showed you on Tuesday<\/strong><\/a> where the wall had been torn out, preparing for repairs.\u00a0 It should have been a one-day job.\u00a0 The work isn’t being done by a regular contractor; I’ll leave it at that.\u00a0 I spent Tuesday night without insulation in that area.\u00a0 Ditto for last night.\u00a0 Framing was done today, with insulation and sheetrock, but there was trouble sealing the window back into place, but that finally got fixed near dark this evening.\u00a0 And, of course, there was some sealant material to prevent further leaks.\u00a0 But he’ll come back tomorrow to tape and float the sheet rock, and do some other repair work.\u00a0 Meanwhile, my space is all a-jumble.\u00a0 Once he fixes everything and cleans up alllll the equipment, tools,\u00a0 fasteners, and working debris strewn about my space, then I can spend an afternoon putting all the furniture and equipment back into place and I can start regular working again.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, since I can’t do actual work, I’ve used some free time to continue working on The Thing.\u00a0 I thought I had established a patterning sequence, turning it into a rather mindless busy-work:\u00a0 starting\u00a0 with about a dozen knit rows for a garter stitch border, then establish the pattern:\u00a0 a band of teal with purple squares, then a band of purple with teal squares.\u00a0 Alternating back and forth, carrying the inactive yarn up the right side, caught up and hidden behind the working yarn of whatever row it is.\u00a0 Easy-peasy, right?<\/p>\n
Wrong!\u00a0 I somehow wasn’t paying attention and made a double row of teal boxes in the purple band.\u00a0 I wasn’t keen on ripping out, so I just did a double row of purple boxes on the teal band.\u00a0 Basically I just turned a mistake into a design feature.<\/p>\n
I know I have plenty of both colors, all purchased together long ago.\u00a0 \u00a0The piece is 14 inches wide, and currently more than 12 inches long. I have more than enough yarn to make this into 6 or 7 feet long.\u00a0 So there is plenty of room to just go hog wild and play with variations on the theme; i.e.,\u00a0 solid bands of color with the contrast color as boxes strewn across.\u00a0 I could increase the height of the bands.\u00a0 I could play with the number and\/or width of the boxes or how many rows of boxes.\u00a0 As long as I stay within the framework of color bands with contrasting boxes, I see a lot of room for playing with this.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Or I might just frustrated and frog it out to make a different project but still in the same theme.\u00a0 I don’t know. The year is young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okay, so we are now in 2025.\u00a0 Welcome to a new year full of hopes and dreams, inspirations and aspirations. The wall around the window is still not entirely fixed.\u00a0 I showed you on Tuesday where the wall had been torn out, preparing for repairs.\u00a0 It should have been a one-day job.\u00a0 The work isn’t … Continue reading New Year, New Wall, New Project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting-pattern","category-working-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}