Warty Bobbles

Techniques

  • EZ’s Phoney Seam

    I find I am working from patterns (rather my own designs) this Fall – it is marvelously expedient (since someone else has worked out all the bugs!) and a good learning experience as I work through another knitter’s process.  … Continue reading

  • A Time To Let An Error Stand

    A couple of days ago, I found an error in the “cable” section of my Cape Christmas project.  The mistake was about 20 rows down and consisted of a traveling (crossed) stitch done on the wrong row. It looked like… Continue reading

  • Some Thoughts On Swatching

    I have been doing a lot of swatching lately – for Cape Christmas and the One-Needle Q’mitl (which will get a less Seussical name when we get around to thinking sensibly).  And I have a few thoughts I would like… Continue reading

  • “Clever Girl!”

    I think knitting attracts clever people (Think of all the yarn shops with clever names – nice teeth-gritting puns like “Commuknity” and “Ewe’ll Love It” and “Sutter’s Gold ‘N Fleece”) because there are so many clever methods in knitting.  Last… Continue reading

  • Dramatic Episode

    The likelihood of my knitting memoirs being made into a major motion picture (at least of the Steven Spielberg variety) is pretty small.  Not for lack of plot twists or an engaging cast or characters, but because the most dramatic… Continue reading

  • The Knit Stitch Is An Elegant Thing!

    Teaching our knitting class has made me really think about the whole knitting process, the knit and purl stitches, the knitted fabric.  I think it was the “right side and wrong side” discussions that led me to the existential-esque questions… Continue reading

  • A Versatile Border Technique

    I have a weakness for complicated knitting.  I find stitch patterns exciting and I love combining different yarns in the same piece – happily working several panels of lace, cables, textures all at once with 2, 3, 4 balls of… Continue reading

  • Bead Minion Needed

    I need a Bead Minion.  It would be kind of like the Yarn Ball Minion I would like to have sitting at my feet untangling the yarn when I knit with multiple balls, except the Bead Minion would slide beads… Continue reading

  • A Design Elephant

    I am still not doing much knitting – a few rows here and there.  I did sit down to knit after I came home from Bible Study on Tuesday.  Due to unpredictable and random events, there was no one in… Continue reading

  • Lace: Hole-istic Knitting

    Okay, that was a terrible pun. For some reason knitters seem unable to resist puns (books, shop names, yarn names, knitting classes). All the purl/pearl bits, the “yarns” (as in “tales”), the infinite use of the word “needle.” Sheep, wool… Continue reading