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All my knitting adventures

Summer Vibes

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I should be finishing my Medusa Hat but I just wanted round and round for tonight’s hot swim. It was 98 degrees and I really wanted to be in that water…..

I was able to crank out the rest of the pink yarn and really get into the Potion Yarns leftovers.

It is becoming apparent that the three colors that I chose will not be enough to make full hat. I will need to find more leftovers. And honestly, I am thinking the purples of the Medusa would be a good fit. Of course that I means I do actually need to finish it.

Medusa Decreases

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It’s scorching summer here and we are winding down with swimming lessons for Jellybean. He’s in level 4 and crushing it. Meanwhile I am sweating through my business casual in the slim areas of shade. That water was way to tempting.

It’s been good for my Medusa Hat. I am through the body of this hat and put the DPNs in to start the decreases. I love love love these blips of color in this variegation. The fabric just looks so polished and purposeful.

We still have several lessons to do so I envision this hat coming off the needles this week. Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Frankenstein #1

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I finally cracked and started a Frankenstein hat with my worsted weight leftovers. For this version I picked all my pink/red yarns.

I am making Musselburgh style hat, I cast on using DPNs and then worked square increases out from the center. For no good reason, I started with my English Rose malabrigo and I will knit until it runs out. I am leaning towards to the grey after that followed by the burgundy.

I will knit the hat in a big tube and decrease at the other end to make a musselburgh ish hat will the two layers. My “use all the scraps’ brain is really happy with this. The hat may end up being super weird but it will keep a head warm!

Happy Knitting!!

Medusa Hat Progress

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It’s officially back to school season and activities are flying fast around here. So much so that I blew through the folded brim and into the stockinette of my Medusa Hat.

The speckles in this yarn are EVERYTHING that I love right now. Those little flecks I think add some much interest to vanilla hat. I need another 3 inches of hat and then I can start decreases.

My conundrum is for my next hat do I start working on scrappy hats with leftovers or do I wind up some of the worsted yarn I got at SSK? I am still finding my mojo drifting to worsted weight hats as they are quick satisfying and do not require any mental bandwidth.

Happy Knitting!!

FO Friday: Prism Socks

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I was well and truly ready for these socks to be done. So I made a point to put on a good movie and crank these out this week. My Prism Socks did turn out stunningly!

These are 68 stitch Rachelle sized socks. I knit two full rainbow repeats and then wrapped up the socks using the remaining mini skein not used in the heels. They are higher than ankle socks and lower than mid-calf. All total these were 260 yard socks or 63 grams.

I used just bang on half of the String Theory Colorworks self-striping skein so I could make a second pair of socks if I wanted. But I am thinking I will work this yarn into my mitred square blanket and my granny stripe blanket instead. I am ready to move on to other sock projects for a bit

Happy Knitting!!

SSK Door Prize

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One really cool feature of SSK is the simply astronomical number of door prizes that the KnitGirllls are able to source. I’m talking like close to 50 or 60. You win tickets, earn tickets and get some tickets for just attending. And then you can put those into drawing for prizes and I won one!

This was one of the bigger grand prizes. It is a foldie travel bag with two yarn baby skeins of CeCe’s Wool. That is a new to me yarn brand and boy howdie is that a lot of sock yarn! The color is “Over The Raindow” and it’s 2,240 yards of fingering weight sock yarn. It’s also 100% merino. Enough that I can knit a full Rachelle sized sweater!

I am super grateful for winning a prize and I really want to find a sweater to knit but less enthused about a sweater on US 2s or 3s, lol.

What should I knit?

SSK Stitch Markers

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I realized some of the things you couldn’t see in my wool pig pile from SSK were the stitch markers I grabbed to add to my collections and a few for gifts.

I am more and more a fan of lobster clips for a variety of reasons. The princess ones will be for PB and the Mario ones will be for Jellybean to play with. The rest are going into my projects bags.

Ooh, and the earrings are definitely going to be a staple in my business casual work rotation!

SSK Stickers

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Several of the vendors are SSK also had some vinyl stickers as well as a sticker trade at the SSK check in table. I managed to grab a few.

I grabbed the ADHD and rainbow heart for my mom friend Cindy. They will make great random friend gifts. And the rest I think will be for my collection. I especially liked the “Don’t Confuse Motion with Progress” sticker.

I have been adding stickers to my paper planner each month to add humor, color or cheer to my never ending schedule and to-dos. I think August will be my Superhero yarn ball month…

Happy Knitting!!

Prism Heels

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Traveling has been good for my WIP progress. My Prism Socks are starting to look like socks.

I honestly am a little tired of these socks. The yarn is great and the colors are cheery but I just wanted to be done. So I pulled a mini skein out of granny strip project and got my heels cut in.

I found a tonal black mini that matched fairly well. It was a Red Door Fibers mini from KITH KC 2024. I really like the look of the coordination but man….dark fibers are hard for these eyes! But I made it and now after the heels are done I can just finish the leg/cuff and move on to new projects.

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: SSK Tweed Hat

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The SSK retreat has this cool benefit that for a small donation or tip, they will wind yarn for you with some fancy equipment. I had a skein of what I thought was worsted in my knitting bag and I put into be wound.

When I got it back, I realized it was in fact NOT worsted and actually a sport weight from Red Door Fibers that I picked up from KITH KC 2024. I decided to roll with it. But that meant stopping and doing some calculations to adjust stitch count and needle size for this weight of yarn.

After some maths, I landed on 112 stitches on US 5s. Still thinking a stockinette folded brim followed by a vanilla beanie style. This hat is going decidedly slower with the smaller yarn and more stitches. I think this will migrate to being my work backpack knitting and therefore a slow and stead progress kind of project?

I have another skein of sport wound up in cake that needs knit up. So if this works, I will get that skein into my project queue.

Happy Knitting!!