I've finished the sleeves on my Farmer's Market Cardigan . (Hooray!) That means I'm ready to sew them into the body of the cardigan, a job that some knitters detest. C'mon, admit it–how many of you knit only top-down raglans so you won't have to sew in a sleeve? And how many...
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I joined both the Knitting Olympics and the Ravelympics this year. I set my Olympic goals: To finish the Farmer's Market Cardigan . To knit a sock. To spin some luscious fibre. I made a schedule. I organized each knitting project in a pretty box. At the opening ceremonies, I jumped in with both needles...
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I'll admit: I truly love seaming my sweaters. (Does this make me a freak?) I actually enjoy the finishing steps of a big knitting project. I've been happily sewing up the pockets on my Farmer's Market Cardigan , and am looking forward to seaming the sleeves when I finally finish them. And...
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on Feb 25, 2010
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Note from Sandi: I'm sick with the stomach flu, and although I tried and tried to write a coherent blog entry for you about the wonderful pockets of the Farmer's Market Cardigan I'm knitting, unfortunately, coherency eludeth me at the present time. I do have a backup post in my bag of tricks...
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I keep thinking I'm going to get bored with the Farmer's Market Cardigan , but every time I sit down to work on it, I enter some sort of strange space/time warp. You know the one I mean, the one where there's only you, the needles, and the yarn, all happy in a little space/time continuum...
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Are you ready for the next installment in my adventures knitting the Farmer's Market Cardigan ? Sure you are! Last week, I was so high on the whole cutting-my-knitting-experience that I blithely typed the following bit of knitterly hand-waving: Remember, the steek panel itself will become a facing–I...
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I did it. I cut my knitting, and the sweater survived, and no one fainted, and in the end, it wasn't as big a deal as I thought it would be. (Two cups of coffee, max. No chocolate required, not even afterwards. No alcohol required. Strictly PG-13.) I recommend Eunny Jang's article "Steeks–Cutting...
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on Jan 28, 2010
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As I write this, a 6.1 aftershock has just hit Haiti. In light of the suffering of Haiti's people, to some it may seem trite to be discussing knitting, especially knitting we are doing for ourselves and not for a charity of one flavour or another. I stand with Elizabeth Zimmermann on this one: "Knit...
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on Jan 21, 2010
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The story so far: Waist decreases from hem to waist have been successfully navigated in my Farmer's Market Cardi . This week, I managed to make it halfway up the armholes! Here is where things start to get (more) interesting. Neck decreases, bust increases, split to work back and fronts separately...
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on Jan 13, 2010
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Yes, that's a llama. Her name is High Hope, and she likes humans. (I think she thinks we're funny looking.) She and her sisters kindly appear on my blog this week in order to amuse and distract you from the fact that no actual sweater was photographed in the creation of this blog. My camera battery...
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on Jan 7, 2010
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