I finally finished seaming and weaving in lots of ends yesterday while watching Kill Bill.
Ta-dah!
Here’s Daisy (along with some of what I learned while making her).
Yikes!
Do you see the problem?
Seems I made the pattern backwards!
See Note No. 1 for more info on this mirror-image boo-boo.
Pattern: […]
Here’s a sample of what Daisy is going to look like after I get her all seamed up tonight
The sun came back to Dijon this weekend!
This means that not much knitting was done during the day.
Instead I took advantage of the nice weather and got out for some hiking in the vineyards.
Nothing major, just enough to make my cardiovascular system happy.
Three hours with a stop for Un Perrier Citron (lemonade a la […]
Even though it’s still only August, it’s been feeling a lot like Fall the past few days.
The weather has been awful.
It’s been raining a lot this week and it’s been chilly.
Normally I would complain about the miserable Burgundy weather but I’m actually enjoying the break from the heat.
The arrival of the Fall issues of magazines […]
I finally made it through knitting from a chart for the first time.
I have to say it wasn’t so bad and once I got the pattern memorized I only kept the diagram around as a way to double-check myself.
Here it is, my finished front piece next to the photo of the Phildar original.
There […]
Thought I’d actually post about knitting today since this is after all, A Knitting Blog.
Here’s the progress report on my Yellow Licorne Tank Top.
I’m currently about to start row 58.
After unrolling the hemline I have about 6.5 inches so far.
Hopefully blocking will help with this rolling issue since it’s turning out to be a little […]
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started and then restarted this project.
Well, yes, actually I can tell you (the front piece, at least, would’ve been finished by now had I kept knitting without ripping out).
After my successful swatch I became obsessed with all that stockinette stitch where instead those drop stitches should have […]
