ME: omg i have so much to do today
BRAIN: best i can do is none of it so that you don't feel bad for only doing some of it
ME: that doesn't make any sense
BRAIN: don't tell me how to do my job
A hand knit sweater in progress sits on a wooden table next to a coaster that reads: “What’s fur ye’ll no go by ye.” Yarn is a dark forest green.
My #WIPWednesday also works for this week’s #showmeyourknits lace week. Here’s my progress on the Sky Cardi with its simple lace border. It’s an open front, cropped sweater & I’m loving the way the yarn is knitting up.
#knitsky #knitting 🧶
Pattern by Carrie Bostic Hoge
Yarn: Borgo de Pazzi Amore
I love that gradient! Your eye for color is 👩🍳💋 !!
She also has wonderful kits on Barrett Wool Co. ☺️
10 week old grey/brown tabby kitten lounging in a metal basket lined with a yellow and blue striped hand-knit blanket.
9 1/2 month old grey/brown tabby kitten curled atop a cat tree on a yellow and blue hand-knit blanket.
Regrettably, I don’t have any dogs in sweaters pics (my dog isn’t a fan) for the animal theme this week, but here’s my kitten enjoying a thrown together blanket I made for her last summer. What a difference 7 months makes!
#showmeyourknits 🧶 #knitsky
This is so great! I love Susan B Anderson’s patterns and the color with on your chicken is dreamy! I say yes to it being an emotional support chicken. 🩷
Print featuring the silhouette of a bare hedgerow under a purple sky filled with birds flying in group formation
'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
Thank you! 😊 and it’s soooo soft!
A message from Scotland to Trump on Burns Night
Ye see yon birkie ca’d a lord,
Wha struts, an’ stares, an’ a’ that,
Tho’ hundreds worship at his word,
He’s but a coof for a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
His ribband, star, an’ a’ that,
The man o’ independent mind,
He looks an’ laughs at a’ that
I’m loving the color! And the yarn is super soft. Very luxurious.
A hand knit shawlette work in progress sits on a table. The knitwear is arranged in a semicircle with the yarn ball on one end and a grey stone in the middle of the semicircle. The yarn is a light sage green fading into brown then orange.
I truly adore the squishiness of garter. I think it’s well underrated. I’ve knit a few shawls with garter and I’m loving this one which is a current WIP.
Marlia Shawl in Poema cashmere
🧶 #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting
Oooh. I love it! That color is gorgeous. 😍
Photo of an embroidery resembling the head and shoulders of a Black man in purple, pink and black yarn
Intimate embroidered portraits by Cape Town artist Danielle Clough #WomensArt
Cartoon illustration featuring a figure lying on the floor as if disheartened looking outwards with the word 'Nope' above
'Nope'
by cartoonist
Gemma Correll
#WomensArt #Monday
Tomorrow is today! And if you hate dialing, 5calls.org lets you click to call your electeds. It even gives scripts (though I like the one below).
Aww. Thanks! They were fun to knit and well received.
A pair of hand knit fingerless mittens in light green yarn with mushrooms and embellishments in red and white yarn. The mitts sit on a sky blue blocking mat.
A pair of hand knit fingerless mittens in orange yarn with daisies and embellishments in white and red yarn. The mitts sit on a pink blocking mat.
I’m terrible at taking quality pics of my FOs, especially those I gift. So, here’s some ugly photos of mitts I’ve made in recent years. 😆
Magic Toadstool Mitts by Stone Knits & the orange with daisies are self drafted based on the same pattern. Both in Woolstock Light.
#showmeyourknits #knitsky 🧶
Three knitting projects in progress sit on a wooden table. On the left, the beginnings of a lace-detail scarf in sage green and orange variegated yarn next to its yarn ball. In the middle, a hand knit green sock with multicolored speckles sits next to its yarn ball and to the right, a black and grey striped nearly finished hat sits under the remainder of its yarn ball.
Very late with this post, but I wanted to throw some of my WIPs up here. The scarf and the hat are new cast ons but the socks have been languishing for a year?
Marlia Shawl in Poema Cashmere
Stark hat in Berroco Millefiori Light
Vanilla socks in Back Loop Yarn Co
🧶 #showmeyourknit #knitsky #knitting
Oh, I aspire to an annual trip! 😆 one of the skeins I got there for a specific project was lost in a recent move. This is devastating and also a good reason for my next trip to Scotland! Happy knitting!
I have been to Ginger Twist on both of my two Edinburgh trips and I absolutely adore it! What an amazingly thoughtful gift! 💝
If you don't know your reps, may I recommend 5calls.org? Click to dial all your state and federal electeds, PLUS scripts if you don't know what to say. Pass it on. @5calls.org
Fiction and fantasy aren't "fake" any more than light seen through a prism is fake. It's just seen from a different perspective. Light seen through a prism is still light. Truth seen through a story is still the truth.
I didn’t hate it, I don’t think…just wasn’t blown away. 🤷♀️
Thanks! I remember the pattern being a little fiddly but totally accessible and I definitely get good wear from it. Just haven’t jumped over the newness of brioche gap, I think.
Yesss! Wow, thanks!☺️
A fluffy stripey cat asleep on a gray blanket.
Happy #caturday from this sleepy head, her toe beans, and her fluffiest tail. #catsky
A hand knit cowl in a striped pattern with dark blue and variegated light blue yarn sits on a table next to a tea cup patterned with images of cats.
#showmeyourknits FIRSTS, presenting my first (& only) brioche project. This is from a couple years ago and I can’t for my life remember the designer. 🫣 Yarn is Manos del Uruguay. Can confirm is very squishy. For some reason, I haven’t felt compelled to do more brioche. Yet.
🧶 #knitsky #knitting
