Slowly slowly
Supervised knitting Slow progress, but in good company. Kelvin likes a good knitting session.It means I am not moving around much.
View ArticleSleeves
I am working on the second sleeve of my sweater and excited about getting close to when I can put all my “tubes” together and start the yoke. This sweater marks many firsts for me: first sweater in the...
View ArticleMath + surgery
I am going crazy doing knitting math and making charts for my sweater in progress. Between some small but important charting mistakes and a major snafu in the knitting of the snowflake pattern in the...
View ArticleCut
I did it. I cut the sweater at the top of the ribbing and I am reknitting the part riddled with mistakes. Then I will cut the section to be removed and graft the new bottom. Kelvin has been...
View ArticleThe Zen of undoing
I thought I could do it all in one day. Not so. Prepping for grafting The prepping alone took a few hours and this afternoon I won’t have time to do the actual grafting as I have a scheduled Italian...
View ArticlePlease, please, dry.
The grafted round from the wrong side It’s done. The sweater that sucked the last six weeks of my life into a void of knitting frenzy has been drying on a rack since last night, first on the right side...
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