comicscamp.club is part of the decentralized social network powered by Mastodon.
A friendly home in the Fediverse for creators and lovers of comics and narrative art of all sorts.

Server stats:

27
active users

Learn more

#xmas

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Dear knitters of Mastodon,

Many years ago, I started this top-down circular yoke stranded colourwork jumper, hoping to knit my own ugly Christmas jumper, using a pattern by Drops (ravelry.com/patterns/library/1), using DK-weight Drops Karisma yarn (ravelry.com/yarns/library/garn), knitting on 4mm needles.

I stopped knitting because I made a mistake and couldn't face the frogging.

Now I want to frog the whole thing and start over, in part because I feel like my stranded colourwork skills are much better now.

I am wondering if I should find a different pattern? Maybe I don't want the jumper to be "ugly" anymore, so it would be a bit more wearable? Don't know if ugliness vibes are completely avoidable, given the colourways that I have.

QUESTION: do you have any suggestions for your favourite circular yoke stranded colourwork jumper patterns that might suit the yarn that I have (MC: 500 grams / 1000 m; CC: 100 grams / 200 m)?

I never actually completed a circular yoke, or a stranded colourwork jumper, so maybe something that has some good alternation between the colours would be best, just in case I don't manage a good tension on longer floats.

The HIGHLIGHT of my #Xmas haul is @SimonRoyHughes 's excellent Annotated Edition of the complete Norwegian #Folktale collection from the legendary Asbjørnsen & Moe.

The most complete English translation of these works ever made, easily. Absolutely gold mine of interesting tales for #writers looking for ideas and contextual info for amateur #folklorist

Or, you know, just reading them to folks like your kids--as they are meant to live.

(links to buy your own in the reply--no I'm not sponsored).

If you're wanting some company today, there is a watch party on Retrostrange TV in association with @radiofreefedi 😃

You can take part at:

➡️ live.retrostrange.com

EDIT: The watch party is now over, but the video channel runs 24/7 automatically.

In case you're lucky enough to have missed this, there was an official Star Wars Christmas thing on television in the 1970s:

archive.org/details/star-wars-

It has cameos from the original cast including Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill etc etc, but it's mainly terrible filler with people you've never heard of doing inexplicably weird things 😆

George Lucas tried to bury this programme for years.

Also, if you're wondering why Hamill looks so strange, he had just been in a car crash and they had to cover his wounds/bruises in massive amounts of makeup 😬

cc @starwars