• Learning,  Personal Knitting,  Process

    My Magnum Opus and what I’m learning

    This sweater is a challenge, both technically, and for the persistence it will take to finish it. It is, for now, my magnum opus. I am making progress, and I am figuring things out–I think. There is puckering in the lower color section. That section uses a stranded background with intarsia color blocks. My challenge has been to figure out how to prevent the puckering as a color doubles back on itself. Typical intarsia has you wrapping the two adjacent colors as they head off in their separate directions, thus holding them in place. If the background color is stranded, that doesn’t work. The lower arrow shows where the pucker happens,…

  • Personal Knitting,  Process

    A knitting challenge–Accepted!

    A friend suggested/challenged us to do a project this year that would challenge us. I’ve had the yarn collected for an amazing Rowan for a while, but, well, was waiting for the conditions to be perfect to start. You know, lose 20 lbs, finish absolutely everything else first, that sort of perfections. The kind that will really never happen. So, I have begun. I am doing Maple from Rowan #50. There will be challenges. Intarsia and stranded, 1 million loose ends, and tiny needles.   Wish me luck!