I have started knitting a second Miss Scarlett for myself using a pillbox red RYC Cashsoft DK which has been lurking in my stash for a while, and have picked up on a problem in the wording on the lower body:
LOWER BODY READS:
Continue in this manner until 42 rows worked and 84 (96, 108, 114, 126) sts remain. Work 2 rows to complete pattern repeat.
This should read:
Continue in this manner until 36 rows works and 84 (96, 108, 114, 126) sts remain. Work a further 6 rows (one complete pattern repeat).
The stitch count actually all works out the same, its just the number of rows worked are incorrect.
The website will be altered in a day or two. My sincere apologies to anyone who has had problems with this part of the pattern.
for now
Ruby xx
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
knitonthenet issue 5 online
Now you know where I've been for the last couple of weeks. I am deliriously happy with how my patterns look, the magazine is the best yet, and is really finding its feet and direction. I am even more happy that I actually got all FOUR garment designs finished in a 12 week period. I had knitting help with one, but I knitted three of them completely myself.
So let me introduce to you:
Miss Scarlett - knitted in lazykate handspun dk, which was an absolute delight to work with. I'm going to knit this again as soon as I can for me, as unfortunately this one is a display piece (and doesn't fit!)
Wink Wrap cardigan - this is the Bowmont Braf yarn I mentioned in an earlier blog, again so lovely. I've been very very lucky for all these designs to get to use such beautiful yarns. When you get the best tools and materials you do your best work.
Barbarella - I LOVE this design, but worried that maybe it wouldn't appeal to everyone, and yet on Ravelry its the most popular garment design from this issue, so it just goes to show you should trust your instincts. This one used knitshop's pure silk. They have some fantastic yarns and Julieta is so lovely.
Dilly - this one was such great fun to knit. I've been desperate to do some colour work for a year or more, I used to do so much of it but now very rarely do and it was great to get back to it. The wool from Biggan Design was a dream aswell. It was just like painting, I had 64 colours on my palette to choose from, and it made designing this cardigan so much easier. I love the construction of it,with the textured sleeve head and the neck tie. I've got several different versions of this one worked out already.
I was a bit hurt on Ravelry yesterday when I found a rude comment made publically on a forum about one of these designs, not constructive criticism or even a private message to me, just publically rude. I took the very unusual and uncomfortable step for me and responded to the comment, and was not unsurprised to find that the author hadn't even considered how the designer would feel on reading such a comment.
I love the internet and I love forums and chat rooms etc., I just think it is so easy to say something online that you would never dream of saying to someone's face. I don't think anyone of us would go up to someone in the street and tell them what they were wearing was ugly, particularly if you knew they had made it themselves, so we shouldn't be doing it on forums. Anyway, off my soapbox now - what was lovely was that I received several PM's apologising for the other people's behaviour - from people who hadn't even done anything wrong themselves.
Enough of all of that. What next? now issue 5 is up. Next week I have to work on something very quickly for a design that is going in a book. Can't say anymore at this point, but its due in at the end of the month, and I've actually got some personal knitting to finish. And tomorrow, the back wall of my house is getting knocked through to the extension, six months after it started.
for now
Ruby xx
edited 08/08/08
So let me introduce to you:
Miss Scarlett - knitted in lazykate handspun dk, which was an absolute delight to work with. I'm going to knit this again as soon as I can for me, as unfortunately this one is a display piece (and doesn't fit!)
Wink Wrap cardigan - this is the Bowmont Braf yarn I mentioned in an earlier blog, again so lovely. I've been very very lucky for all these designs to get to use such beautiful yarns. When you get the best tools and materials you do your best work.
Barbarella - I LOVE this design, but worried that maybe it wouldn't appeal to everyone, and yet on Ravelry its the most popular garment design from this issue, so it just goes to show you should trust your instincts. This one used knitshop's pure silk. They have some fantastic yarns and Julieta is so lovely.
Dilly - this one was such great fun to knit. I've been desperate to do some colour work for a year or more, I used to do so much of it but now very rarely do and it was great to get back to it. The wool from Biggan Design was a dream aswell. It was just like painting, I had 64 colours on my palette to choose from, and it made designing this cardigan so much easier. I love the construction of it,with the textured sleeve head and the neck tie. I've got several different versions of this one worked out already.
I was a bit hurt on Ravelry yesterday when I found a rude comment made publically on a forum about one of these designs, not constructive criticism or even a private message to me, just publically rude. I took the very unusual and uncomfortable step for me and responded to the comment, and was not unsurprised to find that the author hadn't even considered how the designer would feel on reading such a comment.
I love the internet and I love forums and chat rooms etc., I just think it is so easy to say something online that you would never dream of saying to someone's face. I don't think anyone of us would go up to someone in the street and tell them what they were wearing was ugly, particularly if you knew they had made it themselves, so we shouldn't be doing it on forums. Anyway, off my soapbox now - what was lovely was that I received several PM's apologising for the other people's behaviour - from people who hadn't even done anything wrong themselves.
Enough of all of that. What next? now issue 5 is up. Next week I have to work on something very quickly for a design that is going in a book. Can't say anymore at this point, but its due in at the end of the month, and I've actually got some personal knitting to finish. And tomorrow, the back wall of my house is getting knocked through to the extension, six months after it started.
for now
Ruby xx
edited 08/08/08
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Legoland
This wonderful creation was built by my beloved to save his aching arms
I just love it. Instructions on how to build your own 'skein spinner thingy' coming soon!
for now
Ruby xx
I just love it. Instructions on how to build your own 'skein spinner thingy' coming soon!
for now
Ruby xx
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
As Robert Plant would say
.... been a long time, been a long time, been a long........
I have been frantically trying to catch up on a million things I am behind with. As usual the neck and shoulder were responsible for the delay but this time, nasty nasty painkillers really messed me up, causing me problems with vision, speech and thinking straight, so as a result I got behind.
For those of you who are waiting for the next issue of knitonthenet to appear, the above is a lot to blame for the problem. However, I am really, really thrilled with the designs I've got going in this issue. One of the yarns I've used is Bowmont Braf which has been featured in knitonthenet and will be available at Wonderwool Wales on 26th and 27th April. I know there is limited supply of the yarn as they only have a relatively small flock of this specially bred sheep breed. If you're going to Wonderwool I would grab it. Its a pure wool 4ply and has a slightly felted finish to it. I'm hoping there might even be some posters of my design up on their stand which will be rather cool.
Will have to go as the backlog of pattern writing, checking, typing, more checking etc is calling me.
for now
Ruby xx
I have been frantically trying to catch up on a million things I am behind with. As usual the neck and shoulder were responsible for the delay but this time, nasty nasty painkillers really messed me up, causing me problems with vision, speech and thinking straight, so as a result I got behind.
For those of you who are waiting for the next issue of knitonthenet to appear, the above is a lot to blame for the problem. However, I am really, really thrilled with the designs I've got going in this issue. One of the yarns I've used is Bowmont Braf which has been featured in knitonthenet and will be available at Wonderwool Wales on 26th and 27th April. I know there is limited supply of the yarn as they only have a relatively small flock of this specially bred sheep breed. If you're going to Wonderwool I would grab it. Its a pure wool 4ply and has a slightly felted finish to it. I'm hoping there might even be some posters of my design up on their stand which will be rather cool.
Will have to go as the backlog of pattern writing, checking, typing, more checking etc is calling me.
for now
Ruby xx
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