I’m about halfway through the second part of my On the Spice Market shawl. Working back through the set of colors in the first part, they are now the accent colors. The main color may look like a simple gray in the shawl, but it really looks like a purple-gray (gray-purple?) in the yarn ball,… Continue reading A little shawl progress
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Start all the things
Or at least that’s how it seems with the knitting. Now that Dad’s socks are finished, I gave myself permission to start a new shawl and a new sweater. I’ve had the shawl yarn since 2016 (I bought it as a “kit” from the Unplanned Peacock Studio dyers at a local yarn festival that they… Continue reading Start all the things
Some more gemstones
By the end of 2024, I had 5 “rows” complete on this shawl. It’s hard to take a photo of it when a row is in progress, so I had to wait until the row was complete. I’ve just started on the next row, and I continue to just choose colors as I go –… Continue reading Some more gemstones
Scraps crazy
Normally I’d be talking about fabric scraps (about which I am also crazy), but this time, it’s yarn. It wasn’t enough for me to start the Northeasterly blanket using scraps of yarn (and re-started a second version using the correct size needles and a single strand). I had a random knitting video going in the… Continue reading Scraps crazy
New shawl bound off
And washed and blocked, ready to wear. That’s the brilliance about an aran weight shawl and dedicated knitting time – completion time is much, much shorter. I’m back on my Affiknity sweater now. Might as well work on another work in progress than something new because I know the itch to start something else new… Continue reading New shawl bound off