Category Archives: WIPs

In The Light Blue Progress

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Okay, I have returned to knitting in front of the fire and not in the hammock. Mother Nature was not done with winter temps here. And being cozy motivated me to push through color #2 and get into color #3 for my In The Light Blues.

The photo is dark, but the fade from color #1 to color #2 was pretty subtle and almost not noticeable. However, the fade from #2 to #3 is creating a bit of a line. Especially on one side of the work. A little annoying but I am just dealing with it

Honestly, I am loving these colors and yarns so much I am already contemplating making a second shawl with these first three colors. Only this time flipping and starting with the dark AND following the pattern’s three color transition. I just have to finish this third color and find a second set of needles….because why not one more WIP?

Happy Knitting!!

Hammock Shawl

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Happy St Patrick’s day! It’s going to be a cold one here in Kansas.

I did manage to bundle up and stubbornly brave the sunshine yesterday to spend 15 minutes in my patio hammock. I am solidly into the second skein/color change of my In The Light Blues shawl. I couldn’t last super long but it is one step closer to spring.

I am modifying this patterns for four transitions instead of three. So I am counting my garter ridges and trying to modify to still end up with the right amount of stitches before I get to the lace section.

Now I’m off to bundle up for the parade. Happy Knitting!!

Pink Frankensock Toes

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For my Frankensocks, I have completed all the pink yarn!

I have spit spliced in the green yarn and will continue to finish the foot portion. I haven’t measured the sock yet but I do plan to do a toe up gusset heal. So I need like 7 or 7.5 inches of foot before I can start.

These will be truly wild/frankenstein socks but they will use up a good amount of leftovers and make cozy footwarmers. It could be that Jellybean inherits these for as long as they fit him…

Happy Knitting!!

Raiders Decreases

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Dee’s Retirement Hat is gonna be done today! I just set up the final decreases last night and saved for today to do in the daylight as the dark yarn is DEADLY at my age for nighttime knitting.

I think this will end up the perfect size for my curly haired friend. I just can’t wait to see how the letters block out. They look raised at the moment but that could be from my carrying the yarn across instead of breaking it like I did with the Chiefs hat.

Almost to an FO! Happy Knitting!!

Fires And Sweaters

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Now that the 2025 Pigskin Party is over, I am going back to some hibernating WIPs. First up is the Bibliophile 2 from this summer.

I am mad at my Cozy Classic Raglan so I picked up this one 🙂

It took me a minute to figure out where I was in the pattern. Even though I had electronically saved on my phone with markups. Turns out I need to finish the raglan increases before I can divide for sleeves. The rounds are long at this point as I think I am up over 300 total stitches.

My momentum is spurred by the fact I can work round and round and round on the body mindlessly when I get there..

Happy Knitting!!

All Spelled Out

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The Raiders Beanie aka Dee’s Retirement Hat now has all the letters.

The colorwork on this was intriguing. I had only been doing the Swiftie and Chiefs version up to now. These are just many iterations of the Touchdown Beanie by Katie Carlson. The Raiders chart was actually kind of nice as the letters were very straight and close together. Meaning I rarely had to trap my floats. Which was very nice

I did choose to carry my main color across the back and I’ll just snip the long tails to weave in. I can’t tell from this stage how my tension is, so fingers crossed..

Happy Knitting!!

Ripping Back The Sweater

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I decided I was unhappy with the Cozy Classic Raglan. I hated how my increases looked an I wanted to start over.

So I have ripped back to the collar ribbing and wound up the yarn. I need to count and make sure my stitch markers are in the right place as a first course of business. Next up I need to watch the videos on her increases to make sure I am doing them right. If I am not, I can learn to do better. If I am…..I might choose my own increases.

But for now this is going into timeout out. And I may put my sweater mojo back into the Bibliophile 2 sweater….

Happy Knitting!!

Starting The Raiders Chart

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The Raiders Hat is all done with the ribbing and set up to be ready for the colorwork.

I am working with hand dyed yarn and this skein of “black” is highly variegated. I’m not hating it but it’s also maybe not the aesthetic I was hoping for. I am going to continue regardless as I am on the deadline of the retirement party. I do have enough yarn that I could switch the colors and make the light grey the main color again. It appears to be more solid.

Why am I like this? I do not know….but at least I might use up the yarn! 🙂

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: In The Light (Blues)

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I finally had some cozy time to set up and start my blue In The Light

I did some math based on total rows, taking out the rows for transition and then backing into how to do a four color version. Basically at my gauge, I need 23 garter bumps for each “section” in between fades.

I want to do the lace at the end so I might stop early with color number four. And it will be okay. Close enough is perfect enough for me. I will definitely have a lot of leftovers on this one!

Happy Knitting!!

Leadership Knitting

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Really dusting off the old WIPs with this one. This is my Sparkly Handspun Hat from 2024…..

I was back in the ribbing when I dug this back out ahead of some Leadership retreat knitting time. I got all the Shiny Black 2-ply incorporated that I had left after the fingerless gloves I made from handspun. I am now working in the Alpaca Firestar Blend 2-ply that was made to match the original fiber.

Looking at it, it looks pretty seamless. And I have like a 7 hour day to knit this hat while I have to pay attention and talk but not do a lot of typing. I think I can clear this very old WIP!

Happy Knitting!!