Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Craft On: At the Heel Again
I've been holding off on knitting these until I had a chance to take some photos and video of the heel turn method. Today, I finally had the chance to do that. It took four takes, because I kept saying the wrong words to go with the video. Poor Yasmina was about to despair. Also, I am now knitting the second sock on four needles instead of five, because my needle broke, and I am hoping that Knitter's Pride has a good replacement policy.
Anyway, the baptismal gown knits apace, and I hope to have the bodice finished relatively soon. Then it will be on to the sleeves. I need to find some pretty buttons in my stash that will look good with the yarn and cables.
The kids and I have just finished Northanger Abbey and I loved reading it with them! I'm making my way through Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages and started re-reading Anna Zilboorg's Knitting for Anarchists. What a delight this book is! Between her and Elizabeth Zimmermann, I think my entirely knitting philosophy can be found. I do not knit exactly like either of them, and frankly, I am not enamoured with most of Zimmermann's patterns, but the way they think about their knitting helped form how I did. If you have not read them, please do. It is so freeing to treat your knitting this way.
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Labels: Books, Design, Homemaking, Knitting, WIP, Yarn Along
