Showing posts with label technique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technique. Show all posts

Friday, May 24, 2013

"F" is for

Friday and for finished.

One of the two cushions is done.

Used Stitch Diva's 3-color Tunisian technique laid out in her Stashbuster Blanket pattern.

12" x 16" Complete with"decorator chop" styling;)

After I worked the top, I edged it with a couple of rows of slip stitch in the dark gray yarn, and then used that yarn to whip stitch the top to the gray felt back. Not the best yarn to use for sewing (loosely plied, breaks easily), but I think it looks good if you don't look too closely at my uneven whip stitches.






One down, one to go.

For more beautiful FO's:Tami's Amis

Friday, May 3, 2013

One Down

Five to go.

Socklettes, that is. Section of ribbing followed by a heel flap, or not.  

Homework for Heather Ordovers's Sock Heel Class next Saturday in Cambridge, MA.

At last! Some use for left over sock yarn.

For the first time in my life, I might actually have my homework done a few days in advance.



Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Heroic Stitch

Little knitting or crocheting whilst on vacation in London. Not one visit to a yarn shop for souvenir yarn. That happens when traveling with teenaged nieces who prefer cupcakes to cashmere.


Not a naked mole rat.
Wrong color.
No teeth. 

Did have a knitting moment in the National Portrait Gallery. This handsome military man caught my eye amongst the explorers and soldiers who were Heroes of the Empire.


Could that be a needle case in his hand?

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, and deviser of the Kitchener stitch. The tag beside the portrait gives as much space to his stitch, which was designed to make a more comfortable sock for soldiers, as to his military exploits.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Succumbed

to Sublimity, a new cowl and cuffs pattern by Sivia Harding. 

Yes, this is a case of startitis, but the beads and the yarn were stashoid.



First Yarn-e-pillar of Spring

Pleasure to find the deck empty of snow and take the picture out of doors in sweatersleeves if not shirtsleeves.

Project should go fast. Worsted weight yarn. Bottom up construction, so there will be decreases. Not a huge number of beads to place.

Couldn't find a crochet hook small enough so am using the dental floss placement method. Yes, dental floss. See for yourself.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sew, No!

The Murder Weapon?

Movie Trailer

Sound track: melodramatic music (Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.)

Camera zooms in on bedroom door as the lyrics proclaim "No escape from reality."

Cut to woman lying on the floor next to a pile of knitting and crocheting. Beside her, a needle, thread, crochet hook, scissors.
Could she be the latest victim of:



The Unsewn! 



Woman stirs, mutters: Why don't I ever remember how much time it takes?  Why can't I learn to love seamless construction? (Sob!)


Amateur Auteur mutters:  Why didn't I remember that the camera records audio, too?


Thursday, March 14, 2013

Breathes Upon A Bank of Violets

Mystery Knitalong: Capriole

Love getting marching orders week by week.  
High probability that the item will be completed in a timely fashion instead of sinking into the Morass of Incompletion.

March 8,  bought pattern.

March 10, chose yarn.

Sunshine Yarns Merino Sock, "Violets"
March 12, knit swatch, re-learned a crochet cast-on, learned a new stitch as well. Came up with a poetic name for the project, from Midsummer Night's Dream. Once an English major, always an English major. 

March 27, first clue will arrive.

Take a look. In awe of Remily's productivity and talent.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Resuscitated

Dredged up from the UFO Sack of Shame,


April 7, 201 - March 9, 2013



transformed in one day into


12" X 16" & 14" x 14" Cushion Tops

using Stitch Diva's addictive and satisfying 3-Color Tunisian technique, clearly explained in her Stash Buster Blanket pattern.

Awaiting charcoal grey felt to complete the covers. Until it arrives, I will contemplate my procrastination issues.





Monday, March 4, 2013

Darn or Damn

The sock knitter's existential dilemma.


Otherwise Perfectly Good Sock

Knit in May 2008.  Survived many spins in the washer. Found the leftover yarn right where it ought to have been.  After a two-day hunt, found the darning egg under some plastic resistance (!) bands stuffed in a basket on a shelf.

Are we sensing some ambivalence? Darn the darn thing or turn it into a sock puppet?  a chew toy?  a dust mitt? Compost it like dryer lint? Wring another blog  post out of it? What do you think?