Making another Bloom, without the lace. I had a loose gauge on my last one that made it perfect for my almost 11 month old, so we’ll see if we get a similar size this time, too.
07-16-2019
Took my knitting to the dentist office and they want me to …
07-01-2019
Accidentally grabbed a 2.5 needle instead of a size 2. Oops. I doubt it’ll matter too much since it’s for the ribbed section.
07-01-2019
Used up one full ball of Felici so far, on the last few rows of the first dress lace set (haven’t …
This is my “swatch” for a larger sweater out of Chroma fingering. We’ll also see how bad it pills.
Bound off in JSSBO
Using german short rows, and the jogless stripe method described here.
11-02-2018
First leg finished after 50 leg rows. Decreased every 5 rows. (K2TOG before BOR marker, slip BOR marker, k1, SSK) Cuff: k2, p2 Bound off using JSSBO
Using german short rows in place of the short rows written in pattern
Leg: (49 rows after gusset) decreased every 5 rows (k2tog, k1 before BOR marker, ssk after)
Cuff: (26 rows after leg) k2, p2 around
09-21-2018
Going down in needle size. On my other WotA soakers, I get 4.25 stitches per inch on size 7 needles. I’m going to see what I get with size 6. (Either I became a tighter knitter or this relaxes after washing because I’m all the way to 21 s…
Using the short rows described in the comments of a Flax hacks blog post to adjust the neckline:
To do short row shaping for the Flax it goes like this:
Back Neck shaping comes after the set up round but before the increase round.
(Note: I did th…
Using the short rows described in the comments of a Flax hacks blog post to adjust the neckline:
To do short row shaping for the Flax it goes like this:
Back Neck shaping comes after the set up round but before the increase round.
(Note: I did th…
I was getting 10.5 stitches per 4” instead of the 8.5 stitches per 4” gauge in pattern. Switching to size 15 needles (hopefully they work – I have to pick up new needles otherwise)
11-13-2018
Got fairly close to pattern gauge (8.5sts/13rows per 4”)…
Using a baby sweater for Sami as a swatch for the larger sweaters I’m knitting for the rest of us.
Bind off used: JSSBO
11-18-2018
Since I’m using this project as a swatch for a larger Flax: it’s 16.5 stitches and 22 rows in 4 inches before washin…