I have finally delivered on my promise to my husband to make him a sweater during sweater weather for his birthday in June. I knitted it on my KH965i, a standard gauge Brother electronic machine using preprogrammed patterns originally intended as knit-purl garter carriage patterns, but I set them up for fairisle knitting. The yarn … More June in November
As I write this, it’s October. I have a number of family members who I consider knit-worthy, whose birthdays were back in June. Although time is real, it’s also a construct, so unless I personally gave birth to these knit-worthy people, if I don’t have a knitted item for them on the date that coincides … More June Birthdays
I spent most of the January 2025 Swatchathon experimenting with the capabilities of the LK150 knitting machine, now that I have one in both of the places where I knit with machines, at home and at my daughter’s house in Wisconsin. Unlike the machine I learned the basics on, the Brother KH965i electronic machine that … More Cats and Mice and a Red Beetle
I dedicated most of my annual January Swatchathon this year to exploring machine knitting techniques illustrated by the British textile designer Alison Dupernex, especially her use of color in circular tuck stitch shapes. I have owned her book Machine Knitting: Designing with Colour for some years, but it took some years for me to get … More Channeling Alison Dupernex
It was a beautiful sweater, knitted from an extraordinary chart made up of fairly simple components consisting of two different cable sequences, two different faggoting sequences, and two increase-decrease leaf shapes, reshuffling their order all over the length of the garment so that the lines of the designs went every which way. I showed the … More Flourish 1, Flourish 2, and Flourish 2 and a Half
When my daughters’ birthdays came around at the end of November and December, it was an awkward time for me to embark on the elaborate, full-grown sweaters that I usually make them for their birthdays. My abstemious younger daughter said that she didn’t really need a sweater anyway, since I have already made her so … More Calculate, Knit, Recalculate, Frog, Repeat
I spent the winter and spring of 2021 working on machine-knit entrelac projects, beginning with a yoked, entrelac sweater that grew to dress length, and ending with a series of socks, whose project name on Ravelry was “An Exhaustion of Entrelac Socks“, a collective noun that I coined to express how I felt about entrelac … More Lindsay + Lærke
My younger daughter got married at the end of June to a fellow who has many pursuits, among them a detailed interest in meteorology. The two of them have jobs whose work doesn’t end when they leave the office, and they stay up late and wake up early to complete it. They are sleepy people … More Madison Wisconsin USA January-December 2023
My annual January Swatchathon is as close as I get to making New Year’s resolutions, because it’s when I try out different techniques and combinations to see if the idea I’m playing with is something I want to turn into a finished object, and I set a goal for the coming year. This year’s goal … More Taking Liberties With Junko
This spring we undertook a massive decluttering and refurnishing project to return our two spare bedrooms to functionality after having used one of the rooms to store 25 years of junk. The other room was our daughters’ childhood bedroom, still full of their stuff a decade and a half after the younger one flew the … More Siobhan Has Seen Things. She Doesn’t Want To Talk About It
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