Friday, August 30, 2013

Eastern Cross Stitch on hand held needles

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The other day, I said that ECS could not be knit with handheld needles.  I can hear the tittering anonomouse saying, he is crazy," I c...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Metal spindles

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We are very much a product of our culture and the expectations programmed into us by that culture. We recognized neolithic spindle whorls...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Inventory of knitting methods

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Most modern knitters would say that one's method or style of knitting is purely a matter of personal preference.  I add that a knitter...
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Experts

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Feynman said that he did not trust the experts and always did the calculations himself.  That works for me. Traditional experts learn mor...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Socks

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Good socks allow one to walk farther, faster, and to be less foot sore afterward. For an army, this means that the army with the better s...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Weatherproof

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I claim to knit "weatherproof" garments.  If you claim to knit as tight as I do, your fabrics should do anything that my knitting...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

More on Eastern Cross Stitch (Coptic Socks)

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There are at least 2 ways to rapidly and effectively produce ECS. Use of short DPN with a long knitting sheath has already been mentioned....
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Jersey

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I long ago decided that Jersey and Guernsey (in the old days) had both produced fine, dense fabrics suitable for garments worn by sailors ...
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Eastern cross stitch

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I am coming to like ECS. Some years ago, I tested samples and decided it was inherently too porous to make a good fabric for fishing and sa...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Judging textile objects.

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The best textile judge that I know always asks, 'What is the PURPOSE of this object?"  The purpose of an object may be to display...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

A case of brandy

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This swatch has shown up in this blog before.  It was swaved with the steel needle (2.38 mm) and commercial wool 6-ply yarn with a gr...
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Swatch from last batch of 10-ply

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It is cabled, 5x2-ply yarn,  that runs  very close to 1,000 ypp. The swatch is still wet from washing. The base 2-ply was loom warp spun ...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Swaving on US 0

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Recent swaving on US 0 (2  mm) pricks using 1,200 ypp (4-ply) yarn.  It is a firm, weatherproof fabric, good for a trip around the Hor...

Knitting and Nalbinding

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All knit fabrics can be replicated by nalbinding. This is controlled by natural laws as deep and wide as the more commonly known Newton...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

More on crossed sitches

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Working with the Coptic Stitch, I was reminded of how much I like fabrics made with crossed and plaited stitches.  It is no wonder that at...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Cites

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 Makarieva, A. M., Gorshkov, V. G., Sheil, D., Nobre, A. D., and Li, B.-L.: Where do winds come from? A new theory on how water vapor conde...

20 gm, 3-ply, art yarn

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aka glove yarn Looks balanced to me.  I did not even put leases on it.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Swatching cotton

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The gauge is a bit off, but it is the right stitch and the variations in tension in the fabric are about correct. This was knit as we w...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

One Yarn Project.

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About spring thaw, I went  looking to buy a loom, and visited a loom dealer that had put a loom aside for me. We ended up sitting in the ba...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Nalbinding - not

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Consider :  http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/FEAThistory101.html  and in particular photos and identified as ' nalbinding...
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