A Stitch to Wear

monovision

Reticently resurfacing from extreme project monogamy.

 
Have you ever found yourself enjoyably cloistered with that certain project and completely oblivious to almost everything else? It's the best kind of escapism, isn't it - being under a project's spell.

I'm off to pour a few more inches into it...

the mending

Seems to never end, does it? Once you start the mending, that is. And once your loved ones learn that you can sew on a button, the pile just grows and grows.

 This is just a quick reattaching of the lining of a well loved sport coat.

Knits on the Street

Ever wonder what happens to those gifted knits when they go out into the world?

If you give them to my sister, they get photographed on style blogs.

Do you see that hat? It's ancient. I can't even find a record of writing the pattern (aside from the original notes in the sketchbook and those are barely enough to figure out which pattern they belong to). All I remember is that it's Koigu, there was a matching scarf and the whole set took 3 skeins...

Maybe I should borrow it back and write up the pattern.

Maybe if she can spare it, it being so stylish and all.

from another life

 

Jumble

 
My attention, as of late, has been strained. My life has been interfering with my knitting, but not with my designing. I have ideas. Loads. Too many. They are tangling themselves around my other tasks, and interrupting my progress. Blinkered and fettered I am attempting to purge them into my books because one clutter will beget another. I am attempting to embrace this binge, but as anyone with any experience interacting with other folks knows - not every idea is a good one. I have to bear this tide, ensure that it leave its marks along the shore, and comb it later, after it's turned.

penultimate

Why is it that the second to last skein is always the longest?

 
I have it's number though, I know something it doesn't. It is snowing out. Snow days erase all I-shouldn't-be-knitting-I-should-be-(fillintheblank)-guilt. It can't outlast me any longer. I have it now. I see you, sly end. I'm coming for you.

Curator Shawls

Eight different constructions , four shapes, two gauges

 
I often hear knitters speaking of their stash as some sort of adversary or an impending doom that must be kept at bay. I like to think of my stash as a collection that requires careful cultivation and curation. I found that my selection of hand-dyed yarns (specifically in sock quantities) was in need of more dedicated attention. Hence The Curator Suite. Each shawl shown used the equivalent of 3 pairs of socks worth of yarn. 4 triangles, 2 rectangles, 1 square and 1 parallelogram all formed on the same basic shaping principles and in the same stitch pattern to perfectly showcase the reason why I fell in love with hand-dyed yarn in the first place.

 
Materials:
approximately 800–1200 yds of fingering weight yarn scrap yarn for provisional cast-on.
size 5 (US) circular 32" needles or longer for open gauge
size 3 (US) circular 32" needles or longer for dense gauge
stitch markers
tapestry needle

Suggested Gauge:
open: one pattern repeat (8 sts) = 1.5"
dense: one pattern repeat (8 sts) = 1.125"

Stack Sample:
Koigu Painters Palette Premium Merino (4 skeins/700 yds) of 1 colorway and (2 skeins/350 yds)of another, changing colors at the end of a full repeat
dense gauge
13" x 52"

Shift Sample:
Koigu Painters Palette Premium Merino (2 skeins/350 yds) of 3 different colors changing colors whenever the yarn ran out (even in the middle of a row, any row)
open gauge
16" x 68", including points

 
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Twin Peaks

Brought to you by the letter...

Single sock stymied - started surrogate second striping sock. Sometimes soothing stockinette simply surmounts spined styles.

 

r i b

Sometimes the right answer is 2x2 ribbing.

 
One gentleman's sock; ribbed from the cuff, through the heel and down to the toes.

 
Yes, all-over 2x2 ribbing.

 
My very favorite kind.