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A Holiday Aestlight Shawl

My mom really loved the Aestlight shawl I knitted awhile ago, so I decided to knit her one for Christmas. This one is made with Malabrigo Sock yarn in Persia.
My mom is very sensitive to wool but I’ve seen her wearing this quite a few times! It blocked out a lot differently (ie bigger)  than [...]

Lacy Wristwarmers

I’ve had it in my head that I wanted to design a simple lacy wristwarmer/fingerless glove using some Malabrigo Silky Merino. However I’ve had a hard time coming up with the right lace pattern. Today I finally figured it out and knitted up a sample. I need to write up the pattern so I [...]

Sweet Slouchy Hat

I’ve had the Star Crossed Slouchy Hat in my Ravelry queue for awhile but I didn’t have any particularl plans to make it. Then 2 things happened – the weather turned fall-like and it started popping up in everyone’s Ravelry activity stream. So I frogged my Shifting Sands scarf, which I had set aside [...]

New Arrivals to the Stash

In the past week I’ve picked up some new yarn from Angelfire Studios and Quarter Stitch. I finally had time to enter them into my Ravelry Stash and take photos!
I plan to use the skein of Colinette Jitterbug to make myself some thin wristwarmers for work. My office can be freezing.
Both skeins of Outer are [...]

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