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On pause
I've taken a pause from the Masters swatches because I'm not sure how (or whether) I want to weave in the ends and block the swatches I've completed, and I can't get the swatches I haven't completed yet to come out properly. Instead, I'm spinning for Tour de Fleece again. After a self-inflicted wound on my first project (how did I not notice my ( Read more... ) -
Book review
Dear Mrs. Righetti ( Read more... ) -
Actual Yarn Content
Four of the swatches I'm going to need to submit are supposed to be done with the same yarn and same size needles, basically as a set - and it struck me that these four swatches would be a pretty good diagnostic.
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Actual yarn stuff
The first attempt at the basic stockinette stitch swatch is pinned to a towel, drying, right now. For my own reference: before blocking, gauge was 16 st/3", 21 rows/3". So at least pre-blocking I'm tighter than ball band gauge (20/26) - and this is already one size needle larger. Jeez. But the idea is to see how much it relaxes when blocked ( Read more... ) -
Brief book reviews
So far I've gotten to look through and evaluate two big comprehensive knitting reference books from the library, in the name of picking one or the other to buy: the Reader's Digest Knitter's Handbook (1993 edition) by Montse Stanley, and Principles of Knitting (2012 edition) by June Hemmons Hiatt. I'm not 100% thrilled with either one ( Read more... ) -
I was only kidding.
My research this weekend involved looking for possible cures for "rowing out" - that thing where flat-knitted stockinette stitch has visible / raised horizontal lines in it resulting from purls and knits being slightly different sizes. The Masters graders consider it a major flaw, even though most people do it to some extent, and no, it won't go ( Read more... ) -
I'll think of it as practice?
Hubby was so impressed by the results of a fairly gentle blocking (soak, lay flat on towel, pin, let dry) on my yarn test swatches from this weekend that he wants me to try the same thing with a 12" wide, 8' long scarf I knitted him a couple years ago. (Not a Dr. Who - a Linux penguin illusion scarf. It's only 2/3 as much knitting ( Read more... ) -
Masters Step 1: Assemble Materials
(Actually this is Step 4 in the suggested plan of action ( Read more... ) -
is this thing on?
For Christmas, I was given a set of TKGA Master Knitter Level 1 Certification Instructions. (By my request. I've been meaning to do it for years, but could never bring myself to actually sign up for it. I hope none of my family members would have been so mean as to sign me up for it without advance authorization ( Read more... ) -
Decluttering and organizing.
I'm kind of following the Houseworks Organized Christmas Plan - although on a kind of sped-up schedule, because we're planning to sell our house and would therefore like to have it "company-ready" before mid-November. Last week the decluttering assignment was "the craft room", which has really needed a good going-through for years. I've turned up ( Read more... )