Showing off
Mar. 8th, 2014 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelMy chorus has a concert tomorrow night, which means a TON of rehearsals this week -- including 9:30-4:30 (with lunch break) today -- but we’re not active 100% of the time, because sometimes they’re working on soloist movements, or on a men-only bit, or we have a ten minute break, or something. So I usually bring some sort of crafting thing to work on, something that doesn’t need a pattern and doesn’t take a lot of room and I can just quietly work at when I don’t have to be “on” but is easy to put away as soon as I need to be singing.
This time I brought a practice thing that may or may not eventually become a wristwarmer but that I was using to practice the cabling technique used in Comet and Rotweinknoten and similar. And it’s not done yet -- needs at least half again as many rows -- but I wanted to show it off, just because.
[Pictured: closeup photo of fabric made in a red worsted weight acrylic (i.e. medium thickness of yarn, the standardish thickness most commonly available in regular craft stores), with a few cable twists in the middle. It resembles the look of knitted stockinette.]
This is not knitting.
This is my new darling, slip stitch crochet.
I love that it looks like knitting; I love that it’s stretchy; I love that cables are possible (although kind of hilariously awkward because wrangling yarn on odd rows of a cable cross is as bad as trying to wrangle dpn’s for the first time; I love that a cable cross can serve as a thumb hole for a wristwarmer. (Which is why that bit is a bit more open, because I had just demonstrated poking my thumb through.)
Squee.
This time I brought a practice thing that may or may not eventually become a wristwarmer but that I was using to practice the cabling technique used in Comet and Rotweinknoten and similar. And it’s not done yet -- needs at least half again as many rows -- but I wanted to show it off, just because.
[Pictured: closeup photo of fabric made in a red worsted weight acrylic (i.e. medium thickness of yarn, the standardish thickness most commonly available in regular craft stores), with a few cable twists in the middle. It resembles the look of knitted stockinette.]
This is not knitting.
This is my new darling, slip stitch crochet.
I love that it looks like knitting; I love that it’s stretchy; I love that cables are possible (although kind of hilariously awkward because wrangling yarn on odd rows of a cable cross is as bad as trying to wrangle dpn’s for the first time; I love that a cable cross can serve as a thumb hole for a wristwarmer. (Which is why that bit is a bit more open, because I had just demonstrated poking my thumb through.)
Squee.
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Date: 2014-03-09 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-09 02:51 am (UTC)This is also ssc, and while the edge by my fingers is Not Right, the rest of it demonstrates how colorwork works (stripes!) and also how incredible short rows are (and they're also super easy) and just /flail.
I am sorta in love :D
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Date: 2014-03-09 03:53 am (UTC)That's amazing how much it looks like knitting!
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Date: 2014-03-09 03:48 am (UTC)I know nothing about knitting/related crafts, so I'm always astounded at the beautiful things people make with it!
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Date: 2014-03-09 07:06 pm (UTC)Yarncraft is awesome imo ♥
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