nerd knits

Pattern: Decimal, by Snowden Becker.
Size Made: 1X (49” bust)
Yarn: Mas Acero, by Brooks Farm Yarn (55% superwash wool, 30% silk, 15% viscose, 9-ply light worsted weight)
Needles: US 4, 47” Addi Turbos

Opinions:  This is a lovely pattern, but probably not a good first sweater for a beginner.  It’s not hard, per se, but there’s no hand [...]

Since I’m feeling a little scattered today, I’ll take a cue from Chris.
•  I was hoping to have modeled shots of Decimal today, but she’s taking an uncharacteristically long time to dry.  The good news is that I did indeed get her seamed up, and in plenty of time to be able to wear her [...]

Finishing the body of a sweater with raglan shaping is like running downhill;

the further you get, the faster you go, and the harder it it to stop.

It is soooo past my bedtime.

So it begins.

Decimal is now officially a non-mobile project – I can’t exactly stuff it into a purse any more, even with a purse as big as mine.
I figured this part would be horrendously slow, and it is, but it isn’t.  I mean, yeah, sure, it’s nearly four hundred stitches a round, but there’s so [...]

This weekend, my husband drew a dragon:

my nephew turned two:

and I snuck in as much knitting as I could manage:

First sleeve finished, second sleeve going surprisingly fast for being a second sleeve.  A little bit furter and I get to add all this together and start the exciting but herculean task of getting through the [...]

…you have a weekend chock full of fun things that you really want to do…

…but part of you just wants to stay home and knit on your sweater all weekend.
Have a good one, whatever you end up doing.

I had some concerns.
I am very good at ignoring concerns, at pretending that everything is hunky-dory, and stumbling blindly forward until the world comes crashing down around me.  It’s a problem, and I’m working on it.
I kept looking at Decimal, spreading it out, folding it up, and the whole time thinking to myself “this is [...]

I mentioned to Bradon today that it is my intention to have Decimal finished and ready to take with me to Sock Summit in two weeks.  He gave me that look he reserves for when my crazy is showing, and I have to admit that it took me by surprise.  Is it really so unbelievable [...]

Another coffee-table glamor shot.

I am in the knitting no-man’s-land, the black hole that sucks up stitches without spitting out length.  I am lucky, I suppose, that this section is measured in rows rather than inches – even if it doesn’t seem to get any longer, the rows still add up – but it’s still a [...]

I think the Knitting Goddess granted me the awesome week of finishing things to give me the strength and courage to push my way through a cardigan knit in one piece on size US 4 needles, ’cause…damn.  I know, deep down, that I will be grateful at the lack of seaming when I get to [...]