The Vivid blanket progresses. I’d gotten to my original goal – four squares for each of the six colors – on Friday night. In laying them out today, I’m going to try and go for one more square in each color (which I’m fairly sure I have enough for, but I’ll know as soon as […]
I realized I haven’t posted anything about any knitting for a while, and there is a good reason for that. It’s been hot (this is going to become a recurring theme in the next couple of posts.) So the blanket I’ve been working on is probably the best possible project to be working
I’m done with the first Traveling Stitch legwarmer. I like this pattern, even though there’s a lot of purling, the cable pattern is enough to keep things interesting. I’ve been side tracking from starting the other one for a bit though, by the following: This is the Vivid baby blanket from tincanknits,
With the addition of: Knitpicks Wool of the Andes in Coal, Bamboo Heather and Camel Heather, Studio Donegal Aran Tweed and Knit Picks Chroma Worsted in Weathervane, I have now added all of the scraps of worsted or aran weight yarn I have hanging around to this blanket. It’s pretty much crib size right
The scrappy garter stitch blanket is coming along. I’ve greatly reduced my worsted weight ends stash. Since I last checked in, I’ve added the following to the blanket: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Baltic Heather, Shire Heather and Brass Heather colorways, Knitpicks Wool of the Andes Superwash in Columbine, Knitpicks
In the spirit of Cold Sheep, I looked for ideas for using up my worsted weight scraps en mass (they’re the biggest volume I had since I control the fingering weight scraps with hexipuffs.) I hit upon this garter stitch blanket (Ten Stitch Blanket by Frankie Brown), which is great, because you basically just
Pattern: Pyukkleen by Ysolda TeagueYarns: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in the Bamboo Heather, Baltic Heather, Camel Heather, Shire Heather, Coal and Brass Heather colorways.Needles: Size 9 circs and DPNs I liked this pattern. It was a good intro to colorwork (I made some notes in my last blog post that I will
So this is Pyukkleen, so very close to being done, but for reasons that will soon be pictorially clear, will not be finished in April. This is three casts ons, and one slight rip back, in. Lesson number one of colorwork: if at all possible, print the pattern in color, for reference. Lesson
This is the beginnings of Pyukkleen, by Ysolda Teague. It’s the biggest colorwork project I’ve done to date. I don’t normally care too much about reproducing colorways exactly from patterns, but I actually really liked the combinations in the original pattern. I don’t have easy access to Jamieson’s, so I went with Knit
Pattern: Fish Hat (Dead or Alive?) by Thelma EgbertsYarn: Knitpick Chroma in the Weathervane colorway, Cascade Alpaca Lana d’Oro in Ruby, Classic Elite Renaissance in the Cardinal colorway, Cascade 220 Heathers 2445 (green), Cascade 200 Superwash 844 (lighter purple), Knitpicks Wool of the Andes Superwash in Columbine Heather, Malabrigo Rios in the Glazed Carrots colorwayNeedles:
