swatch
I like that word. Swatch. Today I swatched. I shouldn’t have but I couldn’t help myself; once in a while this woman has to swatch.
The temperature has dropped to normal winter frostbite levels, and I find myself glove and mitten-less. I could buy a pair and be done but instead I’m lusting over the Endpaper Mitts from See Euny Knit!, which also look good over at Knitting Box. I could just knit them, but I can’t seem to leave a good pattern alone; I feel compelled to modify it. It’s not you, pattern, it’s me.
The flower and bird motifs are adapted from Knitting in the Nordic Tradition by Vibeke Lind. This book has a dull cover that looks out of date, but don’t pass it by if you’re a knitter, the content is juicy and inspiring.
Feel free to place bets on when my hands will be properly attired.
January 30th, 2007 at 5:52 am
i love those mitts, too! very cute.
i like the word “switch,” but only in the sense of little sticks used for whipping. lol!
January 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
As opposed to “I was thinking I’d switch my wireless carrier”.
January 30th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
“I reeealy like it!!” says Julianne. “Is that how people knit birds? Or is that not knitten?”
🙂
January 31st, 2007 at 6:15 am
Yes it’s knitten.
; )
January 31st, 2007 at 7:25 am
excellent birds!
February 1st, 2007 at 3:44 am
Do you have any knitten kittens?
February 1st, 2007 at 6:57 am
I have no knitten kittens;
two kittens,
and one half-knitten mitten.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 am
and do these kittens need a good switchin’?
February 10th, 2007 at 8:56 am
[…] I finished the first of my fingerless mittens last night. My cursory reading of the pattern led to the increases being in the wrong place, and offset instead of symmetrical, but I’m surprisingly un-bothered by this imperfection. There’s the second mitten in which to get it right. […]
March 15th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Hey Boodely………… found you again!
Swatch is a good word, sounds like a lost American Indian tribe. The probably had very well fitting garments.
Fab colour combo and pattern.
I know the book, it’s very traditional but a wonderful resource.
Cheers
Helle
April 21st, 2008 at 7:27 am
Love your blog!! So cool to find that you use the same book for inspiration, the one by Vibeke Lind, that I go to for measurements, patterns, ideas, sense of history and , well…plain lust for yarn.