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Early April Knitting Update
Apr. 8th, 2024 10:26 amHey, Tank here.
I'm going to do a table of contents and some cuts because this is probably going to be a long one. I'm fronting but some of these talking points are Bow's; I'll do my best to be fair to his points/ideas/so on.
1. Scheduling, format changes, thoughts on videos.
2. Thoughts on different kinds of projects re: mental health needs.
3. An actual knitting update.
1. Schedules and possible format changes
( Read more... )( Read more... )
2. Thoughts on mental health needs.
( Read more... )
3. The actual update
Here's a picture of the Strata from last time:
[A picture of a blue v-neck vest top]
I also finished the Hands Cardigan:
[Tank, who is identical to Bow except he isn't making a facial expression, is wearing a green cardigan with a white hands motif; the fingers travel around the edge of the cardigan.]
I did finish it in time for the food festival, but it was tight because I ended up having to lengthen the sleeves - that I then didn't Really have to lengthen because they grew in blocking. The fit of it is not great; there's a lot of extra fabric in the back and under the arms. I suspect that I could have just followed the raglan increases as written, rather than trying to increase to the number of stitches given in pattern [although I also now know a better technique for that]. It's fun to wear and I like it a lot despite its flaws.
I didn't end up casting on the Souffle when the Hands was done. Instead I cast on a Rebecca Clow Tolsta Tee, partly because I wanted to be able to post about it a lot on instagram and through that maybe get on her Tolsta camisole test, which I really want to do. Partly I want to have the experience of testing, but mainly I want the camisole. I don't wear them much but have felt the need for one recently and I have a lovely pink silk that I think would be great. However, after fighting with the Tolsta for two days (I kept twisting the cast on) Rebecca announced that she's releasing a bust shaping update, which I'm interested in, so the Tolsta is on hold until the update.
To tide me over, I cast on my Dad's socks:
[The start of a dark grey sock, with light grey stripes and the upper third of a rhino]
But these ended up more complex than expected because I did the colourwork too tight and I'm now not sure of my technique. It was pulled back after this picture and I started again.
Book and I recieved from my Mum this week a metric fucktonne of mainly cotton yarn, the colours of which inspired a cardigan design involving stripes and nupps/bobbles; I sampled that this month as well:
[A striped swatch in pink, red, green and peach, with a pattern of bobbles all over it]
It's going to go slow because there's a lot of work involved, but it's begun, which is nice. I'm going to go with wider stripes for the actual design.
My mum's stash of yarn also involved some yarn that I decided to use to make Dad's sweater, which is a different colour combination than I expected but will look good I think. The darker is going to be the main colour and the lighter the contrast. The lighter will also be held with a fluffy alpaca yarn to give a fuzzy airiness to the colourwork.
[A ball of light grey Drops Alpaca with a ball of dark grey-brown Drops Karisma]
I'm going to do a table of contents and some cuts because this is probably going to be a long one. I'm fronting but some of these talking points are Bow's; I'll do my best to be fair to his points/ideas/so on.
1. Scheduling, format changes, thoughts on videos.
2. Thoughts on different kinds of projects re: mental health needs.
3. An actual knitting update.
1. Schedules and possible format changes
( Read more... )( Read more... )
2. Thoughts on mental health needs.
( Read more... )
3. The actual update
Here's a picture of the Strata from last time:
[A picture of a blue v-neck vest top]
I also finished the Hands Cardigan:
[Tank, who is identical to Bow except he isn't making a facial expression, is wearing a green cardigan with a white hands motif; the fingers travel around the edge of the cardigan.]
I did finish it in time for the food festival, but it was tight because I ended up having to lengthen the sleeves - that I then didn't Really have to lengthen because they grew in blocking. The fit of it is not great; there's a lot of extra fabric in the back and under the arms. I suspect that I could have just followed the raglan increases as written, rather than trying to increase to the number of stitches given in pattern [although I also now know a better technique for that]. It's fun to wear and I like it a lot despite its flaws.
I didn't end up casting on the Souffle when the Hands was done. Instead I cast on a Rebecca Clow Tolsta Tee, partly because I wanted to be able to post about it a lot on instagram and through that maybe get on her Tolsta camisole test, which I really want to do. Partly I want to have the experience of testing, but mainly I want the camisole. I don't wear them much but have felt the need for one recently and I have a lovely pink silk that I think would be great. However, after fighting with the Tolsta for two days (I kept twisting the cast on) Rebecca announced that she's releasing a bust shaping update, which I'm interested in, so the Tolsta is on hold until the update.
To tide me over, I cast on my Dad's socks:
[The start of a dark grey sock, with light grey stripes and the upper third of a rhino]
But these ended up more complex than expected because I did the colourwork too tight and I'm now not sure of my technique. It was pulled back after this picture and I started again.
Book and I recieved from my Mum this week a metric fucktonne of mainly cotton yarn, the colours of which inspired a cardigan design involving stripes and nupps/bobbles; I sampled that this month as well:
[A striped swatch in pink, red, green and peach, with a pattern of bobbles all over it]
It's going to go slow because there's a lot of work involved, but it's begun, which is nice. I'm going to go with wider stripes for the actual design.
My mum's stash of yarn also involved some yarn that I decided to use to make Dad's sweater, which is a different colour combination than I expected but will look good I think. The darker is going to be the main colour and the lighter the contrast. The lighter will also be held with a fluffy alpaca yarn to give a fuzzy airiness to the colourwork.
[A ball of light grey Drops Alpaca with a ball of dark grey-brown Drops Karisma]
