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I been thinking bout you.

Once a year, for 2 months I make hella friendship bracelets. This year, it coincided with a visit to Matt's brother(TJ) while his sister in law (Laura) was also visiting. TJ was lucky enough to marry into a solid Wisconsin family who know what to do with their hands. Laura taught me the same technique that she had been teaching to kids through her local WI Parks and Recreation department for years and I loved it so much. There is a full tutorial coming. I hope? It has been a loooooong time.

#Friendship bracelet #braid

EMERGENCY FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS

TONIGHT, AUG 30. 7pm AT ROYAL BLUE GROCERY. 4TH, NUECES AUSTIN, TX.

SEE YOU!

TERTULIA POSTPONED

Ah! In pursuit of sun-dappled-boat rides-to-rope swings and beers-at-the-drive in, La Tertulia has been cancelled the last two weeks.

WISH YOU WERE HERE!

SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK!

La Tertulia will return on Wednesday the 24th. Royal Blue at 7pm.

xoxo

LT

PEAPACK PATTERN

Drop stitches, fake seams and the full pattern, good luck!

Peapack Pattern

CO 42 STS

Knit 50" in in garter stitch

At the last row, shift 18 st back to the second needle and drop the 19th st. Transfer 4 sts and drop the 24th st.

Pick up the remaining and you’ll have all sts on one needle

Use a crochet needle of appropriate size and begin to undo all of the stitches but the last. Leave that one on; otherwise you end up with a wavy loose end. (Oh no!)

Just like you see in the first image up top, "A"

Now, insert a larger crochet needle into that first stitch and pull the next three through, continue until the last stitch, putting it back on the needle

Repeat for the other dropped stitch

Just like you see in the second image up top, "B"

Drop the middle 2 stitches all the way to the bottom

To bind off , use an elastic bind off. Knit your first stitch and then the second, but leave the second stitch on the LH needle as you pass the first stitch over the second. Now take the rest of the second stitch off of the LH needle

Cont until the dropped middle

Measure 4 times the width of the remaining edge and cut yarn

Pull the strand of yarn through the last loop, tying it off

Leave enough slack to match the dropped row and begin BO again with the next stitch.

Pull the strand through the last stitch.

Weave in your yarn ends

Because the scarf is made with mercerized cotton and is very slick, Karli at Gauge suggested I sew the loose ends to a stitch to prevent the slick surface to slip and come undone.

You simply pull the thread through a stitch and the end and tie a knot.

Trim all ends and you are done!

CONGRTULATIONS!

#erin #knitting #peapack #pattern #drop stitch #fake seam #scarf

a 50 inch semi-ruffled mostly garter stitch with a spine of dropped stitch anchored by 2 fake seams. whew.

The short story and the cliffhanger follow.

And I'm calling it Peapack

This is the first real project I chose to embark on. Theoretically the yarn and needles I bought first were supposed to end in a scarf of my very own...BUT. But when you're picking yarn out for the first time, you don't really know how your relationship to it's color, texture and drape are going to end up appealing to you. It's so important that your first project be what in your heart of hearts you know to be wanted.

My first yarn was great for a beginner! Bought at exciting Purl SOHO and it was luxurious feeling, gem toned looking, uneven textured handspun Manos Del Uruguay wool! (the uneven texture would mean that as you learn the basics of knitting, your mistakes would be hidden amidst the wool's natural tendencies) Anywho, sounds great.

But when i finally started to really get into this first project, I had a quarter of a scarf done and though I felt great about my technique, that uneven texture hid all of my gold-star tension, knits and purls!

So I went shopping. At purl, I had been lucky enough to talk to a girl who worked there. This second time, I was lucky enough to be in Spain, where it turns out I was lucky enough to have a language barrier between myself and help. I ended up walking around a small space that was filling fast with short bossy Spanish grandmas who knew without a doubt who was next in line (Not me, it seemed. Gracias, ladies). I decided on a light color that i could knit with tiny needles and really see some progress! hello pretty mercerized cotton rusty grey with size 3 needles.

And then I knit. I had the idea that not only would I embark on a project designed to punish my every mistake and laud my every success, but that i hard learned enough about knitting to stylize my piece. So, garter stitch all the way with two centered purl rows. Classy, huh? But still unique!

Those two rows were awful looking. Twisted and uneven and I got off track a couple of times. A month later I had knit a lot of size 3 stitches and was no longer excited about it.

I knit a bunch of washcloths in defiance. I got to finish quickly, try out lacy patterns, different colors and needles.

And then I was ready to come back. Armed with some knowledge I gained through experimentation, I had a plan to make this work-intensive-but-still-ugly scarf pretty and worthy of all that effort!

SO, you've seen the final product and now I'm going to walk you through it's pattern.

I'm super excited to see this collection of posts unfold!

xoxo

Erin

#erin #knitting #ironia

Ok, no burgers. But have I got you? Let's go to royal blue tonight and knit stuff. 7 pm at 360 nueces. Xoxo!

#date

Elizabeth Zimmerman's Sewn-Off!

EZ's Sewn Off Method from La Tertulia on Vimeo.

#erin #knitting #elizabeth zimmerman #sewn-off #tutorial #austin #tx

la tertulia destination!

Tomorrow is Wednesday and so there will be knitting outdoors.

After a bunch of weeks at longbranch, we're moving downtown. Royal Blue has food and beer and wine and did i mention food? So many bags of chips! <3<3.

so then it's settled, Wednesday July 20th at 7pm. Royal blue on 4th and Nueces. You can watch me literally rip apart something I've been working on for months!

#location #royal blue

I SPENT MY NIGHT ON THE INTERNET

But luckily, it was looking at patterns and knitting blogs.

But luckily, it was looking at patterns and knitting blogs. There are a bunch of knitters out there who are so prolific i want to die. JK, it’s actually rewarding to work through all of Knitting School Dropout and see all of her published patterns. So, this is a list of good people doing good stuff on the internet.

Knitting School Dropout- So many projects in usually pretty fine patterns.

The next three are all related to Quince & Company

Quince & Company- A yarn company based out of Portland, Maine and everything is looking good guys. The yarn is mostly American, and it has an effort towards territorial. A handy guide in a world of virgin wool.

Swatch Diaries- Seems made for me (at least currently). While a warm snug blanket or sweater will be what I want so badly in a bit when I head north to cold nights, all i want to now is to knit swatches. Working on a small scale means I can test out all of the cabling and lace I want. All the cast-ons, too. Hello, Channel Island

Madder is patterns that come from Swatch, I think? The Bergen Cowl is very lovely. Possibly a short project to move me on away from constant swtching…

#erin #knitting #online

knitting in the continental style

La Tertulia Primer: The Continental Method from La Tertulia on Vimeo.

But, look!...

Hey there beginners and english style knitters, this is for you.

Does this make sense? I hope so. It’s opening one loop and pulling another toward you, then carrying the working yarn through all of the loops on that needle. Yea?

That may not make sense yet, but when you get to purling you’ll see that it is in fact the same stitch, but pulled away from you.

Just put in into your brain and it will surface when it is needed.

And that last bit about maintaining your needle positions? It’s true! It won’t end up coming to you without some awkward times, but stick it out and you will be more nimble for it, promise.

xoxo,

good luck with this video! We tried making it clear and short enough to be a quick reference guide, GOGOGO

Erin

#knitting #video #continental #erin #austin #tx

OK. Remember how we said there would be knitting classes? Welcome to the future, where you can stay at home and not have to let ANYONE see all of your mistakes casting on!

Psych. Take classes, make friends, jeez. What is this, the boring future? I don't think so.

This video means 3 things for you

You can begin to teach yourself to knit with this and all forthcoming videos (continental knitting, binding off, purling, yarn overs, whaaaaaa?) come back and watch them! LEARN!

This is also an introduction to actual knitting classes person to person at GAUGE, a lovely fiber shop right here in Austin, TX.

Lastly, now you can come to the knitting circle Wednesdays at seven p.m. at a location to be determined! (but often Longbranch Inn. Be safe, check twitter). You could always come, knowledge or no, FYI!

This is the beginning of the internet teaching you to knit. So cast-on! Now take off that cast-on because I think it's too tight. See how it doesn't quite glide up and down the needle? A little looser, a little more even. After a couple of tries it will be great!

There, you're the best at casting-on in the slingshot method now. Come show off at a knitting circle near you.

La tertulia is a knitting circle near you maybe?

Hey there hot-shot, lookin gooood.

Matt Muir made this because he is best.

#erin #knitting #slingshot cast on #how to #tutorial #video

mistake revisited

Remember that pretty pink and white twisted yarn that i callously knit into a an uneven too-cinched unflattering piece? Me too, i dry my hands with it every day.

BUT i learned from that piece that swatches are real deals. super helpful. quick to knit.

so i tried again.

#erin #knitting #fake seams

A five hour mistake that you won't have to make

Check out all this pink:

#fake seams #dropped stitch #erin #knit #hand towel #pink #cotton

You are more adept than you think!

So I knit Continental. What's that, you ask? It means I hold my working yarn all in my left hand, leaving my right hand pretty much free for whatevs. My aunt and most Americans (it seems, maybe you got you some stats?) knit English style. They hold their working yarn in their right hand and "throw" it around the left hand needle that has the working stitches.

Whaaaaa? This post isn't meant to really explain the differences tooooo much. Maybe soon? Maybe with more than words? I bet that could happen...

What I'm getting at is how these two styles of knitting are reflected in two common methods for casting on: Slingshot and Longtail.

Me an everyone I know uses the slingshot cast on (not you, grandma! you're too clever!). The longtail method sits in the back of my mind as a similar cast on method "that somehow doesn't use the triggerfinger, weird!"

This weekend as I sat daydreaming about knitting, I figured out something I think is quite neat.

In using the triggerfinger, the slingshot cast on has it's roots in Continental knitting! And in fact, the longtail method is exactly the same but instead of wrapping with your left hand, you throw with your right hand. English style!

So all you English style knitters who maybe think their futures are written in stone: do you use the slingshot method to cast on? Yes? Neat! You can knit Continental no problemo. The future is totes yours.

Anyone have any tips about how I can just wake up an accomplished English knitter?

xoxo

Erin

#erin #cast on #tips

Cancelled and changed! 6-8-11

The fun stuff that is a La Tertulia meeting will be....canceled tonight. wah wah.

meghann and erin are doing other REALLY important stuff, but will be back next week! and instead of at 6, let's make it at the less g-d h-o-t hour of 7.

in the words of a certain elizabeth zimmerman:

"Knit on with confidence and hope, through all crises."

oh jeeeeez!

xoxo

#cancelled #6-8-11

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