Month: January 2020

Yarn, Knitting and Crochet

Finished!

Iris Rose

I started this cardigan last year (I think) and hated the neck edging that I had made. The sweater is machine knit, sideways on an LK150 hobby machine.

I knit it with Hobbii’s Twister which is a colour changing yarn. Twister is sold as a gradient but the colour changes are a bit abrupt resulting in stripes. I used a sideways method (one cake for each front and back) so that the stripes run up and down instead of across which is so unflattering to my body type. Rant here: Take note all of you buyers for plus size women; we want to be flattered not stuffed into a larger version of a garment that looks good on a size two. Don’t get me started on fit! Just because we need a garment wider doesn’t mean that we need it proportionately longer with a huge neckline and shoulders hanging down to our elbows. Maybe spend a few moments looking at real people.  Rant over and moving on.

Anyway, back to my cardi, I put this naughty sweater in time out on a shelf under my sewing table and, every once in a while, remembered it was there, took it out, got mad at it again because of the neck edge and stuffed it back.  Finally last month, I ripped off the neck edge and I do mean ripped, leaving a ragged and not very nice edge to deal with. No loose stitches but not pretty so back into time out it went.

I decided to hand knit ribbing and attach it in the same way as cut and sew on the machine. The overlapping stocking stitch edge covered the ragged bits nicely and I finally am happy with it. It is big and boxy and very soft; a perfect it’s cold in here cover up.  Yay!!!

Thanks for looking and please, have a happy week with lots of yarny goodness coming your way!

 

Knitting

Moving Forward

Iris Rose

It has been more than a month since I posted. I think that this is the longest break from writing that I have taken in the five years that I have been blogging.

I really had to just step back from everything that I have made a commitment to and take a long look at life. I have had a few too many things to cope with since the fall and putting creative arts on the back burner for a while has given me a new perspective on what I want to achieve going forward. I seem to have found the resolve to stop procrastinating and shooting myself in the foot at the same time.

I have started and not finished pattern after pattern. I have ordered and stashed numerous hanks of yarn to dye, all of which are still their natural colour, and started one project after another without completing any. Quite a mess, eh?

I feel like I have reached the point where I can step back into the action and get going. I wound twenty-three hanks of sock yarn into cakes last night and am servicing my new to me bulky machine to knit blanks to dye some gradients. I do love a good gradient, don’t you? I feel excited and ready to move finally forward to accomplishing something.

I hope to, no I will, have something new to show you next week but until then, thank you for reading my blog. Remember to be kind and look out for one another.