I am a yarn addict. I have purchased yarn across places far and wide, and one of the fun places I shop is Eat, Knit, Sleep, a cool online yarn store that lets you search their inventory by color, which is all sorts of awesome. They have a great selection, a physical location in Georgia, and if you order, they send you cute kitty extras. Imagine my surprise when I saw this on Facebook.
I won’t lie, I’m terribly flattered. Now I want this yarn.
Speaking of yarn and things that it might eventually become, I finished a sweater.
The sweater is going to Kid 2. She loves green. The color is actually a little bit more saturated, a pretty green, but it is overcast outside today.
The pattern is Capulet Blouse by Fabel Knitwear.
The yarn is stash yarn, unlabeled. Not sure where I got it but it feels like cotton and a bit of synthetic fiber, maybe?
The original pattern has what the designer called a rushed princess neckline, and I tried it, but it didn’t look quite right. Perhaps it might be better in person. I will try it again when Kid 2 gets here to pick the sweater up.
So next project. No idea what to make. Hopefully something that uses up my enormous stash.
What are you working on?
Nice sweater! I’m knitting socks. 2 at a time, toe up. I’m on my 20th pair.
I didn’t have plans to buy more yarn but I do love book inspired pairings.
I’m crocheting a scarf for my husband from recycled sweater yarn. Hopefully, by the time winter rolls around in Germany, it will be finished. 🫣
You are an original maker. I tried both knitt& crocheting. They are not for me. I love that you make stories with your mind & sweaters with your hands.
I’m planning on getting some yarn soon. my stash is somehow almost empty. I blame my oldest learning to crochet lol.
I’m making a hoodie in Tunisian crochet. I don’t normally do much crochet in the summer so this project is going to take awhile!
Wait…a Tunisian hoodie!?! Where might one find a pattern for that?
+1
I’m just learning to crochet so I don’t have a stash..yet. I love to embroider though and I have the same struggles with my thread stash.
I am working on a shawl that is never going to end and I have no one to blame but myself since it is my own design. It is a variation on crocodile stitch to make it look more like flower petals in a deep violet lace weight. It is gorgeous and has the most wonderful texture but it is never going to end. You can see pictures on my instagram brittneybutterfielddesigns
Your shawls are so gorgeous! But you are absolutely right. That stitch looks like it would take forever. One time I got into this baby blanket that was a combination of shells and clusters with back loop ridges. They looked like little wheels and it was so pretty. Yeah, by day 5, I unraveled it.
That’s how I feel about granny squares.
Thank you! It’s good TV watching crochet but I’m still ready to move on to something more engaging and I’m not even half way through.
I am knitting a platoon of tiny 3″ cats. Amid my enormous stash, I have two balls of gradient sock yarn that I got in a swap many years ago. The yarn itself is not sturdy enough for socks for whatever reason despite its ball band’s suggestion, but it seems to be working well for wee folksy-aloof felines.
I’ve done doll blankets, vests and berets for 18 inch girl dolls. Also shawls and those booties that are T shaped before you sew the sides to the soles. When you scale them down a bit they make nice slippers for 18 inch dolls. They are good projects to use up leftover remnants of yarn. Currently I’m working on a quilt but I may start another beret in a soft blue.
I bought so much yarn on my last trip out of town! Then ordered more online. Our little town was evacuated for a wildfire, and, although I stayed to work with the local firefighters, my yarn and my pets were packed up to leave if necessary. I’m knitting a purple cardigan now (because I had the wool in my stash, and decided that I needed one), but have not made much progress due to working on the fire. Everyone is back this week, life is gradually returning to normal, but there are still fires all around.
Well, right now I’m laying a tile floor in my laundry room.
But I still fondly remember a bat wing, cowl necked, soft, white sweater I made in my knitting days. I couldn’t resist the yarn when I saw it in the sale bin because it was “100% undetermined fiber content.”
I don’t think I’d trust a label like that now, but it was a warm, comfy sweater, and surprisingly flattering.
I love everything about this, especially that delightful sweater pattern. I added it to my Ravelry cue.
I’m working on the Clincher bandanna scarf by Ash Kearns in the Blue Meets Red color way from Ruby and Roses Yarn (https://rubyandrosesyarn.com/)
It’s so fun. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/clincher
on a cotton dishcloth kick, this fancy doily one, Purple Prince Lily
by Judit Horvath on Ravelry
Wow! The match with the covers is incredible, it would be like wearing Hugh’s theme!
I’m only allowed to knit from my stash currently. By my own order. I have a huge and well organized stash. Cool yarn pairings for your books!
Love the sweater, I wish I loved knitting sweater but as someone who always run warm, it seems like a lot of work to never wear it.
I’m working on a Polushkabunny’s baby duck … love knitting toys
looking to start assigned pooling shawl Glide by Dawn Barker … grab yarn at Knit City Toronto
yarn collecting is a hobby too 😄
Speaking of, I have been face-palming all over because it took me thirty-mumblemumble years to realise a knitting pattern with holes in it would actually address my sensory-overwhelm and let me wear long sleeves and knitted things without feeling like tearing my skin off, because air is getting through!
So now I’m on the look out for open-knit and broderie anglaise and all sorts of things that are friendly to my ADHD. Luckily distressed things are still in trend 😅!
Depending on how much air you need…. you could always knit laceweight on 5mm needles. Or faggotted ribbing (k2tog, yo) but it biases badly, imo. But there are at least 4 different faggotted patterns that I know. A lot of knitted on edgings use it to delineate the edging from the body.
[The historical name of the stitch has been corrected to a less coincidentally problematic version. – IA]
For his 70th birthday (~ end of the year), my husband wants a huge alpaca crocheted blanket, which will then be felted (slightly, 40°C)
It can be colorfully striped, so I have searched every offer, every wool store that closes … to break the budget just ‘a little’.
Combining the colors so that nothing clashes is a ‚little bit‘ difficult
The wool is 3mm (US2.5?), I crochet with 3 balls at a time.
When the blanket is finished it will weigh about 5-6kg and be about 2.5-2.8m long about 40cm narrower (before felting)
1/3 is already finished
What have I done to myself to promise something like THAT…
I felt in the wash machine with a bag of tennis balls.
I’m in mourning because CustomFit is shutting down its site, so I’m generating patterns for everyone I know before they close. Since I restarted knitting at the 2016 election for something positive to do, I’ve knit more than 100 sweaters using Amy Herzog’s wonderful tool carried on so well by Kate and Meg. Right now, I’m knitting a Lucas Point in a wonderful Malagrigo Dos Tierras yarn in great colors–Whales Road. I LOVE eatsleepknit, not least because of their fabulous customer service. I do all my yarn buying by mail, and they are so good about calling it out when skeins won’t match, etc. Plus, they support so many indie dyers and suppliers. And! then there’s the slightly addictive scratch cards and discount system that tallies how much yarn you’ve bought and rewards and entices you to get more. I’m really, really trying to knit my way too big stash, and yet… most of this summer’s knitting is all new yarn. Sigh. Only one sweater from stash yarn planned so far.
I bet it will look fine in person and on the body. I always worry until I see a garment go on, and am always sure there’s something wrong about the fit, etc.
thanks for sharing this!
Currently crocheting a baby dragon out of yarn I’ve had for at least 3 moves. It will not bust the stash but it feels good to use regardless! And it will be adorable. It’s actually similar to Hugh’s color scheme, hmm, maybe Hugh needs a baby dragon 😉 😀
Why not? He has a unicorn.
I’m using a random purchase of a silk, merino, alpaca blend to make a giant shawl/scarf/stole thing (boring boring stockinette which all I have the brain for right now). It’s a wonderfully prismatic grey — looks dull at a distance and then bursts into all these beautiful flecks of color up close.
On a knitting note: do you have a pattern you can point for when Evdokia knits Kate a sweater in Magic Breaks?
This is close to it 🙂https://novita.com/en/patterns/fisherman-brioche-sweater-novita-natura
I absolutely love this. Makes me wish I could knit or crochet. Technically I can (I’ve tried to take it up several times in my life) but I just don’t have the patience and/or the vision to know that the drudgery is worth the end result. I’m better at other things.
thank you!
You must have that yarn!! 😍 I’ve been greedily grabbing Gauge DyeWorks’ monthly ‘birth flower’ limited editions … and when the package showed up after my last book release I thought I’d accidentally bought two skeins. Turns out the second skein was a book release gift. I had no idea Catherine even knew … well, anything about me. 🥰
The sweater is beautiful! And the book yarns are awesome!
making up a cardigan pattern as I go, want a kind of fluttery long hemline. So….darts? wedges? not sure what you call them in knitting but it has extra triangles of width at the bottom, with decreases as we go up. Using “100% cashmere” yarn of dubious provenance but really soft feel in a dark tea green. almost 1 front panel done!
Now I will switch to Iron and Magic to listen to today, yay!
Godets? Is that the word you’re looking for?
So cool your books are taking over the world!! I got those books also, they are beautiful. Anything happening with Subterranean Press?
Subterranean are getting the second volume of Innkeeper Chronicles books ready- an announcement should come soon!
We do a lot of layering here in Seattle, and this poncho pattern knits up lovely.
https://www.churchmouseyarns.com/collections/churchmouse-patterns-garments/products/seamless-poncho-pattern
I already have one in a lovely burnt copper color, and like it so well there is another one on the needles in a discontinued variation of a MadelineTosh color in deep true red called “Blood Runs Cold”,- I had to have it if for no other readon than the name- it’s taken me five years to scrounge enough of the single-ply yarn to knit something substantial with it. This one is my TV project, since it’s a lot of just straight knitting, I can do it while watching. I also knit a lot of matching hat and cowl sets, and just finished one of those.
I also buy things just for the name. I very rarely wear nail polish, but the OPI names crack me up!
oooh that is cute! I bet she will love it.
I saw a really cool wrap shawl thing. it was a shawl with sleeves and it crossed in the front to look like a gorgeous draped top. I saw it on an add for a “winter” wedding dress and it was so gorgeous I instantly wanted one! lol
I love the comfort of sweaters but hate pulling them over my head. And taking them on/off constantly as I get hot flashes… 🔥
Nothing right now or for some weeks.
Stupid me tripped on the bottom step of the stairs in my son’s house and landed on my right shoulder. The top of the arm bone is broken and cannot be casted because of where it is.
My special, ultra-scientific equipment is : a sling. Try not to move your arm. We will X-ray it again in two weeks and see how it’s doing. Oh, here are some pain pills…
So frustrating for me, but worse, I was there to take them to the airport for a vacation. (I would also have been dog sitting.) They are staying home because I am otherwise helpless. They tell me it’s no big deal and they are glad to help, but I still feel really guilty.
I *was* making a baby blanket in multi-pastels for my grandbaby (they are adopting) who will come along at some point. I am sure crochet will be good physical therapy. (that’s in my future, too)
Oh no, I’m so sorry you’re going through this! Wishing you speedy bone-knitting!
Find someone local who does PEMF therapy – seriously helps with speeding up bone healing
So sorry to hear this. My brother broke his humerus as a toddler (fell off the back of a speeding tricycle) and yeah, sling is about all you can do. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
I started taking knitting lessons at a local shop run by two amazing retired school teachers back in EARLY 2020. My MIL’s brain tumor had returned and we were spending a lot of time over at my in-laws’ house, and I thought it would be a good time to learn a new skill for my downtime. I was feeling pretty good about my progress, and was planning to continue my lessons when the world shut down. The lovely little shop was forced to close later that year and online videos just don’t work for me. I still love looking at yarns though🧶. Rumor has it that our local library is going to start a craft/knitting circle, so fingers crossed that I can find a new teacher!
I love the yarn and book pairings!
I am making a white baby blanket with a fancy lace center panel, a fancy lace wide border and a fancy lacy final border. It’s for my husband’s niece, who’s pregnant with the first baby in the next generation. I struggled to find yarn for the pattern, which is a British pattern from 30 years ago and called for a three-ply yarn that’s discontinued. I wanted a washable wool, but yarn stores around Glasgow don’t carry wool, and when I asked why not — it’s Scotland and there are sheep EVERYWHERE — I was told they’re not sheep for shearing. This makes me unutterably sad. Anyway, I’m making it with a nice acrylic that has a lovely soft hand and will be washable.
Check out https://beingknitterly.co.uk for information about UK yarn festivals and especially the Edinburgh Yarn Festival, and, https://www.shetlandwoolweek.com (which highlights a hat to commemorate the festival each year). If nothing else, it will give you a list of wool vendors who are all around you.
I get news and updates from https://ysolda.com (yarn shop & designer); and, https://gingertwiststudio.com (indie dyer and yarn shop).
I also recommend a look at Creabea Knitting Podcast and The Meaningful Stitch podcast on YouTube, as both are Scottish knitters.
Don’t know much about Glaswegian shops and knitters, but this might help you on your journey 🙂
I just finished a shawl “Night Market” by Laura Aylor and am starting a double knit called “Buzzy Bee Scarf” by Lisa Hannon Fox to wear at a Sherlock Holmes convention next year. It may take me that long to make it.
I’m a huge fan of Mikey from The Crochet Crowd he does crochet and knitting patterns – free as well as video tutorials for many of the patterns.
My current “On the Hook” is from a past crochet along mandala, can’t wait to see the finished look.
Now I’m off to discover the pretty yarn at Eat.Sleep.Knit! I have family in Georgia so I can send them to the store! LOL
Apparently today I’m tech challenged – I tried to add a photo but no go 🙁
Not making anything right now and technically speaking I’m not buying anything craft related until I’ve cleared some stuff, not haberdashery, not material, not yarn. But. . .
Yesterday I was passing a charity shop and there was a huge vintage wooden sewing box, cantilevered with removable legs and a basket handle. It had a lovely patina and it was only £15!
Admittedly I then had to schlep it from one side of London to the other on National Rail and public buses. But it was worth it.
So now I need to sort out some of my stuff and I often find that weirdly this makes me want to buy more.
I do Tunisian crochet and I am working on two blankets. One for my niece and one for a great niece.
I make teddy bears. I need to finish the head of the bear I’m working on today.
Wow!! I totally missed that post from EatSleepKnit! Very very cool. I am working on a corner to corner crochet (!) shawl for mom. Very fun. I’ve knit countless ctc blankets and ponchos, but this is a first crochet. It’s very fun and feels like a waltz. Lots of combos of 3s.
The sweater is very pretty! Nicely done!!
I’m working on two major projects. One is a whole bunch of sewing 100% cotton pants for the summer. The majority are crop length. Two are ankle length for when I have to go to corporate when it’s blazing hot outside. Batik and other cotton quilting fabric are my friends.
Second major project is knitting a sweater out of silk and viscose (made from bamboo) yarn that I found while unearthing boxes out of a closet. Pattons yarn created this blend a long while back and sold it at JoAnn stores. It’s discontinued now. The stitch I’m using is what I call a broken rib using a circular needle. The pattern is knit 2, pural 2 for one row. On the second row, you pural over the knit and knit over the pural. What’s fascinating about this stitch is that it’s reversible. Plus, it creates a vertical line like knitting a rib. I do a garter stitch for the bottom of the sweater, as well for the neck and sleeve bottom. It helps to hang nicely on the body. 😊
Wow to the yarn color matching the book covers. Pretty cool when that happens.
Wow! I can appreciate your seeing 100% cotton pants/capris. I’ve been looking for some online, that are reasonably priced. So far I have not found anything I like for a corporate environment
A lot of cotton pants I’ve seen online have other fibers with it such as rayon, nylon, and/or spandex. Some use modal, which is a high priced cotton fiber. Some are made from pima cotton which has a longer strand when spun than traditional cotton fiber. That too is expensive.
I just go to my local JoAnn store, go to the quilting section, and pick out what I like. I found 100% cotton solids in all different colors. I bought black and a light sage green as well as prints in shades of blue, green, and yellow. The best thing is when I can get all that cotton on sale. 🙂
I have two pants patterns I bought back in the 90s that I use for me (they are designer patterns). I used the patterns so much, I had to buy pattern ease to trace out the patterns on it so I could use them over and over again. Then I go on a cutting spree. After the cutting spree, then the sewing spree begins.
I am making heraldic cotehardies (a 14th century dress) for three friends. Two are purple and green and white, one is blue and white. One of the first two will be block printed by another friend, the others I will applique. I have two months, so I can’t procrastinate.
Im making a Kraken from Crafty Intentions
Don’t let Kate know. She’ll blow it up like she did that poor baby Kraken in Magic Tides. 😂😂😂😁
I’ve decided to get back into needlepoint after 20+ years.
Wish me luck.
Purchase recommendations ie. companies with a variety of selection and reliability to send the product, is welcome.
I am knitting a Seasons cardigan by Ozetta, in a lovely teal colour.
I love that pattern! My daughter has decided she wants shrug type of garment with a very open pattern–something that would likely be easier to crochet than knit. We bought some sparkly blue fleece at a fiber festival a week or so ago that I can spin for the project once she decides what she actually wants and I can identify the weight of yarn needed. I am currently trying to finish up some WIPs including a pair of socks in cotton. It is a watermelon sock, but little did I know when I took it out again that now watermelon is a now political symbol so I may have to put it away again.
now I want that LolaBean yarn
As someone with multiple wips, I’ll limit it to one per craft:
Crochet – working on the Tilted Tunic – almost done
Knit – working on Geogradient – Stephen West’s KAL from last year I didn’t finish
Weaving – doing an 8 shaft pinwheel pattern using a pickup stick on a rigid heddle loom
My Ravlery account has so many more wips in it.
the capulet blouse is my next project! baby hats, and toddler hats are this month’s projects before the blouse.
I have this skein of Paton’s artistry dye or what ever in this pale white grey with flecks of orange and gold and I call it my Curran skein. I haven’t found anything that screams Kate yet,but when I do, they will be a pair of socks together 🤣
your kids are lucky to have a mom knit them cool clothes!!! those book-matching colors are beautiful. could make all kinds of pretty items with them
I embroider (hand). Working on an adaptation of the neitches on a tree design (evil enough) on a small pouch (thinking of doing a larger version with more detail later – personal use only, would not sell something based on another’s art) and dragon silhouettes. Just finished a magnolia blossom, so doing a few small projects before starting next big/detailed one.
I’m working on a baby shawl, in an ivory 3 ply, knitted in a round. The pattern starts with 8 stitches and by the time you get to the edge you have more than 900 stitches so each row takes me more than half an hour to complete. Now I am on the edging, made up of short rows that knits up one of the 900+ edge stitches every 2nd row. The completed shawl has a diameter matching the width of a queen size bed. Hopefully I will finish it in another few weeks. Baby is due in July.
Oh! 💚
I wish my mum started knitting at least one of the many sweaters she said she would knit me!
I’m not that good at destashing either, but I’m trying: patchwork pinafore apron inspired by Bilbo’s dressing gown in The Hobbit: we have a themed event at the end of July and can’t wait!
i have three baby quilts to make, but i was also thinking of doing baby afghans. i did both with the last baby in the family and i liked that idea. It’s fun to work on a smaller project than the wedding and graduation quilts i’ve been doing that are always queen size.
Jo Ann fabric has the white waterproof fabric that has cotton knit on one side. Hobby Lobby also carries it. It makes great changing pads, burp pads, bibs and pouches. You can also get the swaddling blanket fabric. One and a half yards will give you a 42 inch square that can be used as a nursing cover or swaddling blanket. It is open weave and safer than flannel. I do use flannel for the changing pad and bibs. Good luck and happy sewing. Last year I had 5 baby showers to sew for! Everybody got a quilt, swaddle, bib and burpie and a changing pad and board book.
I’m a crocheter and I’ve been on a dragon kick. I’m making my second eastern dragon and I have a wyvern in the works as well. I adore the patterns by Megan Conway Lapp of Crafty Intentions. They are like making sculptures out of yarn, just so satisfying and gorgeous.
Nice yarn, and nice result !
I’m working on a shawl (model pixie shawl, from the website hobbii) that is a gift for a friend that will defend her phD ill December. I have time, but I’m slow, because I crochet for 2h/week😅
I meant in December, the keyboard on my tablet is too big😅