The Knitting Fiend

Doree and I were discussing our reactions to mismatched tstripes at our regular Thursday knitting meeting.¹ Lo and behold, I soon found some!²

We’ve all seen this. It happens nearly every time a knitter buys her first skein of self-striping sock yarn and knits two socks. The knitter thinks, “What fun! I can just cast on and have neat striped socks!”

She knits her first sock and thinks, “Lovely!”

As she begins to knit her second sock she notices her socks are going to be fraternal twins.

She may consult with a more experienced sock knitter who tells her that to create identical twins, she must cast on both socks at the same spot in the yarn color sequence. But that may not be enough. Sometimes, even if the knitter takes special pains, variations in the dyeing process or the knitter’s own gauge can add up and the socks stripes match near the cast on but end up fraternal as the knitter approaches the bind off. (more…)

Knitters have spoken; votes have been tallied. “The Addicts Choice Knitting Blog Awards” have been determined.

Before announcing the winners, I’d like to thank everyone who nominated a blog, voted for a blog or helped publicize the contest. This has been a lot of fun, and I also discovered a number of great new blogs. I hope everyone else did too.

Now, without futher ado, beginning with the minor categories and proceeding toward the Best Overall Knitting Blog, the winners are. . . (more…)

 

Health experts advise:
Cover the top of your head
to avoid heat loss.

 

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I strongly suspect the wool clad model was suffering under the intense heat of indoor heat and lamps. If they’d piled more wool on her she would have collapsed from heat stroke. If so, it’s lucky for her the top of her head isn’t covered!

Still, it always looks odd when someone’s head and ears are wrapped in this much wool, yet they aren’t wearing a winter coat!

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Pingouin No. 46 Fall