the swatching has to stop eventually…
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
The swatching has to stop eventually…
…but then comes weaving in all the ends.
I’ve gotten through the knitting for the new shapes that will be included in the Shawl Geometry Books Update! There are still a handful of supporting swatches to knit, and I’m sure a couple swatches to re-knit, but the majority of the knitting is done!
Huzzah!
Of course there’s the writing, and the blocking, and the photographing, and the editing, and the weaving in of endless ends – but now that can all be interrupted with knitting on my rather neglected sweater project.
And rather than trying to dig my blocking wires out of storage, I made a Michael’s run and picked up some floral wire – which I think will double nicely as short blocking wires, perfect for swatches.
the lime green swatching interlude continues
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
This week has been filled with as much writing and swatching as I could possibly squeeze in, between clients, and teaching, and travel, and Easter things, and puppy snuggles.
This weekend I was up at my parents’ for a combination of Easter festivities, and a dentist’s visit. I spent most of the week, and the train rides that bookended the weekend, typing away at a steady clip.
Then I spent my time this weekend swatching, and swatching, and swatching some more – at least, between eating a ton of food, and seeing a ton of family, and snuggling with the puppy dog. (I even took advantage of the ball winder I have up there – how I ended up with two ball winders, I do not know.)
Between last week’s swatches, and this weekend’s swatches my giant mason jar overfloweth with lime green swatches. And since I have to stop adding shapes to this update at some point – the end of this green swatch knitting interlude is close but not quite here yet.
filling a giant mason jar full of knitted swatches
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
I’ve set my sweater project aside for a couple moments to start working my way through a rather monumental pile of swatching.
If you’ve hung around here for awhile, you many recognize this bright green yarn as the the yarn in the shawl geometry book samples – and you would be correct.
I’m smack dab in the middle of the messy writing & swatching stage of a pretty massive sprucing that I thought up and planned out while wandering around the west coast.
So there are lots of inarticulate words, and ripping swatches flying around here at the moment. (With some true gems and easy knitting popping their heads up at times – just to keep things interesting).
Once I hit publish on this, I’m diving back into my cave made of word and yarn. Though, I woke up this morning with a rather spectacular head-cold, which is making holding more than five words in my brain at a time, (let alone stringing words together) a rather fuzzy task.
