2007-10-31

 

boring ol' socks,
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The socks, they are finished. And it is good. Socktober 2007 is over!

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2007-10-29

 

Not quite dead to me... Ah, Morgan Webb. How I have crushed on you for years. And now, you have broken my crush with the blatant misinformation about SL in your recent Morgan Minute. How can I look past this complete and utter disregard for, uh, research? I'm saddened by this greatly. Your data is just so... wrong.

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2007-10-26

 

Two new yarn acquisitions this week. First, a lovely lovely robin-egg blue skein of silk - a gift from Cyn carried over from the UK. The other I can't show. I can't describe or name. It's the most recent Rockin' Sock Club delivery... and I am in love. In LOVE. I love it so much. Must... Have... Another... Skein!
I'll get the silk into Ravelry this weekend.

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2007-10-24

 

Determined. I'm determined to finish ONE pair of socks for Socktober. Just one pair. Will I make it?

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2007-10-23

 

armwarmers-progress.jpg,
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Languishing armwarmers. They're just lovely, and they're languishing. Will I actually finish them this fall?

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Ah, Portal. Lovely, lovely Portal. Now get that fucking song out of my head OMG I can't stand it anymore!!!!
Excellent review at The Escapist, though. Check it out.

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2007-10-18

 

I love my final iPhone cozy. Fingering weight or leftover sock yarn is perfect for this pattern. I used US size 1 DPNs and a size 5 needle for casting off.

1. Using the two-needle cast-on I described here, cast on 18 stitches on each needle for 36 total cast-on stitches.
2. Work in the round until the piece is 5" long. It will look too narrow, but I found in prototyping that negative ease is a GOOD thing in an iPhone cozy. My prototypes were just too loose.
3. Switch to 1x1 rib (k1p1) for 1/2". Cast off LOOSELY in rib. This is easier using the larger needle for the cast off.
4. For the pocket, pick up 18 stitches at the cast-on end. Work in stockinette, slipping the first stitch on every row. Work until the pocket is approximately 4" long, then switch to 1x1 rib (k1p1) for 1/2". Cast off LOOSELY in rib.
5. Starting from the pick-up end, slip stitch the sides of the pockets to the body of the cozy.
6. For the icord handle, pick up three stitches on the side of the cozy near the top of the pocket. Work as icord until the cord is approximately 4" long. At this point, you can cast off and sew the end of the cord down at the icord pick-up... OR you can do what I do. Pick up one stitch near the icord pick-up, slip to left needle, k2tog. Pick up another stitch near the icord pick-up, slip to left needle, k2tog. Now you have 3 stitches on your needle, but both ends of the icord are anchored. k2tog 2 more times - one stitch left. Break yarn and pull through.
7. Weave in ends. Insert iPhone. Gloat. :-)

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2007-10-14

 

Toe-up sock two-needle cast-on tutorial. I always do my toe-up socks with the same tried-and-true cast-on, which I adapted from a doubleknit cast-on from Principles of Knitting. Over the years, I've showed a few people how to do this at the Mel-O-Dee, but it's fiddly. It's hard to show. Been meaning to document it for awhile. You need to understand a traditional long-tail cast-on to use this method.

1. First, wrap the yarn around a DPN or circular needle as shown, or make a slipknot if you must.
2. Place another DPN or circular needle beside the first one, between the tail and leading yarn, with the tail facing you.
3. Begin a traditional long-tail cast-on putting BOTH needles through the thumb (tail yarn) loop. (Sorry about the crappy pictures here.)
4. Using only the farther needle (the one that has the initial loop/slipknot, and also the needle that has the loop leading to the yarn ball), pick up the loop on your forefinger as you would for a long-tail cast-on. (Yeah, another crappy picture.)
5. Using just only the closer needle (the one that leads to the tail yarn), pick up the yarn loop from your thumb.
6. Gently snug up the stitches.
7. When you have cast on sufficient stitches, begin knitting by working the stitches on the needle that came from the ball (not the tail) first. This makes for a neater look than starting with the tail stitches.
8. The last stitch will be fiddly. Be careful to knit into the stitch from left-to-right, front-to-back just like a normal non-fiddly knit stitch, and you won't get a hole.

There's a little movie of the cast-on HERE, as well.

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oh! I like the looks of that. I find the video to be extra helpfull too..

# posted by abmatic : 10/14/2007 6:50 PM

 

I don't know why but in the movie, it looks like you're leaning Stevie's chest

# posted by Debbie : 10/15/2007 3:24 PM

 

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Sock yarn and cobra basket down. Just, uh, all the rest left. Pulling out all my yarn to document it makes me want to make a pile of it in the middle of the floor and just roll around in it. But I won't.

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2007-10-11

 

20ish projects in Ravelry so far. Just old stuff, and I don't have everything documented. And that doesn't even TOUCH my stash. The stash will be a multiweek project!

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2007-10-10

 

I can already tell. I'm going to lose the rest of the evening on Ravelry, Flickr (moving projects from the blog to Flickr), and LibraryThing.

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2007-10-04

 

Short catch-up. I'm back. The Big Fat Hater is back. We're happy to be back. I destroyed our shredder and bought a new one that is huge and hungry and I think might be a menace to our cats. I have made my best iPhone cozy EVAR. It has a pocket. It's pink. I've been updating FB and Twitter much more than here, but that's to be expected. Maybe I'll even put up a photo of the cozy at some point soonish.
Maybe I'll even make it to knitting next week. That would be nice.

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Hooray! We miss you

# posted by karrie : 10/05/2007 11:07 AM

 

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