Tag Archives: WIP

Dream In The Round

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I stayed up too late tonight, but the Dream State Beanie is fully in the round now.

The lighting at night is atrocious and it’s not doing the yarn justice. But these stripes are very deep and saturated. Not as wide as I had predicted looking at the original skein. Still okay though as it will make a wonderful hat.

I may have to pull scraps to finish the inside but I’ll see how my gauge plays out in the full hat. This one will be more of an adult medium with this yarn…or at least that is what its shaping up to be. I had been shooting for a large but I’m letting the yarn drive.

Happy Knitting!!

Rainbow Radiate Body Building

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I feel like I never make progress until I step back and look at my Rainbow Radiate.

I stopped and measured here as I am halfway through both skeins I am alternating for the body. I am blending two different bases from two different dyers that have the same color (ish). I am very very very very pleased to say that you can’t tell one bit. It’s creating its own unique fabric but I am getting very little striping.

I still have a long way to go to finish the skeins I have going now. And then I have one full skein and some partial skeins left to finish out the bottom. At this point it is going to be as long as its going to be. I’m just going to knit until I run out.

Happy Knitting!!

Siren Brim

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I have been packing my Siren Beanie in my purse for my “on the go knitting” and it has paid off. I managed to knit and fold over the brim for this hat.

I am really loving the subtle tone shifts in this hand dyed yarn. It makes the fabric look luxurious to me. I am set up to work in the round for the main body of the hat. Therefore perfect for this week’s on the go with work, swim lessons and a lot of road miles.

Happy Knitting!!

FO: Copycat CC Beanie

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My Copycat CC Beanie is complete!

Pattern: Copy.Cat C.C Beanie by Emily Ingrid (Rav Link)

Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Gris

Needles: US 8s

This finished project used 70 grams of yarn or 147 yards of yarn. Which is amazing because with this scrunched up project looks to teeny. And that makes this project the same size of my “recipe” hats. This pattern was fun enough and I could see myself making more of these but it is quite a lot of purling.

On to the weekend, happy knitting!!

Rainbow Radiate Body

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The sleeve slog is over! My Rainbow Radiate has two complete sleeves!!

As predicted, sleeve #2 took almost another full skein of yarn. I have measured precisely and by eyeballing I think they match. But I can’t promise they are exactly the same as I did a lot of counting in a dim room while watching movies.

Now on to the body…..I have 1.5 skeins of the Tweedy DK from Wichita Woolery and 2 skeins of the 316 Dye Studio House DK to finish this project. I have previously made this size and used 4.4 skeins of the main color and for this project I had 5. Fingers crossed!!

Happy Knitting!!

3/4 Of Sleeve #2

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We had movie marathon this past weekend I really put the gas on my Rainbow Radiate sweater and the second sleeve.

I really had to dig around and find more removable stitch markers to keep track of my progress. It is a little bit easier this time since I can count the rows on sleeve #1 and repeat for sleeve #2. Based on the stitch markers I am roughly 3/4 done.

I am excited to get back to the body as there will be much less counting and a lot more auto pilot knitting to do. I am still cautiously nervous about running out of yarn for the whole sweater….but that’s a problem for another day.

Happy Knitting!!

Copycat CC Beanie Progress

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This CopyCat CC beanie is coming along nicely. Despite my slow purling skills.

I have two full pattern repeats done and starting the third the pattern states. I am tempted to add a fourth but I think for my first go with this pattern I might stick to the pattern. It might come out short/small but there’s a head for every hat right?

This hat is fairly falling off of my needles, I can’t wait to see the finished object. Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Copycat CC Beanie

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After finishing my Radiate Hat, I got my Copycat CC beanie cast on and started. This has been on my wishful knitting planning for a little bit.

I chose to use a skein of Malabrigo Rios that was already wound up and ready to go. The pattern called for twisted ribbing and I failed to do that, oops. But I have almost the full brim done and I need to fold it over and attach before starting the main body pattern.

This is going pretty fast but there is a lot of purling in my future….happy knitting!!

Finishing The Rainbow

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Whelp, I did in fact run out of the rainbow Hue Loco DK yarn on my Radiate Hat.

I pulled some DK scraps from my bin to finish this hat. I went with a neutral grey to mimic the Rainbow Radiate sweater. I chose the KnitCircus speckle DK in the Pet Rock colorway from my Scandia Hat. I have plenty enough to finish this hat. I didn’t weigh for measure the increase section so I am just winging it.

This should be fun! Happy Knitting!!

Closing Out The Rainbow

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I ran out of gas yesterday and didn’t feel like posting my hat. On the plus side, the all day meeting generated three new stripes on my Radiate Hat!

It is going to be patently clear that I will need another scrap yarn to finish this out. I am in the blues and have two more blues left after this. And that won’t be enough to get to the length I need for a Musselburgh like hat. I need to search my Ravelry stash to see what I have. Would prefer that instead of buying new yarn.

Happy Knitting!!