Category: Knitting
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Outfit Along 2016
I’m barely squeaking in this project before the outfit along deadline. The official outfit along pattern for this year was the Sewaholic Hollyburn skirt, but I wanted to make the cropped version of the sweater, so I decided a dress would be the way to go. I settled on making up the Cashmerette Upton dress.…
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Queen Anne’s Lace Gloves: Gloves for a Lady of Leisure
Is it just me or does winter sewing seem to take longer than summer sewing? Maybe it’s all those thick fabrics, linings, and long sleeves. I do have a few things I’ve recently sewn that I want to write about soon, but I don’t seem to have pictures of them yet. In the meantime, my…
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Bordeaux Sweater: A Wardrobe Basic
Yes, I know. This outfit looks awfully similar to my last post. The only difference is the sweater, so that’s the part I’m wanting to talk about today. This is the Bordeaux Pullover from Valley Yarns. I knitted it from the yarn it was designed for, Colrain Lace. It’s a merino/Tencel 50/50 blend. It’s warm,…
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Sewing + Knitting: 2014 Outfit Along
When Lauren and Andi announced the 2014 outfit along, I was so in. I loved the Myrna pattern, so I downloaded it that day. I got online promptly and ordered some yarn (there’s no yarn shops in my town). I was just sure that it was going to take me the entire time to make…
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When I’m not Sewing, I Might be Knitting
Everyone and their mothers have at some point made up an Andi Satterlund knitting pattern. I couldn’t be the only one left out, so I made Chuck. The yarn is Cascade 220 in peony heather, a gorgeously girly shade of pink. It goes oh, so, well with my “Prom Dress“, which being sleeveless and made…
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Cake Hummingbird: In the Wild
Just in time to start in on the Red Velvet Cake Sewalong beginning tomorrow, I finally finished up the Hummingbird skirt from the last Cake Sewalong. If you were following the Flickr group for the Hummingbird sewalong, there was a picture of the top being worn by my dress-form (who should have a name,…
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Knits for Guinevere
While I’m waiting for the skirt of the dress I’m making for The Monthly Stitch to finish hanging so I can hem it, I thought I’d post a couple more of my finished knitting projects. This one is the January Baby Cardigan which is available as a Ravelry download. I love the look of the mock-cables…
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Guston Sweater Revisited: As Much Like a Cheeto As Possible.
I’m going to interrupt Aunty Laura’s saga of dress refashioning and change the subject entirely. To knitting, in fact. Last year I asked Pete what color sweater he wanted, and part of the description he gave me of the “burnt orange” he had in mind is that it “wouldn’t make him look like a Cheeto.”…
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Quick Knit Project: Taylor Shrug
This is a quick knitting post for a quick-knit project*. The Taylor Shrug, specifically. Once I got the concept of what the thing I was making was supposed to look like, it was a very easy knit. The directions are minimal, which is not necessarily a bad thing, since much of the directions that are…