Got this locally dyed wool at the coast in October! I was so hyped that the LYS we found had spinning stuff. Colorway is Stargazer on rambouillet by Hearth Rest. So soft so bounce so pretty colors 🐑 chain plied to maintain the gradient

these are from fuckin september or some shit but im having a week, a month, a year, so check it out, finally got the hang of supported spinning

fibre is a delicious polworth silk blend, gradient dyed. spindle is one i think i accidentally stole from an ex many years ago

oh hey one more really stupid sock construction before i go: tablet woven heel band! this pair is a christmas gift for a good friend so i'm not modeling them myself, but the water bottle works ok. (i am not immune to a non-knitter who appreciates and actually wears hand-knit items, and my friend, god love him, lacks the good sense to tell me to quit giving him weird stuff, so here we are.)

i can't find the post now, but i remember seeing someone on here tablet-weave a color transition for... a sweater? a shawl? i don't even remember anymore. anyway, the idea was still knocking around in my head when i found the squircle sock pattern, which starts with a cuff in the round, adds a very long and narrow heel flap (only 6 stitches wide!), and picks up stitches on either side of it to work in the round again. this monstrosity replaces the original garter stitch heel flap with a short tablet-woven band grafted onto the back of the cuff. to "pick up stitches" along the side, i wove each section with some slack in the weft, using a couple dpns to keep things even (looking back, i don't think i actually used the weft loops themselves as the "slipped stitches," because you can already see the warp twists kind of coming undone along the sides of the dpn-less section in the bottom photo? i think i ran another bit of scrap thread through those loops, tightened the slack out of the weft, used the scrap thread as the slipped stitches, and then tightened those loops out too once i'd gotten a couple rounds into the rest of the sock to get the knitted stitches flush with edges of the woven band.)

things i would do differently if i made these again: tablet weaving is a twined weaving style, so it's a bit thick, and it gets even thicker when you have to weave in the ends. this pattern uses 18 tablets with 4 threads each, for a total of 18 x 4 x 2 x 2 = 288 total ends that need weaving in, which as you can imagine is Deeply And Profoundly Unfun. i might do a missing-hole tablet woven pattern (which the "dublin dragons" motif is supposed to be anyway, but i wanted three colors to match the flag stripes), or i might do a baltic pickup band instead, which should reduce the bulk a bit.

Making a new post to make more people see that I finished and that the original post is pinned on my blog with the final thoughts but I think some of you may miss it so ughh here she is !!!!‼️💕🧶

reblog to give prev a fUCKING BREAK in 2026

wool is so good. shoutout to wool

Well... this roving took me butt fucking forever... I have no idea why but it felt like it just would not stop, it felt soooo slow. I've had it on Buglette for months now, but finally it's ready to be plied .... and it's going to sit there for the rest of this month because I have to do xmas gifts first : )

glamour shots in the sun bc i can’t get enough of this yarnnnn

merino hand spun & plied with a drop spindle <3

making this into a hat btw

I spun, knit and dyed this sweater recently :) Also I guess this is me posting my face to the internet but oh well, I'm too proud of this to stick to the photos without my face

Big Hug

I finished and succeded in all aspects.

It started like this

i started spinning last year for tour de fleece (spindle spun, wheel plied) and wanted it to become a shawl ready to wear this winter. And as you see:

it's done

And i won yarn chicken! This is all I have left!

The pattern is "Big hug" by nicolor, although I decided after swatching to knit it in stockinette stitch instead of garter stitch. Only the last 5 rows are in garter stitch to prevent curling. I hope it helps.

My latest off the loom. It needs washed and the ends finished, but it’s a bootiful itchy scarf made of wool and cotton

me sowing:

haha fuck yeah!

me reaping:

freshly steamed!

knitting ask game!

So when I was little my grandparents started the tradition of building and decorating (home made) ginger bread houses with us grandkids a few weeks before Christmas. At this point most of the grandkids are adults (youngest is 14, next youngest about to turn 18 - oldest 28) and my grandpa passed more than 8 years ago, but the tradition is still going strong

Only partners are now also included, so my 85 yo grandma has to prepare ginger bread dough for 10 houses this year, and because she threw out her back kneading the dough two years ago I helped her with it today (also last year)

Anyway, may I present, approximately 8kg of ginger bread dough:

We have a similar tradition where we meet with two other families at the end of November but instead of gingerbread houses we mostle make jam cookies and some plain ones out of the same dough (we used to decorate those with icing when I was younger but we stopped doing that in favour of increasing the amount we make).

At this point it's been going for about 20 years and the last couple years we've done 9-10kg of dough each year.

This is this years haul, it was the first time we made chocolate hazelnut balls as well.

Fantastic mr fox double knitting scarf 🍎🍎🍎 I made mine with drops Lima yarn (alpaca and wool, 100% natural). Pattern: winter apples scarf on Etsy or Ravelry