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Posted by Wooly on December 8, 2007, 5:33 pm
I'm nearly finished with Christmas knitting - both my own and the
commission jobs. I had a couple more cap orders come in, thankfully
only two caps each. I'm going to cheat and run them on the knitting
machine, then make sewn square tops and graft on the (machine-knit)
ribbing by hand. I'd much rather graft 100 stitches 4x than knit four
more caps by hand!
I did finish fringing and beading on all the scarves the female
relatives are receiving for Giftmas. I redid the fringe on the first
scarf, as I refined my method substantially as I went along and it was
just too nasty in its first iteration.
I need to slap the sock machine back together and run some socks for the
male relatives but that's a day of assembly and cranking, after which I
will have to do more grafting to close the toes. Easy-peasy compared to
hand-knitting the socks! I do need to experiment with making the
ribbing on my big Duo80 flat knitter and transferring it to the CSM so
that I can have rib-top socks. Transferring stitches can be fiddly but
it goes pretty fast. Ribbing would have a seam in the back, who cares,
rib-top machine-cranked socks off a machine with a ribber that doesn't
work!?! You bet!
I'm going to put off making the port balls until Monday. They're fast
but I don't feel like futzing with it over the weekend. Plus I have no
'Nilla Wafers :D
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