Category Archives: finished object

Adventures in felting

I don’t have a lot of experience with felting (or, to be more correct in this case, fulling). In fact, I can only think of one felted object I made before I decided to jump in and make both a … Continue reading

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wee tiny socks

Just a brief update of some wee tiny socks I knit for a mail art swap. I used this pattern and my smallest needles (US size 2) and the finest yarns I had: some fingering-weight unknown green stuff (the bag … Continue reading

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Alpaca toque

Remember that handspun alpaca yarn I made? Well, I went ahead a knit a toque with it. I knit it on size 8 (US) needles and used a mock cable pattern in place of ribbing. The decreasing at the top … Continue reading

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Cabled toque

This knit up incredibly fast–just a few days. I used Jaeger Shetland yarn in grey tweed (recycled from a handknit sweater I bought, much too large for me ever to wear) and adapted this pattern. The original called for bulky … Continue reading

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handspun alpaca

A while back a member of my old guild had some alpaca fibre she was giving away. She said it was only good for felting and most of it was coarse leg hair, but one bag had some extremely soft … Continue reading

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Baby Blanket FO

Pattern: Estonian Lullaby Baby Blanket, from Fibertrends. Yarn: Dale Baby Ull, in yellow (a bit more than 6 skeins). Needles: Size 6 Denise circs. Notes: I knit this for the recently-born daughter of some friends of mine. It’s not a … Continue reading

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Monkey FO

I knit this monkey a while back for a friend’s daughter’s third birthday. She was born in the year of the monkey and has a lot of monkey-themed stuff, so it seemed like a good choice. The pattern was from … Continue reading

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