I’m continuing to make progress on my Vertices Unite. I’m not working on it a lot, but some. And I’m happy with how the orange looks with the blues. Pop!! And my Damele top is finally done! It is somewhat translucent so I’ll have to wear something under it, but I have plenty of tank… Continue reading A WIP and a FO
Just in case you aren’t following Alissa Head of Headknits (and if not, why not?) she is launching a new side gig creating quarterly mystery yarn boxes! You can read all about it on her blog. It looks like a great theme, and she has some exciting items lined up!
After a pretty long break from online classes, I jumped back in with Vogue Knitting Live this weekend. Saturday I took Killer Color Cables with Melissa Leapman. The technique we focused on was stranded cabling. If you have done stranded colorwork and cabling, you will not find this too tough. Keeping the floats/tension right was… Continue reading Back to Class – Vogue Knitting Live
My Vertices Unite is moving along – I have just finished section 2! So far I’m happy with it. The four yarns that make up these two sections will make up most of the rest of the shawl, alone or in different combinations. The only other different yarn is the next section. Here is the… Continue reading Vertices Unite Progress
Twined knitting is a traditional Swedish knitting technique also known as two-end knitting. The basis of this techniques is that you are knitting with two strands of yarn that you twine around each other as you knit. The “two-end” name is because people often use two ends of the same cake of yarn – taking… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Twined Knitting Two-Fer
I had a lot of knitting time today, which let me get two National Park afghan blocks done! (Ravelry link) Happy Galentine’s Day!! This block represents Glacier National Park, specifically the Going-to-the-Sun road which is a feature of the park. For more about this park, check out their website here. And this one represents Mesa… Continue reading Park Blocks: Slowly But Surely
The 2 Spooky Pattern and kit are both from Nancy Bates Designs. The pattern is well written and has a nice, clear chart for the colorwork. The yarn kit had a good amount of yarn in it – I have a little left of all the colors, but not huge amounts. It is nice quality… Continue reading Friday FO: 2 Spooky Hat
Some progress to report! The Halloween hat is moving along. I just started the decreases, so not too much knitting left. After that is done there is a little duplicate stitching to do on the pumpkins, then blocking and so on. I’m pretty happy with this hat – it is cute, and it’s an easy… Continue reading Wednesday WIPs
Yesterday I started on a kit I have had for a while, 2 Spooky Halloween Hat by Nancy Bates. So far it’s a pretty easy and fun knit. The kit came with a printed pattern and all the needed yarns. This one may get finished this week! Hats are so fun and quick to make… Continue reading Saturday Start
Quite A Yarn 