.’ The unofficial goal (which seemed to follow rather naturally from the official goal) was ‘get lots of stuff done.’ I totally met the first goal. Despite severe temptation (we went to a fiber festival right at the beginning of the Olympics–this was not a plan designed to foster restraint), I didn’t cast on anything new.
Alas, I also didn’t get quite as much done as I had hoped. I did make some progress. I finished a pair of secret socks, and they’ve gone off to a magazine for their photo shoot, which I find both hysterical and deeply awesome. I finished the adumbrate mitts, wrote the pattern, and started the testing process. I finished the first of the greenhorn socks and wrote the first draft of the pattern.
The one thing I didn’t finish was The Boy’s xanthophyll socks. Almost, but not quite. It turns out these socks have scads more stitches than any of the other socks I’ve made. They’re just slow. Pretty, but slow. Luckily, this weekend we took a trip that provided many many many hours of knitting time, and now they’re done.
I’m still taking the medal. I’m using the whole experience as proof that it’s important to define your goals clearly. My official goal was ‘don’t cast on any new projects,’ and I met that. I might have had ‘finish every single ongoing project’ in the back of my mind as some sort of mythical extra goal, but that wasn’t ever really going to happen. I met the official goal, I’m calling it a success. (This is the likely-unnecessary-but-I-like-to-be-extra-careful disclaimer. The picture is created by Franklin Habit, provided by Yarn Harlot, and used with permission. Please do not write and tell me I’m stealing it, mkay?)
Come back later in the week for the finished (and free) pattern for adumbrate!
4 March 2010 · 1 Comment
Shamelessly pink, shamelessly lacy, shamelessly frilly. There is really nothing somber or serious or even respectable here. These mitts are nothing more than a confection. They are the knitting equivalent of marshmallows. They were cast on the minute the Olympics finished and completed in a few hours. I’ll turn my attention to more worthy things some time soon, but these were just the thing to make up for the uncharacteristic fidelity demonstrated during the Olympics.
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