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Finished: Autumn Gold

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The Autumn Gold is finished!

Pattern: Autumn Gold by Veera Valimaki (Rav Link)

Needles: US 7s

Yarn: Berroco Vintage DK in Smoke (2106)

Mods: Added body length after the arm divide and before the pattern.

I used four full skeins and a smidge of the 5th. So that is 1,172 yards or 407 grams of yarn. I am really happy with the finished sleeves and overall fit. In hindsight I could have probably gone down a pattern size in the yoke as I didn’t need this much depth. And it still makes a lovely cozy sweater. I just ended up with more dolman fit than I had figured.

I think the sweater hits my hips in a perfect spot to make a nice line. The blocking did a world of wonders for this piece of clothing. Now I just need the weather not to be 90 degrees Farenheight so I can wear this!

Happy Knitting!!

Ribbing For Autumn Gold

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I have finished the body of the Autumn Gold and ready to start the hem ribbing.

I added length to the body to account for my torso and preferred length. I am guessing a little bit as my swatch wasn’t big enough to tell me how much it will grow. But this Berroco is known to relax and grow. I figure I can always rip it back and take out some in the body and sleeves.

I am just really excited to get this off the needles as I really can’t stop thinking about knitting the Love Note from my SSK yarn.

Happy Knitting!!

Finished: Emotional Support Chicken #3

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Let me introduce you to Clara the Emotional Support Chicken!

Pattern: Emotional Support Chicken by Annette Corsino (Rav Link)

Yarn: My own handspun skeins

Needles: US 7s

Mods: I totally knit the beak from the wrong direction but otherwise stayed on task.

The kids decided that Clara did not need a waddle so she doesn’t have any chin decorations. I am really happy with this finished chicken. I liked the combination of colors in the accent areas. I still have leftovers from all three colors in this chicken so I can absolutely make more chickens. I just need to find the next recipient.

Now I need to get Clara packaged up and sent to her final home with my friend! Happy Knitting!!

Enough Stuffing?

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Emotional Support Chicken #3 is ready for stuffing.

I asked my Mom if she had some stuffing I could use and she brought me a 5 lb full box of vintage polyfill stuffing. Lol, I think my chicken will be fine!

However, in editing this photo I noticed that I made an error on the eyes and the beak. I knit them from the wrong side. Easy enough to detach the eyes and move but the beak is a bit of an oops. I am just going to leave it. AND I am going to seam the chicken from the correct side. I just can’t live with the wrong side out. I guess that will teach me to pay attention!

(Semi) Happy Knitting!!

A Third Set Of Chicken Breasts

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Emotional Support Chicken #3 has moved to the chicken breast portion.

These short rows really do have me counting all the time. It is fairly ingenious construction with a nice finished look and short rows in garter are my favorite. I need to complete another step and then I think I will work in the darker brown.

This chicken will go to another work friend who could benefit from an office support chicken. I just need to get the gift package together…

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Emotional Support Chicken #3

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I still have some Emotional Support Chicken mojo after finishing #2. So here comes #3!

I had PB and Jellybean pick out the the next handspun. PB picked some Romney 2-ply and I grabbed the leftover of the unknown brown 3-ply and the creamy romney white leftovers. I managed to get the tail feather completed and connected.

I think I am going to mix the accent colors of the white and dark brown colors against the main medium brown color. I have enough to play around with color on this one. And still have leftovers for #4.

Happy Knitting!!

A Tale Of Two Swatches

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I have decided to swatch for my Love Note. And I learned some lessons.

First up, this is not the fingering weight yarn I plan to make the sweater out of. I will be playing yarn chicken with my Old Rusted Chair sock yarn so I pulled some fingering scraps from my leftovers to swatch with that has the same yarn base.

I knit the top swatch first with the pattern recommended gauge. And boy howdy….was she tight. I was easily 4+ stitches over gauge. So I went up from US 7s to US 9s. And a bath for both led to me to understand that US 9s are what I need. My row gauge is off a little but I can account for that.

Just need to get my other WIPs clear so I can start this! Happy Knitting!!

FO: Emotional Support Chicken #2

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Emotional Support Chicken #2 is done and stuffed!

Pattern: Emotional Support Chicken by Annette Corsino (Rav link)

Yarn: My own (early) handspun

Needles: US 7s

Mods: None

This finished chicken used up just slightly over 200 grams of handspun yarn. I have a nice size chunk of the cream left and a tiny knob of the brown. I think the finished chicken looks nice but is a little body heavy. It was interested to stuff compared to the first one. I ended up using more stuffing to create a more balanced chicken.

PB has named this one Ruby and she is a little harder to find a nice pose. But I am getting ready to box her up and send her to Aunt Barb.

Dare I knit a 3rd chicken? Happy Knitting!!

Finished: Crown Town Hat

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This is my finished Crown Town Hat!

Pattern: Crown Town Hat by Carina Spencer (Rav Link)

Yarn: TreasureGoddess Merino Sport Treasures is Poseidon’s Trident and Making Waves

Needles: US 5s

Mods: So many. I knit the colorwork backwards, I added unnecessary rows to the main body, I worked the KC as stranded colorwork, and I decreased at a faster rate to mitigate the elongated body.

It really turned out okay-ish. It is just a big hat. Which should be fine since my dad has a big head. The finished hat used just over 200 yards of yarn between the two colors and the finished hat weighs 75 grams.

I do think I will attempt a second one to see if I can get it right and follow all the rules this time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn!

Happy Knitting!!

Finished: 2025 Conference Hat

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In addition to working my Crown Town Hat, I also grabbed my Conference 2025 Hat to finish. Felt fitting to finish this at a conference. I really didn’t have much left to do, just a little hat body and then the crown decreases.

I didn’t blog much about this one. It has been my work backpack knitting for the last several months. A few stitches here and then and finally wrapping up in a days long conference had this done.

Pattern: My own 88 stitch beanie “recipe”

Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Ankara Green

Needles: US 8s

I used roughly 80 grams or 168 yards of yarn to finish this hat. It finished out and blocked out to be a nice adult medium to large ish hat. I just need to install a label on this one and put in my hat stash. And pick out my next skein of yarn for my next backpack project.

Happy Knitting!!