I wonder if I could finish knitting two sweaters this week.
Each Wednesday I post little snippets about the projects I’m working on.
You can see all of the Wednesday posts here.
I finished the hood of my Versio sweater! That’s a close up of the three needle bind off. I just need to weave in all the ends, make some cording, and block it before it’s wearable.
My lace shawl knit out of Julie Asselin’s lovely “Merletto” is sailing along with a little help from rewatching Downton Abbey.
It’s definitely fall here. Crisp and cool, and desperately making me want a pair of jeans, and a pile of sweaters.
So, I picked up and started knitting an ancient unfinished sweater (from my pile of many). It got a hood, and an amazing number of ends, added to it this week.
Then I ripped out the bind off at the bottom hem, so I could add ribbing.
I’m adding a 4 x 1 ribbing, by dropping down the stitch that I want to make a purl stitch, and then picking it back up with a crochet hook. It’s not fast, but it’s faster than reknitting half a sweater.
It needs sleeves, a zipper, ends woven in, and a washing before it’s done.
Soon, hopefully. I wonder if I could finish knitting two sweaters this week…
Which mistakes can you live with?
We all make mistakes. (Obviously.)
And fortunately in knitting, (almost) every mistake is fixable.
(Apart from things like lighting your sweater on fire.)
But that doesn’t mean all mistakes need to be fixed.
I’m not advocating sloppiness,
because there’s no need for that.
But pure perfection is boring,
and usually unattainable.
Wafian has a spot where the boarder is garter instead of i-cord
– when I got distracted for a row.
Eirwen has a couple loose stitches near the beginning
– where the magic loop pulled a yarn over too large.
Izar has a couple stripes completely out of order
– where I forgot what I was doing for a bit.
Tumbling Deco was supposed to have a smooth boarder (like Mrs. Peacock)
– but I didn’t have the blocking wires.
When it comes to mistakes in my knitting my thinking is…
: if it’s structural, fix it.
(an incorrect stitch count, an off-center repeat, funky shaping, extra rows)
: if it’s cosmetic, it can stay – or get fixed – usually depending on my mood.
(a misordered stripe sequence, a different blocking method, an incorrect stitch that your eye glosses over)
So, which mistakes can you live with?
sweater weather, rainstorms, and a sassy-tinkerbell-mug
Each Wednesday I post little snippets about the projects I’m working on.
You can see all of the Wednesday posts here.
I cut the waistband & hem band to the skirt I was working on last week, while catching up on podcasts. Then attached them Thursday morning, before wearing it for the rest of the day. You can see the finished skirt in last Friday’s Self-Made Wardrobe update.
The solo lace shawl of my needles is getting worked on, but I need to remember to set myself time to work on it. Otherwise I’d just keep knitting my sweater.
I did end up running out of the black Forest Hills yarn I’m using in my Versio sweater, and had to pick up another ball. But this time I’m remembering to wind it before trying to knit from both ends of the skein.
The beginning of fall mean the return of sweater knitting weather (yay!) and drinking tea from my sassy-Tinkerbell-mug. Although August is throwing us a swelter-y farewell, complete with rainstorms and humidity.
I love the fabric you get when you hold multiple strands of lace weight yarn together. The fabric is soft and supple, but you can use a larger needle than you normally would for lace weight yarns. It’s a technique I call for in the Xylia, Yuki, and Idril, to create interesting stockinette shawl that don’t take an age and a half to knit.
