Finished: A Second Boreal Hat

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Football season has me in my feels this year. I took my Second Boreal Hat to a football patio party and then to an all day seminar for work. And this hat simply fell off my needles!

Pattern: My own basic beanie recipe in 100 stitches

Needles: US 5s

Yarn: Raven Frog Fibers Bear Feet in Spruce and the Stranded Dye works Mohair Silk in Gloom

I got to excited about finishing this hat and the seminar was wrapping up so I cast this off. I still had yarn left and I should have made this taller again. All my recent hats seem to be coming out at skull caps and not slouchy beanies.

I also ran out of the mohair so I turned it into a design feature and only used mohair on the brim. I went to just holding the sock yarn for the main body. I am not bad at the contrast the ear portion will be super cozy. I still just wish it was taller. I used a combined 277 yards of yarn for this hat. It’s very light given the sock yarn and mohair.

Now, do I cast on another hat? Happy Knitting!!

KirbyWirby Sock Club #2

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My second month of the KirbyWirby 2026 sock club is here. October is looking very Halloween-esque.

She called this one Autumnween and the mini is Candy Bandit. I chose her basic sock yarn that is 75/25 and makes such lovely socks. I am still trying to work through my backlog of Cozy Knitter advent sock as I just started the 2020 stripes. But this is a lovely addition to my stash!

Happy Stashing!!

Cast On: Cozy Knitter 2020 Advent Socks

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Having just finished my 2019 Advent socks, I have wound up the yarn for the 2020 version. The colors are very different in this particular year.

I still plan to do my basic 68 stitch vanilla toe up sock with an afterthought heel. I just need some knitting where I can autopilot. I will do the normal white toes and white heels. I haven’t decided how I will work the cuffs. I could mix it up and do the white?

Happy Knitting!!

A Little Light Repair

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I was digging through my stash of finished hats for some gifts for coworkers and I stumbled across a hat with some broken stitches! This is the Dream State Musselburgh Hat that needs a little repair.

I grabbed some scrap worsted weight yarn and tried to do my best to catch and close up all the live stitches

I did a better job on the patch on the left than I did for the one on the right. The red peaks through a little but the hat won’t unravel now. And it can go back into the bin for winter!

Happy Knitting!!

Finished: 2019 Advent Sock

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The 2019 Cozy Knitter Advent Socks are done and dusted!!

Pattern: My own 68 stitch toe up vanilla sock “recipe”

Needles: US 1s

Yarn: Cozy Knitter Advent Striping Sock Yarn – 2019 advent color

The finished socks weighed out to half the advent skein and 20 grams of the contrast white mini skein. I racked up 275 yards in this finished project. I am not sure this set of stripes is my most favorite from the Cozy Knitter. But they make wonderful socks for cold winter days.

Now I need to dig up the 2020 advent skein and start on the next pair! Happy Knitting!!

Finished: Juneau Woolies Hat

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The decreases for the Juneau Woolies Hat have been sorted and I have a FO!

Pattern: My own 88 stitch basic beanie “recipe”

Yarn: Juneau Woolies Cozy Toes Sock Yarn in Chum colorway and Cascade Yarn Kid Seta mohair

Needles: US 8

I ended up using 37 grams of the sock yarn and 16 grams of the mohair. This resulted in a 356 yard hat that is light as a feather. I have a ton of the sock yarn leftover to make another decent sized project. I am still working on finishing my second Boreal Hat so I should shift my mojo to finishing that project instead of starting a new hat.

Happy Knitting!!

2019 Heels

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My 2019 Cozy Knitter Advent Socks are ready for heels to be added!

This is where I left off last night all cuddled up in my PJs. I decided that right before bed was not the time to do a ton of counting and working tiny stitches. I have spent the past few nights listening to my Miss Marple audio book and trying to power through these sock stripes. And it worked! I finished all 24 advent stripes.

I have wound up the remainder of the advent skein to use for later. I am still considering sending the second halves of many of my advent skeins to be made into sock snakes. That way I can just knit in heels, toes and cuffs much faster. But for now, I need to work on heels so I can score some more KAL points!

Happy Knitting!!

Meet The Author

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My book club had a really fun outing this month. We all managed to get tickets to an author event at the library.

There is a new Miss Marple book for the first time in 50 years! We had the great pleasure to listen to Lucy Foley talk about her book and how she writes.

And as a bonus, we all got copies of the book! Our book club is reading this for our next month meeting. I am doing a combination of reading and listening, switching back and forth as my schedule works. The book has four main suspects or character groups so it takes some brain space to keep up with the plot as the Agatha Christie style of writing is very complex and delicious.

Happy Reading!!

Ready for Wooly Decreases

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Fall sports are winding down and I am on my last few hours of sitting waiting for lessons to finish. My Juneau Woolies Hat is ready for decreases.

This hat has been delightful. The Kid Seta is so very soft knit up with the sock yarn. This hat feels almost weightless it is so light. The marbling and flecks in the sock yarn peak out nicely from from the halo of the mohair.

Now I just need golf to be over so I can go home and get my DPNs to start the decreases! Happy Knitting!!

Socks And Cupcakes

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Hello from the indoor trampoline park! The 2019 Cozy Knitter Advent Socks are getting some love while I watch cupcakes being inhaled.

I am just trying to work these in tandem and keep the socks even. No other reason than it makes my brain happy. I may need to put the yarn tails on the inside as they tickle my hands when I am knitting.

It has been a delightful afternoon listening to my audio book, watching Jellybean and his friends and make neat little stitches on this sock.

Happy Knitting!!