Diagonal Delight Cardigan (2024)
Pattern: Diagonal Delight by Maureen Mason-JamiesonYarn: Shelridge Farm Soft-Touch DK wool Method: Handknit (4mm needles)Completed: December 29, 2024. Overall, a fun knit, and a nice result. There are some nice design elements — like the collar, with proper points! There
Starflake Shawl (2024)
Pattern: Stephen West’s StarflakeYarn: Western Sky Knits Zebra Sock (Holden (light), Colleen’s Summer Storm (dark)) Method: Handknit (4mm needles)Completed: October 4, 2024. In July 2023, on a flight to a week-long meeting in San Francisco, I realized with horror that
BreedSchool 2.1 Collected (2024)
Fibre: 12 different breeds of prep’ed natural colour fibresYarn: Various — mostly 2 plyMethod: Wheel spun, some SFD, some long drawCompleted: September 2, 2024. If you look at posts over the last few years, there hasn’t been any spinning, other
Hexa-Socks The First! (2024)
Pattern: “Nordwand Socks” by Birgit GrunwaldYarn: Noro Silk Garden Sock (colour 245) Method: Handknit, 2.50mm needlesCompleted: July 11, 2024. I was looking for something different to do with striping yarn and socks… I’d bought the pattern a year or so
Turned Twill Dishtowels (2024)
Pattern: An 8 shaft 3/1 Twill (Turned twill)Yarns: Sett: 24epi Method: Weaving — multishaft floor loom (Baby Wolf) Completed: February 24, 2024. These are the first set of dishtowels to match up with my “emergency” hand towels completed last year.
Green Diagonals Scarf (2024)
Pattern: Roughly based on the Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf freebie pattern I got from RavelryYarn: Queensland Collection Sugar Rush (Mint) and Alchemy Bamboo (Good Earth — dark green) Method: Handknit (4mm needles), with crochet trim (5mm hook)Completed: April 1, 2024. In
Clematis Scarf (2024)
Pattern: Starting with the “clematis” crochet pattern (Donna Kooler’s Encyclopedia of Crochet, page 222), and then I worked some patterning on either side (until I was out of yarn!)Yarn: Gradation Alpaca Mohair Fine (cream and light blue) Method: Crochet, 3.00mm
Cannonball Socks (2024)
Pattern: Toe-up, Cat Bordhi riverbed arch expansion and Wendy Knits toe-up sock; mitred squares for the ankle and a brief ribbing for cuffYarn: Turtlepurl Yarns Striped Socks — Cannonball colourway Method: Handknit, 2.00mm needlesCompleted: March 17, 2024. A simple sock
Emergency Waffle Weave Hand Towels (2023)
Pattern: A 4 shaft waffle patternYarns: Sett: 24epi Method: Weaving — multishaft floor loom. Completed: August 15, 2023. These were “emergency” hand towels only insofar as my old ones had worn through with large holes! I did a pretty standard
Prickly Pear Cotton Spin (2023)
Fibre: Pima Cotton Sliver from Buchanan Fiber, Prickly Pear colourway (2oz of fibre)Yarn: Approx 197yds two-ply, slightly less than sock weight. Also approx 3.3yds chain-ply.Method: Madness! See belowCompleted: May 14, 2023. My first cotton spinning experience. I bought a few