Knitting Notes

Sticking with my use up yarn theme, I’ve started on some mini Newfoundland mittens, specifically to use up the Lana Plantae Rambouillet Fingering Cochineal & Madder yarn. I have a fair amount of it, and it seems a shame to use it just on hexipuffs. I may have to come back and make this post a retroactive finished post – I’ve started a mini hat pattern as well – I just want some variety to use up this yarn. So we’ll see how many of these I end up making, or if I just do a whole variety of little things.

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Knitting Notes

The Swans Island Ikat Watercolors is no more – I’ve kicked the skein. This one took a while. It’s light fingering, so it just kept on going as I tried more things to use it up. I felt oddly accomplished when I completed the last hexipuff.

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In case it’s not obvious from previous posts, I’m very much in a “it’s a new year and I need to finish up everything outstanding and use up all the yarn” mood. The above is everything from February I did that used up yarn, but didn’t make a completed project. Long term blanket projects for the win!

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Pattern: Anthology by Tincanknits
Yarn: Sundara High Twist Fingering in the Gilded Midnight colorway
Needles: Size 2.5 and 5 DPNs

I had enough of the yellow mini in this yarn set left that I knew I should be able to pull off a baby hat, and figured if I could find some colorwork, that would be enough to use up the blue as well, which I had mostly used up in the socks I’d bought the set for.   I stumbled onto this pattern (really more of a recipe) in an Instagram post, and I’m really glad I did.    I’ll definitely be keeping this around – it was a super easy way to use up yarn.

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Project: Paper Crown Hat by Amy van de Laar
Yarn: Swans Island Ikat Collection Watercolors in the Indigo/Teal colorway
Needles: Size 2 DPNs

This is a cute little pattern – very easy to do.   I will definitely keep this one around for stash busting.

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Pattern: Sun Moon Socks by Andrea Rangel
Yarn: Sundara High Twist Fingering in the Gilded Moonlight colorway
Needles: Size 1.5 and 2 DPNs

I adore this yarn – it is just the prettiest blue. Definitely showcased well with this pattern.

The pattern’s great – very well written. It would be a good introduction to colorwork if you haven’t done that before. Heck, it’s clear enough it would probably be a good intro to sock knitting in general.

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I love this yarn! It’s just the prettiest variable blue.

These are the Sun and Moon Socks, by Andrea Rangel. Moon theme, of course (if you know me). I actually bought this pattern before I had firm plans to make it, which I almost never do. And then, like two weeks later, Sundara did a daily dream called Gilded Midnight that’s a full size of the blue yarn, and a mini of the yellow. I have never ordered yarn so fast in my life.

I’m cheating a bit making the moon yellow, but I like the contrast way better. But, since it’s night, I’m carrying through with the yellow toe. I’m going to be close using up this yarn, but it’ll be worth it.

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Pattern: Agathis by Agata Smektala
Yarn: I Knit or Dye Killing Me Softly Aran in Natural White
Needles: Size 4 and 7 circs and Size 7 DPNs

I’m really annoyed with myself.    I picked the wrong yarn and/or needle size, and this is too big for me.   But it’s really nice hat, so it’s not worth doing over again.    So it’ll go to someone else to enjoy, and I’ll have to come up with something else if I want a new hat this winter.

I enjoyed the pattern – it’s just the right level of interest without being too difficult.

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Pattern: Zostera marina by Hunter Hammersen
Yarn: Blue Moon Yarn Silky Sock
Needles: Size 1.5 DPNs

First project of the year!    It was mostly completed last year, but then I got a bug about eating up some yarn scraps before 2022 ended, so this went to the side for a bit.    It’s an enjoyable pattern – lost of sizing options, and you can either mirror the socks (which I did), or do them exactly the same.

It’s really hard to capture the color of this yarn on camera – I left the one sock picture on Ravelry because it looks different.    It’s definitely a bluer green in person.    I love the blue that it shifts to when it’s going between the green and purple colors.

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This was all the worsted (ish) weight scraps I had kicking around. I managed to get them all used up last night, so all of them are getting knocked out of my yarn tally ahead of of 2023. (I do like a good yarn purge.)

I have a few other ideas for using up scraps, or getting me to scrap amounts I can use up, so I’m going to concentrate on those for the first few projects of 2023.