This skein from the Leicester Longwool sheep breed, and specifically from the LanaRosa Sheep and Cattle Company farm. The yarn feels very rich and has a lovely drapey feeling even in the skein like this. It is very naturally shiny, and feels pretty soft. This breed has, as their name implies, longish curly locks of… Continue reading SE2SE Yarn – Leicester Longwool
May is here, and with it a new project and new technique for the AC Knitwear Boost Your Knitting. This month, it is a pair of mittens that start with the tubular cast on. I had not heard of this cast on before, but having watched the video tutorial, I am sold! Basically you start… Continue reading Totally Tubular
Got my mosaic knitting project done this evening! I cheated a little on the colors for the final two pattern sections. But I was running low on the neon peach, and thought that throwing a little accent section of blue would look nice anyway. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out 🙂 It was… Continue reading Colorshift Mosaic Cowl Done!
There’s not much new with the Colorshift Cowl – it looks the same but more of it right now. If I’m able to put some time in on it tomorrow, it should be done. But we’ll see. It’s at the long hard slog phase, so hopefully I can get it done! So I did spend… Continue reading Next!
It’s May, which means there is a new project with a new technique to learn up on the Boost Your Knitting page! This month it is tubular cast on in the round, as part of making some lovely cabled mittens. I’m pretty excited about this one, so I want to get a move on and… Continue reading Mosaic Coming Together
Thanks to everyone who weighed in on the stockinette vs. garter question on this chevron section! I did decide to just keep going and mirror the sections. I hate the garter parts less now that there are a few more repeats of the stitch pattern, though I still think the stockinette parts definitely look better… Continue reading Chevrons This Way and That
With all these experiments and random knitting exercises I’m doing lately, I have run into a new problem – random swatch storage. When I do a swatch or two for a specific project, the swatch usually gets stored in the page protector with the pattern and at least one yarn label. But all of a… Continue reading Swatch Storage
Now that I’m into the central section, I decided to try the chevron pattern two different ways – one repeat of garter and one of stockinette. Here is how that turned out… I think in this section the pattern is much clearer in the stockinette section, though the garter part is interesting in its own… Continue reading Mosaic Knitting – the Plot Thickens
The dilemma with chores is always – should I totally wreck one evening, or wreck all the evenings a little bit each? I normally go for the “wreck every evening a little bit” option. This week I tried the other way. It was no fun at all on chore night, but has left me free… Continue reading Meandering Through the Mosaic
Quite A Yarn 