improving to be toe-up. toe is upside down, using kfb as the increases. Added a few extra stitches to the bottom of the foot to account for the slightly lighter yarn.
heel will be garter short row (see http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/garter-toes)
| Began | January 19, 2012 |
| Finished | March 17, 2012 |
100% | |
| Edited | March 18, 2012 |
| Pattern URL | Quickie Socks by 136909 |
| Made for | me |
| Size made | down a needle size, increased in sole |
short sleeve, cuffs and button band using the dyed yarn. rest will be handspun, alternating skeins.
royal purple + regency era style. lace waistband: Stitchinary Volume 1, p163 # 243. Took the top of Emmaline and did a little less increase on the bodice than the arms to get a snugger fit. Then added the lace waistband in the back and front right under my bust. Then a lot of increasing…
i loved knitting with this hand spun but it ended up being too curled up instead of lying flat. ripped to make the shawl shrug.
Learning to double-knit. Used two strands of different multi-colors. Cast on with two strands held together and then started double-knitting. Bound off with two strands on the wrong side to have the same effect on the border. Improved decreases by rearranging stitches as in cable-needle-free cables. Added eyelet row similarly – the ribbon is threaded…
using remaining yarn from my Spirited Clouds Cardi and beads from my #convokal nuvem and creating something to wear around my neck. 2 grams left, FO is 32g, so beads used were 9g.
I did a mix of colors for this rather than a solid – For cast on and bind off, I held 3 strands of red. For most of the potholder, 3 strands of white. Towards the middle, it’s 2 white, 1 red. And the very middle stripe is 2 red, 1 white. This was mainly…
