Pattern: Northlights by Clare Hutchison Yarn: Sundara Sock in the Water Studies #35 colorway Needles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I managed to get a 21″ and 19″ hat out of this skein of sock yarn, and I should have enough left for a baby hat for the stash.    Good pattern – easy, but […]

Found an opportunity to do some charity knitting – blue hats for an anti-bullying program. I have plenty of blue yarn. This is the Northlights hat by Clare Hutchinson – I should be able to pull off two from a skein of Sundara Sock yarn. (The colorway is Water Studies #49.)

Finished off March with a bit of yarn finishing. Here’s the results of the two colorways of OntheRound Nimble sock. Two Swirl hats for the stash. And of course, hexipuffs. I’m holding off on finished off the Lana Plantae yarn – I have an idea for that that’ll require purchasing another color to go with

Pattern: Palanen kauneinta (Piece of the Most Beautiful) by Tiina Kuu Yarn: Lana Plantae Rambouillet Fingering in the Cochineal & Madder and Ontheround Nimble Socks in the Barred Owl and Narwhal colorways Needles: Size 1.5 and 2.5 DPNs I did enjoy making these socks, and this foray into colorwork was definitely a good experience.   

I forgot – there is another reason I’m not a fan of toe up socks. The short row heels. I ran into that hard with these socks. I got my way through it (first sock was finished last night), but apparently my new found liking of toe up socks is false – I really hate

Pattern:  Rose Plank by Monika Sirna Yarn: Bare Naked Wools Targhee Tango Sport in the Apilado colorway Needles: Size 2 circs The Rose Plank shawl is done and blocked.      The blocking doesn’t do a ton, but if you compare the pictures of before and after, it does firm things up a bit.   

Next project is started! These are the Palanen kauneinta (Piece of The Most Beautiful) socks by Tiina Kuu. I picked them out because I wanted to do some colorwork and get rid of the fair amounts of OntheRound Nimble sock I had left. I also liked the look of the heel. I was not paying

The Rose Plank shawl is done. I am going to block it – it won’t open up as much as a lace shawl, but it’ll definitely benefit from a bit of a stretch.

I think it’s safe to say I won’t be finishing any more knitting projects this year, so here’s this past year’s completed collage. It feels a bit low in count, but better than 2020, at least. Part of this is that I’ve been doing more cross stitch, but I feel like my mojo for a

Here are a couple of baby Swirl hats to finish up the Koigu yarn – I was hoping to finish off at least one more skein before the new year.