Black Widow Socks

Finished the gusset and the first bit of the ankles.

Was gonna start the leg chart today but turns out I had to redesign it. The hourglass motif was too big and I had to redo all the math.

I am really glad I design socks in modules so it was reasonably easy to rework... 

Finishing: Counters a Multitude of Knitterly Flaws

Finished the kitty paw poncho! 

It's a bit late in the evening and I'm tired, but you can't post photos of knitwear without showing it on a person, so have a selfie!

Man, I was really worried with this one. I only had three balls of yarn for it, one of the variegated and two of the denim, and I got these ages ago so yeah, not gonna be able to match the dye lots. I was holding my breath there towards the end, I gotta say. Second-guessing whether I had enough yarn to do the second repeat of the bottom edging, whether I would have enough for a bind-off...

And naturally, when I bound off and tried it on, it WASN'T BIG ENOUGH. Too short, too narrow through the blue part, neckline all huge and wonky...

So I dumped it in the tub for a soak and prayed to the gods of wool that the magic of blocking would salvage it. If it wouldn't, I planned to find a smaller person to gift it too. 

Thankfully, blocking turned out to be a really good idea and the poncho grew probably a size or so as a result, as well as looking a lot tidier once the stitches settled into place.

Always block your wool, kiddos.

The neckline was still a problem, but I did have a bit of yarn left over. Six strands and a half hour of muttering darkly under my breath later, and I had a nice braided drawstring that I wove through the base of the ribbed neckline. This turned out to be another really good idea because as a result  the neckline was no longer sliding off my shoulders. And the rest of the shoulder shaping turned out really nice after being cinched up!

Moral of the story: Always block your wool, and attention to finishing details can salvage an otherwise flawed project.

Can, not always. But don't write off a project until it's actually done unless it's obviously a trainwreck.

Here's a nice look at the lace details:

And here's a better look at the colors:

I'm gonna need to tweak the pattern a little when I find my notes. The edging at the bottom was a bit of improv (repeats of K1, YO, S1K2TogPSSO, YO, more or less what I used on the shoulder seams after I finished the increases) that I'm quite pleased with. It looks pretty and decorative and doesn't seem to be curling too badly, which is nice.  I would have liked just a bit more yarn so I could do another repeat of it, but this works. I used a very stretchy bind off, which has the benefit of actually looking a little decorative too!

8/10 would knit again after pattern modifications.

Little more catching up

I made this super pretty thing:

At the Kitsap Mosaic Studio in Poulsbo. This was fun- knocked it out while Mom was finishing one of her own pieces. It got dark grey grout- I'll post a finished pic later.

And progress on the kitty paw poncho and the Black Widow socks continues. Almost done with the gusset on one of the socks, then I'll switch to the other and work on it for a while. Hint: this technique reduces the incidence of Second Sock Syndrome and basically assures that both socks will get knit up.

I started the last ball of yarn for the poncho, so that's going well. I'll probably get two more repeats of the paws, then switch to an edging. I'm quite pleased with this. 

More catching up

Some stuff from Character and Object Design- Apollo, a companion to Civet Brisa.

Some knitting progress will be posted later.

Really, I haven't disappeared.

My laptop, affectionately known as Shiny Mark II, is in the shop. And has been for a few weeks now. I may be needing a Shiny Mark III here soon. *shudder*

So I've been lax in getting my stuff posted. Gonna do some catching up in this next series of posts.

From 2D animation:

And from 3D animation:

More bouncy bouncy

Fixed some timing.

Bouncy bouncy bouncy

2D bouncing ball animation + asshole cat. Photoshop.

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