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A good head start on my presents for my nieces and little cousins. I hope i will be able to make more fishes ! The rays are so big and cute.

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Wip!

Fingerless gloves for my partner for Christmas.

Handspun 2ply castledale wool, dyed by the grower.

Waiting for a 2nd set of dpns to arrive so I can keep working them side by side.

The wool wasn't wet finished after spinning, so am curious how it will bloom after completion.

A clearer shot of the wool:

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Progress shots, spinning the Moorit fleece up nicely!

One bobbin down, and a basket of delightful fluff keeping me company.

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blocking a gift i made earlier this year so my friend will actually wear it (._.)

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Everyone shut up and look at my yarn bowl

What should I name him

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Oh my god... it's Wednesday... and I've done work this week.

Been chugging along with the scarf for my mom (tumblr post link) and with Cardigan S (Pattern | Yarn | Thread). Which is being weeirrddd again.

Cardigan S was allegedly written by designer company DKNY. and I guess being designer means they don't have to test knit their patterns. I already pointed out the odd "p5, p1" bit when I was charting up the lace/cable patterns but it does Not end there.

As a matter of personal taste, Why does every single cable face the same way? In the original pattern, every single cable is a back twist cable. But every single pattern piece is mirrored from the middle?? Why would you not have One cable being back twist and the Other being front twist. Which is exactly what I did. (Granted it would probably look better to have the back twist second and the front twist first...)

For the sleeve increases, it says "increase every 4 rows (so many times), increase every 6 rows (so many times)" and I was completely unsure if those two instructions were supposed to be simultaneous or not. In retrospect they probably weren't... but I knit them as tho they were and what I have done flairs way too much. Ugh I guess I will be reknitting this sleeve. All of that could've been avoid with just adding "then" before the 6 rows increase :,) (admittedly i was doing the set up for this part with a migraine but in my defense I didn't know until After that i had a migraine jdsljkdasdf)

Finally the last thing. The thing that bothered me most. Is why the fuck is the cabled not centered between the two lace patterns. There's two purl stitches between the zigzag lace and the cable. and *four* between the purl and the 4 stitch lace center. Why. Why not make it 3 purl stitches between each. The official picture of this pattern doesn't look odd but every project has this weird cable issue. Who did this to me. (I did by not swatching properly)

Despite the 4 paragraphs of complaining I'm having so much fun with this pattern. I would feel a little bad ripping apart a pattern if were made by like, a random individual who just like to knit. But this is a Vogue published pattern written by DKNY. I expect their shit to actually be test knitted.

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finished my memento socks :)

it's my first colorwork project and my first go at afterthought heels. they're not my favorite but i see how they're useful when you don't want to interrupt a pattern with a heel and gusset.

i still need to block them but i'm looking forward to wearing them to a concert on tuesday.

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Update on Summer's Lease sparkly top:

it's knit in the round from the bottom up, then separated for the bodice, sleeves and neckline. So, this is the back.

This is a close up of the 'grapevine' lacework

and this is as far as I have got in the front. I've just added the extra stitches for the sleeves and will start the grapevine tomorrow.

Dinner has been confirmed for mid-December now, so I have 3 full weeks to complete it, not ten days.

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Finished 2 flaps. Starting to see how it comes together, but it's again hard to get a decent photo that shows it!

Pattern is Elven Armor Pullover by Angela Hahn, from The Fellowship of the Knits by Tanis Gray

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one thumb left on the first glove of the pair

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Well I'm upset after that shitty morning but I finished dad's dk weight Raptors themed xmas socks 🧶

Gotta grab a pair of larger sock blockers from work on Friday

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It's wip Wednesday everyone. A while back I asked on how to make a popular Totoro knit set pattern (above) bigger as it wasn't size inclusive (one size only) and the general consensus was to simply choose my own sleeves and vest pattern if I wasn't comfortable modding the pattern myself. (irritatingly, a lot of ppl reblogged the post ignoring the point of it and simply talking about how cute the pattern was, but that's neither here nor there) I took that advice and here she is so far. Sleeves are done and bottom up vest is coming along nicely.

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And done! Final analysis I didn't much enjoy double knitting, partially bc it's a new method I don't have practice in but also a lot bc I hate circular needles and I didn't have dpns this 'big' (us 5) also my knitting and purling gauges on circs are significantly different so I have to do some finagling to get it to sit like I want, but this was a learning project so par for the course

I do want to try and revisit it with the 'War and Peace' sock method which is a variation of double knitting but for now it's back to the work I'm being paid for.

Charts under the cut or on rav

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Bought myself a shawl kit from my lys as a lil birthday gift for myself, I've had my eye on it for a while

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Current project :3

I've been learning a lot of fun techniques and stitches on this one!

I'm using this pattern (but foregoing the nupps because I know I'm cutting it real close on how much yarn I have)

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Finished the Archer scarf for my grandmas birthday 🥰

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Progress on the blouse I am knitting myself for Christmas.

The patterns is not coming off well in the pic, here is the blocked swatch.

Happy making!