easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in knitting on May 17th, 2012
This is my fourth Clapotis, in Rowan Silky Tweed. It’s taken me more than a year to knit it, because I kept getting sidetracked by more interesting projects along the way. I wore my Rowan Tapestry clapotis ever such a lot over the winter, but it doesn’t quite go with all my clothes. This nice [...]
Posted in knitting on Feb 8th, 2012
Now that these shawls are finally finished and have reached their recipients, I can safely show them to you all! The Tulips Shawlette, above, is by Anniken Allis, and the pattern’s in Issue 36 of The Knitter. The moment I saw it, I reached for the first 4-ply yarn I could find in my stash, [...]
Posted in knitting on Jan 20th, 2011
Every time I knit a Clapotis, I complain all the way through. “It’s boring!” “My hands hurt!” “Maybe I could make it shorter…” “How much further?” But every time I’ve finished knitting a Clapotis, I can’t wait to start another one. This one was started in July, as a birthday present for my mother-in-law. But [...]
Yay, the new Knitty is up! Knitty’s a funny one for me – I love looking through the new designs, and I’ve got quite a few patterns queued on Ravelry, but I’ve actually completed very few Knitty projects. Slither, Fetching and the ubiquitous Clapotis are the only ones I’ve finished, I think. This one though… [...]
Posted in knitting on Sep 23rd, 2009
Here’s my completed Helena, from Knitty. It’s beautifully modelled by Big Ted, who refused to take off his Ewok outfit for the picture. I’m sure that baby Catherine won’t mind that you can see where I made the switch on the sleeves from working back and forth on one circular needle to working in the round on [...]
Posted in knitting on Sep 18th, 2009
Aside from hats, this is the first baby garment that I’ve knitted. The pattern is Helena, from Knitty. I had originally planned to knit Elizabeth Zimmerman’s “February” baby cardigan, but I didn’t have access to the pattern when I wanted to start knitting (i.e. IMMEDIATELY!), so I went with this one instead. The construction’s basically [...]
Posted in knitting on Apr 7th, 2009
Now that the birthday gift has been received (only a week late, oops…) I can now reveal my first Clapotis! I have to confess that I’ve been avoiding making a Clapotis for several years. There are more than ten thousand finished Clapotii listed on Ravelry, and another five thousand people with this project in their [...]
Last night I started knitting the Slither gloves, from Knitty. Today I will mostly be unravelling them, and starting again. Wah! (I made a mistake right at the beginning of the stripes, dammit.) The pattern is marked as “tangy”, which is not really very complicated in the great scheme of things. The particular difficulty with [...]