It’s coming: 3rd Annual Fediverse Finish-or-Frog-Along kicks off in Sept. Let's support each other as we complete (or kill) any crafting/making projects we want to get done!
Week 1: About My WIPs
Week 2: Killing Projects
Week 3: Barriers
Week 4: Finished Objects & New Projects
Follow #FinishOrFrogAlong (FKA #FallFinishAlong - use new tag instead plz)
Thanks to everyone who already expressed interest!
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I think... I think I might weave in ends on #ZabetShawl1 today, if I can get some other things done first. 🤔 I'm saying this here so that maybe some accountability will help me get it started at the very least!
What are we into now, Year 3? lol
(Also, yes, I realize the irony of not doing it during #FallFinishAlong, but brain is gonna brain whether I like it or not!)
The original version of this pattern has the motif only done up on the front of the sock, but never one to follow directions, I decided to mix things up a bit and rework things a little. To wrap the pattern around the leg, I added a pair of 2x2 cables along each side and then repeated the motif on front and back. To create some visual continuity, I also ran one of the cables on each side along the foot and the gusset as a border between the motif on the top and the heel stitch on the bottom. Then I finished with a twisted stitch rib as I like the way it stands out. But the real fun was in switching away from dpns for this piece. I began by experimenting with magic loop during the gauge swatch and reaffirmed that, yes, I don’t like it. At all. At the suggestion of a helpful knitter on Mastodon, I then tried knitting in the round on two circulars and immediately fell in love! From now on I’m definitely forgoing the dpns and working on two circs when knitting up socks.
These socks were a bit of an adventure. What with the career break and all, I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend money on a pattern, so instead I decided to visually copy the basic motif in this design and then work it up into my typical socks, including a slip stitch sole and a flap heel. This required a fair bit of on-the-fly design work on my part, with things first going wrong in the stripes on the gusset, which required at least two rework attempts before I got them right (first I got the colour alternation wrong, and then I realized I wanted a navy line separating the motif from the gusset). Once the heel flap was complete I then had to work back into the round on the leg, and in my first attempt, I had way too much of a solid navy border between the heel and the motif, which I had to rip out and rework. The final challenge was in the leg motif itself. Having not designed any colourwork in the round, I pictured the repeats as tiling side-by-side rather than spiralling up. That is, it didn’t occur to me that row 1 ends where row 2 starts, row 2 ends where row 3 starts, and so forth. As a result, the motif as I’d designed it simply didn’t work. So of course I had to then rip that out and redesign it to make it work in the round. Meanwhile, it had been years since I’d done stranded knitting, so much of the initial knitting involved re-learning how to carry yarn and wrap stitches. Truly it was a journey. But in the end it was definitely worth it!
Solid yarns are perfect for working interesting stitch patterns, so I knew, for this elegant purple yarn with it’s subtle sheen, I’d want something more than a simple rib. Yanagi is a pattern I’ve done before and I knew it would suit this yarn well1. And, anxious of getting the fit right, I also knew I’d have good control of gauge in this familiar mock cable design. ↩
Some of you have expressed that you’re not happy with your progress in #FinishOrFrogAlong. If you think you “aren’t doing #FinishOrFrogAlong right” rest assured there is no wrong way to do it. For you - I’m going to share in the comment thread what I’ve done so far (so much stash building really)
#knitting #FiberArts #Crochet #spinning #CrossStitch #quilting #crafting #making @knitting @fiberarts #FallFinishAlong
Hello #FinishOrFrogAlong friends! It’s week 4 and time to think about Frogging, Ripping, or Otherwise Killing projects! We will try to do some polls this week so stay tuned. Polls are open to anyone!
Do you have any works in progress you can or want to frog/rip/get rid of?
#knitting #spinning #crochet #quilting #CrossStitch #making #crafting #LeatherCraft @knitting @fiberarts #FallFinishAlong
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