#knitting!

[unfinishedsweaters]

Heck yes it stands up! I didn’t know if it would; I didn’t think the stockinette was dense enough to make up for the airy lace. (You work the heavy yarn and the light yarn on the same needles. Needle. It’s a circular needle.)

Scaffolding Cowl.

(My favorite part of this is that sometimes, when you have a lace collar and it has stiffness/stands up, it makes the whole thing look very creature-like. I am not sure Mrs Hammersley would enjoy my ah-great-you-look-like-a-creature take on her dress if it were possible for me to convey it, but to me, it’s sort of fascinating. Dragonflies’ wings. Godzilla. Perfectly normal reaction to a dress. Anyway, bemused by the lace realizations, happy the structural part of the knitted thing worked.)

[rainbowstargazerlilies]

Socks complete! Ran out of yarn right before the second toe, but you know what? These socks were borg socks anyway. The yarn was called “resistance is futile”. Of course they assimilated a bit of another yarn in the process :)

[magnaflourious-nerdity]

Man, humans throughout history really just love any excuse to come together, make a circle about it, and create THING(s), do t they? What a beautiful aspect of our genetically inlaid yearnings

[rainbowstargazerlilies]

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!

[fiberandfancysticks]

Some days, you discover a Fun New Way to make blankets out of squares, and decide to try it!

It's fun to work on knitting something where progress is Highly Visible and I don't need several charts and notebooks to keep track of the pattern! So that's what I've been working on, these past few days, as a break!

[fiberandfancysticks]

Okay, well, I GUESS it's pretty! But this (knitting!) is still a RIDICULOUS way to make a FLAT thing in the round! So I probably won't make the rest of the blanket this was a test hexagon for.

Probably.

...

right?

Also, I guess it was a good thing that I haven't yet thrown out the styrofoam blocks my new toilet came in? XD I would not have expected it to be such a GOOD blocking surface!

[fiberandfancysticks]

I found a lovely pattern for a blanket made of knitted hexagons! I have double pointed needles! There are two babies who I need to make baby blankets for! So obviously I had to try this!

Thus far, 8 rounds in, I find myself wondering why anyone would choose to subject themselves to this fiddly, miserable, hand-cramping method of creating flat hexagons with KNITTING NEEDLES when crochet exists and is EASY and LOVELY and working from the tiny middle out MAKES SENSE with a hook!!!

You'll note, however, that I'm still working on this. Maybe by the end of the hexagon (in a few more rows, the pattern instructs me to switch from 3 needles to six, at which point it will presumably LOOK hexagonal) it'll be lovely instead of painful and worth the hassle?

I'm doubtful.