Day 124.

Day 124.

There will be no updates for a few days because this is now on display at St Anne’s College, Oxford, for the duration of the Prismatic Translation conference.

I’ll be giving a talk on it this evening.

But if you’re a student at Oxford and you want to see it, you should be able to see it in Seminar room 1 of St Anne’s until Saturday afternoon.

It's a little bit of a faff, but it works perfectly for me: when you get to the end of a needle, drop that needle and carry on knitting the next two or three stitches from the next needle onto your live needle as well, then pick up your empty needle, slip those two/three stitches from the old live needle onto this needle, and carry on.

Basically, always knit two-three stitches from the next needle without changing your live needle, then change to the next live needle and slip those two/three stitches onto it, so you're never having to knit any stitches on joins.

Hello! I have a question about laddering with DPNs because no matter what I keep getting ladders on my socks. I usually knit with three in the stitches and the fourth one to knit and I've tried using all five and I've tried putting more tension on the parts where the needles meet but I can't seem to get it right :/ should I give up and just do magic loop?

Hi there,

Unfortunately, laddering can happen with the magic loop method as well.  

You said you’re using more tension at the joins.  Are you putting extra tension on the first few and last few stitches on each needle?  

Also, another trick I use is moving the stitches around periodically to change up where the first and last stitches on the needles are.  This can make laddering quite a bit less noticeable because it’s not happening with the same stitches every row.

Aside from doing what she’s already doing does anyone else have other ideas for a-piece-of-pjorn on how to avoid laddering?

Unsurprising fact: lots of lines in the Iliad start with των. Or occasionally, for variation, τωι.* You can tell which lines they are in this photo because ω is currently the only letter I'm using a blue for. So every line that has a blue second stitch is των (or τωι). *It's actually τω with an iota subscript, but throughout the whole project I'm reverting them back to full iotas.

Something else amazing I didn’t realise I needed in my life.

Everyone I have talked to today about Stitched Iliad and trying to finish book 2: Me: it's 877 lines. Them: ... Book 2 is that long?? Them: ... Them: *groan* Them: catalogue of ships. Of course.

Just proof that I'm still alive and doing other stuff beyond baby blankets: the WIPs I currently have on square frames. Does not include any knitting, crochet, or embroidery in round frames. The main light in my lounge is so yellow and rubbish. I need to sort that out.