Archives for 2021

And again . . .

And again . . .

The first one is knit with Shetland jumperweight leftovers from my Raga Fair Isle. The second one is knit from some KnitPicks fingering weight wool. The third one is knit from Wee County Yarns miniskeins: a total of 12 colors! The first clock shown is from a chart included with the pattern and the next two are my own designs.

Again, this is Stephanie Earp’s wonderful pattern: Yoke O’Clock.

I confess that I’m finishing up yet another clock this morning, this one knit from two shades of Koigu KPPPM. Stay tuned . . .

Loki is waiting for this current obsession to fade.

I finished my Raga fair isle!

This is a design by Violet McQuade, available from Jamieson’s of Shetland or Ravelry.

Then I knit a clock!

Of course Loki had to inspect said clock!

Not much new to report this week, apart from my current WIP, which is coming along. I’ve got a good chunk of the body done.

I’ve still got a few inches to go before I start the neck shaping, but that should definitely happen this week.

In Loki news, I managed to get a shot of him this week where he was looking directly at me!

I’m making nice progress on my current WIP:

The pattern is Raga, designed by Violet McQuade, knit from Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift. It’s not a hugely complex pattern because there are only seven different colors, but it is a fun knit, and I do like this colorway very much. The pattern offers you a choice of knitting it in one of four different colorways. I managed to restrain myself from going immediately to the green colorway and chose the red colorway instead. The other two choices are grey and blue. You can see the other colorways (and more) in the Ravelry project gallery.

Meanwhile, Loki is as helpful as usual.

I didn’t post last Sunday because I spent the day finishing this:

This is the Saven Pullover, designed by Meghan Babin, knit in Rowan Softyak DK — one of my favorite yarns. I shouldn’t say that out loud: Rowan will discontinue it. 😛

It was an okay knit. I made changes to the center cable to better suit me, as documented in my last blog post. In retrospect, I should have made the side cables mirror image of each other, as that would have made the raglan decreases match. Also, I think in the larger size, the armholes are too large — it looks like they were simply increased in the same proportions as the same as the length of the body to the armholes. So all in all, I rate the pattern an “eh.”

Next I knit my “palate cleanser:”

This is Selbie Mouse, designed by Manon Lemaire. The pattern was beautifully written and as far as I can tell technically perfect, but is definitely not for beginner knitters! My little mouse was knit from Biscotte Yarn Bis-sock on size 0, 1, and 2 dpns. 

I took time out from knitting to make this:

And I started this:

So . . . busy week! Loki is clearly exhausted by my industry.