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

Pattern: Heidi by Katya FrankelYarn: Quince and Co Whimbrel in the Bowsprit colorwayNeedles: Size 4 Circs and DPNs and Size 3 DPNs So I really screwed up the needle sizes.     With my normal gauge, I probably should have used 6’s and 7’s.   I think I may have been thrown off by the mm sizes

This is the Heidi sweater, by Katya Frankel. I’m making it in Quince and Co Whimbrel, in what I think is the Bowsprit colorway. I got this yarn in a seconds sales, and I found out why while winding it. Skein number one had a cut in it, and skein number two was so tangled

Got rid of a couple more sock yarns – this is the last of the Sundara Sock Water Studies and the Quince Finch in Bird’s Egg. (I really needed to be able to put a downward trend into my yarn tracking. I’ll be able to do some much bigger deductions once I push through a

Pattern: Cellarium by Rachel IllsleyYarn: Swans Island Ikat Collection Watercolors in the Indigo/Teal colorwayNeedles: Size 2 circs and 3 circs and DPNs The cables in this pattern kicked my butt at first, for no really good reason.    Once I was able to visualize what they were supposed to do, I was fine, but I

Since I’m on a bit of a hat kick, I’ve started Unwind Knitwear’s Cellarium, using Swans Island Ikat Watercolors collection in the Indigo/Teal colorway. I’d initially pulled out the yarn to use for the charity knitting I’ve been doing, but those hats need to be mostly blue, and I think this yarn isn’t quite blue

Pattern: Swirl Hat by Mandie HarringtonYarn: Quince and Co Finch in the Bird’s Egg colorwayNeedles: Size 4 circs and DPNs These are my first Swirl hats in the Child (next to largest) size – I’ve done a ton of these as stash busters in the newborn size.    It’s a great pattern – super easy.