The Giant Scarf is DONE!

On Sunday night I finally forced myself to sit down and finish the “giant” garter-stitch scarf I’d stuck in a drawer weeks ago after having to frog it back about 12 inches. I am trying to work on the “error leads to disappointment leads to avoidance of the project” formula that seems to kick in. [...]

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The Hat of Many Curses is DONE!

I finally finished THoMC. It had two more quick jabs for me, the first of which was kind of interesting. I knitted onto the wrong circular while I was on the train and ended up with this loop:

Yes, that is one long circular needle running around one half, across the gap, around the other [...]

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Figured out the problem

Some helpful folks on Ravelry’s Men Who Knit group (and my patient wife) helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. I was knitting on the wrong side of the triangle. Now that I’ve got that sorted out, I have to get my tension under control. I’m knitting so tightly that I can barely [...]

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I-cord troubles

I cast on a new hat last night, but as soon as I got to the end of the i-cord, and started my increases, I realized that the wrong side of the hat was on the outside, rather than safely inside, as it should have been. I must be making the transition from 2 to [...]

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Ribbit

I figured from context that “frogging” something meant tearing it out, but until Mcchase enlightened me, I’d no idea where the usage came from. Imagine my chagrin when I realized that I hadn’t figured out the joke on my own.
rip it, rip it, rip it!

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The Hat That Might Fit a Giant

I thought I post something quick about the Hat That Might Fit Andre the Giant. This was my first attempt at a hat, and I had fun making it, but I wasn’t concentrating during the time I really should have been, and the result is… shall we say… interesting. This was supposed to be a [...]

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Progress on the Bulky Hat

A quick check-in on the Bulky Hat project I started Friday night. I struggled with the “knit and purl into the same stitch” increase in this top-down hat, something I found on Ravelry, titled “Bulky Knitted Hat by Kristin Omdahl.” I think I had a lot of trouble with the increase because I’d just [...]

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My Giant Scarf Has a Hole in It

I took the “giant garter stitch scarf” off the needles last night, only to find that I dropped a stitch about 8 rows back. I am not looking forward to un-knitting it to there… I wonder if I can just rip it back…

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