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The Swatchening has begun. It's funny that you can visibly see me getting better at knitting cables from the first cable swatch I knit (top left) to the one I just finished this morning (bottom right).

This acrylic yarn isn't the best for really dramatic cables like the top left one (the Nautical Twisted-Rope Cable from "A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns" by Barbara G. Walker, pg. 181) but looks quite good in the bottom right pattern (Telescope Lattice from the same book, pg. 201).

What's really interesting is the difference in gauge of these swatches. The Nautical Twisted-Rope Cable is 49 stitches but about as wide as the stockinette swatch directly below it which is only 30 stitches wide. The actual gauge for the Nautical Twisted-Rope Cable is about 7 stitches to an inch, the stockinette and double seed stitch cables are 5 stitches to an inch, and the Telescope Lattice is closer to 6 stitches to an inch. Note that these are all unblocked gauges but I don't expect this acrylic yarn to change significantly unless I heat block it which I cannot do right now.

I think I'm going to swatch the main front cable/ribbing together and if that goes well, I'll knit a whole front panel of the cardigan using 6st/inch stitch count. I should also come up with a plan for the sleeves... That's a problem for future me.

Wool laundry detergent swatches

Very fluffy, I really like it!

Other than that just normal yarn, nothing special about it

When yarn care instructions say "hand wash only, lay flat to dry" they mean it :'3

[Image description: four crochet swatches made of the same mauve yarn. They are made of back-loop half double crochet and an alpine stitches. The left two swatches are distinct, with clear stitch definition. The other two are shrunk and felted into indistinct lumps of wool. End description]

i still do things besides zines! like knitting! i'm working on a 3x3 rib gauge swatch in drops flora

this yarn is part sheep wool part alpaca wool, so i think i simply have to make something wearable from it. i'm thinking fingerless gloves. i like fingerless gloves to keep my hands warm while still allowing me dexterity. and i wanted to knit something simple, i haven't knit in a while

An entirely new bind off had to be developed for double knit twisted rib. I am so very grateful to a particular member of my fibre community would spent ages figuring out this bind off for me. It’s kinda evil (but not as evil as a previous iteration) and achieves the same stretchyness & look as the invisible cast on. I’m gonna have to be careful with my tension when sewing the edge together because too tight tension on the purls causes the back fabric to pop through the front as tiny dots.

Later this week I’m going to do this tedious process again on the dino cowl.

Now I've finished the heel and started on the foot portion, I'm beginning to think making socks roughly 40% bigger than my feet with the intention of turning them into felted slipper socks is insane

The palms of my winter gloves have dry-rotted, so ✨guess who's learning to crochet mittens✨!

[ID: Four photos of two sock-clad feet standing on an aged wooden deck in direct sunlight. The socks are knit from medium grey yarn in an intricate but mostly-solid lace pattern with alternating diamond grids of wrapped ribs and curves of increased and decreased stitches. They're approximately crew-length with a small area at the toes and the heel in stockinette stitch and only a few rows of *k1 twisted, p2* rib at the top extending the final row of the lace pattern. End ID]

Yesterday was my first time wearing this pair of socks I started in April-May last year! They were my first project back after not yarning for about five years--then I drafted my first sewing project mid-2022 (a pocket I finished this October), wove in the ends of a pair of fingerless gloves I'd been using con spaghetti, and cleaned out my old LYS tote with this yarn, a matching gauge acrylic, and my circular needle. And though I've definitely made a pair of socks before (accidental torture devices for their giftee with the sensory specifics of illusion knit soft cotton and wiry wool) I had completely forgotten and got to research all the techniques again. (If you know me, you know that's a sincere "got to." 😄) In April, I frogged half the foot of a first run with a bulkier cable and honeycomb texture combo that I hadn't planned with sufficient negative ease. And in the meantime ended up browsing the crafts shelf at my library; I checked out the two stitch bibles they had for daydreaming at home. Pattern 88 from "250 Japanese Knitting Stitches: The Original Pattern Bible by Hitomi Shida" (there's a slightly newer, prettier cover with 10 more stitches too but I haven't seen it in person to recommend) was both one of my favorites and relatively narrow at a repeat of 18 stitches. So! I swatched it and measured the swatch gently stretched this time; three repeats around was just about perfect, and I ended up doing one 56-row pattern repeat each above and below the heel turn. I had plans for increasing into the calf without breaking the pattern but was nervous about running out of yarn (the last of a mystery wool cone gifted from my psych professor's stash). If I could do it over, I'd probably knit the pair from the inside and outside of the ball simultaneously so I could have slightly taller socks with a wider ribbing cuff, but as is they're staying up way better than I expected. Guess that's the shape-keeping joy of wool!

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Gauge is 24 sts and 31 rows in plain knit; I’d really love to do a sweater in this yarn (Malabrigo Arroyo), although I might try to take the gauge down slightly more for the sake of durability.

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The first square for the blanket I wanna make! It took a while for me to get used to using the chunky wool yarn and the size 19 needles, and the square is uneven by about a centimeter, but I'm very proud of it 🥰

these are the colours i got for the baby blanket i'm crocheting!! i'm going to do a 5x8 hexagon blanket

i completely winged a knit bralette pattern and it fits PERFECTLY