Category: Knitting
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Knitted slippers
My current integration project at work is not going well, and it’s not particularly code-related. The vendor (who shall remain nameless) is not being helpful! So I needed an easy win tonight, and that is not drawing. Instead, I went for knitting. Clarkie’s bought me a kit from Joe’s Toes for my birthday, and it’s…
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Knitting Notions
I didn’t get back to painting today. I was trying to finish a jumper I’ve been knitting. So instead I drew my knitting notions. Looks like I’ve misplaced a needle, most of my stitch markers are in use, and I need to restock my waste yarn!
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Meet-up sock knitting
A quick sketch of the socks I’ve been knitting during this meet-up. I got the stripes wrong, but I’ll know which ones they are. I don’t think I’ve got quite enough knitted texture on this, but I’m not quite sure where that balance point is. Maybe I’ll try some more when I get home.
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Knitting
Thought I’d try drawing my other hobby. I get strong vertical vibes off my knitting, but it looked a bit pin stripe. Not sure I got the texture quite right. It would take nearly as long to draw it all as to knit it though, so I guess this will have to do for now.
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All in the toes
More specifically the toes of socks that I have knitted. We had an ice-breaker question at work about something we have over-engineered or made more difficult for ourselves, and while I do tend to overthink and research a lot of things that I do it was this that came to mind. I’ve been wearing barefoot…
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Aeons (but finished!)
I have a confession to make today about exactly how long a certain project has taken me to finish. But first, in a follow up from my last post about heating options, this week I bought an 220W underdesk heater from Herschel. It’s an infrared panel heater, which at 220W is significantly lower powered than…
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Warm and done
I finished another project: the red v-neck is now sewn up, washed and blocked. This was not a straightforward pattern. It has a slightly interesting saddle shoulder construction and wasn’t brilliantly written. I was rereading chunks several times and still got them wrong, resulting in so much swearing that at one point Clarkie took it…
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Progress report
Having gone through and listed my ‘in progress‘ projects, I thought I’d have a bit of an update on where they got to after I had a week off! Not that I spent the whole week on them, obviously. We had a lovely trip into Oxford on Monday and went to the Museum of Natural…
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In Progress
It’s my birthday, and since we were supposed to be in Florida I’ve taken the next week off. Given that Clarkie wanted to play golf today and I had my flu jab yesterday, we’ve postponed exciting birthday trips until tomorrow – honestly, it seemed like things would be less busy too, so no harm done.…
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CBJ20
So, whoops, yeah, another year went. And boy hasn’t 2020 been a doozy of a year?! I swear it was February both a blink ago and simultaneously a lifetime ago. Way back when in a previous life (probably around last November, but yeah), Clarkie spotted a jumper she wanted in the men’s section of Joe…
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In the kingdom of the blind
Whoops, bit of a lull again. Things are afoot, but I need to keep them under my hat for a little while longer, so instead I just look a bit rubbish. Such is life. First things first, I did finish Clarkie’s top. Just rather later than the Monday. Somehow when the deadline was already past…
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Defeated
I think this is it. I think I’m finally admitting that I will not get this finished by tomorrow. I am just 32 rows off starting the v. That doesn’t sound like an awful lot, but I’m only getting through around 4 rows in 30 minutes, what with untangling and whatnot. So that’s still 4…