the blue blog archives: too darn hot

It's too hot. Inside. At night. Between having almost no desire to knit in this heat and trying to keep myself from casting on for tank girl six, I'm really in off mode here.

So today, by request, some pictures of how to work the half-twisted decrease that I learned at the Granite State Knit-In and posted about a few weeks ago. I'm not very good spatially and so can't work out what it would look like if you slipped the stitches back to the left needle before knitting them together. I'm pretty much a do-what-you-understand kind of gal, so I just do it like that.

Now I've got to put down this knitting and run through the fountain a few times with the boys!

posted by alison at 7:58 am | in techniques

Comments

Thank you for that decrease lesson! Very easy to understand and beautifully executed.

Posted by: Amy at June 26, 2003 8:48 AM

Very nice explanation and good pix! Try to stay cool today...

Posted by: claudia at June 26, 2003 9:05 AM

I can't knit when it's hot either - sweaty hands on the yarn - eeeeew!
Luckily we only have about one day that hot in a year in the uk.

Posted by: jen at June 26, 2003 3:13 PM

Enjoy the runs through the fountain with the boys! Knowing their ages, a *few* times won't be enough!

I was just browsing on elann.com & saw another yarn that's the same size as the ASC: Valeria di Roma Topacio, and I'm getting some of it as well as some of the Gedifra Wellness,to make another tank or two..maybe Pagan, if knitrowan.com ever emails me the pattern!

I just re-started Smooch yesterday since I was not happy with how large it was the first time around... hopefully this will be IT & I can proceed. I'm about to start the lace edging (am trying to figure out how to do it mathematically since i have an odd number of zig-zags... before i had an even number, but the thing was HUGE...)

Once i get the lace edging done on this tank, I'll take a photo for my blog...

Posted by: Jessica at June 26, 2003 6:51 PM

Thanks for the decrease demo! Very clear. I'm trying to think of some clever political joke about left-leaning decreases, but it's too hot... :)

Posted by: alison at June 27, 2003 12:21 AM

Finally! Knitting photos that actually match up with the description. You should write a techniques knitting book, Alison. GREAT pics.

Posted by: Kerstin at June 27, 2003 1:39 PM