Month: July 2005

  • the splits

    When your yarn looks like this: (Yep, that’s all one strand. Four 4-ply strands.) …you often get these. The Madil bamboo is also EXTREMELY SPLITTY. And this one doesn’t recover as well as the Pingouin (for the sapphire tank). Another type of split – a split decision. I don’t know which of the following to […]

  • titles are difficult

    I’ve been working lots on the Sapphire tank – I’m done the back, now it’s onto the front! After doing all this work on Sapphire, which is on 3.5 mm needles, all other needles seem so large. Anyway, I’ve reinforced my belief that I don’t like Addis much – they were good for knitting in […]

  • diligence

    Look, I made a swatch of an idea! It’s a swatch in leftover Cotton Fleece, contemplating neckline options for Sapphire. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it work well easily, and I don’t want to expend much brain power on this project. Maybe for a future project I’ll come back to this. Maybe someone can figure this […]