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Finally done making my mom's cardigan

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little over a day of progress on the striped sock 🖤

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i love side-by-sides of knit items before and after blocking!!!

(blocking is wetting your work in warm water, which relaxes the fibers and gives them some stretch. then you pin it down to some foam and manipulate it until it's the size and shape you want. when it dries, it keeps the stretched shape! it's the same concept as setting your hair when it's wet, which is why blocking is only effective with animal-based fibers.)

the pattern is the all about me cowl, which only costs $5 and is infinitely customizable. i heartily recommend it!

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Pile of blue projects past.

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rohkem villa eestist!

more yarn from estonia!

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I posted about this project back in June, when I was having tension troubles. I almost frogged it halfway through, but instead, I gave her a nice long four month time-out to think about her misdeeds before circling back.

Mistakes were made, but it all worked out in the end. I forgot to knit the dinosaurs' eyes and just decided to roll with it, and it took a steaming bath and some serious ironing to get the fibers to relax, but she's finished.

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Friends, I finished a thing…

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I may not wear shawls all that often, but I love them and love making them! This rainbow beauty was finished recently and I love it!

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Goal is to get to the gold this evening while watching Jax State football. ;)

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Chain of hearts short socks.

Really liked how this turned out! Off to sock no. 2

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I've started decreasing the yoke!

The green isn't showing up as much as I'd hoped (bought online, the colour looked more saturated) but I'm pressing on anyway!

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Just a few more hats to go, started on a shawl in the meantime :)

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Finished! Took me way too long, but duplicate stitching the stars drove me crazy

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not a great picture but I am excited for this project!!! It’s the Rattlesnake Sweater by Jamie Hoffman and I am LOVING my color choices! I was inspired by desert sunset vibes. There’s going to be cacti too. I’ve had this planned since the very beginning of the year- I even did a sketch for it:

I'm using knitpicks Swish (amethyst heather), Wool of the Andes (palomo and caution), and Hawthorn (jupiter speckle).

I got SO excited when I saw the colors that I forgot to check if they were superwash or not and turns out two are and two aren't 😭 I did a gauge swatch of a superwash and not-superwash to see if it would stretch bad in colorwork, but those were different yarn lines. So I am anxious about it :S I plan on never machine washing (or drying) this, so I'm really really really hoping it doesn't distort. Knitpicks didn't have other colors I was going for in the other superwash lines so I had to knit with the yarn I had or have it not match my vision. Eep.

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I ended up having to frog the colorwork and redo it ): the one spot was too tight and it wasn’t going to block out. I had to size up a needle just for those few rows, which is something I don’t usually do?

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if anyone's wondering why i haven't been craftposting lately it's because i've been chipping away at a tv color bar blanket:

just 75% of the blanket to go lmao

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Mandala #2 update!!

I’m almost at the last few rows of this pattern, after that I’m gonna have to make up the rest of the rows to get the full gradient, wish me luck yall!

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This little stitch marker I made ages ago always makes me happy 🧶 🌟