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gothic butterfly shawl progress

Cricheted 2½ rows this evening and remembered to take a picture.

Pattern from wilmade

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ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes

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'Tis The Season For a 'Basic Ass' Vest ... And This Knitting Pattern Is Up To The Task: 👉 https://buff.ly/3LohQJI

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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen – Costume design by Walter Plunkett

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For the top 5 -- top 5 knitting patterns you've made?

That’s a fun one! I will include ravelry links

1. Radiata by Nim Teasdale

2. Whimsycowl by Nim Teasdale

3. Dragonskin Dice bag by Michaela Jandacek

4. Sea line Shawl by Nuria Pastor

5. Field Beret by Camila Vad

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Cathedral rose window Afghan in rainbow colors to compliment my stained glass window Afghan in the same color scheme.

I started this Afghan right after Christmas and worked on it off and on for 3 months before completion.

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Meet mabel!!! She's my favourite so far

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Meet mabel!!! She's my favourite so far

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The beautiful wall of sock at @wonderwoolwales!

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Tried a houndtooth pattern this go, the warp was a bit annoying to setup doing the weft was fun.

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I’ve made more bugs. They’re friends

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I haven't posted what I have been up to lately from a fiber arts perspective, so here's a little e-spinning I've been doing! The orange tweed 2-plyjis a merino, bamboo, and silk blend I had gotten for last year's Fiberuary on Mastodon (color and texture weeks), but I had a massive amount left (even now I think I may have over 4oz) — it's from Paradise Fibers in the Folklore colorway, I think. The green singles are some lovely polwarth I got from @littlebirdinagarden's etsy, in the Forest colorway (though this is displaying the lightest as opposed to the deepest greens in the colorway)

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Finished the big crochet bag today, super excited :D

Immediately started another bag, which I'm sure will surprise no-one.

It's using this yarn which was 2 singles I intended to leave as singles, but ended up deciding otherwise. Added some more twist and plied it. Really pretty result :3

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Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

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My first handspun piece! I learned so much and there's so much more still to know, I'm excited

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Finally managed to finish this baby hat!

I first tried a cotton merino blend but it didn't have enough stretch and bounce. I also kept messing up the stitch pattern.

Then the dk yarn I tried was too bulky. I wanted a hat for spring weather. Nippy spring weather. It's a nipple hat but that's unrelated I just realised the pun potential.

Then I used this leftover fingering weight yarn and it worked! It's called Little red riding hood, lol.

I decided to forgo the stitch pattern because I kept making mistakes.

I do love the short rows in the band. I love doing short rows and I love protecting little ears so, perfect match.

Pattern:

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Traditional style Thai dress by Pierre Balmain worn by Queen Sirikit for an official trip to Iran, 1967.