Monthly Archives: June 2025

Rainbow Radiate Body Building

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I feel like I never make progress until I step back and look at my Rainbow Radiate.

I stopped and measured here as I am halfway through both skeins I am alternating for the body. I am blending two different bases from two different dyers that have the same color (ish). I am very very very very pleased to say that you can’t tell one bit. It’s creating its own unique fabric but I am getting very little striping.

I still have a long way to go to finish the skeins I have going now. And then I have one full skein and some partial skeins left to finish out the bottom. At this point it is going to be as long as its going to be. I’m just going to knit until I run out.

Happy Knitting!!

Siren Brim

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I have been packing my Siren Beanie in my purse for my “on the go knitting” and it has paid off. I managed to knit and fold over the brim for this hat.

I am really loving the subtle tone shifts in this hand dyed yarn. It makes the fabric look luxurious to me. I am set up to work in the round for the main body of the hat. Therefore perfect for this week’s on the go with work, swim lessons and a lot of road miles.

Happy Knitting!!

FO: Copycat CC Beanie

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My Copycat CC Beanie is complete!

Pattern: Copy.Cat C.C Beanie by Emily Ingrid (Rav Link)

Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Gris

Needles: US 8s

This finished project used 70 grams of yarn or 147 yards of yarn. Which is amazing because with this scrunched up project looks to teeny. And that makes this project the same size of my “recipe” hats. This pattern was fun enough and I could see myself making more of these but it is quite a lot of purling.

On to the weekend, happy knitting!!

Cast On: Dream State Musselburgh

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I decided to work another hat. I had some Knitterly Things Vesper Superwash DK in the Dream State colorway. I got this yarn last year at SSK and It’s been at the top of my list for awhile. This is a self striping yarn so I am working another Mussleburgh.

Based on my gauge shown here I need 120 stitches to make an adult large hat. I really can’t wait to get going in the round and off these DPNs. They are lovely but I keep getting distracted and stabbing myself. Metal DPNs are a bit prickly compared to the wooden ones I use on other hats, lol.

Happy Knitting!!

Rainbow Radiate Body

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The sleeve slog is over! My Rainbow Radiate has two complete sleeves!!

As predicted, sleeve #2 took almost another full skein of yarn. I have measured precisely and by eyeballing I think they match. But I can’t promise they are exactly the same as I did a lot of counting in a dim room while watching movies.

Now on to the body…..I have 1.5 skeins of the Tweedy DK from Wichita Woolery and 2 skeins of the 316 Dye Studio House DK to finish this project. I have previously made this size and used 4.4 skeins of the main color and for this project I had 5. Fingers crossed!!

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Siren Beanie

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The family went out to the ballgame. The Royals are just down the road from us and we took in a Sunday game. We had a lovely brunch before the afternoon game and couldn’t have asked for better weather. The only problem was that I didn’t have any game approved knitting.

I grabbed some Treasure Goddess DK Treasures in the Song of the Sirens Color that was already wound up. I opted for wooden needles to get past security. I made sure to count and cast on during the car ride over.

By the 7th inning stretch I managed to make over an inch of a hat! I think I am going to do a basic stockinette beanie with a folded brim. Just nice pure autopilot knitting.

Happy Baseball season!

3/4 Of Sleeve #2

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We had movie marathon this past weekend I really put the gas on my Rainbow Radiate sweater and the second sleeve.

I really had to dig around and find more removable stitch markers to keep track of my progress. It is a little bit easier this time since I can count the rows on sleeve #1 and repeat for sleeve #2. Based on the stitch markers I am roughly 3/4 done.

I am excited to get back to the body as there will be much less counting and a lot more auto pilot knitting to do. I am still cautiously nervous about running out of yarn for the whole sweater….but that’s a problem for another day.

Happy Knitting!!