A Ymir 2026 I setup a display of my progress in knitting. I (of course) neglected to get any pictures of the display. The display image is from KASF 2026. I included the following items: Scholar’s hat Display document about Scholar’s Hat.In 2018 my mother taught me to knit. We both knit a scholar’s hat using Wicked Woolens/Sally Pointer’s pattern…
(I actually finished this in May 2019 but realized that I’d never hit publish on the blog post). After my first thrummed cap I decided I wanted something a bit different. The first cap did not have a brim. It was also thrummed during the knitting (fiddly) and I felt that at 6″ the thrums were too long. Lastly after…
Started and finished a Monmouth Cap from a free pattern by Colleen Humphreys (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/monmouth-cap-the-details-matter). Started on 11/8/2018. Finished (but not yet blocked) 11/11/2018. “The earliest surviving example of the use of the term ‘Monmouth Cap’ is in a letter dated 1576. ” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_cap I’m mostly ambivalent about this cap. I made it because I had the bulky yarn in…
Thrum Cap started August 3, 2018. Finished August 20, 2018. Fulled August 21 and 22. From Merriam-Webster Thrum noun Definition of thrum 1 a (1) : a fringe of warp threads left on the loom after the cloth has been removed (2) : one of these warp threads b : a tuft or short piece of rope yarn used in…
Started on 4/24/2018. Finished 5/10/2018. Pattern: Frankenhat (Scholar’s Cap+Knitted coif cap) Yarn: Patons Classic Wool Worsted black medium 100% wool US$6.99 from Jo-Anne’s Needles: Clover 7″ US sz 8 (5 mm) double pointed bamboo needles Accessories: 3 knitting markers, 1 knitting counter, knitting point protectors (I used 7-8 normally) Total: $7 Tonight I finished knitting my second knitting project, Frankenhat.…
I am a rank NOOB when it comes to knitting. That said, I hit upon a clever method to track which round I’m on while I was knitting my first project. I’m recording it here so I don’t forget it (and to have the information as it’s own post rather than just as a footnote on my first knitting project).…
Started on 4/8/2018. Finished 4/22/2018. Technically this is not the first thing I have ever knit. It is the first thing I’ve completed. About 5 years ago Christian de Holacombe attempted to teach me to knit at a West/An Tir sock wars. I remember doing the stitching.. but I never finished the project and my fingers completely forgot how to…
An annotated bibliography of books and articles about table weaving. This has also been copied over to the Historic Tablet Weaving group on FaceBook.
She who dies with the most looms wins. At this point I think I have 5 looms. The simplest looms I have is this board loom. Aside from the backstrap method I believe it’s probably the simplest loom to build at home. My husband made my board loom from a 1×6 of quilted birch. The base is 5.5″ x 18″.…
This past weekend I ended up doing some tabletweaving in the park during our weekly fighter practice. Someone watched me for a while and then commented that although they’d done tabletweaving before they hadn’t dealt with the weft the same way that I do..so I figured it might be worthwhile to document how I deal with my weft. I honestly…