This week’s pattern is a scarf, partially because I can’t find my hat(?) and also haven’t knit the smaller (kid-size) version of the hat yet.
Category Archives: knitting
Daily Desk, 02/02/21.
a few things.
remain terrible at blogging/this whole thing working on some shawls also hats also some others things plus kids’ clothing so I feel deeply unproductive, but 2/4 yarns in the photo have been knit up, and projects have been started with the others.
Stonefly.
This is probably the last shawl I’ll post in 2020. The yarn is very nice: Beach Bunny World Traveler.
Just barely squeaking by with a November post!
I’ve got a lot of projects at the almost-finished stage, which is deeply distressing in a lot of ways! Also just renewed my cheapish WordPress subscription, so am experiencing low-level angst about how terrible the blog and site look and how infrequently I really use them. MEANWHILE: November saw two completed design projects: Liner NotesContinue reading “Just barely squeaking by with a November post!”
Alfa.
Alfa Cowl. I’m a bit late with this update: Alfa Cowl is my take on a simple diagonally-knit kerchief-style neckwarmer concept. It’s not very diagonally knit. It’s a little bit diagonally knit, though.
Skep Cap 1.
Skep Cap 1!
New cowl.
A new cowl pattern! The Emerger .PDF makes the cowl shown in two different sizes, in one or two skeins of fingering-weight yarn. (Most fancy yarns come in 350+ skeins, so two skeins will be plenty. With the sock yarn shown, two skeins is enough to make both sizes—one each.) Emerger Cowl.
a kit option, new things.
Beach Bunny Yarns now offers a kit for Morpho! This is pretty exciting: I’m not super strong with variegated yarns, and the samples are gorgeous in a way that almost baffles me. The dyeways and the design work remarkably well with each other. MEANWHILE, on the personal knitting/design front, I am having the entertaining experienceContinue reading “a kit option, new things.”
Gopher.
Gopher is available now on Ravelry! It’s got a little in common with Manta, in that it uses a similar exploded-shape concept (Manta is a kind of broken square; this is a kind of wrecked rectangle, I guess). The slightly weird shape lends itself well to wearing; there are a couple of ways to styleContinue reading “Gopher.”