With Back to the Fuchsia done, I am focusing on my Halloween cats sweater. I’m making good progress, especially because I’m at the plain stockinette part! I decided I am going to do a colorwork band along the bottom as well, and then on to sleeve island! How about you? What are you working on,… Continue reading Wednesday WIPs
My Back to the Fuchsia (Ravelry link) is done! Why is there no fuchsia, you may ask? In thinking about colors I wore a lot of in the 80’s, cyan was probably my favorite. The pattern is Back to the Fuchsia by Cally Monster of Monsterknits. The yarn is KnitPick Palette in white, black, and… Continue reading Manic Monday
Beaded Wrist Warmers from Lithuania by Irena Felomena Juskiene is a great example of a book that has a very narrow topic but covers it in depth. The title tells you what you are going to get, and then it delivers. The book begins, as books on folkloric crafts often do, with some backstory. The… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Beaded Wrist Warmers from Lithuania
Both current projects are moving along pretty well! I’m on the last hound’s-tooth section on my Back to the Fuchsia (Ravelry link). I love the results, and it is a pretty fun knit. Definitely recommend! Now that the accent yarn situation is figured out, I’m back to making good progress on my Halloween Cats cardigan.… Continue reading Wednesday WIPs
It has been a bit of a journey finding replacement yarn for my Halloween Cats sweater. As mentioned in my last post, a couple of the accent colors were too similar in value to the main color for the sweater, so the the colorwork was not working. So first I ordered what looked like a… Continue reading Back on Track
This weekend I noticed a pretty big problem with one of my current WIPS Tension is good, pattern is cute. The problem is contrast. It’s missing! You can see the cats OK, and the little snippets of dark purple. But the green and orange just disappear into the background. Even as I was knitting it… Continue reading Recalculating…
I’ve got 1 old and 2 new projects actively in the works right now. With Supernova finished off, I picked Back to the Fuchsia up again and made a bit of progress. It’s coming along really well! As for new projects, I started a Halloween sweater KAL with Alissa of Snakes & Cranes and Sarah… Continue reading Weekend WIPs
My Supernova shawl from the Ambah O’Brien MKAL is finally done! I actually did pretty well keeping up until the 5th clue, which was pretty huge. Still not 100% sure about the yellow. However, the rest of the colors kind of tone it down. Sort of. Well, in any case, it’s done! Now back to… Continue reading Supernova Done!
Fishermen’s Knits From the Coast of Norway, by Line Iversen and Margareth Sandvik, is another book that pretty much tells you exactly what it is going to be about and then delivers. It is a somewhat recent book, published in December 2022. It starts with an in-depth look at what life was like for Norwegian… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Fishermen’s Knits From the Coast of Norway
Quite A Yarn 