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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!!

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!!

SSK Minis For Granny Stripes

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Last Friday I showed my SSK Haul and today I wanted to highlight the mini skeins I collected to help fill in color gaps for my granny stripe blanket.

I don’t tend to yellows or oranges so I grabbed a couple of those. And also some darker colors and variegated skeins. I think at least one of them has some sparkle in as well. Another bonus is that my SSK conference swag bag is big enough to fit my growing blanket. So these are added to my big bag of scraps and minis all zipped safely in the new larger project bag.

Now, how do I open up more time in my schedule to craft??

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!!

Cast On: Medusa Hat

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I decided to dust off my tennis shoes and explore downtown Nashville while at SSK. I walked around the campus of Vanderbuilt and explored Music Row.

I ended up on a rooftop bar with my newest cast on and an ice cold beer. An adorable young musician was playing acoustic guitar covers and some of his originals. I sat for an hour or so and enjoyed my beverage and got my new project started.

This is my last skein of Malabrigo from my Yarn Barn trip and I am making yet another Rachelle recipe hat. This is 88 stitches on US 8s. This version will have a folded stockinette brim. This color is called Medusa so I am super originally calling this my Medusa Hat.

Love the memories that will be attached to this one!

Bliss Yarns Haul

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On one of my breaks from SSK classes, I hopped in my car and navigated to Bliss Yarns in nearby Brentwood.

It was a lovely store where there was a knitting group going on. They were so delightful and we shared lots of regional crafting information. Turns out the shop owner grew up in Kansas and was delightful.

I walked away with a skein of Twisted Ambition Yarn Sweet Sock in the “Gold Rapture” colorway, a skein of Big Sky Yarn Squish DK in the “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” colorway, and finally some Whimzee Stitches Yarn Co Select Worsted in the “Love My Tennessee colorway”. And as a SSK bonus prize, I got to pick out some needles stoppers and I chose cacti.

I would highly recommend this yarn store to anyone. It has a great selection, easy location and great customer service. Happy Shopping!!

Finished English Rose in Another Class

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I finished my English Rose hat in my third and final class for SSK. This class was Bums and Bellies again by Kim McBrien Evans.

I had made some progress in sit and knit groups but the decreases were finished in the class. This had landed in that 75 gram weight so I used 3/4 of the skein. I did notice a unique feature of this skein was a line of dark pink that circled the hat in a spiral. I am now at hat seven so I am close to my gift goal.

The class was very good. I was able to get help with some tricky measurements and get some tips on how to change my sweaters to fit my silhouette. It will require a lot of math on my part and we didn’t get into that depth in the class. So there is homework I need to do but my brain was too full of information get that done in the moment.

Happy Knitting!!