One of the great things about knitting is that you can customize or modify a pattern – even your own – in whatever way you choose. Of course, that opportunity does occasionally backfire, but that just means you have learned something. Again. Here’s an example of a modification that seems to have worked out just the way I planned it. … Continue Reading Sock mods
Continue reading →As I was closing in on finishing the Ithilien Brocade Jacket, I was finally faced with some decisions that had been pretty easy to put off until that point. I knew generally where I wanted to go with it, but couldn’t hammer out some of those details until I actually got there. One of those areas was the collar; the… Continue Reading Ithilien finishing details
Continue reading →Although I do not plan to publish the pattern for Ithilien Brocade Jacket, I did want to detail some of the construction ideas I experimented with. Waist Shaping: I wanted this to be a fitted garment; and with the detailed stitch pattern, I knew I’d need to plan the shaping to happen at ‘seamlines’. Since I knit it in the… Continue Reading Ithilien construction details
Continue reading →I finally have the chart finished, in what I hope will be its final version. The original version is about a year and a half old, and this one is actually very similar; the main difference is in the details of the chart itself. That turned out to be more interesting than I expected – trying to figure out how… Continue Reading Ithilien Brocade chart
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