Cinder
Finished | Knitting

Cinder

PLANNING: Use TdF2021 handspun (DnD Fibers) for main color. Sun Valley in Wine, Onyx, and Intermission are coming for the colorwork. Plan to continue colorwork at the underbust (possibly with a band of corrugated ribbing first). Bought the pattern from Jessica McDonald’s site. September 26: wound yarn and swatched in the round September 28: cast…

Halloween Superpowers
Finished | Knitting

Halloween Superpowers

I’m feeling extra spooky/witchy/halloween-y this year. So I really needed a shawl to match this feeling. Enter, my design, the Superpowers shawl. When I was setting up the blog, and wanted my patterns to be available #offrav, it was joyful to look at my pics again to add the pattern to payhip. It made me…

Wreaths
Crochet | Finished | Other Crafts

Wreaths

Autumn Wreath Macrame style center weaving Maple leaves from yarnspirations. sunflower like flower from Paper Wool and Yarn, with tips from A Pattern to Follow. Beech Leaves that curl up. Plenty of pom poms, including a pair of Mickey and Minnie poms. Burlap ribbon strand of USB lights that were in the small bathroom in…

Tubey Appointment cowl
Crochet | Finished | Knitting

Tubey Appointment cowl

Received this lovely self-striping yarn from my friend Karen. The summer of 2021 is a mess of doctors appointments to try and figure out what’s going on with my health and so I cast on a yarn-y companion project. Cast 60 stitches on provisionally with a crochet hook around my knitting needle. Using a 14″…

Heart of the Atlantic shawl
Crochet | In progress

Heart of the Atlantic shawl

I’ve been spending more time on knitting Twitter after stopping updating Ravelry, and find some faces getting family (my Accessibility Crafters list has some of these people). Rachy Newin is one of those people. When I saw the Heart of the Atlantic Shawl, I was excited to try something crochet that had more techniques I…

Love Ewe Zombies
Finished | Knitting

Love Ewe Zombies

My usual annual event each summer is the Zombie Knitpocalypse, in Rochester MN. This has extended into the Zombie Knitting Network, and I’ve formed more relationships, especially while giggling late at night on Zoom. So since my health required more vigilance to appointments in 2021 instead of the retreat, some of my friends volunteered to…