and with this my friends

i'm taking a leave. my first post confinement trip to my much loved porto.

see you in a fortnight give or take. 

 photos on insta.

be well and be good

neki desu

 

such a crack up

when people say machine knitting is cheating and not valid as handmade.since iv'e already dealt with that narrow mindness re cad weaving i am not wasting time replying or educating. i have come to find such ignorance  amusing. 

people have not encountered doing the last row and hearing a thud when the knitting gracefully drops from the machine and ends on the floor.

neither punching cards and getting the binary code glitchy therefore knitting imperfectly at  best.

punching a card for the next project, on stash busting mode.

it is quite vexing to find books which do not explain the ins and outs of punching cards and just limit themselves to images of cards and results. some are not so terrible as they consider there are different brands of machines which read cards in different ways.

luckily for m knitters there's alessandrina's blog where all the wisdom of the craft is deposited.

i use it as my repository where all my questions are answered or clarified.

re punch cards here's the definitive guide. you're welcome 

neki desu

 

front,back and back again

front and back are exactly alike,but while the front knitted  fast and with no misfortune,the back was a major incubus. three times it was knitted to a continuous sense of aggravation. the last time all kinds of measures were taken

 agar aga was painted on and the portion above was undone, then the stitches were picked up to continue with the knitting.time intensive ,but sdtarting from scratch again was not on the agenda.especially after such character building episodes.

 then a lifeline was added at the end to minimize risk of skipping stitches while  using the gatepeg bindoff

all in all it worked and now the infamous back is blocking and drying, another thing will be getting rid of the agar agar.but that's another story. now it needs to be joined from the funnel neck down to the shoulder. a pattern for cut and sew sleeves  needs to be drafted. using 2 already knitted lenghts same 2 colors different pattern, experiments in funkiness'. (￣︶￣)

neki desu