This may not look different than all my other pictures of the Celestarium shawl, but it is. That’s the beginning of the first round after completing ALL the charts

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'This is an icy teal, which feels like a reinvention of the last recession's turquoise, but colder. This is a color that makes you want to support your neighbors and sabotage the modern gestapo in anyway you can manage. It's a color that makes you want to dismantle a police state. A beautiful background for socks, or a hat, that all say what? FUCK ICE."

https://dyemadyarns.com/products/fuck-ice?_pos=1&_psq=ICE&_ss=e&_v=1.0

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'This is an icy teal, which feels like a reinvention of the last recession's turquoise, but colder. This is a color that makes you want to support your neighbors and sabotage the modern gestapo in anyway you can manage. It's a color that makes you want to dismantle a police state. A beautiful background for socks, or a hat, that all say what? FUCK ICE."

https://dyemadyarns.com/products/fuck-ice?_pos=1&_psq=ICE&_ss=e&_v=1.0

#Yarn #FiberArts @knitting @crafters #Knitting #fuckIce

I've been wrestling with this yarn: Ice Yarns Violino, in blue/green/red/orange.

This yarn is not easy to needle-knit with. The 'ribbon' of this ribbon yarn is a flattened i-cord made out of thread. The stitch-holes in the i-cord are big enough to catch the point of any knitting needle. With the current project I'm knitting I've often had to re-do a stitch over and over before I got a stitch where the threads didn't catch on the needle.

This yarn is fine for machine-knitting and crochet, because there are no pointy tools involved. Unfortunately, the colour sections are so short that the longest sequence of one colour with 4mm needles is four knit stitches, but most of the time the colour-sequences are two stitches wide. This means that doing crochet with this yarn looks like someone vomited confetti. Machine-knitting gives a similar result, because the gauge of my knitting machine is more like 8mm than 4mm.

So I felt I HAD to needle-knit this, in order to do the colours justice. I'm making an octopus soft toy; and I've come too far to back out now. The body is done, and I've just started the first leg.

But it is DRIVING ME BONKERS!

One thing that is keeping me going is the thought that this project may use up all the yarn and I'll never have to deal with it again.

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@AngelaPreston and other #Knitting folks - I bought yarn to knit socks but I'm paralyzed trying to choose a pattern. Do you have a recommendation for a long-time knitter who has never done socks?

I've been wrestling with this yarn: Ice Yarns Violino, in blue/green/red/orange.

This yarn is not easy to needle-knit with. The 'ribbon' of this ribbon yarn is a flattened i-cord made out of thread. The stitch-holes in the i-cord are big enough to catch the point of any knitting needle. With the current project I'm knitting I've often had to re-do a stitch over and over before I got a stitch where the threads didn't catch on the needle.

This yarn is fine for machine-knitting and crochet, because there are no pointy tools involved. Unfortunately, the colour sections are so short that the longest sequence of one colour with 4mm needles is four knit stitches, but most of the time the colour-sequences are two stitches wide. This means that doing crochet with this yarn looks like someone vomited confetti. Machine-knitting gives a similar result, because the gauge of my knitting machine is more like 8mm than 4mm.

So I felt I HAD to needle-knit this, in order to do the colours justice. I'm making an octopus soft toy; and I've come too far to back out now. The body is done, and I've just started the first leg.

But it is DRIVING ME BONKERS!

One thing that is keeping me going is the thought that this project may use up all the yarn and I'll never have to deal with it again.

@knitting #knitting @crochet #crochet #textilearts #fibrearts #fiberarts

Unnecessary brioche stitch hat is complete!

I say unnecessary because I don’t really need another hat and I only made it to use up some good leftover yarn.

When I was making it, I thought the left hand version looked better, but wearing it I now prefer the right.

What do you think?

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I knitted these socks as a Christmas present for my Mum. After posting pictures on social media I got quite a few comments complementing the heel. So, I have written a blog post that explains the stitch pattern and how to do it on the heel flap as well. Since they look a bit prickly - I called them Cactus socks:
https://knitting-and-so-on.blogspot.com/2026/01/cactus-socks.html #knitting @knitting

I knitted these socks as a Christmas present for my Mum. After posting pictures on social media I got quite a few comments complementing the heel. So, I have written a blog post that explains the stitch pattern and how to do it on the heel flap as well. Since they look a bit prickly - I called them Cactus socks:
https://knitting-and-so-on.blogspot.com/2026/01/cactus-socks.html #knitting @knitting

@justmichelle The problem is, that people who say "you should sell that" actually mean well, they mean it as a compliment. They don't understand that it is an insult to the universe to imply that something only has value if it can make you money; that money is the only valid measure of worth.

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@justmichelle The problem is, that people who say "you should sell that" actually mean well, they mean it as a compliment. They don't understand that it is an insult to the universe to imply that something only has value if it can make you money; that money is the only valid measure of worth.

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Finally blocked.

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More bees!

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My father made me show this to a friend of his. She promptly said "You should sell these."

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Yarn ~$100. Can't remember how much for the pattern. Hours? Untold. Bite me. Cold dead hands. Though actually they would be warm hands because this shawl is a beast.

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Unnecessary brioche stitch hat is complete!

I say unnecessary because I don’t really need another hat and I only made it to use up some good leftover yarn.

When I was making it, I thought the left hand version looked better, but wearing it I now prefer the right.

What do you think?

#knitting

#knitting #brioche #CraftingWtihCats #CatsOfMastondon #caturday

Finally! The body of my Rubra cardigan is off the needles. While I enjoyed the challenge, this monster has been heavy and cumbersome since I joined all the pieces. Because of that I'm going to knit the sleeves separately and sew them on, rather than knit them on. #Knitting @knitting

First pair of socks for 2026 finished.

I realized that both my and my partners sock drawers are filled to overflowing - but this pair was already mostly finished so: one more pair for him

I will still be knitting socks - they are just the perfect on the go knitting. But they will be gifts - I "owe" a pair to a friend, my daughter hasn't that many ...

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First pair of socks for 2026 finished.

I realized that both my and my partners sock drawers are filled to overflowing - but this pair was already mostly finished so: one more pair for him

I will still be knitting socks - they are just the perfect on the go knitting. But they will be gifts - I "owe" a pair to a friend, my daughter hasn't that many ...

#knitting @fiberarts @knitting @fiberarts #sockknitting

Finally! The body of my Rubra cardigan is off the needles. While I enjoyed the challenge, this monster has been heavy and cumbersome since I joined all the pieces. Because of that I'm going to knit the sleeves separately and sew them on, rather than knit them on. #Knitting @knitting