For #nerdy9th. Rules of #nerdy9th are to gush about something you are nerdily passionate about, and no criticizing or denigrating that thing (even in comments) I learned to crochet when I was about 5 or 6 years old, taught by my godmother. But I didn’t learn to spin yarn until I was 30, and I […]
Knitting a Tentacle!
I knitted the Tentaculum pattern this month. It’s very pretty– and LONG! It’s about 8 feet long, and I probably could have gotten another inch out of the yarn I had left. The yarn is Knit Picks Bare in fingering. I dyed it myself about 7 or 8 years ago. It is not superwash– as […]
Vignette is Done, with a little extra bit
I finished Vignette! I finished knitting on Saturday night and stayed up a bit late to soak and block the pieces: Yesterday, I was kind of anxious to do the stitching up, so when it turned out that the Sunday game had more than enough players, I opted out and headed home. On the way, […]
Vignette is into the third trimester
I am in the "third trimester" of knitting Vignette. Long-sleeved sweaters can be broken down in thirds or even sixths. The back uses about one third of your yarn, the front uses another third, and both sleeves together use the last third. So when you finish the back of a pieced sweater, you are roughly […]
Selfish Knitting Vignette
We call it “selfish knitting” when we knit for ourselves and nobody else. Yesterday, I frogged a sock that wasn’t grabbing my interest (I’m sorry, cables: I don’t like putting you on socks), and I cast on for something new: It’s hard to see, but that there is a sweater. It doesn’t look like […]