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Month: June 2025

Summer knitting

June 19, 2025 / / 0 Comments

I’ve been thinking about this and since it’s the first truly brutal day of the year it’s now at the top of my mind. I have a few things in line behind it, but my first project is the Workday Scarf from Sue Flanders in Phydlbitz Sock from Knitivity:

I’m no photographer so you can’t see the shades of purple woven though this one but it’s absolutely gorgeous.

I’d share the rest but they’ll probably change three times before this is a quarter done lol. I want to get a good start on something so I stand a chance of finishing it.

There’s a lightweight wrap I’ve been looking at, and maybe some house socks, and a tomato-colored skein of light fingering that hasn’t found a home. Decisions, decisions.

But first we knit!

The garter slipped scarf is done!!

June 15, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Over 12 years in the making:

Pattern is “My Garter Slipped Scarf” by Knit Pox!

Yarn by Ray Whiting at Knitivity.

I went on something of a marathon knitting session to get this done. I was tired of looking at it in my knitting basket and also I’m on a finishing binge (except for the hexies. They’re hibernating lol). I’ve got everything that’s knitting off the needles, so I can start something new. The goal is one knit project, one crochet project. Hexies aside, I’ve got a fair amount of other crochet I need to clear up before I start something else. This is subject, of course, to the condition that it’s summer and I have no air conditioning. Lightweight is going to be the name of the game. I’ll decide after I inventory.

One of the things I ran up against finishing the scarf was a sanity check on the bind-off. I just wanted to give a shout out toward this article that made me feel less crazy:

The ultimate list of bind-off methods

Anyway, with my oldest WiP off the needles I feel somehow lighter lol. It’s a great way to go into the second half of June. Happy summer!

Misbehaving Hexies

June 14, 2025 / / 0 Comments

So I have some of the pieces to Jewelled Star sitting here…I finished all the hexagons then ran out of steam:

For one, they aren’t overly hexagonal, which I thought might be a problem, and two, they are slightly different sizes which makes joining them miserable, and three I really, really don’t want to make the stars and have been putting it off for something like a year and a half. So I decided I’d just make something with the hexagons and immediately ran up against the problem of their irregularity. I have no idea at all what I’m going to do with the damned things.

I suppose it’s time to put them back in the naughty corner until I have a burst of inspiration. Hopefully I’ll figure out what to do with them, but it’s a relief to declare the blanket a failure. Some projects just never come together they way you think they will, and that’s ok.

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