Redshirt Knitting

Pitiful Progress!

By Erika, on May 16th, 2012 |

I just haven’t had much “oomph” left by the end of the day. But I don’t like to go a day without knitting. So I knit a single row, and call it good.

Here is two days of progress on the next OMG Sheeps afghan square.

In other news, I have a splinter in the bottom of my foot, in a location I can’t reach in any meaningful fashion. One of the vicious, fully-perpendicular kinds, too.

It’s making me, like Androcles’ pal, quite cross. I soaked it for quite a long time last night, but to no avail.

(It’s from my kitchen floor, if that gives you any sense of what the floors in this place are like. Technically they aren’t floors at all, but the thing the floor is supposed to rest upon.)

A New Thing! UnicornsBarfRainbows.com

By Erika, on May 15th, 2012 |

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Here is one of the projects that has taken up a lot of my time lately: Unicorns Barf Rainbows, which will be updated weekly with comics, silly infographics, and you know, that kind of thing and what-not.

Probably it will have kitty jokes too, eventually. Maybe even pegasususes!

(And a million thanks to my friend Robert, for giving me the kick in the ass I needed to finally get this project started.)

The Return of OMG Sheeps

By Erika, on May 14th, 2012 |

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CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???

I have a friend who is laughing at this right now, because she knows something you don’t: I left my Wingspan project at her house over the weekend. So I could either start working on the OMG Sheeps afghan project again, or cast on for something new.

I managed to guilt myself into finishing one more block… we’ll see how much farther it goes before I find something else to knit!

Sims Sunday: Abbreviated

By Erika, on May 13th, 2012 |

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I only had time to play for about an hour this week.

But it was long enough to get Fern pregnant by Girbitz!

Rainbow Brite’s Wingspan

By Erika, on May 10th, 2012 |

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So, here’s the knitting I’ve been working on all this time.

Wow, right? Whenever I step back and look at it, I’m like, “…”

This is Kauni Effektgarn in their rainbow colorway (obviously). The pattern is Wingspan, but I have made a small change.

The pattern tells you to just turn for the short rows. But I much prefer the results you get from doing the short rows another way, which I think I learned from the Baudelaire heel. (I assume there’s a proper name for this technique, but I don’t know it.)

First, I did a wrap-and-turn at each turn. Next, the “usual way” to handle this is to pick up the wrap and knit it together with the stitch that it wraps.

But with Baudelaire, you pick up each wrap, put it on the left-hand needle, and knit it together with the NEXT stitch. Thus, each wrap pulls to the left, and closes any gap that you might otherwise see.

It’s very clever, and very simple (once you wrap your head around it, which I confess took me a little while). Frankly I don’t know why this isn’t the default way to handle short row wraps!