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meeting knitting addendum

One more feature of a good pattern for meetings: short rows or circular knitting. I’m working on a hat right now that’s mostly knit flat, and the rows are fairly long. That means I have to judge at the end of each row whether I think the meeting will continue all the way through the [...]

seasons: spring redux

Back in January I wrote about “cold spring” and “warm spring”, because that’s the way I remembered it…now we’re actually getting into spring, and I’m feeling a need to adjust from my earlier comments, partially because spring is so erratic. I’d almost say at this point that there’s a mild wet spring and a bright [...]

meeting knitting addendum

Another thing about patterns for knitting in meetings: they shouldn’t look too complicated to other people.  So the piece I’m working on now — a pair of fingerless mitts worked in the round — is really simple, but DPNs (double-pointed needles) look freaky complicated. And that distracts other people, even if I’m just fine. (I [...]