my handspun sweater is done, and my winter coat will soon have pockets
Each Wednesday, I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
I knit the last couple rows and bound off the shawl I was working on, now it’s sitting next to the couch waiting for a good soak & blocking.
I wove in the ends on my handspun sweater.
Which was a surprisingly huge number of ends.
For some brainless knitting, I pulled out the pockets of my winter coat again. Funnily enough, before I pulled them out of the project bag, I thought that I had an inch of knitting left on the first pocket, but it turns out I have an inch to knit on the second pocket. I don’t remember knitting that second pocket at all. Maybe it was elves? Or maybe I have a magic appearing pocket?
So, not a heck of a lot of knitting happened this week, it was mostly finishing things up – and working on secret projects.
(Wondering what happened to that project with 1800 yards of thread, from last week? Well, that project is done, the total thread used ended up somewhere north of 3,000 yards – to give that some perspective, we also bought the fabric shop around the corner out of white thread…)
a snowstorm, some knitting, and 1800 yards of thread
Each Wednesday, I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
First off, the obligatory snowy photo. We got a decent amount of snow (more than ended up on the fire escape) – not nearly as much as other people though.
My snowstorm project of choice was the shawl I’m working on. Which included dropping down and re-knitting part of it when I didn’t follow my own pattern.
And more bead crochet bracelets.
Prior to the blizzard, over the weekend & into Monday, I was sewing a bunch of gigantic pieced together drops for a theater project. The project has already emptied 7 spools of thread (2 not pictured), for a total of 1800 yards of thread – and it’s not finished yet…
knitting, beading & jeans making
Each Wednesday, I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
I finished off the neckline of my entirely handspun & handknit sweater. I had originally done an i-cord bind off, but that was rolling unattractively, so it took it out, and worked 3 rounds of seed stitch on a smaller needle, then bound off, and it looks much better.
I learned to bead crochet at VKLive this weekend and might have gotten a little bit obsessed. VKLive was a blast – thank you so much to those of you who stopped to say hi. I didn’t take many photos, and (following my Rhinebeck trend) didn’t buy much. I bought the beads that you see in the photo, and a gleener, but that’s it.
And I restarted the jeans making experiment. Way back at the very beginning of the self-made wardrobe I experimented a bit with making jeans, enough experimentation to get a mockup that was “ok” but needed some fit adjustments. I put them down to work on sweaters and other cold weather things, and completely forgot what I was going to do to them, so I started again from scratch. Fingers crossed this experiment goes better.
