Introduction This poncho is modular–it is knit in one piece, with each section connected to another section. There are no seams, but many, many short rows. My original poncho was a free style, work-as-you-go wrap that began with a crude plan which was modified many times as I worked to complete the poncho. I hope …
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Antelope Canyon Poncho Knit-A-Long Sneak Peak
If you are interested in helping me work through the pattern, test knit, or joining in as a KAL, let me know in the comments. I’ll be running the test knit through this site.
Idyll
One of our many recent life changes has been a move to rural Iowa. We’ve been anticipating this change for a few years now and so far, I am loving it! We are renting a home temporarily while our new home is being built. We can see our build site from the back patio of …
Project Notes for the United Colors Shawlette
Purchase This Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/united-colors NOTE: If you purchased this pattern before 6/16/2022, there is a BO6 missing from the beginning of Row 313. The pattern has now been updated through Ravelry. Purchase this Yarn: Overview: This small, asymmetric, crescent-shaped shawl is reversible due to the alternating sections of stockinette and reverse stockinette stitches. The overall …
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Chocolate Key 2021
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A Return to Chocolates!
Chocolate season is here! I dipped back in (literally and figuratively) with some small scale chocolate caramel apples in October, got my bulk chocolate delivered in November, and now I am ramping up production for the holidays. We won’t have a huge chocolate open house this year, but I’m working on creative ways to get …
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Christmas Sweaters
Taking Shears to the Bottom When we visited our son and daughter-in-law at Christmas 2019, I offered to make them sweaters for Christmas 2020. After a bit of back and forth, we decided on a matching cable pattern, but not matching colors. I began working on Chloe’s sweater in April when I realized that we …
Kaibab Hat and Mitts
This hat pattern is now available through my Ravelry design site. I wanted to design a pattern that incorporated some visible floats as part of the design. The photo below shows the swatch design I finally ended up with. It reminds me of southwestern woven blankets, so I named it Kaibab, after the Kaibab National …
Free Style Knitting–The Pahoehoe Wrap
This wrap has lots of short rows, forming its shapes and angles, and giving it an asymmetry, with few straight edges. The alternating rows of stockinette and reverse stockinette stitches give an undulating texture to the overlapping shapes.
Yarn and Chocolate 