I am far more optimistic about the yardage for the Slippery Socks now. I weighed the remaining yarn and I tried the sock (which has been making progress, through slowly) on. I an 90% certain the yarn will go all the way. But I am 99% certain that these socks are going to be too …
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*scream*
Those curtains that I dyed the other week? The newly-green ones with the pink dotted lines? I finally got around to putting them up, and they looked very nice in the East window. We turned our attention to the South window, where the longer pair hangs. Whoa! Curtains very much in mid-air! The long curtains …
I have the itch
I don’t just have the itch to cast on at the moment, nor just the itch to spend (see below) but my hands are genuinely itchy. Really, really itchy. I am sensitive to UV and the little sunshine that we have had recently has set me off. I don’t understand how – when I was …
Ouch
Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Bloody Desk See the blood? SEE it??? It took all afternoon, but I ended up with an inch and a half of beautiful, soft, dusky pink, evenly neat ribbing. I did the increase. I did the knit row. I put in the stitch markers (improvised from lengths of differently …
Petra-fied
When I said that I was “only” going to allow myself the ribbing on one of the hand warmers today, I hadn’t really stopped to consider the constraints, had I? An inch and a half of k2 p2 doesn’t sound like much until you stop to think about the challenge of knitting laceweight yarn on …
Casting on time
My copy of 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders has arrived. Not exactly stuffed with desirability but one or three useful patterns for ‘is fiver – and the only way that I could get hold of the laceweight fingerless glove pattern. Later on, I’ll tackle some of the hats and mittens and felted projects, from handspun. They’ll …