May. 16th, 2026 10:11 pm
postscript 2 to prev
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thistleingreyThe red scarf for my mother is paused because it increases eyestrain. A different scarf has resurfaced, formerly a waiting-for-things project; she likes its WIP form almost as well, though it's not red.
The difference there isn't really the yarn or needles (both projects use light fingering-weight). For the red scarf, I must check the written pattern twice or more per row, and for the waiting project, it's perhaps once in 6-8 rows. My knitting has been slowed or blocked partly by how eyestrain intersects reading. For any project, now, I've borrowed an accommodation that some folks use for dyslexia---covering (or folding under) irrelevant pattern rows on a printout.
Vidje is lovely, but given that its yarn (Woolfolk's Tov) would require dropping USD 500 and is tough to substitute, it's not happening. (I might try the pattern sometime with other yarn, but $500 isn't the right price point even if someone gifted me the yarn because I'd worry about wearing the result.)
Halmoni Jacket has been test-knitted by a variety of folks, yet at the same time, its designer and I share a pivotal body-proportion feature that another designer once told me was impossible (the one who insisted that I'd mismeasured myself).
I'm aware of two knitting designers who've self-described as having that specific issue with garment fit. We have a few things in common. ( Read more... )
The Halmoni Jacket WIP has its shoulder-saddles and its back panel, in closeout-clearance yarn of a hue no one else wanted (yet when my mother saw it without that commentary, she said immediately, "That's a great color for your hair," and I agree). No matter how the WIP fares, it's as close as this outlier is likely to get to a pattern that suits other people and perhaps also me.
The difference there isn't really the yarn or needles (both projects use light fingering-weight). For the red scarf, I must check the written pattern twice or more per row, and for the waiting project, it's perhaps once in 6-8 rows. My knitting has been slowed or blocked partly by how eyestrain intersects reading. For any project, now, I've borrowed an accommodation that some folks use for dyslexia---covering (or folding under) irrelevant pattern rows on a printout.
Vidje is lovely, but given that its yarn (Woolfolk's Tov) would require dropping USD 500 and is tough to substitute, it's not happening. (I might try the pattern sometime with other yarn, but $500 isn't the right price point even if someone gifted me the yarn because I'd worry about wearing the result.)
Halmoni Jacket has been test-knitted by a variety of folks, yet at the same time, its designer and I share a pivotal body-proportion feature that another designer once told me was impossible (the one who insisted that I'd mismeasured myself).
I'm aware of two knitting designers who've self-described as having that specific issue with garment fit. We have a few things in common. ( Read more... )
The Halmoni Jacket WIP has its shoulder-saddles and its back panel, in closeout-clearance yarn of a hue no one else wanted (yet when my mother saw it without that commentary, she said immediately, "That's a great color for your hair," and I agree). No matter how the WIP fares, it's as close as this outlier is likely to get to a pattern that suits other people and perhaps also me.
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