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WIP Wednesday

Noticed I missed last week's WIP Wed, but to be fair there wasn't a ton of progress happening...

Been feeling a little funky lately so I've been sticking with smaller and easier to repeat projects.

Got some more "scrappy" leaves done using some of my dye experiments. Second image is of a balled-gradient yarn, which goes to prove it wasn't my favorite method considering how drastically the color falls off from each other, haha. I was struggling with the two leaf combo that they were using and decided I'd rather deal with extra seaming than try to convince myself I was doing it correctly... It also (feels like it) goes faster than casting onto the edge...

Pattern: Leaf Motif Skirt by Kathy Merrick and Selma Kaplan | Project Page: Leaf Motif Skirt

I did find a band pattern that I'm excited to try out, it's from the Japanese stitch bible and results in a horizontal leaf hem/edge. Some of the yarn I ordered from the KnitPicks sale is what I'm planning to use for that edging so I can't practice just yet, (but maybe I can with some scraps laying around...) I'm honestly not worrying about it until I get more leaves churned out and I feel a bit better...

I also 3D-printed a zipper for the mosaic pencil pouch, so I technically have all the materials ready to put it together, just need to figure out how to combine them all in a way that it's functional, haha. I'm debating whether the fabric insert is necessary or too restrictive, so kinda feeling stuck while I work that out...

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Pretty pleased with how clean my provisional cast on is.

Making a baby sweater for a friend. Figured I'd use this opportunity to learn how to raglan while I was at it.

Project: Another Bab Sweater | Pattern: Seamless Baby Hooded Pullover

(Yarn dyed: "blue lagoon" soup)

I still haven't worked out if I want to do the full hood or not. I've been playing around with the idea of doing a shawl collar or something instead, but we'll see when I get there.

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Not feeling great so I'm piecing leaves together..

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The Worm Party

A while ago I posted a maybe perplexing photo of a bag of "worms."

I have since created a few worm steaks.

For greater context, check below the read more.

I don't know if I can offer you a ton more context, haha.

This is why we call it the worm party. Just hundreds of yarn worms.

I had this grand Idea that I'd make a rock pebble rug using the Sunburst Beads pattern by Amy Felker. For some reason I thought it'd be a stashbusting project, and I guess technically I had enough "feltable yarn" laying around for it, but it did mean I had to use some pretty unconventional colors (for what you'd expect in a river bed at least).

The process is pretty cool conceptually, but pretty difficult in practice. You create a series of i-cords, increasing the stitch count and needle size each time. Once done, you pull the smaller through the next bigger until you have the concluding mighty worm (not pattern author's term).

So yeah. The worm steaks are some progress made. I still have quite a few more worms to go.

And maybe the rug will look childish. And maybe it'll take me a long time. But I'll probably end up finishing it anyways to see what I can make of it.