Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Jun21
My work life has intruded on my personal life for the time being. I was between spinning projects and am so mentally exhausted when I get home that I haven’t even spun? How’s that? I didn’t have the mental capacity to decide which of the lovely fibers I had in my stash to play with [...]
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Jun03
Amazingly, I also got a question about how to make the triangles. Ann has already written about this. But there are many methods that work sort of OK. Ginger Luters’ book, Module Magic shows methods for knitting equilateral triangles in garter, garter ridge and stockinette stitches. There are also general directions for determining a decrease [...]
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Jun03
As promised, here is a picture of the completed modular sweater. I used the module plan for the ‘Mendocino’ sweater on page 65 of Module Magic with the sleeves from the ‘Nevada City Windows’ sweater from page 21. An eagle eye might notice that I deviated from the plan slightly. (I was knitting in the [...]
Jun03
In answer to questions I received, (OK, one question because the only people who read my entries are people whom I armtwist. “Didja read it yet? Didja read it yet?”) here are a few lessons learned. I generally followed the directions given in the Sew News Threads of Distinction article. I also cruised the web [...]
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Jun03
Ann is not the only one who has problems with top-down sweater sizing. Exhibit A, should have been sized for a baby Iris when she was less than a year old. The panel door gives you an idea of how large this sweater became. It does fit the teddy bear rather nicely, though. Exhibit B, [...]