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College of 3 crochet blankets: Top: Many different squares with different stitch patterns and textures. Crocheted with Madeline Tosh blanket arn in muted earthtone colors such as brown, dark rose, green, and gray, around a central mandala is draped over a yellow couch. Bottom left: an afgan layed out on a weathered gray deck. It's a mix of squares and stripes with different Tunisian stich patterns and textures all stiched with Premier Anti-Pilling Worsted in cream. Bottom right: a stich sampler afghan in process, drapped over the legs of the crocheter. Each stripe is a different texture or stitch. The colors of the stripes alternate between 5 Premier Anti-Pilling Worsted shades of tan, plumb, rose, cream, and blue. #crochet

#CrochetAway blankets. I haven't shared these 3 here yet. All patterns by Lena Skvagerson:

Top: Wildflower in the "Romantic" colorway.
Bottom left: Tunisian Sampler in Cream.
Bottom right: Crochet Stripe Afghan in the "Plumberry" colorway in progress. It's done, but I don't have a finished pic.😄

21.06.2025 21:05 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

3 pics - on the left, a hand knit gnome with a dark brown slouchy hat (Mad Tosh "Pecan Hull" fade to "Coffee Grounds"), green and light golden brown verigated body (Mad Tosh "Earl Gray" fade to "BayHorse", and off-white nose loopy beard (Mad Tosh "Antique Lace") sitting against a moss covered stump. Top right - a hand knit beenie hat in a "wild iris" lace pattern usimg Miss Babs Caroline base (fine marino and cashmere 🤤) in "Selvedge" (verigaded white, grey, and blues). The brim is ribbed in a solid blue called "Denim" and "Selvedge." Bottom right - hand knit sicks. Cuff and toe are in a solid purple raisin color, and the leg and foot are the purple stripped with verigated orange. There are spider shaped bobbles on the legs hanging from purple strands of web. The eye of partridge heel flap is in the verigated orange. The top and bottome pics are both on a weathered deck background in dappled sun.

A couple small FOs from this year so far. 🧶

Gnome Pun Intended - pattern by Sarah Schira).

Artichoke Hat - pattern by Matilda Kruse. It still needs its bath and a little blocking to get the wild iris lace pattern to pop.

Sneaky Spider Socks -pattern by Marie-Elyse Dugal.

#knitting #knit

15.04.2025 01:26 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A rustic looking, Scandinavian style garden gnome with grey/green treebark textured pointed hat and white beard, holding a watering can in one hand and a mushroom in the other, surrounded by 4 little ceramic mushroom sculptures tucked into the fluffy green moss. Leafy foxglove plant in the background (not blooming yet).

Took a rainy stroll around the yard today (I love spring rain). Happy to see the foxglove have started sprouting in my little corner of the misty, mossy, PNW. 🥰🌲

#PNW #GardenGnomes

06.04.2025 23:32 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn't it? In person, more of the black undertones come through🤩. Unfortunately, I lost yarn chicken with my remnant 😭. Frogged back a bit and the new plan is a long fade into "Coffee Grounds." Kinda digging it. Scrappy fun for a rainy Sunday! 😁🧶

06.04.2025 19:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A slouchy, dark brown, knit gnome hat in progress on circular needles with a lazer engraved wooden pinecone stitch marker, lying on a tablet displaying the front page of the "Gnome Pun Intended" pattern.

For #ShowMeYourKnits #WIP -- One of many. 😄

Today I cast on "Gnome Pun Intended" (pattern by Sarah Schira) with some earthy colors of leftover MadTosh worsted blanket yarn. The sliuchy hat color is "Pecan Hull" and the body will likely be a scrappy mix TBD.

#Knitting #KnitSky

06.04.2025 02:25 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A navy, crochet blanket with a repeating stripe pattern of 6 different stitches/textures spread out over a bed, along with a smaller picture of the same blanket folded and tied with red and white string with a gift tag. Yarn: Premier's Everyday Medley Anti-Pilling Worsted in Navy

For this week's #CrochetAway - Blue: An afghan I crocheted for my parents. Pattern is "The Gansey Style Crochet Afghan" by Lena Skvagerson.

🧶 #crochet

01.04.2025 05:27 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stacks of crocheted hexagons in shades of pink, purple, and blue, some with pale yellow stars in the center, on a table covered with a navy and silver speckled cloth. In front of the hexagons is a narrow, rosegold colored tin with a crochet hook, tapestry needle, and embroidery scissors on top.

#CrochetAway #Wip week: my "Starlight Blanket of Stars" (pattern by Alice Terry of The Burrow UK) has been hibernating way too long. Once all assembled, mine will fade center out from the pink, to the purples, to the blues (there's an additional purple and a blue not pictured here). 🧶

#crochet

24.03.2025 05:26 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A collage of 2 pictures both in a rustic wood surface against a burgundy curtain background: Upper left is a crochet black couldron with crochet white and green verigated coasters, edged with bobble stitches, folded up inside to look like a bubbling potion. Lower right is a crochet cup in green with a white "exposed bone" edge around the top, large white and black eyes, and a white "x" stitch mouth, stuffed with with crochet ruffled coaster in verigated shades of white, pink, and red, folded to look like an exposed brain. Both patterns are by Colby Soldan (I made a couple minor customizations), and yarn is Lily Sugar'n Cream in black, key lime pie ombre, white, meadow, and strawberry ombre.

Jumping on the #CrochetAway train with a twofer. This week's green and last week's quick projects promps: Bubbling Cauldron and Zombie Cranium coaster sets. It's hard to see the multiple shades of green in the verigated cauldron coasters/bubbles in pics. 🧙‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧶😊

16.03.2025 19:48 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right? Bonus, Abi's patterns in general are great - both charted and written with lots of detailed tips/tricks. Highly recommend. 😊

16.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A section of a witchy themed overlay mosaic crochet blanket in progress. The design so far includes black images of a spider cauldron, snail, spoon, pointed hat, and bottle with a crescent moon, etc on a verigated yarn background in greens, browns, grays, and white. A black and white picture of "The Craft" pattern cover by Abi McIntyre of Get Yer Hook on is in the uller right corner.

I'm taking a detour from my recent knitting marathon to make some progress on the fun mosaic crochet blanket I started a few months ago. I wish my camera would pick up the colors in the "Woodland" background yarn more accurately. It reminds me of foggy days in the Olympic Rain Forest. 🧶✨️🧙‍♀️🌲

#crochet

15.03.2025 21:57 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A triangle shawl knitted in forest green solid yarn stripped with a lighter green speckled hand dyed yarn draped over the branch of a vine maple tree.

For #ShowMeYourKnits green week: My Stormy Moor Shawl 🧶

This was a lot of firsts: first MKAL, first shawl, and first FO that wasn't a dishcloth.

Pattern by Marie Elyse Dugal for the Tippy Tree Yarns Bronte Sisters ICON MKAL.

#knitsky #knitting #knitshawls

15.03.2025 20:10 — 👍 49    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Two crecent shawls. Top left: half of a Glowhair Frost Shawl by Stephen West visible hanging over a fence. Main colors by Coven Collective in Catmint (verigated blues, greens, purples, and grays), and Deep Freeze (Purple), and Miss Babs in Blackbird (Black). Mohair colors by Malabrigo Yarn in Bobby Blue and Wales Road (purple) and Rowan Yarns Kidsilk Haze in black. Bottom right: a "Galvanism Shawl" by Marie-Elyse Dugal hanging on a fence. The yarn is Tippy Sock in "Fields of Ice" (Aqua) and "Amidst the Wilds" (blue).

For #showmeyourknits lace edition: Half of my "Glowhair Frost Shawl" by Stephen West finished a couple weeks ago (still needs blocking), and my "Galvanism Shawl" by Marie-Elyse Dugal, finished this past December. 🧶
#knitsky #knitting

23.02.2025 07:03 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Collage of two pictures. On the left is a 2 inch strip of 1:1 ribbing being knit in the round on bamboo circular needles. On the right, a close up of 2 fingering yarn skeins from Miss Babs. One is "Denim" (solid dark blue), and the other is "Selvedge" (verigated with shades of denim blues and white).

New cast on! An "Artichoke Hat" by Matilda Kruse for my bestie. Started knitting the brim in the solid blue and the body will be in the verigated. 🧶

#knitsky #knitting #WIP #WIPS

23.02.2025 04:15 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sneaky Spider Socks in progress. Pattern by Marie Elyse Dugal and yarn by Coven Collective. The legs, heels, and gussets are done and I'm working on the feet. The yarn is a dark semi-solid purple brown and a verigates orange. The cuff is the purple/brown, the leg and foot are single row stripes with both colors, the eye of partridge heel flap is in the verigated orange. Ther are bobble spiders on the legs hanging from "web" in the purple/brown.

Anthology Throw in progress. Pattern by Curious Handmade and yarn is the 2024 "Dark and Dreamy" silky sock fingering advent by A Chick That Knitz. It's a circular, striped, scrappy style throw with a mix of solid and verigated yarns. So far it starts with purple in the center and moves into blues, then burgundy and pink, back to blue, then yellow, the orange, then reds.

Hello bluesky. I created this account a while back, but haven't posted yet. Just gonna jump in with week 29 of #ShowMeYourKnits - #WIPs 🧶

Active knits:
*Sneaky Spider Socks (my first socks)
*Anthology Throw

I've made progress on both since the pics. I have lots of hibernating WIPs not pictured.🫣

15.02.2025 16:43 — 👍 28    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I'm so sorry for your loss. The note sheet looks to me like either a set of row or pattern repeat trackers.

27.01.2025 01:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0