I’ve faced the two sweaters that I dropped earlier this year because they had both pissed me off, in separate ways. The first was the Orbits sweater, the remains of which you see above. Unfortunately, there’s colorwork in the sleeves. And I knit sleeves with DPNs. And the tension on the floats was not good. […]

Pattern: Musselburgh Hat by Ysolda Teague Yarn: Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat in the Camelot colorway Needles: Size 3 circs and DPNs This is a great little pattern – very easy (which was exactly what I needed right now) and I think it’s going to be nice and warm (which is my holy

I have two sweaters going right now. I really need to decide what to do with them. I suspect the colorwork sweater may not survive – I’m not sure I can do the sleeves without making them too tight. But I feel like I also owe it to myself to try. The other is more

So this happened. I could have sworn I checked well enough for twisting when I cast on the middle stitching, but I think the back was actually twisted, so when I went to join the front and back, well. There you go. So I’ve put this to the side before I tink it back, in

This was as far as I got on the large size of the Summer Fjord sweater. When I tried it on, the neckline was just huge. It’s supposed to be on the looser side, but this was fall off both my shoulders loose. So I frogged it, and am going for the medium. This may

I’ve cast on something new for knitting. Even though my Orbits sweater isn’t done, the chances of me wearing it this season are rapidly dwindling, and I don’t want to take those sleeves too fast and mess them up again. So, here’s the Summer Fjord sweater, by Trin-Annelie. I’m using Knitpicks Lindy Chain yarn, which

It occurred to me that I haven’t posted about my sweater project in a while. I finished the body a couple weeks ago, and then just had some trouble wrapped my head around joining the sleeves back on, in pattern. I did finally do that about a week ago, and got to the end of

Pattern: Winter Dreamer Hat by Kalurah Hudson Yarn: Atlantic Coast Yarn Brandon Needles: Size 10 circs and DPNs First project of the season done!  I’m not normally a huge fan of bulky weight yarn, but it does lend itself to instant gratification projects. This is a simple pattern and looks very nice.  

To round out the year, here’s a state of the knitting works in progress.  I started the Orbits sweater in the beginning of December.  I bought the pattern in the sale the designer (Rachel Illsley/Unwind Knits) did for a Colorwork KAL.  So theoretically, this is for the KAL, except I haven’t bothered posted anything about it

I think it’s safe to say I will not be completing anymore knitting project this year.   The year was definitely about using up yarn.  Even the biggest project I completed (the In Dream Shawl) was one I started in 2021, and had to put aside for some time because it initially wasn’t working for me.