This is Caddis Cardigan. It’s knit in sportweight yarn—most of the samples are Malabrigo Arroyo, which is kind of a favorite of mine. (It’s soft, with a nice tonal quality to the dyeways. I think they’ve moved from having dyelots to not, which is probably fair and for the best since there’s a limit toContinue reading “Yes! New Cardigan & Hat.”
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Patch Cowl, Toobest Tube, Blog Neglect.
Patch Cowl is go! I’ve also procrastinated posting this long enough that Toobest Tube Cowl is go, too!
Anning.
New Hat! First person who comments with the correct namesake for this hat gets a free mouse army Ravelry .PDF of their choosing. (You have to be able to receive Ravelry gifts, so this may be limited to registered users, but I’m not sure. I may be able to work around that, actually. But IContinue reading “Anning.”
The Summer Kitchen Continues With Projects 5 & 6.
Project 5: Simple Garter Dishcloth Project 6: Kitchen Towel These are both extremely simple, but they have a nice cottagecore aesthetic if you work them up in rustic cotton (or weaving threads held together). The towel pattern includes a quick (2018-ish vintage?) tutorial .PDF to help you make a button to hold it in place.Continue reading “The Summer Kitchen Continues With Projects 5 & 6.”
Planispiral Shawl & the Summer Kitchen Project.
I feel like I’ve been getting nothing done lately, but wait! Behold! The thing on the left is done. It’s off the needles. It’s even been finished, completely—in this case, felted/fulled.* I’m pretty excited about the result. As I come back to this post in drafts, not only is the first sample finished—but there’s alsoContinue reading “Planispiral Shawl & the Summer Kitchen Project.”
By the time this posts, I’ll have updated the Dog Days and Spring Feverish mini-collections—they’re $15 or $18 respectively when you purchase the whole set in a single transaction.
Wool Market in a Box: Pandemic Edition (Year II).
So, I have two entire wether fleeces from my favorite Shetland farm, the year I completely overbought fleeces.* They were packed up in a box and the bags and tissue they shipped in. They are pristine. Despite my neglect, I’ve got pounds and pounds of usable wool to process this summer. They are also disgusting.Continue reading “Wool Market in a Box: Pandemic Edition (Year II).”
The Super-Secret Larger Project I’ve Been Working on All Month(?).
It’s Octagon Time! It’s a blanket/basic shawl. Really, what it is depends on what you want to make, and what yarn you use. I went a bit wild and self-indulgent on this one; it is probably the most hedonistic use of an expensive yarn I’ve ever committed. The soft blue gradient yarn making up mostContinue reading “The Super-Secret Larger Project I’ve Been Working on All Month(?).”
Salt Post.
I never actually made a Table Salt post, so here goes: Table Salt is a cowl that uses a similar textured motif to the large one in the Salt Cowl & Hat. It takes the same idea, but makes it smaller, more fine-grained, for a different textured effect. The pattern is meant to be doneContinue reading “Salt Post.”
By the end of the month, if all goes to plan, I’ll have published 10 indie patterns this year, so far— but 6 of the 9 so far are hats; two are shawls, and two of the planned ten are cowls. (One’s a connected triangle cowl. It could use some new photography. But that aside,Continue reading
