First: my new Warmer Fleeps are, indeed, warm enough! The exact shape of the mittens could use some adjusting (the mitten top needs more overlap, and the thumbs are too long) but we walked half a mile to breakfast in 14°F (-10°C) weather and none of my fingers froze. Nice. Second: I got to finally wear my Breathe and Hope shawl in public. We...
According to my records (haha) I bought this fibre in the summer of 2018… …and spun it that fall into a gorgeous gradient… …which I’ve now knit into the “May I Borrow This, Please” shawl (available as a free download on Ravelry), and I am thrilled with it. The pattern is well-written, and I knit the whole thing in two weeks, even with adding...
I’ve wanted to knit Puppies since I got the knitting machine. Last year I bought four cones of laceweight yarn for it, and promised myself that I wouldn’t buy any more yarn until I’d knit the thing. So… I knit the thing. First, I made a swatch and attempted to felt it (not entirely, just a little bit) in the washing machine. I have...
The Which Way shawl was completed in a casual six weeks (mostly while watching football or at our weekly virtual knit night) with a combination of Cascade 220 Sport in “Jet” (a dark charcoal gray) and a set of Wonderland Yarns Mad Hatter mini-skeins in the Mad Tea Party colourway, on the recommended US 6/4mm needles. I decided to add a few extra rows...
I actually finished the Breathe and Hope shawl two weeks ago, and I’ve finally gotten around to taking pictures of it! The shawl took about two months to knit, although of course the actual knitting time was much less than that. I went through spurts of working on it for hours at a time, and then doing other things for a week. The navy...
The “Breathe and Hope” shawl caught my eye, and not just because everyone else is knitting it – I love the alternating directions of the stripes, the texture of the pattern, and the option to make the stripes subtle or striking, depending on the yarn. I chose a skein of Cascade Heritage in Navy to be the solid background to a skein of Zen...
I finished knitting and blocked the Sizzle Pop shawl – what a difference! That’s a 12″ ruler for scale in the before-and-after photos, and wow, look how much it grew! The shawl drapes beautifully now. It’s soft and squishy and relatively lightweight for its size, and I absolutely love it. I only made one small change to the pattern, and that was to knit...
While my sock drawer will never truly be full (it will just expand to be two drawers, haha!) I thought perhaps I might use some of my sock yarn to knit a shawl instead. I wanted something quick, easy, and relatively simple, and chose Multnomah – a pattern that I’ve had in my mental queue for about a decade. I love the waves of...
I like to buy souvenir sock yarn when I travel, especially if I can find something from a local dyer. This year’s yarn, which I got at Wasatch & Wool – a nifty little shop in Park City – is Salta Fingering from Yarnaceous Fibers. The colourway is “My Dinosaur Ate Your Unicorn,” and it’s beautifully dyed in shades of a mountain sunset. I...
Now that the mornings are dark and nippy, evenings are coming sooner and sooner, and some of my small summer projects are finished or nearly so, I’m starting to think about fall and winter projects! There’s so much I want to do… It would be nice if the rest of this blanket would crochet itself, but that’s not going to happen. I’m going to...
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