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2024 Geek-A-Long: Natural 20 Sweater - The Final Clue!

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2024 Geek-A-long: Natural 20 Sweater Clue 2

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2024 Geek-A-Long: Natural 20 Sweater Clue 1

Hello and happy Father’s Day to anyone celebrating! As I type this, Mr. Llama and I are sitting down to a nice Acolyte marathon and lattes for our festivities. I know for a lot of folks mother’s/father’s day can come with complicated emotions, and for those of you that find today challenging I’m sending you some virtual hugs. Family is who you choose as you grow, not an accident of birth…

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2024 Geek-A-Long: Steeking Tutorial

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Natural 20 Geek-A-Long Sweater: Project Sheet

Hello and happy Pride month, you incredible humans! Last week we shared that the 2024 Geek-A-Long is officially starting and this year we are celebrating all things Dungeons and Dragons. This week we are kicking things off with the project sheet and gauge swatch, and a Ravelry Pattern Page. Let’s talk logistics. The sweater is worked top down and is a unisex design. It is worked in stranded…

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2024 Geek-A-Long: The Natural 20th Anniversary Sweater

Hello you marvelous denizens of the Kniternet! Roll for iknitiative, because the 2024 Geek-A-Long is here, and this one is a true masterpiece. Just about 1 year ago, when we were in the middle of our year of cozy socks and starting to plan this year’s GAL, the amazing folks at Child’s Play reached out to let us know that they were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the charity. They had an…

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Court Jester Socks

The idea for these socks sprouted at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival when Mabel the Merciless picked out a sparkly skein of sock yarn from Flying Goat Farms. She wanted something frilly and I couldn’t help but comply. (Pictured below!) I enjoyed making them so much, I knitted them again for my baby sister Alena with our Rainbow Fist Punch colorway on Vacation. Step into audacity with the…

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Cult of the Lamb Slipper 2 - WRATH

Hello fleecy flock. Our cult is in full swing and recruitment has been excellent. The Lamb is pleased. This one flew by but we’re already at the second slipper! WRATH is available now for download on Ravelry and at the bottom of this post. Note that the project sheet has also been updated to correct errata that left out a row on the final step of the ball sweater that creates the crossover…

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Cult of the Lamb: Slipper 1 - The Kind Cultist

Hello my wonderful woolen acolytes! The moment is ripe, the night is dark, the power is great, and the slipper is cozy. If you missed it last week, you can find the Cult of the Lamb project sheet HERE. We are sold out of kits, but you can use any worsted weight yarn in a white/cream, red, and black or dark gray for this project. You’ll also want size 6/0 seed beads in black and red, and 2 jingle…

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2023 Geek-Along: Cult of the Lamb Project Sheet

Welcome to the 3rd Geek-A-Long (GAL) pattern of 2023, the Cult of the Lamb Slippers. Forget hot-girl-summer, in this two thousand and twenty third year of the Old Faith we are celebrating riot-witch-summer instead. How better to curse the heat of the relentless Day Star than by dreaming of fall, warm slippers, steaming beverages, and the downfall of anyone who dares to defy our leader – The Lamb…

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2023 Geek-A-Long: Cult of the Lamb Slippers

Hello, my beautiful online family! I am here to announce your next free knit-along project. But before I do that — blog post title spoiler not withstanding — I’d like to take a minute to share the strange journey it took to get here. I love the video game, Cult of the Lamb. I don’t know if you can really describe it as “cozy” since you play as a possessed lamb saved by annihilation by an ominous…

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Burn It Down - Sock 2: Ban Bigots, Not Books

Did you know that today is, in fact, not Sunday? I clearly didn’t. I published the 2nd sock in the Burn It Down pattern on Ravelry, but when I wrote this post I accidentally scheduled it for next Sunday and not last Sunday. I’ll chock this one up to “Wibbly wobbly timey wimey”. Sorry about the delay, and I hope you all have had some nice banned books to stay busy with in the meanwhile. If you’re…

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Burn It Down - Sock 1: Burn TERFs Not Witches

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Happy Pride 2023!

Happy Pride to all the Girls, Gays, and Theys in the Fiber Community! In this first fabulous rainbowed week of June I want to spend some time celebrating some of the LGBTQIA+ voices in the knitting world, and we’ll swing back around to the usual Sunday Geek-A-Long posts next week: May 22, 2023: Theme is announced May 28, 2023: Project Sheet Releases June 4, 2023: Pride Month: A celebration of…