Aaaaaargh!

It must be scream like a f*ing pirate day, because I just realized how badly I’ve messed up Haruni part B.  As in, now I need to frog back all 11 rows I’ve done on it. I was so SURE I had downloaded the corrected pattern (but apparently I hadn’t), even sent notes to the [...]

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Multiple WIPs Again!

Well, didn’t win the Knit – A- While Vampire Giveaway.  Ah, well. so it goes, there’s a great KnitCircus giveaway from Sunsetcat On the plus side, I cast on Ann Bud’s “On Your Toes” socks from Interweave knits. Used Judy Becker’s Magic Cast On (which I love, btw).   It’s a nice, simple pattern, perfectly [...]

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I Won One!

I won the beautiful yarn “Moody” from the Knitting Pipeline.  Yay!  Now I’ve got to start thinking about what to knit with it.  It’s a gorgeous blue lace weight yarn, so something tardisy…  very likely the “Tilting Tardis” cowl.. Found the next one, fat quarters or handspun yarn from Love My Fiber. Got started on [...]

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Really Kinda Sucks

Well, as I was nearing the end of the last round of lace repeats in part A of Haruni, I realized that there was a BIG problem.  The first ‘stem’ was really, tragically, misshapen.  I finally realized that there was no way to delicately work back on this one, there was nothing for it but [...]

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Well, I knit the first 21 rows of Haruni, then frogged back and knit again.    As you can see from the picture, the work in progress has symmetry, which the first go round rather lacked.  I am using lifelines this time around. Got an e-mail this week from Sean McKeel of  KnitNotWar 1,0o0.  This is [...]

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AArck!

I’ve just frogged a hat I’m making for the second time. This time, after three rounds, I realized that I was knitting a Moebius.  I’ll never know why it took me three rounds to recognize it. Very frustrating.

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