I joined a little crochet preview for the now available Moonwalk Shawl, you can find it on etsy & ravelry.
A coloring sheet is included with the pattern and I’ve been playing around, here’s what I’ve got going so far..
29 rows of me not being entirely sold on the colors. Those fleshy pink squiggles have worm energy. 🪱 Restart.
32 rows of jail stripes. Restart.
44 rows of white sparkle, which I told myself I would dye when done. Restart.
I guess my new favorite thing is just restarting the same old thing 31 times. All the tries, but this is the most me color so far.
Am I’m feeling the indecisive pinch of my ‘make it work with stash’ life or do I just have a tiny bit of a tummy ache from eating too many sour pickles? Yes.
An under the bed storage tub of kitchen cotton, jeez let me think, these must be from around 2009, each baby sized ball is 400g/710yds. There’s a bit of everything in here, but it’s mostly Sugar n’ Cream Confectionery Colors with names like cinnamon, hardcandy, marshmallow and cupcake, 2009 me was obsessed, obviously.
(You may or may not remember way back when washcloths and potholders were my thing ..I guess they still kinda are :)
Spring cleaning in the sense that I’m making something to clean with and not actually cleaning anything.
This color is called coconut, basically it’s unbleach cotton and is always one of my first picks. I can’t stop thinking about how lovely a super impractical lacy handkerchief edging would be on these.
Just the other day / 30 years ago.
It feels both an eternity and a blink has passed.
J + A ♡
I cut my hair a few months back and it messed up my signature schoolmarm bun, but the hairdo situation is finally getting back to normal, thank goodness. Yes, I’m always this kind of sloppy.
Ok, so getting around to me made may (mmm) which I don’t usually do too much for, but the Reynolds Dress pattern by Helen’s Closet has been haunting me for a long while. I bought it straight away when it was released and then cut it out sometime last year. The fabric is a favorite pillowcase print that’s been in my stash even longer.
Some lazy kinda sorta pattern matching and beautiful top stitching.
The face of a pondering girl who should have remeasured her bust and NOT just sewn the size she cut out a year ago. It could just be a fat sewist thing, but I’m so used to being outside of the size range or being at the top end of it, that I just automatically make the largest size with extra allowances and taylor it up/down as needed to fit me. The too big bust for littler boobs solution was to add in an elastic gather at the front, it turned out really sweet, and look the straps are granny bra friendly.
p.s Why do all the photo filters give weird lip?
The rest of my May is going to be filled with mending that pile on the right and hopefully I can get myself together enough to make a Zero Waste Photinia from Fibr & Cloth Studio, I love that one so much.
On a side note we’re eating our way through a jelly advent backlog and I’m having a really hard time recycling any of the tiny useless jars, they’re so fricking adorable! Everytime Lex and I tease Jason about his French boy preserves, he comes back with how he’s a little lad who loves berries and cream. lol.
Remember that test knit I talked about for a sec a while back? Well here’s a little process recap now that it’s wrapped up and the Penta Pillar Pullover is now published on James’ website and Ravelry.
Just finished the back of this cute thing. I’ve never knit a modular sweater before and it’s honestly so enjoyable ..but the stockinette curl on every edge is kinda breaking me.
This curl worm specifically.
I went with a 4 color patchwork, I wanted to use up a bit of lowly old stash single and double skeins. In hindsight I think it would’ve been easier with just one yarn, maybe with a long color repeat or even a solid, speckled or tonal color, because they way each modular pillar is worked off the previous pillar it really limits the ends, but add in changing yarns to make a checkerboard / patchwork and it quickly added up to a ton of ends to weave in.
I skipped the sleeves, seamed half the length of the side and just went straight to ribbing for a deep opening drop shoulder tee / vest look.
Self portrait / sink view.
It’s good, so good, I love it.
The seams are soft and pliable and I kept the ribbing extra stretchy by working a backwards yarn over before the knits and a regular yarn over before the purls when binding off, not a new trick, but I’ve found that I’m terrible at keeping things loose and always end up with a tight edge. If that’s you too, an explanation of this kind of stretchy bind off can be found here.
Realizing that my checkerboard squares are rectangles, I guess I could’ve worked a few more rows between color switches, going to remember that for next time. I also really like those squiggly vertical joins, they look kinda like decorative braid or piping.
Top down sweaters with built in necklines, cuffs and hems might always be my preference, but this style of modular knitting was a lot of fun and a really enjoyable, uncomplicated learning experience for a completely different style of sweater construction than I was used to.
A visual reminder of what a ton of ends to weave in looks like, the upside is there is a nice seam to dissappear them into.
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