I’ve got two projects going at the moment.   The above is Woolly Wormhead’s Brownie Hat, which will complete my trifecta of hats for my older brother’s family.     It’s a fun pattern so far.    The brim is knit flat, and grafted together at the end, and I picked up the stitches for […]

Another sock yarn skein done.    This was the Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino in the Silver Bay colorway.    I’d gotten it through the yarn club, so I actually had about a skein in a half, because we’d gotten a bonus amount.    I made another pair of Fallberry Mitts (love that pattern), and three more hexipuffs.

Here’s a bit more stash busting – a couple of baby hats in the Reversible Cable baby hat pattern I’ve made before. I’ve also cast on some Fallberry mitts to bust some more yarn, and my Christmas knitting planning continues…

Pattern: Quest hat for a Man by Laura NelkinYarn: natural wool from somewhere in Michigan’s UPNeedles: Size 6 circs and DPNs Second time’s the charm!    I had enough yarn for the Quest hat, so Christmas knitting project number two is done!    Now, I just need to find a cute pattern to make for

Pattern: The Proverbial Cap by Meg SwansenYarn: Naturally dyed wool from somewhere in the Michigan UPNeedles: Size 6 circs and DPNs So, if you first don’t succeed in making a hat for your brother, you make a hat for his partner instead!    This is for S, and fortunately, this time around, I had plenty

So that Knotty hat I was working on?    Look how close I got to finishing it when I ran out of yarn.     Sigh.     It’s a shame too – the fabric was nice and thick, and I think it would have been a great hat.   But I only have the one skein, so back to the drawing

The quest to use up the leftover Anzula Cloud from my shawl begins.   I’ve completed the above hat and baby socks, and still have more left than I’d like to make into Hexipuffs.    I have to do some measuring of what I have left.    Maybe some nice, lacy fingerless mitts… For something to tide me

Pattern: Evenstar Shawl by Susan PandorfYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorwayNeedles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I finally got around to blocking the Evenstar Shawl. That was fairly exciting – even my bed wasn’t quite big enough to do it completely flat.    Fortunately though, because I stocked up on blocking pins, I at

And here is my Evenstar Shawl, in all its unblocked glory, finished just this morning. I have laid in a stash of extra blocking pins in anticipation of blocking this – there are tons of little scallops on the edging, and I wanted to make sure I could block those properly.    Which, speaking of the

So after I finished the fish hat relatively early yesterday, I was then able to finish out chart three of the Evenstar Shawl.    What I didn’t realize until I then read ahead for the next chart’s instructions is that this was the last chart in the main body of the shawl, and I’ve actually made