Oolong knits

Before we begin Left- or right-leaning decreases are called left- or right-leaning because that is the way they look on the right-side of the work (RS). In particular, this refers to the inclination of the stitch that stays on top as seen from the RS. This is also true for double decreases. Also, in the case of the centered double decrease, it is the central stitch (of the 3 involved in this decrease) that stays on top when seen from the RS (this stitch does not lean in any direction). Therefore, stitches which are worked on the wrong side of the work (WS), as described below, look exactly the same as their RS counterparts. In case you're wondering, all these stitches look very similar on the WS (see the photos on this post ). Another important difference between left- or right-leaning decreases is that they have the effect of pulling the fabric in their respective direction. This effect becomes very visible when decreases are stacked, i.e. when the same decrease is worked on...

After publishing last weeks very depressing post, I started thinking that I need to make sure 2022 goes a lot better than the previous year. I'm going to confess that it's not beginning any better than 2021, on the contrary. I'm quite sick, the doctors are clueless and not trying at all, my family is going through a very hard time. But it's all this that forces me to face the fact that if I don't start making very conscious choices about how I choose to live it, this year is pretty much doomed from the start. There were several things that went wrong in 2021, but, as my knitting shows so well, the main problem was that, I felt so drained of energy, I put very little effort in anything. Most of the times I just went with the flow and most of the decisions I made were made for the wrong reasons: not bothering, not putting an effort thinking before I started, not putting an effort correcting when anything went astray. To be honest, at the beginning of 2021 I was re...

Was 2021 a bad year for you? I guess it was for most people, if for no other reason, because of this never ending pandemic. As for myself, I'm not even sure what's wrong. Everything is like a fog. I've lost all sense of time, days melt together without highlights. I can't seem to do anything right. When something goes wrong, I don't have the energy or the mental lucidity to fight it and I also lack the enthusiasm necessary to get things right. I hadn't realised just how bad 2021 had been for me, until I checked out my list of knitting projects for 2021. It's strange how my knitting illustrates so well everything that is wrong with my life right now. I thought I'd knitted quite a lot this year, but I have knitted mostly small projects and not that many. But what I found truly disappointing is that I've not knitted a single project that I love. On the contrary, everything I knitted the past year was so boring that I struggled to pick some pictur...