#Knit

[knit-happens]

I made another rat 🐀💚

Pattern

[Image description: a knitted rat with a green body and pale pink inner ears, feet and tail. The first image is a view of the front, the second image is a view of the side. End ID]

[foldingfittedsheets]

Today I headed into the city and met up with the illustrious @chekhovs-tantrum who agreed to mend my very adored sweater that had a pocket blowout.

Not only did she do an incredible job but she also embroidered a little hibiscus flower for me!

I am getting to wear it again for the first time in years. Once again complaining on tumblr has enriched my life considerably.

[mothyandthesquid]

“Silver Lining”, a beautifully light and joyful silver grey. It’s one of a collection of greys and solid colours that compliments our extensive range of bright variegated and speckled options. Which is your favourite? Mothyandthesquid.com

[anonknitter]

Hm. Bad color bleed. And the yarn doesn't feel very nice after washing/blocking. It wasn't cheap either. I should have done a swatch with all the colors and blocked it, I've had bad luck with bright colors like this before.

Anyway, the yarn is Julie Asselin Leizu fingering if you want to avoid it. The scarf looks nice otherwise, I'll post glamour shots once I've sewn the ends in.

[bunnyspiderbananabuns]

Started some socks 🧦

[knithacker]

Go Knit 'Em Tigris! This Cowl Pattern Designed By Mary Hunt of Hunt Hand Knits Is Awesome! 👉 https://buff.ly/1W8g7Ig 🐯

[mimieux0u0]

🌀 flower knit

[whitecablesfan]

[unfinishedsweaters]

Spring Feverish 2025: Brioche Toast

(This one is so cool because it has sort of an exaggerated shape; it’s almost like horns. The top curves a little; you could block this to bring that out more, but I did not.)

[fiberfantasies]

Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing

[ultearlight]

Highlights of the sweaters i made in 2024

(I kint these on twitch, same username as here :3)

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

[mothyandthesquid]

March’s Rainbow of Tropical Fish Yarn Club is the orange variatus platy fish. There are a few spares available on sock and you can join the club at anytime. Wow, that a year for cats, birds, and fish it has been so far! Which is your favourite?

Mothyandthesquid.com

[anonknitter]

Here's the modeled shot of the Itamaraty socks. I love this color <3