unpicking the bind off from a pair of socks because they were too short on the leg and fell off too easily. I will give it another inch or two and then hopefully they will be good bed socks
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I like the yellow yam a lot! I love a variegated yarn that makes tiny stripes like that.
I do the entire leg in ribbing, so those suckers stay on.
They were literally 1 cm of ribbing after the heel flap. Now it’s probably an inch.
The last stripe is all new, plus the original were a bit shorter than implied because of the bindoff
the yellow yarn from the last socks was https://rosehillyarns.com/
Brenda Dane did a big segment on shorty socks a while back! She said she finally found a pattern that worked for her.
This thread has been quiet for a while but I am pleased with my setup for some English paper piecing in my recliner.
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I am working on a sleeve for a sweater I didn’t swatch for using a yarn I’ve never worked with before that has a reputation for behaving very differently once washed.
I’m not quite sure what I was thinking, but I keep going.
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Turned out better than I had any right to expect. Perhaps a bit more transparent than I hoped - people always talk about how this yarn blooms on washing, and I seem to have formed unreasonable expectations
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Such a cool sleeve! (And sweater!)
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Sock
I am getting towards the end of my random self striping yarns, and reaching the sweater colourwork quantities
this grey & pink yarn was a freebie. It’s a good German sock yarn, but it does not play easily with other colours of yarn I have
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I have found the grey sweater again.
I put it back into a project bag with this much of the bindoff left to do (losing at yarn chicken)
So I need to decide whether to take back a row and redo the bindoff, or add a little bit of extra yarn and weave in more ends
I lie. Bigger issue is that i started to bind off and that sleeve is much shorter than the other
wth happened there?
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it appears that I had completely lost at yarn chicken, and the two balls of grey yarn that were with this sweater aren’t actually the same yarn as I knit the sweater with. So I need to rip back half of the difference on the longer sleeve and bind off both again.
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Swatches for a vest.
I think the dark green contrast wrong side (wrong side is the top swatch, bottom level is white MC, 2nd level is green MC)
I didn’t plan on making a traffic light swatch
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Baby blanket for my coworker. Darby, the baby is now six months old
I was totally on track to have it done for his birth but then I found a huge mistake and ended up restarting and then put it aside for months because I was so mad about the mistake.
It’s finished except for blocking. I know I should block it to make the points on the edge stand out but I really just want to give it to my coworker tomorrow and be done with it. @plainjane thoughts? If you tell me I should block it, I will.
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give them the blanket tomorrow 
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Give them the blanket. If you really want the points to stand out really well, block just the edges, but it’s beauuuutiful and they will love it either way.
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