This is a Lolo hat, by Jared Flood. I’m using the Twillingate Farms alpaca that L bought me. I have two skeins of that – one’s basically worsted weight, the other is fingering. I only have 50 yards of the worsted, and I really wasn’t able to find any patterns I […]
I’ve decided to do Cold Sheep for 2016 (from the LSG Group on Ravelry). The idea is to not buy new yarn for some set period of time in 2016 (with some allowed exceptions), and to knit from your existing stash. I’m going to attempt this for the whole year. My stash (see
Emereck and Flindaren are traveling with a caravan when they decide to take a shortcut, which brings them to a dangerous adventure. Emereck is a minstrel, and Flindaren is one of the younger sons of the Duke of Minathlan – the perfect combination to find the legendary Harp of Imach Thyssel – one of the
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Here we go – kind of a light year, really. Though I was doing shawls, and scarves, which tend to take a little longer.
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Pattern: Sky Scarf by Lea Redmond Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in the Clarity, Mist, Pool, Sky, Ciel, Ash and Silver Colorways Needle: Size 4 Circ It is so strange to have this project over. I’ve had a recurring task set up at work to remind myself to make a note of the sky
Here’s the list: The one I couldn’t finish can be found here. I made it past 80!!! It was definitely a good year. For next year, I think I’m going to concentrate on finishing off series. I have several hanging out in my tote of shame that I’ve been delaying gratification on finishing, and
This is a fun end to the Parasol Protectorate books. In the last book, Alexia had had a baby with her werewolf husband, meaning that young Prudence is a metanatural – able to take on the characteristics of a supernatural creature with just a touch. Which is all sorts of fun
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I did get a bit further on the crewel sampler, but pretty well stalled out when I decided to make three hats in about a week’s time. I’ll pick it up again shortly – I’m now into the second bottom leaf.
Here’s the final 2015 hexipuff stash – it’s up to 107, which means it’s in two bags now. 102 is the number for a pram quilt. If I can get up to 167, I can go to the next size up. I do still have some yarn that would go towards that
