Machine Knit Monday 10/28/2013

I know the machine knit jacket is supposed to be finished but I didn't do any sewing last week. I did make a feeble effort to clean off my sewing table and although it is cleaner...it's still a mess. So what have I been doing you might ask? For the most part I've just been reading. While I've always been an avid reader, in the last couple of years most of my reading has been sewing related. Recently I've gotten back to my favorite kind of reading--fiction. I've watched almost no television in the last month but instead have chosen to read. I've read The Help, The Rackateer, I Alex Cross, Notorious Nineteen, and am currently reading 7th Heaven. So there you have it. I haven't lost my sewing mojo it's just that reading is taking up all my time. Before the week is out I do plan to "knock-off" a dress I saw online at the Avenue. Stay tuned.

Wide-eyed Wednesday 10/23/2013

No sewing going on here at all and here's why...

My cutting table is a mess. Hey where did that alcoholic beverage come from? I'm working on cleaning it up. Don't judge me!

Machine Knitting Monday - Boiled Wool

Here I am back with another machine knitting post. Today's project is another cut-n-sew garment. Cut-n-Sew has been coined in the machine knitting world to mean "machine knitted piece, cut with scissors and sewn together on the sewing machine." CNS is a longstanding taboo to most knitters, but not to me! The jacket below started out as coned yarn. I knitted a swatch which I shrank in hot water in the washing machine and dryer and obtained the gauge. I then knit the pieces according to my swatch. After shrinking all the knit fabric, I cut the pieces. After I'd cut and sew the jacket together, I realized I didn't like it and decided to refashion it.

 I started with 100% Aran wool yarn.

Knit the pieces on the knitting machine. Wash in hot water to "boil."

Cut, interfaced and sewed.

 Refashioned

Using Simplicity 2284. See you back next week for the final reveal!