Pink shawl

 

Going with bell sleeve instead of oversize tassel. I'll figure out something to do with them.

Really, really like how the scallop neck turned out.

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After soak

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I am not really a tassel person but I decided to try an oversized one. I am i-cord banding the snowman humps. I might not bother but the oversized thickness needs more support if it's gonna last and I also got to the hem of the sweater I am cannibalizing which is the weakest part. Structural integrity is really not there. I easily tore some strands accidentally with the tip of a metal darning needle.

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Cannibalizing the sofi sweater piece by piece

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Watched the NOLA Hurricaine Katrina docuspecial on Netflix. It actually got some of the healing juices flowing for the year we lived in Louisiana. In that year I made the sofi sweater and it does NOT FIT. Unable to do anything with it and not having the heart to tear it apart or the desire to think about that terrible 14 months, it's been sitting in a bag for almost three years. I started and finished it while we were still there. I happened to have used up the rest of that particular pink in the middle of that documentary and it just worked out emotionally to be able to pick it up again. Beautifully spun sirdar cashmere silk Merino blend

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Labor Day dunplings interlude

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Officially have entered my shawl phase. I liked the Stormy Sky Shawl pattern so much and felt like variegated yarn I used last time didn't make it pop enough, so I actually used the same pattern twice! I almost never do the same stuff but I like it!

Cooking

Full size window kitty - sara elizabeth kellner AGAIN

 

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Dang cute paws

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Kitty #2!! Supplementing with standard aran pink and mittens!!!

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With tail sans whiskers

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Sans tail

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The beautiful peaches and cream colorway from Hummingbird

I miss cats. I found a Sara Elizabeth Keller cat pattern.

Brown Shawl for SIL

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Used this nice Stormy Sky Shawl pattern 

Mix of K + C yarn, Blue Sky Fibers, and a few others. I really liked how the Big Sky Fibers knit up. Maybe my favorite fancy yarn recently. 

Cheddars, the Goldfish cracker pumpkin-tty - tiny window cat

School uniform?

 Girl cat:hair accessory, crosstie, skirt, shirt
Boy cat:necktie, shirt, blazer?

Tiny window cat by Sara Elizabeth kellner

Pillowcase & cake

I only made the green one

Really wasn't sure how to do the closure because I hate pillow zippers but couldn't just have it hanging open. I also didn't like the idea of making extra length and folding it over--too messy. So baby onesie it is lol

Cute little apple to reference my Washington roots lol

Got to use one of the card packs from Pacific Knit Co. Go buy one! I just made a tube. 

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It is too hot

 Hot hot hot

Can't make much 

Go donate to loose ends project or something 

Cooking

Christmas Knitting 2025

Going to mass produce tiny stocking tree ornaments. Justified the stuff I bought from Joanns going out of business by saying that is what I would do.

I need to bust my stash. Some of the stash busting involved red and green that I bought the FIRST time that I made christmas ornaments. So yarn that has come with us from WA to LA to GA. I sneezed a lot using some of the worst of it.

Little sweater ornament For Friend

 Made a mini of this previous cardigan sweaterne with scraps from the same. Someone saw the previous one, asked for something similar, and I told her I didn't have time in that season for a full piece and made her a mini!

Knitted just a teal square and then picked up to knit the pieces: collar, sleeves, button hem, and stitched over little black x shapes instead of trying to find and attach some sort of row of buttons.

I-cord loopy of course.

I could have done it a lot more neatly but the first one is always the roughest but cutest.