Sundara Sock Yarn
What with waking up to snow this morning and blah scheduled for the entire week, one must do what one can to brighten one’s existence, no? My, but I sound pretentious.
These four colors of Sundara Sock Yarn greeted me over the weekend (the snowy, wet weekend) and while they were chosen, primarily, [...]
In an effort to find some sock success, I put Monkey in time out and designed my own pattern. The stitch pattern is adapted from Bauerliches Stricken 1 by Lisl Fanderl. Once I get this sock and its mate done I’ll tell you how I did it if you want to try it, [...]
I’ve knit this ball of yarn several times. First I tried another pattern with 64 stitches, and I couldn’t get it over my heel. See that attempt here. Then I tried that same pattern with 72 stitches. The pooling was awful—see that attempt here.
So then I tried Monkey. This pattern is [...]
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Nadine Sterk, Sleeping Beauty, 2006, Design Academy Eindhoven, Atelier.
Jeff Werner writes,
“A lamp that develops like a living organism: switch it on and it slowly starts growing by knitting its own lampshade at a speed of three rotations per hour.”
I was excited to see this in person, having just discovered it in a grad catalogue [...]
