Category: Knit Bit

  • Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom

    Christmas 2011 I received an Ashford rigid heddle loom. It took pretty much all of 2012 to 1) gather enough yarn for a project. 2) put the thing together. 3) Learn how to warp the loom.  4) Mess that  up and re-warp the room. Then as I finally set to weaving I found I messed up the warp…

  • Ashford Rigid Heddle Loom

    I got an Ashford Rigid Heddle loom for Christmas. I got it all together I have the math figured out for how much yarn I need for projects. Next I shall lace the thing. Putting it together was the hardest part. The stand directions weren’t all that great, as they lacked full sentences. But I…

  • Learning to Tat

    For my birthday this year I got a bunch stuff on Tatting, a fiber art I’ve ignored until now. I love the lacy patterns tatting creates so when I started learning I was excited to create the loops and picots that would turn into bookmarks, edging and covers.   I was so wrong. Even the…

  • Floppy Hat Pattern

    I started this hat using a pattern but it wasn’t working out. So I took what was almost a frogging mess and changed it to make a floppy hat! I used worsted weight yarn and size 10 needles. Cast On: 116 stitches Knit for 2 -3 inches. 2ktog, 1 row. End results 58 stitches on…

  • This Was Not the Hat I’m Looking For

    For the first time in my short knitting career, I’ve changed up a pattern. I was following a pattern from Knitting Rules by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee when I notice the hat was for a man with the head of a basketball instead of a 10 year-old normal sized girl. The problem was the cast-on. She says…

  • Weaving Update: This and Me? We’re Like Friends Who Cut Each Other for S & G

    I’m nearly halfway done with my first weaving project. It is not what you’d call pretty yet. The bulky yarn snags and fluffs in irritating ways. But I can now do five triangles an hour. Then I have to sew them together. Making the pretty will require blocking. I’m not sure how well that will…

  • Woe: Good Things and Bad Things

    Perhaps it’s just me. Good thing: My Dr. Who inspired scarf (my first modified design, not the actual dr. who knitting pattern) is going well. The Bad: My new laptop is dead…Dell is sending me another one.

  • Things We Did

    The holiday weekend was full of weird things. First, of course, came Thanksgiving. This holiday went like most except Aia decided to have a full on melt down which resulted in a spanking and a long time out (which relatives trying “help” by giving her whatever she wanted didn’t). Basically she spilt water on her…

  • 17 Needles

    So I’ve been reading the Stitch & Bitch book. Yay, instruction. I’ve decided to at least try and knit their teaching projects and first one is for a chunky scarf. It’s going to go to J. Unfortunately the project calls for size 17 needles. Big humongous needles I don’t have. I’m not sure why they…

  • Pain, Knitting and Everything Else this Weekend

    So yeah pain. Looks like the doc can’t see me till next Monday. Yeah me! I finished Aia’s hat this weekend. It’s imperfect but very cute. I love how this threat gave it a shaded pattern. I have a little bit of this stuff left over…not sure what to do with it. I saw no…