So Crystal asked me if I’m a perfectionist. I normally answer comments by e-mail, but I thought this would be a good opportunity to post since I haven’t got much on the progress front.
Exhibit A:
See that incongruent line of brown near the bottom of the picture, 4 inches from the needles? That’s an example of when I inadvertently zoned out and messed up the color dominance.
Exhibit B, two minutes later:
Yes, I am a perfectionist.
Not much to report, as I haven’t gotten much knitting done. However, I have one thing to say:
Flat stranded colorwork stinks.
Those little blocks are supposed to be three stitches wide. Oh, the puckering! The puckering! *End dramatics.*
I’m determined to finish this sucker by October 1.
Still plugging away.
This stranding is still addicting. I constantly want to work on it. Though when I pick it up, I stop every now and then to admire the floats.
I’m not sure if anyone is particularly interested, but I did take a couple pictures of how I do two-handed stranded knitting. See after the cut.
One of my goals this year was to do some stranded knitting, something I had never before attempted on a large scale. Then, it was announced the Q3 Challenge over at Sheri’s blog was “to pick a sock or lace pattern that is a stretch for you in terms of new techniques.” So, here I go, diving in head first.
Believe it or not, this is actually a practice swatch.
I’m actually going to rip this out and start over. I’m going to redo the band at the top (which encloses a strip of elastic) on smaller needles. I also need to practice knitting a bit looser, but otherwise, I am loving this. It’s fun to knit this in public–my coworkers were impressed.
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