Electric Sheep Shawl

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Pattern: Electric Sheep by Beata Jezek Yarn: Sundara Yarn Extra Fine DK Silky Merino in the Night Skies Gradient colorway Needles: Size 8 Circs I finally got around to blocking the Electric Sheep shawl. It didn’t really need the blocking to open up the pattern – it was mainly to smooth out some lumps. I

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Trisha sweater

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The Trisha sweater is going well. Which means I’m past the interesting bits in the yoke, and have moved into the endless stockinette portion of the body. What is cool about this is that it’s technically reverse stockinette, but the designer used short rows to turn things around so you’re knitting it as regular stockinette.

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Hexipuffs

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First two yarns of 2025 are used up – these hexipuffs are the rest of the The Alpaca Yarn Co. Paca-Peds and Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat yarns I just made hats with. It was nice to get some yarn struck out of my list – I sat on all my ends last

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Allerton Hat

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Pattern: Allerton Hat by Wooly Wormhead Yarn: The Alpaca Yarn Co. Paca-Peds in the Stardust colorway Needles: Size 1.5 DPNs This is a cute pattern – and has enough going on to keep it interesting, even though it’s fundamentally a garter stitch tube. And can I say how gratifying it was to do grafting in

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Hadleigh Hat

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Pattern: Hadleigh by Wooly Wormhead Yarn: Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat in the Camelot colorway Needles: 2.5 Circs and DPNs This was a fun pattern – not too hard, but definitely varied enough to be interesting. I’m in use up yarn mode right now. Still enjoy working with this yarn, and the book

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Electric Sheep Shawl

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The Electric Sheep shawl is done, but it still needs blocking. It totally illustrates my love of the color palette in the yarn I used for this – I had a hard time finding a surface in the house that it really contrasting with. For my next project, I’m going for some stash reduction. This

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Electric Sheep Shawl

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With a Boreas chart done, I’m back to knitting. This is the Electric Sheep shawl by Beata Jezek. I’m using a gradient set of Sundara Extra Fine DK Silky Merino called Night Skies. It’s three skeins going from blue to teal. (I saw it and had to buy it immediately – they are my colors.)

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