#dysnomial-insaniam

[junewild]

HI KEEL 💖💕💖

Remembering you posted abt making sweaters and I was curious if you'd share references/ patterns you've liked working up? (knit or crochet are both wonderful)

I made my first lil knit cardigan recently and compulsively went back to making a lap blanket after (slowly learning i need many active projects to rotate thru) and I love your style so anything you can recommend I would be super down for!

Also!! it's been so lovely to see you posting abt new adventures and I know it was a really rough go at the year and a tough summer and it joys me to see things shifting for you! I love you so much :3 regardless do me a flavor and have a great weekend

hellooo my lovely! thanks for the kind words, they made me very happy! <3

i do not crochet except to fix my knitting mistakes, so these are all knit patterns.

the first sweater i ever made (three years ago, now!) was the portside sweater, pattern found here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/portside-2

it is fairly simple, requires relatively few needles, & i could do endless rounds of circular stockinette with my eyes closed in the hallways between class. unfortunately it ended up a little too small on me, so i unravelled it (altho i plan on making another one at some point!) & am now turning the yarn into my second sweater, which is the handsome chris knives out sweater, pattern found for free here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-handsome-chris-pullover

not simple, but requires even fewer needles. & once you've done a few rounds of the pattern, it starts to feel natural. i can do it almost entirely by heart at this point. if you don't mind cable knitting, go for it! i'd recommend drawing out the pattern for the size you're doing in some kind of grid print notebook rather than reading it off the pattern blocks list, though (& if you make a size s, i already have it & can send you pictures!!)! i'm really enjoying this sweater, tbh. doing it in a grey / oatmeal / rust red colorblock in wool. (the grey is from the portside sweater.) it taught me to cable without a cabling needling, which has sped up my favorite mitten & hat patterns immensely. also, when people ask me what i'm making, i get to show it to them & it's impressive as hell. plus it's just a cute as fuck sweater.

after i finish this, i'll be moving on immediately to my third sweater, which is https://knithacker.com/2021/10/the-truth-is-out-there-x-files-fans-i-want-to-believe-that-youll-knit-this-sweater/

i am not even an x-files fan. the third episode dropped me into a psychotic episode & i stopped watching & don't think it's safe for me to resume. but if i don't own this sweater as soon as is physically possible. i will die. i don't even know what color i'm going to make it in yet. probably white -> white with black speckles -> black, because it would look good w the pattern, will look good on me, & i have most of the necessary yarn already.

i'd love to hear about your sweater progress! i'll post pics of mine, too, & tag you in them if you'd like.

[27percentbattery]

The truth is, I only truly have one friend and she lives on the other side of the country. No matter how much I want to believe that these other people are “friends”, none of them compare. They don’t seem to keep me in mind, and if they do there’s a selfish motive as to why. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.. I can never truly just be/do what I would like to. Friendship is too many things to even attempt to sum up, but one important aspect is being free to be each other WITH each other. I miss you Biss.. Miami is always better with you in it @dysnomial-insaniam

[junewild]

@dysnomial-insaniam because they’re the only thing strong enough to defeat hiccups 😔

where’s that post that’s like. how long would it take the world to realize that hiccups had disappeared. anyway. unhappy to report that they have not yet disappeared.