Pattern: Leap! by Brooke RamosYarn: Knit Picks Stroll in the Dusk, Pine, and Merlot Heather colorways, and Knit Picks Palette in the Silver colorwayNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs So these are my first pair of mitts with actual fingers – and I’ll admit, if I was doing these again, I’d make the fingers longer. […]
As a bit of a contrast to the Leap! mitts, I’ve also cast on yet another Quest men’s hat. I’d made one in a size large for my younger brother ages ago, but it was really too big, so he asked if he could get a smaller one. I like this pattern, and
The next thing I cast on is firmly in the use up yarn! category. These are Leap! mitts, by Brooke Ramos. I’ve got three different types of KnitPicks Stroll, and a KnitPicks Palette in there. They all had fairly large amounts left, so I’m hoping to get them down to more
Pattern: Checkerboard Gansey Socks by Lisa KayYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose ColorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs You know, I don’t want to say anything bad about this pattern, because it’s really fine, but it really does confirm that I prefer top down socks to toe up socks. I don’t like the cast
Pattern: Brezel by Svetlana VolkovaYarn: Classic Elite Alpaca Lana D’Oro in the Ruby colorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs and DPNs We’ve started a bit of a tradition when the BF and I go to a yarn store together – he looks for yarn he likes so I can make him something. (So far, it’s been
Since the alpaca cowl I was making was so simple, I decided to cast on something else a little more complicated to go back and forth between. BF had admired the pattern I had made for his younger brother’s Christmas hat, so I cast on one for him, using the Classic Elite Lana
Pattern: a simple stockinette cowl, by meYarn: Twillingate Farm’s Alpaca yarnNeedles: Size 8 circs So I’d tried to make a hat out of this yarn, and the heavier weight yarn just didn’t work in a more formal pattern. So I frogged that, and went with a really simple cowl instead. I believe this
This is a Lolo hat, by Jared Flood. I’m using the Twillingate Farms alpaca that L bought me. I have two skeins of that – one’s basically worsted weight, the other is fingering. I only have 50 yards of the worsted, and I really wasn’t able to find any patterns I
I’ve decided to do Cold Sheep for 2016 (from the LSG Group on Ravelry). The idea is to not buy new yarn for some set period of time in 2016 (with some allowed exceptions), and to knit from your existing stash. I’m going to attempt this for the whole year. My stash (see
Here we go – kind of a light year, really. Though I was doing shawls, and scarves, which tend to take a little longer.
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