My very first yarn advent is a Disney Princess-inspired set of 24 minis and a full skein for Christmas. This set was from Yarn Café Creations. It was a fun experience! When finding a pattern, I wanted something that could use most of the minis, something that showed off all of the multicolored yarns, and…
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…
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…
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…
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″…
I’ve made several Ripple Bralettes, and so the Ripple Crop Top was very enticing to me. I love that the designer, Jessie Mae Martinson, is size inclusive and doesn’t shy away from showing fat people in her pictures. I bought a rerelease color from Molly Girl Yarns called Walk This Way, a nice gray with…
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…
After the news that Huckleberry Knits, one of my favorite Northwest-y dyers is no longer going to be dying, I chose my final braid of her fiber from my stash to spin up. I purchased this the last time I went to OFFF with E and Leah. This is one of Scarlet’s Hamilton colorways, from…
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…
