Ok, I wanted to knit chevron socks. I had that Lorna’s Laces yarn I wanted to do something else with…perfect. So, I cast on and started knitting this: Lovely…but I couldn’t get it over my heel. Even though my gauge was fine! So I begrudgingly tore it all out and cast on with more stitches. [...]
Entries from April 26th, 2007
Poncho – done!
April 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Works in Progress
Ok, here it is – a little late… And the back…this is the bit that makes it marginally less poncho-y: See how it goes straight across the back? It makes it more of a modified shawl than a poncho, I think. Here is a pic of me modelling it with all the bad bits cut [...]
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Blocking…
April 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Works in Progress
The alpaca poncho reached 52″ last night! I very eagerly cast off, and today I started blocking it! Unblocked it was 52″x13″. Blocking now, it’s 54″x 19″. The t-square ruler did come in very handy in this case. Lots of t-pins here…it kept wanting to shrink back. I spritzed it with water, so now I’m [...]
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Sad day…
April 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Update
The evil comment-spamming bots have found my blog. Imagine, if you will, being an author of a small blog. Getting emails that there are comments to moderate is breathtakingly exciting. So imagine how heartbreaking it is to find 56 comments in the course of a weekend that are all spam advertising cheap prescription drugs along [...]
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