le Tour de Gansey, part trois: Stage 7

Today may be the final day of the Tour de France, but this Tour isn't finished yet! We've just finished the body (for now), so now it's time for... Stage 7: Sleeve #1 We're going a bit non-traditional this year, and entering the sleeve stages a bit early, and from the opposite direction as in…

le Tour de Gansey, part trois: Stage 6

We got a little peek of what's to come in this stage last time, but now we're really here... Stage 6: (faux) Gussets You may recall from last year's tour how much our knitter loved her underarm gussets. Well, the trouble with creating a more modernized, fitted gansey, is that set-in sleeves don't really warrant…

le Tour de Gansey, part trois: Stage 5

Apologies for the long delay between coverage of the last stage and this one, folks...our knitter is also in the process of preparing for her comprehensive exams, which requires reading some 100+ papers (where "paper" sometimes means "100+ page book chapter") in the span of less than two months in order to be ready to…

le Tour de Gansey, part trois: Stage 4

With that little diversion back into Stripes! territory done with, let's get back to our Tour coverage! When we left off, our knitter had just completed Stage 3, the establishment of the pattern motifs and seam stitches of the body. Next up, it's... Stage 4: Waist Shaping (the descent) Waist shaping? In a gansey? Yes,…

Stripes! is now available!

Thanks to the fantastic efforts of my test-knitters and the friends who helped me edit the pattern, Stripes! is finally available as a Ravelry download. You can also visit its Pattern Page here on this blog. I am so excited to be able to offer this pattern/tutorial! I decided not to make it free, which…

le Tour de Gansey, part trois: Stages 1-3

My apologies for the delay in coverage of le Tour de Gansey, part trois! Thanks to my disorganization, coverage of the early stages is going to be quite limited, but I'll try to keep things on track from here on out. Today, by the way, was the first day that I could knit while watching…

back from MN

I am back from Minnesota now, and totally exhausted. We had such a great time up there, hiking and walking around town and just generally relaxing with my parents. (And, in my case, reading lots of papers for my comprehensive exam). I didn't do a whole lot of knitting on the trip, but the Seraphim…

a beautiful evening.

It's the 4th of July. The first day of the Tour de France. But my gansey yarn and needles are at home, and while I did cheat slightly, and cast on before I left, I didn't take any pictures of that process. So, coverage of le Tour de Gansey, part trois will have to wait…