Category: review
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Triangle shawl: 5 shawls 5 days challenge
I’m trying out the 5 shawls 5 days challenge as a way to practice some shawl construction, since I had to experiment a bunch in a hurry when I was designing the flax shawl for my sister. Also, this is a nice excuse to use some of the yarn samples I never tried from my…
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2017 Fiber Goals – how did I do?
One of the ravelry groups I follow had a thread on fiber goals for the year, so I chose a few that I thought would be fun. Here’s how they went! 2017 Fiber Goals Knit a “seamless” sweater this time (My Acorn Trail/Cardipalooza cardigan was pieced) Try some new types of needles. Knit more handspun.…
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Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Crochet-a-long
My current projects are gifts, which means this is a great time to catch up on some backlog projects! This was the Mystery Crochet-a-long from the Rose City Yarn Crawl 2017. They do their mystery-a-longs as 4 clues, spread out over the time before the crawl starts, and I loved the 2016 Crochet mystery-a-long so…
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Yarn Subscription preview, August 2016 (Yarn of the Month and Jimmy Beans Beanie Bags)
Not pictured: Beanie bags came with the usual bag (olympic themed), t-pins, a packet of soak, and some coaster patterns that I’m excited about because crochet mandalas are still all the rage. YOTM came with swatch patterns and a copy of this pattern. It was printed with a printer clearly running low on ink, but…
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Yarn of the Month Club, July 2015
Hello my poor neglected maker blog, long time no see! It’s been a busy few months, in good ways, in bad ways, in sad ways. But I have been making things, and maybe I’ll eventually take pictures of my wedding dress and maybe I’ll eventually frog that section of the cardi that wasn’t right and…
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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, January 2016
January 2016’s Beanie Bag was all about yarn construction. I got the purple version, which was really quite nice! This month’s notion was a shawl pin from Knitter’s Pride (I was so glad mine arrived intact — apparently a few got broken in transit!), there was the usual little package of wool wash from soak,…
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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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Yarn Subscription preview, March 2016 (Yarn of the Month and Jimmy Beans Beanie Bags)
Both my subscriptions arrived on the same day, so here’s a quick preview! My Jimmy Beans Beanie Bag on the left is a collection of sport weight merino in pretty pinks, with the newer square bag like they did last month, a Soak wool wash packet and this month’s notion, which is plastic spiral stitch…
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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…