Category: knitting
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Knitcation: sweater edition.
This week, I am creating a long weekend for myself. I’ve got a bit of a personal challenge in mind, so I’m giving myself the time and space for it. By hook or crook, I’ve managed to map out minimal housework, the simplest of meals, and plenty of knitting time. The challenge you ask? Try…
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A small subset.
As you may have seen, I’ve been casting on a lot of new things. I don’t tend to work on that many of them actively, so I’ve been making progress on just a few. First up, I finished my Selbu Mittens. I knit them in just over a week, but I was by no means…
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If at first you don’t succeed.
One of my challenges for this year was to learn to knit colorwork. I love the look of stranded or fair isle knitting and I felt like I was to the point where I could learn a few things in knitting. I got started with this challenge fairly early in the year, with the Pixel…
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Madewell.
All done. To say that I love it would be an understatement. I’m only sad that it’s 85 F and June rather than 48 F and October. I cannot wait to be oh-so-cozy in this sweet sweater. This is Madewell by Joji Locatelli. This is my fourth make nine finish! The pattern is a dream. This…
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Super Secret Socks.
I’ve been knitting a pair of socks under top secret conditions for a month. Why the spy-level stealth? One simple reason. They were for Kevin. Kevin and I hang out most of the time. We’re both introverted and like to do our own thing a good bit of the time, but we like to do…
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Go with it.
I’ve sat down to write this post a dozen times over the last few days. I’m feeling a bit scatterbrained with my making and can’t really seem to synthesize all that’s happening into anything coherent. Let’s come at this from a different angle. The current state of affairs, in pictures: Happy making!
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Like molasses.
Things seem to be moving along at a snails pace here. Sometimes that happens, it feels like I’m knitting and knitting and knitting but the progress seems slow. I’ve got a secret make that feels like it’s been on the needles for forever, one day I’ll be able to show that one off. If I…
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Wrapping up.
My knitting drive is at quite the high at the moment. I’m getting a lot of peace and joy out of my knitting, both the process and the products. After my last blog post, I was inspired to get some things finished up. First on the docket was that hat. As I mentioned, I cast…
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Stress knitting.
To be honest, I’ve been stressed out lately, and when I’m stressed I tend to knit like a bit of a nutter. Stacy of StressKnits named her podcast and business after her habit of stress-knitting; I definitely know what she’s talking about. There’s a lot going on around here so grab a cup of something…
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Windswept.
I am certainly swept away by this shawl. Knitting it was a dream: the rhythm, the texture, the squish. I loved working on it so much that the shawl only spent two weeks on the needles. Now that it’s finished though, the shawl itself is just perfect. This Windswept, a pattern by Molly Klatt of…
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