Petirrojo57

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This is me, most of the time, though you’ll also see me sharing my adventures in knitting, gardening, and traveling

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Did it work or did it not? I thought I’d try using purls instead of a second color on a stranded knitting motif but I’m not sure it’s a win with this chunky yarn (Vientos superwash by Malabrigo in Pisces). Maybe if I’d used a finer weight yarn? 🤔

And in case you can’t tell, it’s a skull-and-crossbones motif. Oh well, at least it creates an interesting texture 🤷‍♀️

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Back to work on my sweater project after some detours to work on a baby blanket and some hats — yesterday finished one sleeve and today it’s time for some more torso. The pattern included only a colorwork collar but I had so much of the 4 accent colors left I decided I’d work a little into the sleeve just above the cuff. Will I add any to the hem too? TBD

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Three WIPs to work on today… It’s too gloomy to knit the black tweedy part of my Lunenberg Pullover I think, so it’s brighter colors for the weather.

Edit: Finished the hat! There’s a break in the weather so a few rows of the sweater’s body will get done. The baby blanket isn’t feeling the love at the moment because it’s acrylic (sob, feels like knitting with fiberglass) but I will persevere!

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Do I need another sweater? Nope. Do I want to knit another sweater? Yep. Picked up a 5 different colors of Rowan Felted Tweed to start on a Lunenberg Pullover for another stranded colorwork top-down sweater and I’m enjoying the results so far.

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Do I need another sweater? Nope. Do I want to knit another sweater? Yep. Picked up a 5 different colors of Rowan Felted Tweed to start on a Lunenberg Pullover for another stranded colorwork top-down sweater and I’m enjoying the results so far.

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This advice from Lin Qingyu in Thrice Married to a Salted Fish would have come in handy in countless meeting situations I’d had in my working life, especially with my last manager. I would love to have seen his head spin just a little!

I was intrigued by volume one of this novel and let’s just say that volume two is not disappointing. I’m really looking forward to seeing how this all plays out.

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My Wednesday wip — the Brae Winds Blanket by Jenny Fennell — and I can say that I love the stitch pattern but I am seriously wishing I had chosen a different yarn. It’s not the color (though Sirdar chose to join two yarn sections at the opposite ends of the ombré 😑) but it is acrylic single ply and it feels like I’m knitting fiberglass.

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Knit, knit, knit, knit… at this point in my project, an inch of the torso/body of the sweater in this size/yarn is a lot of knitting! Maybe 2 more inches before the final colorwork portion? 🤷‍♀️

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I won at yarn chicken today!!! Whee! And I’m officially off sleeve island on my Kohlrabi Pullover and I am now a believer in Chiaogoo shorties over magic loop for sleeves.

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Still so cooooold here so progress is being made on my Kohlrabi Pullover and audiobooks—kicking off the latest by David R Slayton and more w

I’ve been posting my knitting wips to the Knitting community and forgetting to share to my general timeline! Oops

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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

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Knitting is spell craft

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Too much time on AO3?

I always have vivid dreams but today’s dream before waking was a first: after a grab bag of scenes that included my dad (gone now almost 4 years) driving my mom, me, and maybe 1-2 others, going down a lane into an estate to check out some trees but instead finding the building with a variety of tall niches in which bat-like figures roosted individually (seeing the first one I said it was the biggest effing bat I’d ever seen, then each one was successively larger). The last ‘bat’ (kind of like a tailless otter with bat wings) swooped out and attacked some woman who’d somehow worked her way into the dream only to be pretty much beheaded by the bat. We shriek as quietly as we can “it’s a vampire bat!” and make our escape. Next thing I’m in some other scenario that involved crazy drivers because Cinco de Mayo drunkenness 🤷‍♀️ and a bus ride, and then a missing suitcase. As I’m fretting about how to find that suitcase, the writer (presumably of the dream) pops in to say, “Well, that’s all I’ve got for now… Should I try and continue this or just post it as is on AO3?”

That was so weird my brain took it as a sign to get out of bed because I know that writer’s just going to ghost us on the ending.

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I’m tackling my first stranded colorwork sweater for my first project of the new year and there are things I really like about the work so far:

I love the yarns (Rowan Tweed and Rowan Alpaca/Wool), they’re delightful to work with

I always enjoy knitting colorwork hats, so this is not a challenge (though figuring out how to read the chart initially had me scratching my head)

But… I struggled with the folded collar and think not only is it a little twisted (will that be less noticeable after blocking?) but it may be too thick/warm. I almost frogged it after the collar but I kept on. Mistake?

Thoughts? Should I frog? Should I persevere (it looks acceptable with a small slant?) I’m going to mull it over.

The pattern is the Kohlrabi Sweater by Amy Christoffle.

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Welp… after mulling it over (I slept on it) I frogged the folded collar wip and started over. I realized that the collar’s thickness and height would always make me crazy, more crazy than the slanted sections of the fold, so I decided on a shorter, plain rib collar. Then I was working away on it yesterday, got through the short rows and realized that somehow I had twisted the body (and nobody can wear a mobius strip sweater)! Arghh! Trying it on, I realized that the neckline would have been too wide, so can we call this a “happy mistake”?

Third time’s the charm? 🤞

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Today me is very happy that I’m willing to sacrifice a lot of work to try something that might suit me better. Today me is happy that knitting is not sewing, where once you’ve cut that fabric you can’t glue it back together and try again but in knitting that yarn will unspool and be reworkable. Today me is glad that I’ve learned a lot of knitting lessons and can do math sufficient to figure out the calculations needed to make edits to the pattern. Also, that I brought my wip to the salon where not only did I have 1.5 hours between appointments but needed to let my pedicure polish dry before putting boots on to brave the snowy cold, so yay! 2+ hours to knit and eavesdrop 😉

Before (L) and After (wip R)

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I’m tackling my first stranded colorwork sweater for my first project of the new year and there are things I really like about the work so far:

I love the yarns (Rowan Tweed and Rowan Alpaca/Wool), they’re delightful to work with

I always enjoy knitting colorwork hats, so this is not a challenge (though figuring out how to read the chart initially had me scratching my head)

But… I struggled with the folded collar and think not only is it a little twisted (will that be less noticeable after blocking?) but it may be too thick/warm. I almost frogged it after the collar but I kept on. Mistake?

Thoughts? Should I frog? Should I persevere (it looks acceptable with a small slant?) I’m going to mull it over.

The pattern is the Kohlrabi Sweater by Amy Christoffle.

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Welp… after mulling it over (I slept on it) I frogged the folded collar wip and started over. I realized that the collar’s thickness and height would always make me crazy, more crazy than the slanted sections of the fold, so I decided on a shorter, plain rib collar. Then I was working away on it yesterday, got through the short rows and realized that somehow I had twisted the body (and nobody can wear a mobius strip sweater)! Arghh! Trying it on, I realized that the neckline would have been too wide, so can we call this a “happy mistake”?

Third time’s the charm? 🤞

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I've decided that in 2026, I'm making bingo sheets for my yearly goals :) I really like this format because it's very low pressure while still providing something to drive towards!

My friend saw this and asked if she could join in, and of course I said yes, so any time either of us gets a bingo we'll go to a yarn shop together :)

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I’m giving it a go too! Might swap out some of the things I don’t like for goals that are more realistic for me but I’m excited to push myself a bit with some of these!

I think I’ll swap Tunisian crochet for brioche and amigurumi for knitted or crocheted Christmas ornaments or cat toys… I really don’t like making stuffed animals but I have a few simple things that fall a bit short of that goal and have clear uses. Lastly blanket I’ll swap for sweater.

With that I’m looking forward to working towards a yarn store visit too! There are lots of yarn stores in my community and I’m too lazy to go most of the time (Chicago is big and I’m a homebody). For this project I’ll check out a new one for each bingo!

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except for the crochet, easy peasy!

[petirrojo57]

I’m tackling my first stranded colorwork sweater for my first project of the new year and there are things I really like about the work so far:

I love the yarns (Rowan Tweed and Rowan Alpaca/Wool), they’re delightful to work with

I always enjoy knitting colorwork hats, so this is not a challenge (though figuring out how to read the chart initially had me scratching my head)

But… I struggled with the folded collar and think not only is it a little twisted (will that be less noticeable after blocking?) but it may be too thick/warm. I almost frogged it after the collar but I kept on. Mistake?

Thoughts? Should I frog? Should I persevere (it looks acceptable with a small slant?) I’m going to mull it over.

The pattern is the Kohlrabi Sweater by Amy Christoffle.