pattern: Beloved bonnet from Tin Can Knits, but used worsted weight yarn on size 5 16-inch circular needles and stopped increasing at 57 stitches (8 repeats in the increase section with short rows, rather than the pattern's 9 for the newborn size)
yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Cirrus Gray and Ankara Green (this is the third project where I've paired these two, I just like them together) This is an incredibly cute newborn hat. Love how the decrease rows create leaf texture.
pattern: Michele Sabatier's Berry Baby Hat (free), but only cast on 56 stitches (long-tail cast on) and used size 8 needles throughout yarn: Berroco Ultra Wool in Peony and Cascade 220 in ... some kinda green (Leaf Green, maybe?); I really wanted to do purple for an eggplant, but this was a sudden project and there wasn't enough in our stash (someday ...) Our resident crochet expert / teenager taught me enough crochet skills to make these friends! They're mostly based on Lucy Collins's small blue and tiny white Totoro patterns.
Here we have Purl Soho's Traveling Cable Hat in Malabrigo Rios Kris (but with one fewer pattern repeat than the adult pattern indicates). A really interesting knit!
This shawl has quite a wingspan! Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in glazed carrot, green apple, and pearl Pattern: Campfire Cozy (Espace Tricot)--but with a 40” (rather than 47") circular needle and a different bind off (I was working the wrong side because of how little yarn I had left, and bound off in pattern while adding and binding off one yarnover after each knit stitch to provide a bit of stretch) I bought 3 skeins glazed carrot, 2 skeins green apple, and 2 skeins pearl, and used US size 10 40” circular needle (not 47” as pattern suggests, worked fine though).
I made a real actual sweater!
pattern: Nuuk (Jonna Hietala) yarn: Harrisville Designs Highland in Walnut (I bought 4 skeins but only needed 3 for a short-sleeved sweater in the pattern's smallest size) I've hesitated to work with Harrisville Highland in the past because of its scratchy feel in the skein, but it was actually quite pleasant to work with and gave me the less drapey fabric and sheepier texture I was looking for here. Pattern: Sugar Run Headband (Apiary Knits)
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios, Archangel This was fun and interesting to work, right up until the instructions for doing the kitchner stitch join in pattern did not click for me. After consulting some outside information (especially this Interweave article), I was able to do a beautifully invisible join, so hooray for the product, but ugh for the process. I mean, I assume it's magical! Based on the wizard's cap pattern in Kids Knitting (Melanie Falick), but my friend calls it an elf hat. Worsted weight odds and ends from our stash--I only had to repeat one color other than the deliberate framing with the dark green.
These are made from Songbird Yarn & Fibres's sock weight European Bee-eater yarn, such fun to work with. I used my old favorite mitten pattern, The World's Simplest Mitten Pattern (Tin Can Knits). But I'd never made it in fingering weight yarn before and the size 0 dpns made me feel like a giant while working the cuffs :)
I finally managed to make mittens where I didn't have to sew up gaps at the thumb while finishing. Terribly pleased about that. I found this resource helpful. This blanket started out with the yarn, four skeins of Rowan pure wool worsted in (oak, hazel, rosy, and toffee) from a LYS sale a couple years ago. It's kinda based on Susan Andrews's Warm Me Up Tommy pattern, but I departed in a number of ways, including needle size (I used 9s instead of 8s, mostly because I had them at the ready), blanket size, border (seed stitch rather than ribbed), and color design (color blocks rather than a main color with skinny contrasting stripes). It turned out pretty sweet!
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