sweater knitting, and seeing Manus x Machina
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
I’m a little bit obsessed with how quickly my current sweater project is knitting up. Sometimes I forget that knitting a sweater on size 7 (4.5mm) needles is much, much faster than knitting one on a size 4 (3.5mm). Add to that, an easy to remember stitch pattern, some striping, plus shortening the sleeves, and I’m almost ready to split for the front & back.
Apart from knitting away on my sweater project, most of my time this week has been spent in front of the computer.
Luckily a friend is visiting from out of town, and so we took yesterday afternoon to visit the Met’s current costume exhibit – “Manus x Machina” – which is over the top stunning, and explores the relationship between handwork & machine work in creating clothing (both couture & prêt-à-porter). If you have a chance, you should definitely make time to see it.
I also, figured out what direction I want to go in with my no-longer-an-Anna-dress, so I’ll try to carve out some more “making time for making” time, and continue working away on that.
a sewn skirt, finished sweater, hand-drawn graphics, and a Lady Bat
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
In the world of my summer wardrobe infusions – I got the skirt of my no longer going to be an Anna Dress sewn together over the weekend. Still not 100% sure what I want to do for the bodice, but I am loving the skirt so that must be a good sign.
And I finished my well traveled sweater! Finished & posted, because is a finished garment really finished if you don’t have photos of it?
I finished the sweater, took photos of it, and then yesterday, I promptly ripped out the decrease bind off at the neckline to replace it with an i-cord bind off. When I was originally knitting this sweater, I knew it was quite possible I wouldn’t have enough yarn, so when I was altering the neckline the first time, I decided to do a standard decrease bind off (instead of my go-to i-cord bind off) because it consumes less yarn. But ever since I finished the neckline, I’ve been wanting to alter that, so I’m really glad I had enough yarn left to do so.
The Shawl Geometry Update is progressing, I’m laying out + creating graphics for the third book (I’m sure I’m not the only one, but I find it so much easier to sketch technical graphics by hand before creating them on a computer), and editing the photos for the first and second. My hope is that once I get into editing, I’ll be able to put together a more definitive timeline for wrapping this project up.
And because I finished my travel sweater, I cast on for a new project. I’m knitting someone else’s pattern for a change – Lady Bat by Teresa Gregorio. I’m knitting the thing on size US 7 needles, and after a whole sweater on US 4s, am loving how fast it’s knitting up.
a cut skirt, and finished sweater – keeping it short and sweet
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
Keeping this short and sweet this morning.
In my new “figure it out as I go along” version of the Anna Dress – I cut the skirt – and then promptly needed to move on to other things.
I did manage to snag a bit of time to weave in the ends and block my well-traveled lace weight sweater – a travel story and finished objects post to come soon.
The layout for the Shawl Geometry Books Update is happening – rather slower than I would like – but happening all the same. Though ending up sick all weekend probably didn’t help anything.
And that’s the cliff notes.
