Developing and Debugging on the Production Line

Bang bang bang, lots of knitting getting finished before new projects get started. December was production time, baby.

Finished the last of the Christmas presents this past week, and it's the exact opposite of fire. The yarns reminded me of snow and ice and shadows on snow and ice. While swatching for the Syncopated Cap pattern, I found that long "carries" of the unused color were maddening, so I chucked the chart and made up my own, using the pattern's shaping. The results are subtle, again, much like shadows on snow. These two colors of yarn are mostly distinct, but every so often they blend into the same shade of blue, and the pattern submerges for a few stitches.

Of course, there might be a wee bit of a color dominance thing going on. I decided not to worry about it on this project, figure it out, and then exercise control on later projects (if I want to). Debugging on the production line can be quite liberating. :)

Notes:

Corrugated ribbing is way easier than it looks.

Wish I had taken closeup photos of the Clapotis' edging before I mailed it to Jane. It's perfect for the first season of Project Spectrum 2008.

Also in keeping with the element of fire: we had a small spaghetti fire last week (I missed the pot when adding dry noodles), and then last night I singed the handle of a wooden spoon (cherry? it smelled so nice while it was SMOKING). I have got to be a bit more careful working next to the stove; it's very easy for things to poke from my workspace right into the half-inch vertical gap between the pot and the range lip.

Comments

[samm]

Wow! That's a beautiful hat! I love the colours. And now that you've told me that ribbing is easy, I must give it a try. :O)

[korinthe]

If you're used to all-knit, no-purl stranded knitting, corrugated ribbing is just a little bit different: you have to bring the purl color to the front of the work when you're using it, and then bring it to the back again to be carried behind the knit stitches.

It looks complicated when someone else is doing it, but it's really not. :) In fact it was hard to break the habit of purling with the darker blue, when I got the the all-knit chart.