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Tag: Knitting

Knit This: Tricky Trinity Stitch

14 March 2019 ~ Carrie
Trinity stitch, sometimes I hate you…

Sometimes stitches just don’t want to cooperate. Yes, I know I may be anthropomorphizing, but this particular one – Trinity – keeps making an extra stitch appear. From where??

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Knit This: Getting Loopy With New Stitches

4 March 20191 January 2022 ~ Carrie

I’ve been making practice swatches (really, making them, unraveling the yarn, and making new ones)…a lot of them. It’s been fun to learn new stitches, and some are actually pretty challenging – even ones that are supposed to be “easy”!

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Knit This: Nettling New Knots

12 February 2019 ~ Carrie
Seed Stitch II

I continue to practice knitting on needles and find it very enjoyable. Especially exciting is a section in one of my books that provides directions for making different stitches – there are more than just garter and stockinette stitches! In learning new stitches, though, I encountered one that tested my patience.

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Haiku: Awaiting Metamorphosis

24 January 2019 ~ Carrie

Previously known as the Cratchit scarf redo, it’s really just not “good enough”…so will become something even better! And, yep, that’s the taped-up Brittany needle on the right. 🐶

Knit This: Learning To Knit (With Needles)

19 January 2019 ~ Carrie ~ 2 Comments

My knitting journey began a few months ago with a desire to make some knitted hats. I made a number of hats and a scarf on round looms of different sizes and was pleased with them, especially the hats. But I really wanted to learn to knit with needles, too, so my learning journey began this week.

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Knit This: Cratchit Loom Scarf Update

14 January 2019 ~ Carrie ~ 2 Comments
Work it! Always helps to have a model who will take treats as pay.

Remember the Cratchit scarf? Yeah, it was so bad that I unraveled it in its entirety. All that time – the scarf was probably about 2/3 complete – to make, but undone so quickly (sigh). After taking stock of the situation, I set about remaking it.

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