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Finished: 2025 Fall Hat

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The 2025 Fall Hat is complete and ready to into the hat bin.

Pattern: My own basic beanie recipe with 112 stitches

Needles: US 5s

Yarn: Yarns Northwest Silk and Merino

The finished hat used 1.5 of the 50 gram skeins of the yarn. That’s about 185 yards of yarn With the silk, this will be a warm hat and I will likely never use this yarn for hats again. It shows EVERY mistake and it a little fuzzy being a single.

The hat came out blocked to an adult medium size or large child. I think I will let my teal loving PB have this hat for school use. I won’t be sad if this one gets lost along the way. It will have served its purpose 🙂

Happy Knitting!!

Finished: 2025 Advent Socks 2

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The 2025 Advent Socks #2 are done and blocked even!

Pattern: My own toe up vanilla sock “recipe” with 64 stitches and an afterthought heel

Needles: US 1s

Yarn: The Cozy Knitter Bliss Sock for the 2025 advent with contrasting white mini and an extra KFI Collection Teenie Weenie mini in grey.

This combination of yarns used accounted for 282 yards of yarn. Not bad for a women’s medium is sock. And I used up all of three yarns without adding scraps. I do realize now that one white toe is longer than the other. And I cut the heels in by where the colors changed and not by measuring both socks. In hindsight, I should have measured both. So one foot is definitely slightly different than the other. I don’t think by more than a couple rows. It should all work out fine for my friend. She wears these insider her Birkenstock sandals or just has house slippers.

Now on to focus on the black and white socks! Happy Knitting!!

Finished: 2025 Dumpster Fire Ornaments

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My back is killing me and I gave up on any semblance of duplicate stitching but my 2025 Dumpster Fire ornaments are DONE!

Pattern: Dumpster Fire 2020 by KinoKnits (Rav Link)

Yarn: Wonderland Yarn and Frabjous Fibers Mad Hatter Kit in the Dumpster Fire 2020 kit

Needles: US5s

Mods: Did not attempt duplicate stitching

These two things were easy and fast to knit but boy howdy did the finishing test my post holiday brain fog. Both ornaments combined used just about 33 grams of yarn which is 113 yards of yarn. I think I have enough green left that I could do one more dumpster and enough flamer colors for a lot more flames that that.

The finishing just about killed me so I am not sure I am super excited to start another one. But it would be nice to finish out this kit……I need to work on my decisions. In the meantime these are for two coworkers to wrap up a weird 2025 and kick off 2026. I hope they like them!

Happy Knitting!!

A Very Large Swiftie Finish

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The Swiftie Hat is done AND blocked. Boy Howdy this hat finish our LARGE.

Pattern: Touchdown Beanie by Katie Carlson (Rav Link)

Needles: US 5s

Yarn: Treasure Goddess Warmth Worsted in the Chiefs kit

Mods: I extended the ribbing to make a larger folded section

This hat blocked and definitely relaxed. The hat is probably, honestly, too big. Its very loose and slouchy. This version of the Touchdown Beanie used 178 yards of yarn or just about 82 grams. I am a little disappointed in myself for not checking my gauge since last year. Technically this is a hat that functions, just not what I intended.

I have enough the Treasure Goddess yarns that I could make a white version and change where the colors go. I am going to do some thinking on that!

Happy Boxing Day and may your knitting be relaxing!!

Almost Finished: Basic Round Yoke Pullover

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The Basic Round Yoke Pullover is done and blocked.

The body is great, the sleeves are great and the neckline is loosy goosey. I need this to finish drying and then I think I will grab a crochet hook to add a line of reinforcement inside the neck ribbing. Maybe two?

I think that will give some structure to keep the neck from stretching past my bra straps. And if I hate it….it rips out super easy. I just need to find my hooks….

Happy Knitting!!

Finished: Firepit Hat

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The Firepit Hat is DONE!

Pattern: My own basic vanilla folded brim beanie. I didn’t even count stitches on this one

Yarn: Isager Yarn Ararn Tweed in Black

Needles: US 10 and 8s for decreases

Turns out my fears about using smaller needles on the brim were unfounded. I really don’t think you can tell a discernable difference. This yarn is SUPER rustic and will definitely end up in the gift pile. I do not think this is a yarn I would buy again or work with by choice. It’s just too rustic for what I am used to.

I used up most of the skein as this hat turned out to be Large. Not surprising based on the fact I didn’t count my cast on or worry/calculate gauge. I let the yarn chicken gods figure it out and I won. This hat is 89 grams or 140 yards of yarn in the finished object.

Happy Knitting!!

Finished: Dragonfly Hat

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The Dragonfly Hat is complete!

Pattern: My own basic beanie recipe with 88 stitches and vanilla turned brim

Yarn: Abstract Fiber Dakota in Dragonfly

Needles: US 8s

This hat turned out pretty decent and I think the flashing/pooling ended up being very aesthetically pleasing. I used 58 grams of yarn or roughly 150 yards of yarn. This hat did end up more in the Adult Medium size versus some of my past ones were Adult Larges.

I think I would work with this yarn base again. I don’t normally use a ton of variegated yarn for hats but this was a nice departure from solid or tonal yarn. I am not sure if this will stay in the house or go in the gift pile but it will be nice regardless!

Happy Knitting!!

Final Yardage Count on Pigskin Party 2025 Spin

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Alright the Pigskin Party 2025 Spin is done and dusted!

I am not going to lie, but the finishing of this yarn almost broke me. These skeins were so large that they didn’t fit on my ball winder. So I was forced to hand wind them as I ran it through my yardage counter. It was less than ideal.

So my finished measurements were:

  • Skein #1 on the left – 181 grams and 307 yards of mostly DK weight 3-ply
  • Skein #2 on the right – 145 grams and 270 yards of DK ish. I ran out of singles on this one so the end is 2ply and thinner.

I am pretty happy with this yarn of almost 600 yards of finished yarn. I thought perhaps I would make a blanket out of this yarn but I would have enough yarn to make a cropped sweater? I may need to marinate on this one.

Happy Spinning!!

Finished: Online Training Hat

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My Online Training Hat is done and this was my first score for the Down Cellar Studio Podcast Pigskin Party 2025 KAL.

Pattern: My own basic beanie “recipe” with 88 sts

Yarn: Big Sky Yarn Company Squish DK in “Do You Want To Build a Snowman”

Needles: US 8s

This hat used 62 grams of the DK weight and equated to 143 yards of yarn. Not bad for an adult sized small beanie. I think the 1×1 rib for the folded brim looks really neat in this variegated yarn. I hate knitting it, but it looks so great finished.

Now I need to decide what hat to start next! Happy Knitting!!