Category: knitting
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Yarn of the Month Club, January 2015
January’s Yarn of the Month package has some serious variety in it! Raffia, cotton-linen gradient, and a single ply acrylic-wool super-saturated gradient. These were all super fun, but I was most taken with learning to block raffia. So flexible and shape-able when damp!
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Jimmy Beans Wool Beanie Bags, December 2015
December’s theme was “superwash” and it included 5 samples in worsted weight. This seemed like a perfect time for me to practice my colourwork, since “do a small fair isle project” is on my craft goal list for this year, and I need practice with colourwork. In addition to the yarns, there’s some pom-pom makers,…
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Yarn Subscription preview, February 2016 (Yarn of the Month and Jimmy Beans Beanie Bags)
One more preview photo for today! These yarns have been sadly neglected in favour of Rose City Yarn Crawl stuff, but they’ll be coming up soon! I’m very much looking forwards to more teensy tiny sample knits. Yarn of the Month is on the left, with that tempting stained glass pattern that might have me…
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Yarn Subscription preview, January 2016 (Yarn of the Month and Jimmy Beans Beanie Bags)
I took this picture back in January but apparently never actually shared it, so here’s a belated preview, if that makes any sense: Yarn of the Month is on the left, Beanie Bags on the right. Since I’m planning to block the YOTM samples tonight and nearly done with the project for the Beanie Bags,…
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Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit-a-longs (Clue 1 and 2)
As I mentioned in my post about knit-a-longs, the Rose City Yarn Crawl runs both a knit and crochet a long in the month leading up to the yarn crawl. It’s a real treat seeing people wear their creations out on the crawl, and I wanted to be one of those gals sporting a new…
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Catch a Falling Star MKAL Clue 3
I’ve paused on this knit-a-long since the Rose City Yarn Crawl ones have started and I foolishly have tried to do both, but here’s what it looked like at clue 3: I really liked the bind-off in this. You can’t tell from the in progress photo, but it’s designed so that the bind off is…
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Jimmy Beans Wool Beanie Bags, November 2015
I finally sat down and made a decision about what to make with my Beanie Bags yarn. So freeing! First, let’s look at the package. The mailing envelope contained a single bag filled with stuff: The packaged contained 4 balls of yarn in the same shade of grey (although the light catches them differently in…
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Yarn of the Month Club, December 2015
Astute readers may note that I’m doing the December YOTM review but still haven’t done the Beanie Bag full review. That’s because even though it’s January I still haven’t knit up anything with any of my Beanie Bag yarns. How embarrassing. Now, I could blame a busy holiday, but I the answer is much simpler…
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Catch a Falling Star MKAL week 2
The week 3 clue came out on Friday, so I’m a bit behind still. But Clue 2 was much easier than clue 1, at least! Here’s what clue 2 looks like for me and my dino buddy: Still loving that thick cuff, but not so much loving the transition at the wrist bead line —…
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Catch a Falling Star MKAL
I did manage to cast on one of those knit-a-longs: the fingerless mitt “Catch a Falling Star” MKAL. since clue 2 has now been released (as I write this — I think clue 3 might be released by the time this posts), here’s my pictures from casting on and clue 1!
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Yarn of the Month Club, November 2015
Not sure what I’d say what November’s theme was, but it certainly resulted in some pretty yarns arriving on my doorstep! The Pattern A drop stitch shawl. Probably won’t make it into my repertoire because there are just so many shawl patterns in the world, but who knows, maybe it’ll be perfect for some specific…
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Celtic Shawl for M
Made this one for my friend M. But apparently this is the only picture that turned out! Pattern: Celtic Myths (heh, I typed “Mythos” first — I think a bit too much Cthulhu in my life) Yarn: Timberline Ice by Alexandra’s Crafts. This is a really lovely blend: 63% superwash, 20% silk, 15% nylon, 2%…