I'm guessing the consistent decreases on one side and every other for the other side is to have one panel that decreases more quickly than the other. Sometimes I'll see this to have less of an angle for the sleeves. Good luck!
An overly full bobbin of dark teal single spun yarn
A niddy noddy wrapped with dark teal single spun yarn
Skein of dark teal yarn
FINALLY finished spinning this fiber (60% merino, 40% silk), which took me nearly 2 years of inconsistent work. It's almost 1000 yards of single spun lace weight, but I might consider making it a double ply someday. I love love love this color!
I love Road Trip Sock Yarn! They are an amazingly kind person too 💓
Love these ideas! I like kimchi with avocado toast and poached egg. 😋
Grey and white fluffy cat sitting like a human on a blue sofa, sleeping.
Eepy sleepy
Thank you 🥰
One of my fave lace projects I've ever made, about 9 years ago. This is the Echo Flower Shawl, made in Malabrigo lace. Sadly, my old dog decided she loved the taste of the bottom corner, so it's been in time out until I have the brain space to repair it. #showmeyourknits
It looks amazing! I have this in my queue and need to find the right colors. ☺️
Brown brindle dog with white chest and neck lying on his left side with his front paws held up T-rex style, back to back next to a Grey and white fluffy cat lying on his right side with his paws also in front
I love finding them like this
Congratulations!! You've got this!
Yeah I'm about an hour away too 😢 but I'm glad they're there!
I totally sent this to a group of friends (thank you!), and one shared this but said they have a crazy waitlist
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Furthering the feud with the Mathemagician.
Quote by Howard Zinn, historian and WWII Vet: “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many— where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending his spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. —Howard Zinn
Some people undermine hopeful thoughts/ideas as though they are more worried about being right while in a bad situation, than daring to allow a hope-that could be dashed or come to fruition-into their heart and mind.
Hope leads to action.
Despair leads to giving up.
Be hopeful, my friends!
Grey and white fluffy cat showing on his back with his front legs stretched and his back legs flexed.
Grey and white fluffy cat peacefully asleep on his back with front legs sticking up slightly
I try to huff the belly fur daily.
Wow, that's massively not cool. I'm so sorry.
It was honestly terrifying, like getting stuck in a zippered garment and no one around to unzip you! Only funny once you're released 😅
Yeah, I probably shouldn't have been knitting with that yarn for a first sweater hahaha. My next sweater i made of mohair. I still have it but rarely wear it because it gets so itchy! Today's mohair is so much better than 20 years ago
Our town has one! Come get some holiday gifts, have lunch downtown, and walk the lake!
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A picture of a woman in a knit sweater and belt from a knitting pattern magazine
Picture of the sweater I was supposed to make
I don't even know how I got it on! It probably would have been super uncomfortable as a binder, sadly. It's fine against my neck as a cowl, but my chest gets itchy if I'm wearing anything low cut. I was so sad at the time that it didn't come out right, but probably better for my skin that it didn't!
Hahaha that'd be some kind of Frankensweater! 😵💫
So, those are my horror stories. Did I learn my lesson? Yes. Do I make swatches now? Rarely. 😅 In general, I've found that most things work & I can generally get the idea of something isn't going to knit up properly. But if I'm making a skirt, you bet I will! (I haven't made one since 🤪) 8/8
The waist was so big that the whole thing could have been a cape/poncho. I had a friend who was hugely 9 months pregnant and she was like, "I can't do a thing with this," while flapping that waist around her pregnant belly. 🤣🤣🤣 I still have that yarn and haven't used it for anything else yet. /8
I'm finished, it's beautiful. It doesn't fit. It DOESN'T fit. Because I was not going to knit tight, so I started purposely knitting loose at the waist. And then got into my natural tension by about the hips. And never noticed for the WHOLE skirt. 😅 6/8
A Pic from a knitting pattern book of a woman wearing a handknit skirt with a petticoat underneath
This is the pic from the book. Gorgeous, right? Starts at the waist and has a bunch of symmetrical increases for this beautiful flare. So I'm not knitting tight at all! I am not caring about gauge and get into the groove of knitting. 5/8
You'd think I'd have learned my lesson from that, right? Well, no. 😅 I just veered into "I'm not going to knit tightly!" Like I could control that..... 🤣🤣🤣
aaaand for my next project, I made a skirt! 4/8
A white woman in glasses is wearing a blue handknit cardigan and camel handknit cowl.
I ended up using the unused good yarn to make a cowl, which is my very favorite to this day (about 18ish years later). It would have made a gorgeous sweater. 😢 3/8
