Pattern: Citadel by Beata Jezek Yarn: Knit Picks Capra in the Pesto colorway and Reywa Fibers Embrace in the Festival colorway Needles: Size 5 circs and DPNs This hat promises to be warm – it’s a cashmere and yak hybrid, and the double layering seems promising.    Here’s hoping I’ve finally found an airtight hat […]

Pattern: Arianrhod by Sue Lazenby Yarn: Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud in Blossom Heather Needles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I finally got around to blocking my sister’s shawl this weekend.   (It’s an ideal activity while waiting for a coworker to drive in and pick up our old couch to go to the dump.) I’m really

This the Citadel hat by Beata Jezek, using KnitPicks Capra in the Pesto colorway, and Reywa Fibers Yak in the Festival colorway.   (Yak!   I got it half off!!) Is it weird that winter hats make good summer projects?

Another cool thing about the new camera?    I can take evening shots, and reasonably expect the picture to come out in a usable format. I actually finished this about two weeks ago, but had been hoping to block it before I wrote about it.    That hasn’t happened yet, so since it’s the last

The sky scarf is now officially half done.    (It really is, because I haven’t yet touched it in July.)    It is pretty funny, because you can really see that June was grayer than May. I realized I’m going to have to order more white, and more of the medium blue (which has become

Here’s the sky scarf, as of 5/31/15.     You can see in this picture that I was finally able to introduce the dark gray I bought to represent thunder.     I’ve used it four times so far.     For one thunderstorm that happened in the middle of the night, I decided to

A few more hexipuffs to finish off the Tess’ Designer sock yarn.    There are few more here than I usually like to make from one color, but it’s so much lighter than a lot of what I already have, that it seemed like the contrast would be a good thing.

Here’s as much of the sky scarf as I’ve completed in March – I know I won’t be doing any more blog posts before 3/31.     It’s a little more blue this month, at least. In other projects, I’ve cast on Susan Lazenby’s Arianrhod shawl.     This is for my sister, who’s getting

Pattern: Craic Socks by Hannah SixYarn: Tess’ Designer Yarn Super Socks and BabyNeedles: Size 3 DPNs I do love cables.     They look so complicated, but are usually pretty simple.     This was a cool pattern – very easy to memorize (well, sort of.    I knew what was coming, but usually did

The first Craic sock is done. I’m liking the pattern – definitely falls into the challenging enough to remain interesting camp, and once you memorize what each cable detail means in the chart, it’s not too hard, either.