Aside from being a great opportunity to meet with other knitters, one of Stephanie‘s book tour stops always ends up being amusing and entertaining. She’s funny on stage, but she’s even funnier when you get her out from in front of all those staring, clapping people. Dinner with the grrls is always fun and this […]
Miriam Felton
Unique Designs & Technique for the Handknitter
EPS
EPS Button Bands
EPS is done and blocked and there are pictures in my camera to prove it, but first thing’s first. I told you I had concocted a way to work the button bands, but didn’t elaborate. I wanted something that would blend well with the stockinette-with-a-purl-turning-row facings that I knit at cuffs, collar and hem. I […]
No pictures yet.
I have pictures, they’re just in my camera and I haven’t had the time to process them yet. On Monday night I was busy finishing the sweater, last night I finished my heretofore unseen Thelonious socks right before I left to go to knitting, and this morning I needed to shower, so there’s been no […]
EPS Update
The yoke is done, the underarms are grafted and the sleeve hems have been sewn down. The ends are woven in and it’s time to steek the piece. I’m a little bit nervous. No turning back after that. I want to make sure that I have time when I do sit down to do it […]
EPS Continued
I finished the second sleeve on EPS, and joined the sleeves to the body. It was fiddley and uncomfortable to knit the first few rounds, but improved and after a few rounds I started the short rows. I worked 3 sets of short rows, using the center point of each sleeve as my reference. The […]
Sweater Madness, Part 1
My sock yarn stash may be growing (I can neither confirm nor deny reports of that nature), but right now I’m enamoured with sweaters! I finally did the math and began my EPS – Elizabeth (Zimmerman)’s Percentage Sweater. The basic idea behind this sweater is that you take your chest measurement (or bust measurement for […]
