bitchystitches

Dubby A blog where I bitch about my knitting.

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Guess who's tying to make themselves a craft room! I'm trying that whole "clean space clean mind" thing, I've noticed that the messier my room is the more stressed I am. This room has a lot of natural light and has a couch and a desk and a wall that's mostly bookshelves.

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So my resolution this year was to either finish or frog stuff--however it goes, get shit off of needles Technically since I started these on the 30th, they're part of the list. This pattern is Tess Fingerless Gloves from the book Literary Knits, using knit picks stroll glimmer. 

I modified the color work a little because the original pattern looked too much like swastikas, and I wouldn't like that even if I wasn't Jewish. 

 I'm really proud of them and how quick I knit them--they're a present for my mom, since she specifically requested some gloves but not until like three days before Christmas and I was like uh okay but after the holidays? 

The left thumb is a little wonky and I'm still not great at blocking but it's still pretty and I’m still proud. This pattern would look good without the sparkle but I'm still happy I knit them in the sparkle.

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Local Woman Intends To Marry Yarn, More At Eleven

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I can't really get a good shot of the color but it's from knitpicks Stroll Brights It's just gonna be a plain pink hat and then I'm going to make cat ears out of the blue and sew them on.

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The knitting/crochet/yarn side of tumblr is awesome. Not only do they make string pretty, they are also incredibly helpful. I’m serious. All I have to say is, “help. I can’t make the yarn pretty,” and 50 people pop up out of nowhere with advice. It’s absolutely incredible. What a time to be alive.

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Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple piece to knit during a memorial service/reception? There will be many wine and martinis at this thing so I need something I can knit while I’m drunk.  (but possibly something complicated enough so when people try to come talk to me about my dead father I can go “oh hang on I need to look at this pattern”) 

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Finally finishing this arm warmer so I can start the second one (I love entrelac so muuuuuuch)

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Sophie Pullover by Pam Allen on Ravelry

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Oh, my.

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What is happening to those cables?! I’ve never seen anything like this before.

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You put a cable in a cable.

Cable-ception

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yo i heard u liked cables so i put some cables in your cables

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I don’t NEED more yarn but I’m looking at knitpicks anyway and oh, oh I do love Chroma. 

I’m looking between worsted and fingering though, and if I keep in with this inability to decide that means I’ll never make a decision and so I’ll never have to actually buy anything! MY PLAN IS FLAWLESS 

Worsted: thick, fluffy, project is finished a little faster, so sofffft

Fingering: also soft, thinner means more fin, tighter work, really satisfying small stitches

just. gosh. 

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I designed and knit a hat! I fucked up a little bit on the designs of the letters but I like it.

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Okay so I’m trying to plan a colorwork pattern so I can knit myself a Gal Pal hat and i have the chart 105 stitches, with 52 stitches on each side and a dividing line for me to keep track of things with and BOTH sides i’d swear are 52 stitches and each base of each word is 14 stitches long but…there’s an extra stitch on one side and I CANNOT FIGURE IT OUT 

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oh i figured it out. 

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Okay so I’m trying to plan a colorwork pattern so I can knit myself a Gal Pal hat and i have the chart 105 stitches, with 52 stitches on each side and a dividing line for me to keep track of things with and BOTH sides i’d swear are 52 stitches and each base of each word is 14 stitches long but...there’s an extra stitch on one side and I CANNOT FIGURE IT OUT 

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I finished this hat for my sister for Christmas! ...yes, it is a bitty bit late, but I've had a rough season. This is the first hat I've knit in the flat and the seaming is a little bit odd but I'm still really happy with it. The yarn is Rowan wool and alpaca blend, and I'd originally bought five skeins each of blue and yellow to make a sweater but I don't have attention spans for a sweater. Maybe this year.

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I made a cowl for my sister-in-law, using Knitpicks Biggo yarn. It looks v messy but I am v proud of it and it is v soft.

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Me: /doesn't get gage

Me: ehhhhh close enough.

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Here's the shawl I was knitting over the summer, I just now got around to blocking it. (What? I'm not procrastinating on my NaNo, what?) I had a really rough summer. My father died and I got demoted in the same week--and my work knew about my father, so that really hurt. I had a root canal (and I still need a permanent crown). And then I found out a friend died--the third friend I've lost in the last five or six years. Knitting is pretty constant; it keeps me focused and calm. Except when I mess up on a pattern and can't figure out where.

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After 3 months, countless hours, four needle changes (cord size please), marathons of every show/documentary I’ve ever wanted to watch, endless hand/wrist/arm/shoulder pains, days of “oh god I can’t even look at you anymore”, and one horrible broken needle incident that led to duct taping over and over till the last moment, its finally done.

All the yarn from this blanket was hand spun around six to seven years ago when I was first learning to spin. Some of it is left over from hats and scarves, some of it left to languish in drawers and boxes because it just “wasn’t good enough”. Over-spun, under-spun, crazy shedding, ugly as sin, plied the wrong way (oops), beautiful but short bits, its all come together to make this beautiful monstrosity.

A little under 6ft from one side to the other. A total of 987 stitches as of cast off. I honestly wish I had kept track of yardage just for curiosity’s sake Fiber contents : merino, bfl wensleydale, romney, bamboo, tencel, angora rabbit, llama, silk, alpaca, angelina, mohair, recycled denim, soy silk. 

This is an album with some great closeups of all the different yarn that went into this. It would mean so much if you’d take a look and let me know what you think <3 This project has been a real security blanket (ha) for me the past couple months while I’ve dealt with some really bad depression. And while its both kind of sad and yet a total relief to complete it, its wonderful to finally have a sense of having accomplished something. Just looking at it helps me feel like more than a lazy toad just sitting here all day doing nothing but moving my hands, watching shows and crying. 

It’s so nice to have something to be proud of for a change.