#knitting diary

stitches worked: 400

stitches frogged: 600

stitches cast on: 40

I decided to frog what I'd done so far because I did a bit more thinking and planning. I'm much more satisfied with the restart so far (though I'm tempted to fiddle with one column of stitches because it looks a bit funny, but I think it might just be a tension issue beside a cable).

I don't have much else to say about it yet, I guess. I'm trying not to worry that it'll be too small but that's the other new thing plaguing me about it. I've tried to check myself on gauge but it's hard to tell so few rounds in.

This gray sweater is so cute but it’s my least worn sweater which makes me feel a little bad because aesthetically I love it. Today I realized the actual reason for this is that it’s probably the warmest sweater I own which is honestly real weird to me given how little of my body it technically covers??? By the time I officially finished this last year— by which I mean sewed on the extra button it needed— it was much too warm for any wool sweater but this fall any time I put it on I’d go “cute!” And then be too warm and remove it.

Hello to all the people who never got around to unfollowing me, and Hello World!

This is me! Look at me, my blog title is a pun! You see? Because I am a singer and a Singer is also a brand of sewing machine? Do you get it? I don’t own a Singer machine, though, unfortunately.

I’m a 26-year-old opera singer who sews and knits. I have an eclectic sense of style ranging from ren faire to modern hippie to historical. I’m trying to make all of my own clothes and replace all of my bras with corsets and stays. We’ll see if that ever actually happens.

I thought about making a new blog for this project but decided I should honor past me by overhauling my old blog, formerly a-bag-of-cats.

Day 2 of knitting the Flax Sweater

4” total progress!

stitches cast on: 6

stitches worked: 15

stitches frogged: 15

I tried to start on what will be a cucumber (sliced) for my sister but I had to frog it 15 stitches in. I was holding white crochet thread and two pale greens together on 000 (1.5 mm) needles for the flesh. The palest green was barely visible and I kept missing it in the increases I was working. Tomorrow I shall try again without it, maybe. Or just in better light.