Stitches West starts in four days!
I’ve been revising my Seamless Argyle handout yet again. When I taught this class in the early 1990s, some students complained about the gaps at the edges of the diamonds. Last summer I revised the handout to fix the problem, but the cure was worse than the disease!
I went back to my original sock pattern and improved it. I figured out a simple, effective way to close the gaps–sew them closed with the cut yarn end. Sounds simple, but I was really stuck on the idea of not cutting the thread between certain diamonds, to avoid having more ends to weave in. Sometimes my own rules cause me a lot of trouble. But if I can make ’em, I can break ’em, and that’s what I did.
Thanks to the people who take my classes, my handouts continue to get better.
There’s one more major thing I need to do before I go west. I’m going to sew a cape and applique flowers and leaves from my book onto it. I’ll wear it to the Stitches banquet for sure, and give out slips of paper with book-ordering information to the hoards that will fall in love with the flowers. Just a little shameless book promotion!