Tag Archives: Wishful Knitting

Wishful Knitting: Cozy Classic Raglan

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My knitting plans are absolutely out of sync with my actual time available to knit. I have now a fourth sweater that I am putting in my wishful knitting category.

This time it is the Cozy Classic Raglan by Jessie Maed Designs. I have five skeins of a grey tweed DK from my a 2020 virtual yarn retreat that I went to. And DK has been my preferred yarn weight for finished garments as I am warm but not to warm. And I have not yet developed the mental stamina to do a fingering weight sweater.

I have this yarn wound, pattern printed and bag ready to go. I just need to swatch to chose final needle size. One downside of all this fit of creativity is that most of these sweater need US 7 or US 8 needles and I only have one interchangeable set and not a lot of singular fixed needles in this size.

I am torn between sourcing some additional in this size and just waiting for those needles to come open. I want to keep the mojo going but don’t want to amass too many needles, lol.

Happy Wishful Knitting!!

Winding Marathon

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I have so many wishful knitting projects here and here and here. That I decided to break out my ball winder and swift to do some serious winding. I don’t normally cake my yarn and tend to hand wind my yarn.

So after several hours and more tangles that I like….I wound three sweaters worth of yarn and got caked up. I do have another sweater lot that the skein is too large for my swift and I will definitely have to hand wind those.

This swift is handmade by a family member and it works great. But an umbrella swift would be more beneficial. I am considering put one of those on my wish list. And my bigger wish list is a craft room where I could have all my tools set up and I don’t have to put them away after each use 🙂

Happy Winding!!

Wishful Knitting: Basic Round Yoke Pullover

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I can’t help myself, the cast-on-itis and pattern fever is in full swing. I have another sweater that I want to start.

I have several skeins of Knit Picks of Provincial Tweed in a deep red color. This is a worsted weight so not my usual got to for sweaters as it is very warm. But I have this in my stash and I wanted to use it up. I decided on a Basic Round Yoke Pullover from Quince & Co.

I am really finding that round yokes work on my body type. And I really prefer knitting top down sweaters as I don’t want to think too hard about decided when a sweater body is sufficient when I work bottom up. I know it would work out fine and it’s just an idiosyncrasy or mental block on my side.

When I will get this started? Who knows…but I like that I have a bag, pattern and yarn ready to swatch. I may be tipping dangerously close to too many sweaters on the needles, lol.

Happy Wishful Knitting!!

Swatching: Bibliophile Sweater

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I decided to swatch for a second sweater after my Autumn Gold went so well. This time around I chose the Bibliophile 2 by Alicia Plummer.

I wound the yarn and used the recommended needles. And boy oh boy did that NOT work. My fabric is almost bullet proof tight and way off gauge.

I think I will I will try a second time with just one needle size up. I think that will give me stitch gauge but not row gauge. So there will be maths involved when I go to actually and knit the sweater.

Guess I can’t win them all? Happy Knitting!!

Wishful Knitting: Crown Town Hat

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Next up in my wishlist of projects I want to start….more hats! This time a Royals baseball themed hat with some yarn I just ordered.

I really like how the designers worked in the crown into the colorwork. That is just genius. I do think I will omit the pom pom as they just aren’t my jam. I have already bought the pattern so I just need to print and then get my supplies ready for when the yarn gets here!

Happy Wishful Knitting!!

Wishful Knitting: CopyCat CC Beanie

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I have been ignoring my queue for YEARS and for some reason I decided to knit something from it. Or else why have it? I decided to try the CopyCat CC Beanie.

I have a skein of grey Malabrigo Rios that should work nicely. I just need to print the instructions or get them into my phone and I think this will be one of my next hats. I realize that I am LONG past this trend but I think the finished object looks good and I the pattern looks easy.

Wishful Knitting: Around Every Corner

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I can’t remember where I saw this pattern but I was sucked in HARD by the Around Every Corner shawl pattern by Stephanie Lotven. The original was made in a solid grey with a gradient of reds. (Sorry I printed in grey scale to save ink).

My knitters brain knew I had the PERFECT yarn in my stash for this project. My wishful knitting shawl is going to have a green main color with a flower/tulip like gradient set from Bede Sisters Yarn Co. The solid green is just some Cascade sock yarn I had kicking around in my stash. I just have this mental picture of a garden inspired shawl.

I have the pattern printed and yarn all kitted up in a project bag. But what I don’t have is needles in the right size in the correct length. That and like five other active WIPs, lol. So I’m going to leave this in my project tote as a prize for getting some of my other WIPS off the needles.

Happy Knitting!!

Wishful Knitting: Scrappy Marl

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I am still doing a decent amount of wishful knitting centered around using up scraps or holding fingering weight double. This week’s pattern search is the Scrappy Marl by Beata Jezek (Rav link)

For this one I can foresee using some of my larger scraps up that won’t be large enough for a memory blanket square. Maybe even some of small scraps for when I reach the crown decreases? The best part of this project is that I can just add and drop colors as I want because there is no right or wrong.

And this feeds nicely into my 2021 hat knitting kick and dovetails nicely into using up small scraps. I think this might be my carrot to get me to finish my Mom’s Christmas hat. Because arbitrary knitting rules, lol.

Happy Knitting!!

Wishful Knitting: Volcano Trail

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With all the marling fun I have been having with my Into The Light and In The Light I decided to fall down the pattern rabbit hole and see what else I could make holding fingering weight yarn double.

The Volcano Trail by Maxim Cyr (Rav link) really popped out to me. It is designed at DK gauge but uses fingering held double. So this will use up a TON of yarn. And I think the finished project is super cute.

I think I might cast this on after I finish my current marling project…..I may or may not have already pulled yarn from my stash, lol.

Happy Knitting!!

Wishful Knitting: Into The Light

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I watched an old YouTube video from a new to me podcaster, Chevas of Chevyrell’s Stuff. This one is swearing friendly and I love it but it may not be for everyone. But I digress, she had knit a couple of the pattern Into The Light Shawl pattern (rav link). And I’m obsessed I can’t think of anything else I want to knit right now. It’s a gorgeous triangle pattern with all garter stitch and beautiful yarn fading.

I haven’t let myself cast on yet but I did some stash diving in my fingering weight stash and pull some possible combinations. This pattern needs three colors of sock yarn with the yarn intended to be held double.

My first combination is a pink to purple kind of transition. A skein of Into the Whirled, Knitted Wit victory sock, and skein I forgot to read the label for. But this is a light to dark kind of fade.

My second combination is my runner up. It goes from a light blue and grey mix to blue hues to finally a decidedly more grey dominant mix. I know the left skein is from Knitterly things and I didn’t write down the rest, lol. I like this combo and its growing on me but I really am leaning strongly towards my first pick.

It was really fun to dig through and play with different combinations of all this fun yarn I bought many moons ago. I need to clear my needles a bit but this is for sure my next cast on!

Happy Knitting!