Pattern: Zostera marina by Hunter HammersenYarn: Blue Moon Yarn Silky SockNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs First project of the year!    It was mostly completed last year, but then I got a bug about eating up some yarn scraps before 2022 ended, so this went to the side for a bit.    It’s an enjoyable pattern […]

This was all the worsted (ish) weight scraps I had kicking around. I managed to get them all used up last night, so all of them are getting knocked out of my yarn tally ahead of of 2023. (I do like a good yarn purge.) I have a few other ideas for using up scraps,

That’s a lot of hats… I thought I made more socks this year, but I guess I was coasting on memories of last year. My biggest failure was a shawl I cast on three separate times – I do plan to start it again this year, but I definitely needed some distance before I could

We had a historic storm yesterday. We actually got rain (it was in the 50s the whole day), with tons of wind, and the height of it coincided with the monthly highest high tide. Needless to say, there were tons of trees down, and the coastal impacts were pretty epic. I mention this in a

Pattern: Bough by Leila RavenYarn: Cascade Alpaca Lana D’Oro in the Ruby colorwayNeedles: Size 4 and 7 circs and size 7 DPNs Another quick hat – this one successfully achieving the size I actually needed.    It was really fun to knock some patterns I’ve already enjoyed out of yarn I had kicking around.

Pattern: Hermione Hearts Ron by Christy AylesworthYarn: Malabrigo Yarn Silky Merino in the Stonechat colorwayNeedles: Size 3 and 4 circs, and size 4 DPNs The last time I made this pattern, due to a complete misunderstanding of the yarn I was using, I did a sport weight pattern with worsted yarn, and it turned out

Pattern: Brezel Beanie by Svetlana VolkovaYarn: I Knit or Dye Killing Me Softly Aran in WhiteNeedles: Size 5 and 7 circs and size 7 DPNs My mother asked for hats to match her new coat, and I went straight to the yarn and pattern stashes.     I’ve made this hat twice before, and this is

This is number one of a pair of Zostera marina socks, by Hunter Hammersen. The yarn is Blue Moon Yarn Silky Sock in a nice mix of bluey green and purple. I’m enjoying this pattern – there are instructions for varying the spirals so you can make the socks mirror each other, which is pretty

Pattern: Genmaicha Mitts by Kirsten KapurYarn: Swans Island Ikat Collection Watercolors in the Ikat Indigo/Teal colorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs I revisited this pattern that I’d used a number of years ago, and promptly managed to skip the garter stitch border at the top of the ribbing on the wrists.    At least it doesn’t look

Pattern: Argus by Leila RavenYarn: Quince and Co Lark in the Iceland colorwayNeedles: Size 8, 9 and 10 circs and Size 9 and 10 DPNs I can’t believe I started this back in April – it was not a hard pattern to work with at all.     Granted, I did let it lie fallow for