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fo : seahawk and rogue nilla socks

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This pair of socks took a year to get off the needles because I was eyeballs deep in my projects at work. I still put the couple hundred odd stitches here and there to decompress when things were especially stressful, but it definitely did not progress as quickly as I had wanted. pattern : Improvisedyarn : Manos del Uruguay Alegria in Fondo del Marneedle : US 1 [2.25mm]size : 10″ pattern : Vanilla Latte Socks by Virginia Rose-Jeanes yarn : SweetGeorgia Yarns Tough Love Sock in Rogue needle : US 1 [2.25mm]size : 10″ My rogue nillas marched at a much faster pace but I was still pretty impatient about it. I cast these on while moving across the rogue river valley. I just had to start something, sitting shotgun on a road trip would otherwise have felt like a waste of valuable knitting time. Recalling the experience of knitting these two pairs is almost embarrassing. It’s like I’ve become this results driven careerist about something that was initially supposed to be an ongoing process …

fo : clarke, rhubarb show-offs

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2017 has been a year focused on a lot of other things, like the surprising turn my career took, the first apartment I moved to (with a partner I never thought I would meet and grow with). I lost a lot of good knitting time this year being swept up with a lot of that but still managed to get a few things off the needles. The problem (?) with taking so long to blog about something you’ve knit is that it’s likely that you’ve already spent some time incorporating them into your life and putting them into use. pattern : Clarke Pullover by Jane Richmond yarn : Knit Picks Swish Worsted in Cobblestone Heather and Garnet Heather needle : US 6, 7 [4-4.5mm] size : 40 My Clarke sweater’s already a little rough around the edges. I haven’t really felt the push to block the garment to make this look as attractive as possible for the blog, I hardly even wove the ends in! As soon as it was bound off I wore it …

fo : manta

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This has been finished for quite some time, but I hadn’t photographed it until very recently–after some attempts to make it a part of my wardrobe this year I decided this belonged to one of my more fashionable friends for Christmas this year. pattern : Stingray by Evan Plevinski yarn : Lion Brand Heartland in Great Smoky Mountains needle : US 8 [5mm] size : a little too large I don’t really remember what my experience was like knitting it. I didn’t encounter any glaring difficulties in the pattern itself, but I did get a little careless at one point and worked to many repeats of a few of the sections. It gave me a larger, prettier fabric but wasn’t faithful to the intent of the original design. While it’s not lacework, I’m happy to say that I’ve made something that I didn’t think I would–a shawl. Thankfully this doesn’t need the intense sort of blocking a super lacy, feminine shawl would have needed, I probably wouldn’t have made it in the first place if …

wip: gd, slide, scrapsocks

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I haven’t posted about GD in a little while, and it’s mostly been because I work on it extremely infrequently. I’m extremely grateful to the two kind ravelers who sent me their scraps, because therapy-knitting them these last few weeks (last week especially) had been a simple process. GD has grown to be 53in(~135cm) thanks to all your yarn scraps! That’s about underarm height for 5’9″ me, so I’ve still got a ways to go before it reaches a good enough length. I’m only a tiny bit anxious to see this bound off, but it’s for three little reasons here: it’s getting cold, and a trusty blanket we already use has had to be retired because it’s disintegrating the wealth of interestingstashprojects out there to cast-on I think I might be a product knitter If it doesn’t happen for another while, I won’t sweat it. It’s entirely gratifying to see how little stash I have to my name now (not counting planned-and-spoken-for stash). I’ve been unravelling the less relevant Bapsicrafts items (remember Ipod sleeves?!) to …

fo: garden TAATs

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pattern : my own yarn : Schachenmayr Regia Design Line by Arne & Carlos in Garden needle : US 1 [2.25mm] size : 10″ Another sock down! I’m excited for this project to finally be done. I’m also taking this opportunity here to feature the new wooden sock blockers by The Loopy Ewe! I’ve wanted a pair of wooden sock blockers for a while and the little cut-out sheep design won me over instantly when I saw them. It also helps me share FO news, because it’s no longer a requirement to model these things and take awkward selfies to make blog posts happen. I had the bright idea to not only go for a 3-to-1 rib leg, but also to try to knit until all of the yarn ran out. This thing bored me to death. My slide socks currently in progress are doing great work of keeping my interest as a contrast. Unrelated but very exciting– I’ve committed to two big knitting things for myself beginning this fall/winter. Last week, I ordered not only a …