2ktog

I've been putting a lot of work into making another cloche, in spite of the fact that I still haven't quite gotten around to actually buying the button to finish the blue one. The reason I've dived into making the same thing for the third time is because a). it's a fricken awesome patter, and b). when we tried Bootsie's fishnet stockings onto her feet, we discovered that they were something like two inches too long. In all likelihood, I'm going to start on the second one, and try to use it as a guide to how far I have to rip back on the one I've already started. All the same, it was a little disheartening.

Here we see the Korknisse-- which are sort of like the Valkyries for knitting projects that have fallen in great battles-- coming down to whisk the fishnet stockings of to the mead halls of legend, where it will drink and share stories with other great knitting projects. Well, you know, until I come back for it. I'd throw in some kind of Orpheus reference here, but I think this metaphor is already a little too tenuous.

My efforts to design a Williamsburg Bridge scarf to make a nice compliment to the Brooklyn Bridge Scarf in Son of Stitch and Bitch have run into some problems in conveying the more complex pattern of the Williamsburg Bridge into the same 30 stitches that they use for the Brooklyn Bridge scarf. I'm wondering if I might be able to do the stitches on an angle, sort of like the multi-directional scarf-- but double knit. And that is just turning this project into a much larger production which may not be done by the end of winter.

Even so, I should try making a swatch like that, or maybe make it into a hat band. I wonder what kind of DK we have laying around. All of a sudden I regret that I'm not one of those people who catalog their entire stashes on Ravelry.