I have a sweater finish to share with you! This is the Big Easy Gansey from Knitting Ganseys by Beth Brown-Reinsel. I knit it in Donegal Yarns’ “Irish Heather” 3-ply yarn, an aran weight, in colour 8093. It took almost exactly 75% of the kilo that I bought. This sweater was just the right amount … More Big Easy Gansey
Tuesday was a very special day. Not only did my husband come home after a 9-day trip, but he brought with him a special box. A box I could have had a little sooner, but delayed so that husband could bring it back as one of his “bags” on this trip, saving me a portion … More Behind the Book: Why Amazon?
Happy Weekending, everyone! It’s an exciting time: early orders of Migraineur have arrived in knitters’ hands, the KAL in my Ravelry group is slowly building steam, and we even have our first FO! (Well done Maria!) In a few days, I should finally have my author copies in hand too. I finished the handspun main … More Behind the Book: Milarrochy Tweed Yarn
Time for me to once again share with you about a sweater I made, after wearing it for a month! Photo shoots are weirdly hard to coordinate, or hard to get motivated for, especially when it’s too cold to do them outside. So yesterday, while my dogs looked on at the beautiful sunshine outside… I … More Finishing Party: Fitton’s Dynamo
Two weeks ago, I did what the kids call a “stealth drop.” Knitty released the “surprise” addendum to their winter issue, and yours truly has a pattern in it! What actually happened was, I was in the middle of a week of teaching a full-time knitting class (which was awesome!) when the pattern dropped, so … More Incurvatus
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you’ve had a splendid celebration. Don’t forget that it lasts twelve days! I refuse to take my tree down before Epiphany! I have one more finishing party left for 2024. I’ve been putting off taking pictures of this one, because winter (read: indoor) sweater pictures never turn … More Finishing Party: Handspun Jethro
I have one more finished sweater to share with you from November. This is the first sweater I’ve ever knit from a kit. One year for a birthday or Christmas, I forget which, I asked my mum to get me any colourful kit from KDD, as I’m such a big fan and hadn’t tried their … More Finishing Party – Lilia’s Day
It’s time for another finishing party! I’ve been on a real sweater-knitting streak, but the outdoors is no longer sweater-photography ready. With high temperatures below -20 C, and only a few hours of daylight, it is literally unsafe! With Jared out of town last week, I decided to stop putting it off, and took some … More Finishing Party – Weekender-Metamorphic
The last big finish I’d like to share with you this week is another souvenir of my summer. But it starts earlier, with a book I received for Christmas: Knit, Fold, Pleat, Repeat by Norah Gaughan. Norah is a master of knitted fabric, and she really went to town in this book using unusual directions … More Finishing Party: Afloat
Today’s sweater starts with a curiousity about the world of neon. Super-bright colours have been a trend for a while now, and last year my curiousity about these colours reached a high point. During the summer of 2023, when visiting Magpie Yarns with my mom, I treated myself to a copy of Aimee Gilee’s book, … More Wervel
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