collaboration · knitting · photo posts

Just barely squeaking by with a November post!

I’ve got a lot of projects at the almost-finished stage, which is deeply distressing in a lot of ways! Also just renewed my cheapish WordPress subscription, so am experiencing low-level angst about how terrible the blog and site look and how infrequently I really use them.

MEANWHILE:

November saw two completed design projects: Liner Notes 3 and Twine Cowl. I like the latter a lot better, since the first is pretty simple and it doesn’t really feel as interesting as the other patterns in the same series.

collaboration · knitting · photo posts

a kit option, new things.

Beach Bunny Yarns now offers a kit for Morpho! This is pretty exciting: I’m not super strong with variegated yarns, and the samples are gorgeous in a way that almost baffles me. The dyeways and the design work remarkably well with each other.

MEANWHILE, on the personal knitting/design front, I am having the entertaining experience of really really liking my current work, and kind of hating the fact that I do. The finished product is better than I’d hoped for—but that means I don’t get to go back to rip it back and redesign it, and in fact the part that I found kind of stressful and tedious makes the design. It’s very possible that I found it stressful and tedious only because I had worked that part three times before I liked it and I was behind schedule because of it—it doesn’t seem as unpleasant now, on the second sample—but objective facts: it’s going to involve a moderate to long section of uninterrupted garter stitch. A moderate to long section of garter stitch is not everyone’s cup of tea.

I can’t show the finished design yet! So. This is Malabrigo Yarn Sock in the darkest version of Indiecita I’ve ever seen.