Anne Hole

Bottom edge of knitting showing the old Danube lace stitch in self patterning yarn (Yarnsmiths Lagoon DK) in shades of blue, grey and green.

Two balls of Pato baby prints yarn.

Screenshot of Colorado Cowl pattern.

Screenshot of Confluence cable Cowl pattern.

Am I the only one checking my stash and WIPs thinking about what nice things I can knit over the festive break? I'm planning to pick up the lovely lacy slipover (1), make myself some bedsocks from the Pato and use some leftover yarn to make one of the cabled cowls. #Knitsky 🧶

100% agree. This is why I have at least 3 wips to allow for different levels of migraine. Knitting is good for distracting from the pain on mild/moderate days. And having something to focus on helps with the giddiness.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

A triangular shawl in different textures and colours from oddments of Malabrigo Arroyo: Pearl 10, Matisse, Archangel, Anivetsario and Whales Road. Pattern Passé-Partout by maanel

Cotton Honeycomb blanket with white borders and cells of red and green.

Bottom of the back of waistcoat knitted in Highland Heathers Gorse using King Cole 6100 pattern

Beginning of a grey cowl knitting in the round using leftover grey yarn and pattern for Colorado Cowl by ju-knits

Work in progress for #ShowMeYourKnits this week. A variety as usual. 1. waiting for weaving in and blocking, a shawl from oddments. 2. a Yule footstool blanket in cotton. 3. the beginning of a waistcoat. 4. a cable cowl. Not shown, for travel & knitting and chatting a scarf & 2 hats!

You could try distracting her with a ball or other toy. Or play with her until she’s worn out. Or keep your yarn close to your work maybe in a bowl. Fortunately my cats are old and not too bad with yarn 🧶 but they like needles wiggling so I always use circulars.

In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "Chatroom contributions are given equal status with serious academic work....AI just hoovers up everything.”

Clearly the reviewer isn't a knitter. Maybe the show will be popular with that group. Perhaps this is how keen bakers feel about GBBO?

Well now we know. Huge needles and yarn! Such a missed opportunity because the knitwear the contestants were wearing showed their talent.

Knitting on needles. Multicoloured triangle with feathers pattern

Triangular shawl in shades of green with feather motifs in shades of gold and brown between blue stripes

Triangular shawl in shades of blue and green with feather motifs in shades of brown

Triangular shawl in shades of blue and purple with feather motifs

Knitting again the lovely peacock feather shawl by Lyudmila Aksenik. I’ve previously done it to use up leftover yarn, but this time I treated myself to Malabrigo Arroyo 🧶

Lovely autumnal walk around Borde Hill Gardens today

Knitting pattern for cardigan with simple cables.

Knitting pattern for waistcoat with squares pattern.

2 balls of Highland Heathers in Gorse.

Yesterday I got 2 projects off the needles and another one is close to done, so it’s time to look at my stash and choose what to knit next. I think it’ll be these 2 with a bit of pattern but not too complicated. 1 will be in the yarn 🧶 shown (rare for me) and 2 the yarn in pic 3. Exciting!

I don't really see knitting as competitive or a spectator sport but I'll probably tune in to see.

Crofter 9133 pattern

Sirdar 8113 pattern

Highland Heathers 9793 pattern

King Cole 5004 pattern.

If you’re looking for DK, I’ve made each of these many times in different colours and yarns. If you look on Lovecrafts or Wool Warehouse most patterns will be bottom up, knitted flat.

Black car curled up asleep on old rainbow coloured diagonal blanket

My cats do too

That yarn is magic! The flowers just appear as you knit!

12 multicoloured knitted hats

Baby knotted hat in pink with mock flowers. Using Hayfield Sirdar Baby Blossom and Sirdar 1482 pattern.

5 multicoloured hats using leftover yarn. Bottom 3 in Drifter

Pointy baby hat in Snuggly baby crofter in shades of beige using pattern 1482

Hats for #ShowMeYourKnits this week. I mostly knit very simple hats to use up leftover 🧶 yarn and they mainly go to charity. Sometimes there’s a baby hat.

British.

Hats and cowls

I only use a straight needle for casting on or off. Otherwise circulars for everything. But this is my first attempt at top down and DPNs seem the right thing for the sleeves which only have 48 sts. So far so good 🙂

Black cat sitting under Christmas tree with knitted tree skirt in red, green and white.

Black cat sleeping on striped diagonal blanket knitted in leftovers of King Cole Riot

Black cat asleep on honeycomb blanket in rainbow colours

I don’t really have any spooky knitting for this week’s #ShowMeYourKnits but I do have a black cat! 🧶 And she is often found with my knitted objects 😊

Today I'm trying knitting on DPNs for the first time. Fortunately there are lots of great resources online to help me. But wish me luck #knitsky friends 🤞🧶

Hand pointing at baby cardigan in stripes of lilac, pale blue, yellow, peach and pink. Pato baby prints yarn. Based on Sirdar 4873

Baby cardigan in stripes of lilac, pale blue, yellow, peach and pink. Pato baby prints yarn. Based on Sirdar 4873

Something for #FOFriday on #Knitsky 🧶 I had forgotten how tiny first size cardigans are!

Maybe for drawers holding yarn, but not doors

Child’s hooded cardigan in Cornish blue hurdle stitch with dinosaur buttons

All’s well that ends well 🙂

Bedsocks in rib and twisted 2x2 rib. Using oddments of purple and purple/white striped yarn

Bedsocks in rib and twisted 2x2 rib. Using oddments of self-striping yarn in pink, brown, green, yellow and cream.

Bedsocks in rib and twisted 2x2 rib. Using oddments of the red parts of Fjord Festive yarn.

I don't have much to show for this week's #ShowMeYourKnits because I don't really knit socks. I do however sometimes use up oddments making myself bedsocks (no heel, just like popsox but in DK) 🧶

Love those! So fun. I may need to knit some for myself 🙂

What a lovely thoughtful gift!

The knit and purl swap places so the 'hurdles' go out of alignment

Tabby & white cat snuggled up on diagonal garter stitch blanket in shades of grey.

Tabby cat sprawled out on diagonal garter stitch blanket in shades brown, green, gold and orange.

White cat wriggling around on chevron stitch blanket in blue, green, yellow, mauve, peach and cream

Black cat snuggled up in a ball on a honeycomb blanket in rainbow colours.

This week for #ShowMeYourKnits it's knitting that brings us joy or that we knit to care. I get immense joy seeing the things I knit being worn by friends, family and their little ones. I don't like to share photos of other people and kids, so here are a few knits that were well received by cats 😻🧶

Thanks. Fortunately it’s only small so now reknitted and I will finish assembly tomorrow. Glad I spotted it before it was all sewn up and ends woven in!