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Knee-high socks

I’m clearly working through some stuff this week. I don’t want to do work…just sew and knit sew and knit sew and knit. Luckily this is a pretty light week. Since New Years I’ve finished a scarf, these knee-highs, started and finished a baby sweater, started a sweater for myself,…

Blue Bell Hill Scarf

After starting this scarf over a year ago, I finally finished it! I also blocked it and it looks so nice. The icelandic wool softened up a bit in the soak. I actually ended up dropping so many stitches in this scarf, and not realizing until way later. I’m not…

Baby Kina

I decided I wanted to put something knit in with Lindsey’s baby gift package, but I couldn’t find a hat pattern I liked enough. I ended up making a quick sweater with the baby cashmerino Jackie gave me years ago. It came out super cute even though my tension was…

Deer and Doe Melilot take 2!

Here is my second finished Deer and Doe Melilot! I need to take some photos of it on me still. There’s a weird fitting issue on the sleeves, but it’s still totally wearable. It might need a bit of a forward shoulder adjustment or something, but not sure how that…

2017 Queue

January
  • Melilot Shirt in Cat Lady Rayon
  • Meet up with Tusarebecca for Linden Sweatshirt?
  • Knitting: Harvest Cardigan in Patons Worsted Wool (Mercury color)…probably finish in Feb
  • Quilt and bind quilt in progress (try to finish quilting new years weekend)
  • Block Blue Belle Scarf
  • Finish knee-high socks
  • Baby sweater for
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Serger Success!

I had my serger basics lesson at Stitch with Bex the other day! I brought in my machine, and she gave me a rundown of how to thread it, and we ran a test swatch through. The thread promptly broke, so we switched to one of the shop machines to…