to pull it all together, the seams have to be right.
lace can be challenging, but once i figured out the best techniques,
it all fell into place in a great big ‘ta da!’ moment
(with a sigh of relief and a thankful smile).
‘fell’ taken from 13:3-9 of matthew.
(this post is part of an ongoing series chronicling
my current collaboration with classic elite yarns on an upcoming
indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)
‘nearly’ taken from 13:12 of romans.
(this post is part of an ongoing series chronicling
my current collaboration with classic elite yarns on an upcoming
indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)
i was only gone for a minute.
just long enough to blow my nose and
wash the sick germs off of my hands. then i was back
to find my youngest’s train set ambulance
being driven by a cocky looking blond brio man.
he seemed to have been
considering a little off roading while eyeing the ‘field of lace’
that is currently pinned to the blocking board.
it appears that after revving the engine and hitting the gas,
he got his tire hung up at the last moment
on a t-pin
(whew, that was close)
before he was able to leave even one
skid mark across all that work done up in the silky ‘magnolia’
which is so close to being the first finished piece
of ‘artistic differences’ at this point.
how thankful am i
for such a well placed
blocking pin? so thankful!
‘wordless’ taken from 8:26 of romans.
(this post is part of an ongoing series,
chronicling my collaboration with classic elite yarns on
an indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)
even with 2 pencils in play
there was so much tip breaking and wearing down points
that i eventually resorted to a trusty pen.
still, it went something like this:
*write, reconsider, scratch it out; rep from * until your very last nerve is frazzled.
then wait and
…hold on!
time for a time out.
i find a break almost always helps,
or at least it gives me the perspective to cut my losses and move on.
in this case, it gave me the ‘ah ha’ moment that i’d been missing.
whew.
that one was a little too close for comfort
but, all’s well now. on to the re-swatching and the actual casting on.
‘comfort’ taken from 16:5 in job.
(this post is part of an ongoing series
chronicling my collaboration with classic elite yarns on
an indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)
“i’m the boss of my knitting”.
i am, although today the knitting doesn’t seem to know it.
working on the math for the first sweater in the collection.
using a lace stitch pattern
that repeats every 4″.
this is a designing challenge,
because if it’s not adjusted in some way
the only chest circumferences available would be
28 (36, 44, 52, 60) inches around.
not gonna work for way too many shapes and sizes of knittahs.
hence,
today
finds me
currently
hunkered
down
at this
little desk
in my little
workroom,
a #2 pencil
and
a back-up
at my side
(oh, how it annoys me to have to stop mid-way thru a math equation to sharpen a tip).
i’m hacking away at
my brainstormed
list of
possible solutions.
and one of them
is going to
work.
my new pin from
lys ‘in the loop’ is here on the desktop reminding me
that “i’m the boss of my knitting”.
take that you wiley lace stitches!
‘sharpen’ taken from 27:17 of proverbs.
(this is part of an ongoing series of posts
chronicling my collaboration with classic elite yarns on an
indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)