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this cardigan is done! plus a floats picture cuz they're kinda pretty

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Giannino Marchig (Italian, 1897-1983)

La gonna gialla

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October 5th is Dag van de wol (day of the wool) in Velddriel, the Netherlands. Last year they had a mix of raw fleeces, nice handdyed roving and your regular indie yarn sellers.

I won't make it to Belgium's first wool fest this weekend, which is sad, but also I looked at the vendor list and no one is selling spinning material so feeling a bit better.

Otoh we have been considering doing a trip to Germany, specifically by (sleeper) train, and I always see Germans posting nice hauls, so...

What are your fibre fests and are they reachable by public transport, Gerblr?

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One-row buttonhole with reinforced edges

There are different ways to make a buttonhole. For small buttons, an eyelet will usually suffice: k2tog, yo or yo, ssk.

Otherwise you can cast off a number of stitches and make the same number of backward loops in the next row.

Here’s a more sophisticated buttonhole. It’s a single row two-stitch buttonhole with reinforced edges.

Make 3 backward loops, slip next 2 stitches knitwise one by one, pass first slipped stitch over the second, slip stitch back to left hand needle, k2tog. You have now bound off 2 stitches but cast on 3 stitches. In next row, when you come to buttonhole, knit 2 backward loops, then k2tog, i.e. knit the last backward loop together with the following stitch.

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Old Stone House on Rambouillet/Silk by ThreeWatersFarm, 2 plyed in a 2:4 fractal.

Eventually I’ll run it through a yardage counter.

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This too shall pass but like holy fuck

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Finished fractal! 196 yds of merino, dyed by an indie dyer. This is my last work of Tour de Fleece and I’m so proud I got it done! This was spun on my Turkish/crossarm spindle and plied on my kick spindle

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I finally finished the first blanket for my niece!

Everything has taken a lot longer than expected, due to burnout coupled with the recent death of my father.

But the new life coming will be swaddled and snuggled in bright spring greens and leaves, and I hope my sister and brother in law love this blanket as much as I do!

Main body pattern is First Leaves Baby Blanket by Anne B Hanssen. The border leaves are a slight home-brew pattern, heavily modified from Vicky's Sleepy Leaf Edging to reduce the size of each leaf, reduce the number of stitches between the leaf edge and the slipped selvedge, and to substitute seed stitch instead of the lace lattice.

That border added a solid four weeks to the project time, but I think it was well worth it. I've finished it before the bubba's birth, and that's what matters!

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Bead Embroidered Art Hoops

Zime Ksa on Etsy

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Im so happy to have finally finished this lacy t shirt by James N Watts. It may have taken me 9 months but I learned so much. Are there small colour differences in the yarn? Yes, but thats on me for using yarn that didn't specify dye lots

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I made this little creature for my friend who is having a baby!

Pattern: mother hen by Susan B. Anderson

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Something's fishy...

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Finished my Magic of Spring Mitts by Monika Anna. The pattern has easy construction, everything is well explained. A small amount of float catching is needed.

I used Drops Flora in Naturel, Green, Strawberry Pink, and Jeans.

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Update: finished my sea themed denim jacket

It's got the knitting octopus on the back, and waves on the front. It's made entirely out of old jeans. I like that you can see the wear and tear from its previous life as jeans. It's inspired by my DnD character, Tidal, a cheerful sea elf.

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Catching floats I

In stranded knitting, depending on the pattern, you sometimes get very long floats. This is not very practical: It makes it harder to keep an even tension and the floats tend to get caught in fingers and toes and other objects when wearing or using the item. So, it’s a good idea to catch these floats onto the back side of the work.

Here I am catching the contrast colour (the dark colour on the left) onto a stitch of the main colour (the pink one).