A friend announced that she was expecting, and my first thought was that I should knit a blanket – because even though I’d long sworn off any obligation to knit for babies, that was before I had a knitting machine, right? I could crank out a blanket so fast, I told myself. It’ll be like nothing, I said. No problem at all, I said....
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...
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...
Over on Ravelry, the Remrants group is hosting a Colour Your Winter Craft-A-Long challenge – to finish a colourwork pattern before 31 March. Works-in-progress are acceptable entries, but I decided to start my year off with the challenge of designing a new hat in four shades of DK-weight yarn: brown, tan, red, and light blue. My first attempt at two-colour ribbing didn’t have a...
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