I've been following our Flickr group discussions carefully, and there are 3 topics I thought would be important for me to touch on here for everyone to read. Working decreases on purl rows I may have touched on this elsewhere, but I wanted to mention it here too. In the pattern as written, it tells you to start off the armhole decreases as follows: k2tog each end of the next 4 rows Either this is an editing mistake, ... Read more »
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Briar Rose Vintage KAL: Two ways to knit the collar
Of course while Blogger was having problems was exactly when I wanted to post my next knit-along post! Anyway, we’ve reached the collar. There are two ways to approach it, and it’s up to you which method you choose. Knitting the collar 1) You can knit the collar as written (or with slight size modifications for those of you who resized your pattern) and sew it to the neckline. 2) You can pick up stitches along the ... Read more »
Briar Rose Vintage KAL: Shoulder shaping
(Update: This post was eaten during the Blogger outage. I waited patiently starting yesterday morning when they said "Blogger was back" and said they were restoring the posts that were "temporarily removed" from Wednesday and Thursday. 24 hours later my post isn't back and as of this morning they say "almost all" posts have been restored and now they're working on comments. Gee, thanks! Fortunately my mom had a copy of ... Read more »
Briar Rose Vintage KAL: Will post next week
I know I owe you all a knit-along post! Bad leader! Unfortunately it's not going to happen this week. I leave tomorrow for New Mexico for my emergency weekend trip. I will be seeing my family and will hopefully get to see my grandmother for what will most likely be one last time. Things have declined pretty quickly with her health. Does knitting relax you in stressful situations? It can go either way for me. ... Read more »
Crafty countdown to VLV
I have been running around like a crazy person in preparation for Viva Las Vegas! But my projects seem to be under control. Remember when I said I wasn't going to do any other projects specifically for VLV except for my black sleeveless sweater? Neither do I.New jean snap attached to Freddie's jeans? Check! The snap fell off awhile back and I've just been using a belt to hold it closed but finally got around to fixing ... Read more »
Briar Rose Vintage KAL: A couple of tips
Hey knit-alongers! How are you doing? It's been really fun seeing progress photos in the Flickr group! I admit, my Briar Rose is woefully still behind! That's what I get for setting too many deadlines for myself before VLV. But I can just start to see the finish line with my current vintage knit (that I have to finish before we leave, or else I need to rethink two outfits, yikes), so that means I'll be getting back to ... Read more »