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That noir silk is a little better but still not usable after washing. Tried the wool cordetto tonight. Something that snaps at least once every 4 or 5 metres is also not something I'm going to use in the Ravelry knitalong.

Maybe the 3 ply lambswool will work in Navajo ply...

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September 29, 2026 at 10:35 PM
julesjones.bsky.social
You would not believe how long I've just spent looking for a cone of Colourmart DK noil silk. It was hiding in half a dozen cones of a Colourmart merino/cotton/viscose that is almost identical in colour/texture in spite of being different fibres and fingering weight.

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September 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
divinejasper.bsky.social
After 30 years of just tanking counting stitches, I've finally decided I need stitch markers. 70 rows counting each 7th row will suck without them. #amknitting
September 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
theherocomplex.bsky.social
Two kinds of Craft Sequence going on today. #amreading #amknitting
November 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
alysummers.bsky.social
Placed my first order from @purlsoho.bsky.social after a long time lurking & loving their free patterns and I could not be more impressed! Packaged great, came with the cotton bag and a free sample (the gray yarn) - the scissors are mine. The yarn is super soft! Jazzed about my WIP! #amknitting
Purple yarn from Purl Soho along side gray yarn sitting on a cotton bag with the Purl Soho logo. A pair of decorative scissors sits nearby and a Purl Soho flier is propped against the wall.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
I don't want to knit this pesky heel flap short row nonsense.

I just want to be on to the easy tube portion of my giant sock!

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A multicoloured toe-up sock stretched across my sock knitting instruction book and notes on knitting a completely different sock. The sock starts green, transitions to pink then briefly green again, then orange, then pink, then shades of blue, and now on the curve of the heel, it is orange again. ... with the knitting needles sticking out in multiple directions. (The yarn is changing colour on its own, i'm not doing anything)
July 1, 2026 at 6:26 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Me so smart.
I didn't include this in my #Knitting thread. #AmKnitting

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alisonborealis.bsky.social no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Nov 7
One of the perks of all-night migraines (le sigh) is that I have made a lot of sock progress...

(And forgot to put in a marker at the beginning of the heel gusset. Argh!)
My sock, which is now almost to the heel, stripes from the toe up: pink, yellow-pink, green-yellow, yellow, pale grey-green, green, yellow-green, pink-yellow, purple-yellow, blue-yellow, purple-pink, pink-pink, pink-yellow, and now purple blue. There's a collection of blue stripes coming up next in the ball of yarn, so it's going to have a blue heel.
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Knitters! I have a question.
What do you do to weave in the ends on your socks?
I'm always stuck with what to do to them... especially so that I don't affect the stretchiness of the socks.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Second sock is almost done and I apparently did not divide the ball equally.
... so there's leftovers.

Next pair of socks are each getting their own full skein and I am knitting them to the knee.
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Two blue socks with orange and white stripes lying side by side, toes to the left, cuffs to the right. They are tall crew socks, almost mid-calf. One still has knitting needles in the ribbed cuff (lower sock). There is a tiny ball of yarn, about the size of a toonie or silver dollar lying just below the socks.
November 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Sock progress has stalled.
I don't like the way my calf increases are going, so I'm ripping back (un-knitting) and trying again with a different rate of increase.
I want to make some long socks.

These would make good ankle/bobby sox though. It's knit tight enough to be just right.
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A hand-knit almost crew-length sock in mostly medium blue with a diagonal stripe of orange bordered by white around the foot and ankle. The double-pointed needles are in the ankle-leg portion, as I am still knitting it, and there are markers along the sock to help count stitches so I can match up sock number 2.
October 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Sock progress!

I love how the heel striping turned out!
This is going to be a tight sock.
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Yesterday's sock progress. The toe and foot (through the instep) of a sock, with double-pointed knitting needles in the unfinished end. The sock is blue with a spiralling stripe of orange with white borders. The ball/cake of wound yarn is mext to the sock. It is predominantly blue with streaks of white and orange. The sock today. The entire foot has been knit. The heal is complete and now the double-pointed knitting needles are in the ankle portion. The other side of the sock - foot fully completed and heel flap connected. The heel has a fun stripe look to it, with regularly-spaced bands of blue with the white-orange-white bands lining up to create a right-leaning diagonal band of orange up the heel.
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Absolutely ridiculous discovery...

It's clearly time to clean out my crafting corner ... because it is FULL of nonsense like this test swatch that I'm pretty sure is comparing bind-off methods for stretchiness, but has zero notes anywhere. (Except on here)

Anyway, #AmKnitting just, uh, not that!
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A long rectangle of knitting, viewed vertically, but knit horizontally. It's a variegated multi-colour circular bit of ribbing, some stockinette, and then a lot more ribbing, to test different bind-off strategies for stretchiness. The variegated colours do some fun pooling, with splotches of pale but vivid blues, pinks, yellows, and greens, and some repeating stripe combinations, notably yellow and green, and blue and dark pink.
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
I am rather in love with this clown barf mitt so far.

It's going to be another fingerless glove. 😊
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A ribbed and then stockinette section of a long fingerless glove in multi-coloured "clown barf" yarn. Each row or every second row is a different colour, ranging from hot pink to olive green, mint, black, red, yellow, orange, brown, purple, and royal blue. There are double-pointed knitting needles in the live edge that's still being knit in the round. The whole thing looks vaguely tweedy in addition to the multi-colour stripes. The mitten in progress and my hand holding the ball of multi-coloured handspun yarn. The yarn is two-ply with each ply a different colour undergoing rapid transitions from one colour to the next, giving it a tweedy look. It is roughly fingering-weight and the ribbed section (k2p2, k every second row) has 30 rows for 2.5 inches of fabric. The whole mitt is 3.5 inches long now.
February 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Procrastikinitting continues with the 2nd Textured Wrister ... with added yarn chicken.

Thankfully all I have left is the thumb and those tiny yarn scraps.
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Two small bundles of loosely-wound yarn and a mostly-finished fingerless mitt with three double-pointed knitting needles arranged in a triangle to knit in the round for creating the thumb of the mitt. The yarn is a dark forest green and the mitt is heavily textured in multiple horizontal bands of texture designs (ribbed cuff, nested chevrons pointing left, moss stitch bricks, stacked zigzags, and left-leaning diagonal lines).
February 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Today's task: finish whale.

That's it.
No more tasks for me today.
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A knit humpback whale stuffie (mostly flat) with a square nose, deeply curved chin, and humped back. The tail is finished except for the bifurcated fins, which are currently being knit (there are multiple knitting needles , yarn and an orange stitch marker off the end of the whale. It is knit out of a fuzzy grey heathered wool yarn.
December 20, 2024 at 8:34 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Whale number 2 has a head!

And I think I have enough yarn to finish everything. 😬
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My green lap with a knit whale and the head of another knit whale on double-pointed knitting needles lying underneath it on the right. The head of the second one is done, now moving on to the body.
December 17, 2024 at 12:40 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
I did it again.

i forgot the yarn emoji.
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alisonborealis.bsky.social no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Dec 7
Ok!
Photos!

Here's the whale.
Friend probably has trouble swimming in a straight line, alas, because one fin is WAY bigger than the other.
Scarf still needs a few inches.

And 2 of my many bears.

All made with grey yarn from @stuthefarmer.bsky.social's sheep!
A very out-of-focus grey knit humpback whale with a frowny face and bifurcated tail. The whale has a swoopy body - large head with blunt nose transitions into a slim and elongated torso with fins along the bottom and tapering to an upturned tail like it's about to propel itself forward. There's a hanging string loop where its blow hole probably should be, and opposite the string, on the bottom of its body are two fins. The whale's eyes and smile are stitched on with black embroidery floss. The opposite side of the grey knit humpback whale, where you can sort-of see more clearly that one fin IS smaller than the other. (Smaller fin up in this image) its frowny face is also slightly different on this side vs the other. The grey knit humpback whale now wearing a green scarf that is still in the process of being knit (so it's just hanging around the whale's head, just behind the hanging loop but in front of the fins). Two grey knit bears in stripey sweaters. The bears are 2-D and do not have moveable arms - they're stuffed with a ditch of stitching creating a gap between body and limbs so they look like they have arms covered in stripey sweaters. Both bears are pear-shaped and lack bottoms (feet, legs and tails) just a curvy edge below the sweater, slightly longer than the little curved paws sticking out of the sweaters. One bear is in a neon and kelly green striped sweater and the other is in teal and yellow stripes. The green striped bear also has a baby blue toque. Their eyes and noses are stitched on with black embroidery thread.
December 7, 2024 at 9:25 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
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All I have left to do is weave in ends!

I ended up picking-up and knitting the shawl neck (rather than knitting flat and sewing in) and I'm glad I did because it's stretchier this way, but it was a pain!
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Anyway, it is tiny and cute!
The front of a teal and yellow striped toddler sweater with a shawl collar and deep teal cuffs and hem It looks like one of those boxy bomber-style shapes, but we'll see what happens on a 2 year old! The sweater is lying on top of a black and white patterned blanket made of large scale stripes, triangles, and diamonds. The back of a teal and yellow striped toddler sweater with a shawl collar and deep teal cuffs and hem It looks like one of those boxy bomber-style shapes, but we'll see what happens on a 2 year old! The sweater is lying on top of a black and white patterned blanket made of large scale stripes, triangles, and diamonds. The neckline of a teal and yellow striped toddler sweater with a shawl collar and deep teal cuffs and hem. The shawl collar is unfolded to its full length, showing the ribbing and how it was connected to the body of the sweater. It looks like one of those boxy bomber-style shapes, but we'll see what happens on a 2 year old! The sweater is lying on top of a black and white patterned blanket made of large scale stripes, triangles, and diamonds.
December 4, 2024 at 2:59 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Sweater progress!

Toddler knitting is WAY faster!
Already done front & back, and started one sleeve.
This week might spell the end of this sweater!
... especially if I get wrapped up and lose track of time again.
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The back of a sweater for a 3 year olf. It has a large teal ribbed hem and yellow and teal stripes. There are 11 stripes in total. A front panel for a toddler's sweater. It has a large ribbed knit teal hem and yellow and teal stripes. There are 7 stripes on the full front body and then it splits for a wide neckline. Each shoulder section has 4 additional stripes on either side of the neckline gap. The neck hole will be filled with a shawl collar. A sleeve in progress for the toddler sweater. It has a thick teal cuff and then 4 yellow and teal stripes above it where the knitting needle is holding all the stitches. The sleeve gradually gets wider as it extends away from the cuff.
November 25, 2024 at 9:00 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Here's what I'm currently knitting.

It's a toddler sweater for a 2-3 year old. From Val Pierce's Cutest Ever Toddler Knits (via the library)

It will have a teal shawl collar at the neckline and stripey sleeves, too.
It is wee. ~10 inches across at the stripes. The teal is nicer irl.
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A yellow and teal striped bit of knitting that will become the back of a pullover sweater. There's a 2.5 inch ribbed hemline that then turns into wide yellow and teal alternating horizontal stripes. The sweater is 2 stripe repeats in and the 3rd yellow stripe is being worked on with a pair of long wooden knitting needles. The sweater back with a ruler on it (out of focus and not actually set at the hemline because who needs to be effective?). It is currently approximately 6 inches from hem to working edge and needs to be 12.5 inches long.
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Mitten progress report:

I spent 20 minutes knitting and wondering where/how I'd lost my 6th knitting needle, only to realise I was using it in the mittens, along with the other 5. 🤦‍♀️

Also, here's my collection. They'll all end up outside for homeless folks this winter. 🧶
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A mitten in the process of being knit. It has a bright red ribbed cuff and then a blue and red striped hand that expands on the left side with a gusset for the thumb. The knitting needles are still in it, and are continuing up on the above-thumb portion of the hand while the thumb has been removed from needles and is being held on a pink string. 4 pairs of handknit striped mittens all fanned out. They have solid-coloured ribbed cuffs and solid-coloured thumbs and finger caps. The cuffs are in one stripe colour while the thumbs and curved end of the hand/fingers is in the other stripe colour. There are (cuff colour first): Blue & grey, kelly & neon green, neon green & pink, and purple & grey mittens. The finger portion often closes on a bit of a point, though some are more rounded than others.
October 30, 2024 at 3:20 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
Finally! The top decreases got sorted out correctly!
My autumnal hat is done, except for the ends and blocking!
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And this one stays on my head!

The leaves don't show up very well in the photos, but they're more visible in person.
A knit hat in blue, green, yellow, and orange. This is viewed from the top down. A band around the bottom is done in ribbing alternating green and blue vertical stripes. A band of green then follows, with yellow leaves. Then a band of yellow with orange bunnies, and then a band of blue with orange leaves. The top is finished a bit like a circus tent with alternating concentric stripes in orange, green and blue, separated by thinner stripes of yellow. Each design band is separated by a couple lines of the involved and transitioning colours, so there are narrow stripes of yellow and green between the green and yellow design bands. And yellow and blue (awith orange) stripes between the yellow and blue design bands. A more head-on view of the hat, showing the orange bunnies in the yellow band, with yellow leaves in green below, and orange leaves in blue above. The top decreases in volume rapidly to a rounded point through a series of narrow stripes.
October 27, 2024 at 7:56 AM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
The buns are done!

Definitely evidence that this hat needs a wash & block. Each bunny looks a little different, despite being made exactly the same way.
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A knit colourwork hat, in progress. It is being knit in the round, from the ribbed bottom band, up, with corrugated rib of blue and green columns, a band of green with yellow leaves, a band of yellow with orange bunnies, and the beginnings of a blue band with orange leaves in it. The double-pointed knitting needles and yellow circular stitch markers are all in the uppermost row, that is being knit blue from a row of yellow preceding it.
October 12, 2024 at 6:40 PM
alisonborealis.bsky.social
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alisonborealis.bsky.social no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Oct 10
2 weeks of slow progress (b/c migraines) and I have leaves and the beginnings of bunnies!

I'm not 100% on my tension for the stranded carry-overs, but it looks tidy.

Things will look better after a wash & block.
A zoomed-in look at the first two sections of my knit hat. Alternating columns of green and blue ribbing at the bottom, followed by a band of green with yellow leaves and then single rows of yellow and green before a section of yellow and orange begins (with bunnies). There's a bundle of loose yarns attached at the bottom just to keep the ends out of the way before I finish. An expanded view of one half of the hat. Corrugated rib of blue and green columns at the bottom (for about 2 inches), followed by approximately the same size of green band with yellow leaves knit into it, and the start of a yellow and orange section still on double-pointed knitting needles with circular ring stitch markers. The inside view of the hat. Each band - the blue and green, the yellow and green, and the yellow and orange - are a confetti of dashed lines in both colours with little sections of solid colour between them where I made horizontal stripes. The ribbing is a little tighter than the rest of the hat.
October 10, 2024 at 6:40 AM
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alisonborealis.bsky.social no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Sep 24
I do believe I'm making another bunny hat...

This time with a bun amidst leaves... in less blue-tinged 90s colours. (We'll see...)

Designs from Alterknit Rebellion (Anna Bauer) and AlterKnit stitch dictionary (Andrea Rangel)

I'm using Anna Bauer's corrugated rib for the edge again.
A knitting chart for a colourwork pattern of leaves with a bunny in the middle, and a hat next to it with a colourwork design that includes bunnies and a couple more abstract designs in shades of teal, blue, neon green and royal blue.
September 24, 2024 at 7:22 AM