Tag: knitting

artsyfartsybitterknitter:

magpiefibers:

Have you seen the cover of the new @pompommag? Holy cats it’s amazing!!!!
My wonderful friend Cat Clark, owner of @brooklyngeneralstore, designed this incredible Ixchel sweater with our Swanky Sock. We could not be more honored or thrilled.
She used Empty Night and Moonbeam, a color we designed just for her. We will have kits available as soon as we get home from Stitches Midwest!
Go order your copy right now (links in @pompommag posts)
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today’s activities so far:

-finished knitting (but not weaving in etc) the grey/purple/black hat

-ate extraordinarily decadent leftover ramen for lunch

-studied biology for the gre for a few hours, became smugly assured of my own baseline biology knowledge

-still wearing pajamas

further plans:

-more smug studying

-weave in ends, possibly take off ribbing on blue hat to reknit OR start new red–with-green-and-grey-details hat

-most immediately, shower and put on whichever clothes i find most pleasing, almost certainly a flannel

-prepare important erev rosh hashanah meal of …. salmon & mushroom pasta

-possibly bake honey cake, or just slice up lots of apples to eat with honey or peanut butter&honey spread

a terrible photo but i’m making some fucking hats for the first time in six years/colorwork for the first time ever
i’m going to take off the ribbing on the bottom of the blue hat and reknit it in a smaller gauge so it’s not monstrously loose but like
i’m having fun yk. patterns are good. i’m very happy

time 4 more knitting advice requests:

i am reasonably certain that i will continue to be knitting things, since i’ve been knitting on and off for 12 years. as such i want to buy a set of good needles so i actually have the sizes i need around & am not prevented from fixing gauge problems by the fact that i only have sixes in the appropriate circular needle length, for instance. i think that means that an interchangeable set makes sense? i have a pair of the size 8 knitpicks caspian wood needles from their interchangeable set that were discounted w/ my last yarn order, and i do like them a lot, but i’ve seen reviews that the needle tips start to fray after a while of use so idk if they’re worth purchasing. also they only go down to size 4, and ideally i would have needles down to size 2 at least, although if that’s generally not standard with kits it’s not going to kill me to buy the smaller sizes separately.

generally i like metal or wood more than plastic, because i have certain aesthetic preferences about my day-to-day life, and i think prefer wood slightly to metal for being a little quieter and having slightly better grip, but would at least strongly consider metal for better longevity/sturdiness.

what are your takes? do you have brands you prefer? how do you acquire knitting needles usually?

i am driven absolutely to distraction by the distracting/comforting/satisfying (same thing?) thought of/experience of knitting— intermediate skill mastery + adjustable difficulty/focus + aesthetic/research/thoroughness/discernment taste-ego satisfaction + crucially, the sensory-physical involvement, hand motions to quiet already heavily suppressed needs for (hyper)activity, softness, the extreme indulgence of buying knitting needles as much for their beauty as their functionality