70ies Crochet
Well, time for another update, no?
1. Off the needles/hooks:
Off the needles, but not finished is another Bimple hat. Just the knitting part for the smallest size took me under an hour. I still need to do the blanket stitch around the edge, so you’ll be seeing this one again next time.
The improvised skirt is also off the needles, but is still waiting for some lining, or at least an elastic waistband casing.
Also off the needles is one sock, just one. Nothing has been really finished this time.
2. On the needles/hooks:
On the needles is the second sock, just the ribbing for now. Then, I started something new, a cardigan for my son from Katya Frankel’s soon-to-come out book Boy’s Knits called Chip. You’ll be hearing more about this once it’s finished and the book is officially out.
3. Planning/Inspiration
In the planning phase are several designs. I am trying to ease back into working on designs. I make lists of submission deadlines, I swatch a lot. The better this goes, the less you’ll see (short term) of it.
4. Something else
I think this has happened to many of you before. Because people know you are a knitter or crocheter, they give you a huge bag of yarn from some old relative etc and expect you to go all “ooh” and “ah” about some neon colored acrylic with the smell that only 30 years in a cluttered attic can bestow. Well, that happened to me before. But this is a little different. Yes, there’s the smell, yes it’s super old, but it is a 100% wool, from George Picaud (a long discontinued yarn, but good quality).
The funny thing is the almost completed gigantic cardigan someone tried to crochet (in single crochet, bulky yarn!) out of it. Isn’t it… well… interesting?
The label is interesting, too. It starts out in French, then gives the yarn content in English, German and Italian. Then there’s this sentence in Italian about the norm number (or however you’d say that in English). And then they give you the yardage (actually it’s meters) in German only. And last, the needle size in French only.



















































