I really want to write a review of my trip to Nash Yarn Fest with Amber but I want to document all of these finished WIPs first. I started this Big Square Baby Blanket for Jenny's daughter, April, over the summer.
I finished in November 2025 but am only blogging about it now. That's how chaotic my life is!
I used all Mad Tosh OOAK hanks that I grabbed from a trunk show at Atelier ages ago.
I've been trying to make a point of taking a photo of every new project I cast on, the day that I start it.
It's fun to look at back at my progress photos. This was taken the first time Xena and I attended the VA State Fair.
Here's me knitting at the Canal Club before the Terror show. This show kind of changed my life. It reminded me of what I have always loved but had also forgotten about HC and also introduced me to the scene here in RVA.
I love how well both seed stitch and garter work so well with OOAK hand-dyed yarn.
My gift was very well received. Jenny uses it all of the time!
Very few people are blanket-knit-worthy in my life.
The connection that Jenny and I have through her brother Bob's death will always be bittersweet.
It has taken me years to come out of the deep depression that I was plagued with right before/during/immediately after Bob's death. Oddly, I didn't realized it until recently but it really hasn't been since I started going to HC shows again that I realized how sorrow-filled my life had become because I kept (most) of my pain inside for so long and how truly, genuinely happy I now am for the first time in YEARS.
Knitting gives me time to think. I thought about Bob a lot while knitting this blanket. I resolved much of my pain and frustration and I intentionally knit through my rage. Although I love dwelling in the past, I've had to force myself to move on. There isn't a single day that passes that I don't laugh to myself about what Bob would've done or said about this or that and actually, it is those mental "conversations" that keep me persevering and remind me to stay focused and keep it simple. We would laugh and make jokes about any and everything and there is no reason to stop, even if he can't physically be here anymore.
When you make something, make it with meaning. Make it with purpose and regardless of time, in your heart, it will last forever.
I knit size 4 and used a Knitpicks Wonderfluff kit.
This is the best quick intarsia project.
Previously I've knit the smallest size for Jenny and myself but I just had to try this on.
This wool/acrylic blown yarn blend is so soft and fluffy; it's like wearing a cloud.
This is me knitting at my weekly knitting meet up. A group of us broke off from the racists that regularly meet at DWW and we now have our own vibrant, liberal, open-minded, free-spirited meet up at Corner Rock every Tuesday morning.
When you knit this sweater, you just make two matching front and back panels and then mattress seam them together.
This is me knitting at The Warehouse. I am probably the only person who has regularly knit here!
That being said, almost every time I've been to a show recently, I've talked to other girls about fiber arts and they've agreed that knitting at shows is a great form of multi-tasking although I've yet to see anyone else doing it yet.
I have probably knit this pattern more than any other sock pattern because it's the pattern that I followed when I first learned to knit socks.
This past winter/spring, it was brutally cold working in the grocery store. I realize that they have to keep some of the groceries refrigerated but between the automatic doors constantly opening and closing and sending in freezing cold gusts of air, I was dying. I ended up bringing my Vornado from home almost every shift for what seemed like months on end.
One thing that repeatedly saved my feet from freezing was all of the thick wool socks I knit.
So in preparation for next winter, I've decided to start knitting a few more pairs.
I love to use Galway or Lanas, or anything rustic and grabby with this pattern because when you wash the socks, they felt and become more like slipper socks.
I finally decided to frog the stupid ugly-ass DWW YLKA Hana sweater and use the Lanas for the heels and toes of these socks. I knit an entire cable panel but every time I looked at it, it just reminded me of how much I despise the white fragility of those wack bitches at DWW. Ripping that yarn out for repurposing was majorly validating.
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