Category: wearable

  • Meat Hat (free pattern)

    Meat Hat (free pattern)

    My kid decided he wanted to have a “meat hat” with pixel art meat on it, so I made one to his specifications. This post has all the charts he made in case anyone ever wants to make their own.

  • Pikmin hat

    Pikmin hat

    I know the yarniverse is all abuzz with a very pink movie coming out this weekend, but my kid and I are more excited about Pikmin 4, so I made some fanart at my kid’s request.

  • 2023 Rose City Yarn Crawl MCAL – Hekataion

    2023 Rose City Yarn Crawl MCAL – Hekataion

    Some notes from the local yarn crawl’s Mystery Crochet-a-long project.

  • Winter Skies Cowl

    Winter Skies Cowl

    My first finish for 2023 was the Winter Skies Cowl. This was an advent kit combining West Coast Yarn with a modular knitting pattern from PNW Knit Designs. It was pretty neat to get charts on little cards for easier mixing and matching! The colour palette was listed beforehand so I knew I’d be getting…

  • Spring Rainbow Shawl notes

    Spring Rainbow Shawl notes

    I bought these lovely yarns from the ChemKnits Spring Mini Series. My kid and I have been enjoying her tutorials for dyeing yarn with food colouring, and so I thought this would be a nice way to support the channel and give me and kiddo a week of videos to watch. Plus he loves rainbows.…

  • Steven the Bat socks

    Steven the Bat socks

    Years ago, a friend named the local bat who appears in the evenings at our house “Steven.” Since I can’t identify humans in the dark let alone bats, we have henceforth declared that all bats are named Steven. Which is why it’s especially appropriate to have two Stevens on your socks. This isn’t a complete,…

  • Queer Enough Shawl

    Queer Enough Shawl

    This one’s for all the folk who might not “look” queer: the bi folk in “straight” relationships, the trans and non-binary folk who maybe don’t “look” queer to outsiders, the ace folk, and everyone else who struggles with whether they’re really “queer enough” for a LGBTQA+ space. This free shawl pattern is intended as a…

  • Mom socks: lavender apple picking

    Mom socks: lavender apple picking

    My mom paid me the ultimate compliment a sock knitter can receive: she let me know that some of the socks I made for her were starting to wear out! It’s going to be a while before I can go do some darning for her, so I cast on another pair instead. The yarn is…

  • Black light butterflies

    Black light butterflies

    I got this cool yarn from Black Squirrel Berkeley that glows under blacklight. It’s called “‘sup witches” and came in a kit with a matching bag: In keeping with my 2020 goal to do stuff from my queue, I pulled out an elegant pattern called Butterfly Dream Catcher by Lily Go. This is one I’d…

  • December countdowns and advents

    December countdowns and advents

    Normally I travel in December, which limits the amount I can participate in advent or countdown type stuff that all happens at the end of the year. But with covid-19, there was no travel to be had, and I might have gone a bit overboard as a result. In the end, I did 3 knit-a-longs…

  • Mando gloves

    Mando gloves

    The blog has had some server changes behind the scenes and it accidentally broke the way I usually post from my phone. But while I’m working that out, here’s a recently finished project: Pattern: Mando. by Natela Astakhova Yarns: Studio Donegal Darnie from Black Sheep Fiber Emporium The yarn is a real winner here because…

  • 2020 Fiber Goals: How did I do?

    2020 Fiber Goals: How did I do?

    My 2020 goals were as follows: Whittle down the WIPs and Query the Queue. A Bit of Brioche.  Top to Toes Some Smaller Shawls By my mid-year 2020 fiber-goals check in post, I’d already done 3 of them and decided that #4 was a silly goal in a year when it was finally easy for…