Well! It's been quite a New Year here - an icky stomach bug threw us all for a loop, we had a very sick hamster (luckily she appears to be on the mend), and in the meantime, plenty happening in the world of knitting. I feel like I have so many updates to make, I will never get to them all and …
ponchos
Seaming the Portree
This will be the third and final installment of a series of posts about the Portree Poncho. The first post gives information on the I-cord cast on and bind off used in this pattern. The second post explains my washing and blocking techniques for the two panels of the poncho. Now, I'd like to spend a …
Blocking the Portree
This post is a followup to my very first post, in which I described how to fix a mistake I made on my initial test knit of the Portree Poncho. In the first post, I focused on the I-cord cast on and bind off used in this pattern. Now, in this follow-up, I'd like to spend a little time talking about …
The Anatomy of a Mistake
Half a lifetime ago I spent the summer before my senior year of college traipsing around the British Isles and Ireland – you know, for “research.” One of those months I spent living in the middle of nowhere on the Isle of Skye, the largest island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was an … …