Winter's Fern hat

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Let’s try this one again.   Here’s another go at the Winter’s Fern hat, by Trin-Annelie.    This time, I’m using the same yarn for all three colors.    (Briggs and Little Heritage).    I bought this from the close-outs at Webs, and got it out of the bag, and was shocked by how big […]

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Forest Park Cowl

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Pattern: Forest Park Cowl by Liz AbinanteYarn: I Knit or Dye Killing Me Softly Aran in the Natural Light Brown colorwayNeedles: size 8 circs Finally, I’ve finished a knitting project.   In the second quarter of the year.    My mojo was just horrid up until now!    This pattern was a lovely.   Easy,

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Forest Park Cowl

Knitting Notes

This is the Forest Park Cowl, by Liz Abinante, using I Knit or Dye Killing Me Softly Aran in the Natural Light Brown colorway.   It’s a good weight of yarn, and the type of pattern I know I can do.    If I can’t manage to see this through to completion, I give up.

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Whelp, the Blank Canvas Sweater is frogged.    I got up to the neckline, pre-shaping, and I could tell I wouldn’t have enough yarn to do the full shaping.    So I tried it on, to see if making it into a scoop neck would work.    And the torso was a smidge too short

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Knitting Notes

I am apparently not meant to be making a hat right now.   I got about three rows into the actual pattern of the current (third) attempt, and realized I had twisted it when I joined it to knit in the round. I officially give up.    I’ve added the three recent attempted patterns back

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Blank canvas sweater

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The Blank Canvas sweater is doing much better.    I’ve finished the main part of the body of the 40″ size, and the fit is much, much better.    (Though I’m definitely lifelining the crap out of everything so I can start over at any one point, at will.) I’ve started out on the first

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Knitting Notes

Well, both of the projects I’ve started so far this year have been frogged. In the case of the Blank Canvas sweater, even though I’m supposedly matching gauge, it was too big.    I’d gotten all they way to the chest and where you pause before making and attaching the sleeves, and it was just

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hexipuffs

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Just in time to end out the year, here’s the final dispensation of the Tess’ Designer Yarns Twinkle Toes in Cornflower blue. And, since I finished that relatively early in the evening last night, I cast on one of my planned 2017 projects.     This is Blank Canvas by Ysolda Teague, using the Fibre

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2016 Cold Sheep

I gave up posting about Cold Sheep on Ravelry ages ago, since I wasn’t knitting much all summer, but I do still want to do a wrap up. I started the year with 13028.10 yards and 648 grams (for yarn I didn’t know the yardage for) at the beginning of the year. I ended with

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