I am so close to done with my Ixchel – just a few more inches on the second sleeve to knit! I have 8 more rows of plain knitting, then about 2 inches of ribbing, then casting off. So close! Of course then there’s weaving in ends, and blocking, and very possibly undoing the waist… Continue reading Ixchel – Actual Progress
Got done with sleeve #1 this evening which watching the finale of the most recent season of the Great British Bake-Off! I really just had the ribbing and bind-off to go, so it didn’t take too long. I did try it on, and it fits really nicely, and the sleeve is just long enough, but… Continue reading Halfway Off Sleeve Island
No, it’s nothing to do with Canadians and beer! The newest book from Tin Can Knits is Strange Brew: A Colorwork Knitting Adventure. I bought my copy directly from Tin Can Knits – they are in England, so shipping isn’t super fast, but I got mine in pretty good time. It is an interesting collection, as… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Strange Brew
Well, I pretty much gave away the point of this post in the title 🙂 My Ixchel body is done, and I am knitting away on the first sleeve. There are a lot of rows to go on the sleeve, but it is flying along because there are so many fewer stitches than for the… Continue reading Ixchel – Body Done, Sleeve 1 in Process!
Ixchel is moving right along! As I suspected, once the sleeve stitches were put off to the side, thing began progressing much more quickly. I’m roughly halfway there on the body, then just have the sleeves to go. As you can see, there is a little bit of puckering on the increase row that I’m… Continue reading More Ixchel Progress
After the great experience I had making my gray cardigan (of earlier post fame), I had been giving a lot of thought to getting a subscription to Amy Herzog’s Custom Fit site. I had been kind of thinking about it for a while, but given how well my CF experimental sweater turned out, it was… Continue reading NightSwatch
I interrupt my story about VK Live – will get back to that tomorrow. I finished my Gray Cardigan! It fit great and exactly what I wanted. It will work great with my wardrobe, and is basically perfect. Sigh! So happy! The yarn is Ironstone Warehouse Flake Cotton, which as far as I know is… Continue reading Gray Cardigan is Done!
Yes, sorry – another sleeve joke 🙂 That’s what I have been working on – sleeves. Although these are short (elbow length) sleeves, they seem to be taking forever to knit. In reality, it’s been a little less than a week. It just feels like so much longer! Two more inches to go, then I… Continue reading A Call to Arms
The Gray Cardigan fronts are done and sort of blocking! As you can tell from these photos, by “blocking” I mean I soaked them and then squeezed most of the water out of them, and then patted them more or less into shape on my washer and dryer, where they will lay until they are… Continue reading Fronts and Center!
