When my eldest niece was born, I wasn’t knitting yet. So she never got a blanket from me as a little one like most of the other kiddos did. When she graduated from High School and her AS degree at the same time, I wanted to knit her something special. This blanket is a color-blocked…
Happy birthday month to me! At zk2016, we got a rainbow of mini skeins and a bag to match for the goodie bag. My 45th birthday month seemed like the perfect time to finally knit them up! Using one of Julia weesheep’s patterns seemed like a nice match too because she is in all of…
Knit with handspun Sun Valley and their DK base to go with. Planned to continue handspun as far as needed instead of just in the yoke. Did not decrease in the underbust, but added more increases. Underarm patterning section is continued all the way down through handspun. I loved spinning this fiber and I loved…
Twin with Ingrid!
The neutral colors were a set, and the pink was something I bought at another time. Started with 50g of the neutral colors, so I knew I wouldn’t have quite enough for all of it. Adapted to have less stripes after c2 and c3 brioche when I ran out of c2, and did the same…
Holding pink alpaca Peruvian laceweight from a cone with the Zauberball to get a fabric I like. I’ll have to weigh the project to figure out the yardage of the laceweight. ZK2021/ZKN KAL, Try Something New: first time crocheting a garment! 1/8: first try, just the zauberball was too small. Bumped up the needle size…
January 19, 2021 2 sets of yarn balls through (4 skeins, held double.) Ordered additional yarn to make it wider. January 23, 2021 Another set of skeins (6 skeins total) finished during ZKN January Chill weekend. February 10, 2021 Joined the last two skeins in the last half repeat of the pattern and then for…
ZK2021/ZKN KAL: Something new: Mosaic knitting and Knit Companion
