The return of last year's sweater

And the knitting a bunch of other smaller projects

Hello yarn friends, or friends who don’t mind hearing me talk about yarn, or friends who didn’t realize yarn was part of the emails you’d be getting. (As always, adjust the types of emails you get here.)

Anyway, if you couldn’t tell from the title of this email, I’ve been knitting. First, I went through a pair of socks. They’re done, but you’re getting a progress shot because I’ve already worn the socks and they’re in the basket to be washed.

The pattern is just my basic toes up pattern with some twisted stitches lined up. At first, I thought I’d do the twisted pattern all the way up the foot and around the leg, but . . . I got annoyed when I just wanted to knit knit knit, so I left a big blank space . . . and then I thought it looked weird to just have the lower section of the foot like that, so I did another section. That section cut off half the diagonal lines at the heel flap, and I ran the other half around to the back of the leg where they ended just below the cuff.

It worked out surprisingly well!

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I also knit two pair of fingerless mittens and a hat, all from handspun yarn.

The blue mitts are Cloudburst (all pattern links go to Ravelry), the hat is Glaisher, and the green mitts are Insert Witty Title Here (so relatable). All the projects went pretty smoothly; I made minimal modifications — mostly to the thumbs, because I like thumbs a little shorter and not ribbed, and to the bottom of the hat, because I was knitting a special round too loosely and couldn’t figure out how to tighten it up, so I took the second option with an i-cord bind off. That turned out to be the right call for me anyway, fit wise.

The blue and green yarns are left over from other projects I knit but did not document here. Both went to friends. The patterns were Bluebird of Happiness and Lace Tree Wristwarmers.

I still have a little more of both yarns left, so I guess I need to figure out what to do with it. Maybe I’ll weigh and see if I can possibly squeeze out more fingerless mitts?

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And I have been working on this sweater. If it looks familiar, that’s because I’ve written about it before! And no, your eyes do not deceive you; it does appear to be a very different shade of blue. None of them are correct. I don’t know why my phone has decided it cannot capture this blue, but maybe one day I will present an accurate photo.

Not today, though.

The real color is a much darker, duskier blue. It’s the kind of deep blue you don’t want to knit without a proper light source, unless you really hate your eyes.

This pattern is (still) Tudor Windows. I put it on pause when I both got bored (somewhere after the waist shaping — you can kind of see the little gathers on either side), and also I just . . . did not have the brain power to keep going with it. I blame deadlines. (Look, if I can blame deadlines, I will always blame deadlines.)

I pulled this out a few weeks ago when I realized it was going to turn one soon. I’m aaalmost finished with the body now; I have just a few rows of ribbing to go at the bottom, and then sleeves (obviously).

It’s turning out very nice, and I think it’s even going to fit me!

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Finally, while I have also been spinning, I haven’t done very much over the summer. And I haven’t been weaving at all — not because I don’t want to (I do!) but because I really want to finish the projects I have. Okay, that sweater. That’s the project. No other big projects until the sweater is done.

I did finish the scarf that was on my loom back in my April post¹, and I’m very pleased with that! I had a little of the warp left over (I need to get better at measuring), so I put some yellow silk on my shuttles and made a small piece of cloth with that.

All right, that’s all for now!

Are you making anything? Let me know what it is in the comments.

1. Oh look, you can see the freshly spun green and blue yarns from this post in that April one! And the brown from the new hat? That was the unpictured yarn. Huh. I very rarely use my handspun yarns that quickly! Usually they stay in my yarn cabinet as pets for at least a year.