So I really want some good boot socks.    And since I have calves of large size, I’m only going to get them by making them myself.   So here’s my attempt: Purl Soho’s Little Cable Knee Highs, in Knit Picks Stroll Tweed in the Down Heather colorway. These are toe up, which is admittedly not my […]

Pattern: Bobcap by Mary KeenanYarn: Dalegarn FalkNeedles: Size 6 circs and DPNs I got paranoid and made the medium size, and I totally could have pulled off the large.    So my primary aim, of using up this yarn, was not accomplished.  Oh well.   I at least got rid of the ends, and have

Still trying to use up the Dalegarn Falk yarn.     Here’s the Bobcat pattern by Mary Keenan.    Which I have already messed up, so will be ripping out. I’m beginning to think this yarn is cursed.

Pattern: Hermione Hearts Ron by Christy AylesworthYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in the Wolf colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs and size 4 circs and DPNs Finally, I’ve made it all the way through this pattern!    Which I do really like, and will probably want to make again in a real sport weight yarn. I did

Ok, let’s try this again.    Here’s Hermoine Hearts Ron, take 2.    Well, maybe three.   There were two versions in the old yarn, but I suppose those were 1.0 and 1.5. Oddly enough, I had cast on the original version in the correct needle size, or so I thought, because I swear I used size 2

Pattern: Tinker by Wooly WormheadYarn: Classic Elite Renaissance in the Cardinal colorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs This pattern is great!    Super easy.   You’re just knitting a tube and grafting the ends together.    (It looks way better formed into hat shape.)     This may become my go to worsted baby hat pattern.

The Coffee Bean Cardi being a gift, I’ve also cast on a hat to go with it.   This is Tinker, by Wooly Wormhead, and I’m using more of the unending stash of Classic Elite Renaissance in Cardinal.   This should actually be the last large scale project I can do with that yarn.    After that, it’s

Pattern: Little Coffee Bean Cardigan by Elizabeth SmithYarn: Quince and Co Lark in the Bark colorway, Cascade 220 Heathers 9489 (red) and Quince and Co Osprey in the Peacock colorwayNeedles: Size 7 DPNs and Circs and Size 8 DPNs and Circs Here’s the Coffee Bean Cardi – all done.    I’m pretty happy with it.    I

I was almost done with the Hermione Hearts Ron hat when I realized there was  no way I had enough yarn.    However, I had gone up a needle size to compensate for my tight knitting, and I was able to determine that the hat was plenty stretchy, so I went ahead and ripped it out,

Pattern: Evenstar Shawl by Susan PandorfYarn: Knitpicks Gloss in the Sterling colorwayNeedles: Size 4 circs and DPNs Here’s Mary’s Evenstar shawl, which is blocking in my bedroom as we speak. I still adore the pattern, and the Gloss yarn is a heavenly to work with.    I really wish I had more excuses to made