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It's warm... it's fashionable.... it's hot coo-ture!
i made a the pigeon sweater (by Michelle Tsai) for my friend! i've been wanting to make another top for ages, but I have way too many sweaters already, so when she mentioned seeing a sweater she really wanted it was like serendipity 🕊️
i'm so psyched with how this turned out; she lives over a thousand miles from me so i had nothing but some measurements, math, and a lot of faith that this would fit properly (and it does!! perfectly!!)
how it started:
how it ended:
I finished knitting my first pair of socks please clap
Made them with a mystery cashmere blend yarn I bought second-hand and some kid silk mohair I wanted to use up. They are surprisingly comfy and not itchy.
Botanical Applique Quilt by Chinami Terai (Japan)
寺井ちなみ「緑のヴァリエ」

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My 2025 finishes
Best thing about watching my grandparents cat is that while I'm there I can rifle through the great Quilt Stash and bring out beautiful works of art to sleep under.
After 6 weeks of quilting class where I made one sampler table runner, I decided making a tote bag would probably take me a month tops. Anyway, I spent 5 months putting this together (and often back apart).
I got the first side from a library book and the second is totally made up because I was curious about EPP. My life would probably have been easier if both sides made a square with the same dimensions...
I learned pretty much everything about tote bag construction from youtube videos and then adapted it to work for me. For some reason, the pink thread bought for this project is the bane of my sewing machine's existence so back to the tan thread that works it was. All my fabric was very generously given to me by a quilter friend and there wasn't enough left for both straps but I think it looks cute mismatched anyway. There was just a lot of changing course in general but I learned a lot and had fun (?)
Back to knitting now, I think.
I didn't realise these are thistles before but done! I can't wait to see how the rest of the motifs look like in this yarn
A few more centimetres and I will be separating back and front!
Back!
Repeating the colour work super excited I did this much already. It's been a month since I started.
Front!
Third shawl of the year! (I've posted about finishing this shawl before, this is just the finished object post so I can search for just photos of my finished objects.)
This is Hayley Tsang Heather's Peony – Pfingstrose Shawl. I made this shawl out of Fyberspates Gleem Lace in the colorway 733 Everglade, and used 896 6/0 Miyuki Rocailles in the color: transparent silver-lined dark gold (RR-4).
The Ravelry project page is here.

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Question for yarn lovers: have you ever used mohair and found it to be ... too ... fuzzy?
I'm knitting with mohair for the first time (kid mohair/silk held with a DK weight yarn) and I guess I expected a soft halo but when the sun shines sideways on my swatch it's actually quite a lot of fuzz. Am I just misunderstanding what mohair does? I'm worried it's going to look messy instead of cozy.
THE GNOMES FOR MY MOTHER ARE DONE!
all patterns are from The Gnomes Of Grimblewood by Sarah Schira, and individual pictures of the gnomes are under the cut!
Just about done with this shawl for my MIL's wedding.
2, 3, 8 and 27 of the knitting asks please!
Whoops, sorry for the delay!
2. Would you rather knit with lace weight or super chunky yarn?
Lace weight all the way. It rarely gets below 40 where I live so I really have very limited use for thick yarn (is what I tell myself every time I see a cute bulky pattern)
3. Favorite fiber to work with?
Tough question! I do love the fuzzy look of alpaca, it's so nice on the fingers. I still have a lot of fibers to try though, I have my first mohair project coming up hopefully soon.
8. Share your favorite thing you've knit in the past year.
I haven't posted this yet but here's a quick look at my baby blanket + stuffie combo I made for a friend's baby. It's also the only project I've finished in 2026, the blanket took me five million hours (cotton my beloathed).
27. What's a knitting related skill you want to learn?
I really want to learn intarsia soon! I have so many colorwork ideas that would need intarsia and I feel like it would really open up self-drafting options for me.
knitting ask game!
how many wips do you have right now?
would you rather only knit with lace weight or super chunky yarn?
favorite fiber to work with?
favorite needle size?
wood, metal or plastic needles?
magic loop, shorties, or dpns?
do you enjoy knitting clothing, accessories, home decor, or something else the most?
share your favorite thing you've knit in the past year
share your latest finished project
share your current wip
when did you learn to knit?
colorwork or cables?
twisted or regular rib stitch?
favorite pattern designer?
do you write patterns?
do you ever freehand knit?
socks or hats?
sweater vests or cardigans?
best hand stretches for knitters (in your experience)?
best yarn weight?
favorite warm weather knit?
favorite cold weather knit?
would you ever sell finished projects? if so, what would you sell and for how much?
do you knit gifts?
what would you knit for your worst enemy?
what would you knit for your favorite person?
what's a knitting-related skill you want to learn?
long-term or quick projects?
do you ever machine knit?
do you think you could teach someone to knit?

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Roses shirt masterpost
Since a lot (and I mean A LOT) of people really loved my lattice work with roses knitted shirt, I thought I'd do a full overview post with all the details including the pattern, yarn, how long it took me, some details, etc!
(The picture above is pre-wash, it's since been washed and has already dried and is fully ready to wear now!)
The pattern
The pattern for this shirt is the Weldons A794 lattice fair isle jumper. I found it on Ravelry initially but there wasn't an actual download or buy option available there, so in the end after some searching I found an Etsy shop (Pretty Old Patterns) that sold a scanned version and I got it from there.
It's a vintage pattern, which means you knit it flat and in panels, and then sew all the panels together. The instructions were mostly very clear to me, and the shirt itself wasn't difficult to make. If you can do colour work you can make this shirt. There's no sizing, if you need a bigger size you get a bigger needle.
I've been asked by multiple people, both irl and online, why I didn't do it in the round. There are several reasons for this, aside from the part where I simply hate knitting in the round, namely most importantly that with the intarsia it's impossible. This pattern has 5 colours, and it's impossible to keep dragging those 5 strands of yarn along the whole time. You'd end up with the bulkiest shirt, plus you'd need several times the amount of yarn. As it is, I used a couple of skeins of the main colour (the blue-ish one), 1.5 skein for the lattice work (gold/yellow), and half a skein for each colour in the roses (green, pink, and red).
If you're planning to make this, or something similar with a lot of colourwork/fair isle/intarsia/etc, I highly, highly recommend weaving in ends as you go. This was an absolute lifesaver for me. Weaving in as you go means taking the end of a string along and wrapping it around the yarn you're actively working with at every stitch. I did this for anywhere from 7-12 stitches and then often brought it back in the next row. Here's what that looks like on the inside all finished and tidied up:
And this is what it looks like before going through and checking to make sure every bit is properly woven in and/or weaving it in later:
The fish you see on the right there are for the lattice work specifically. This way I could just wind a bunch of the yellow/gold yarn onto the fish and do the intarsia that way and keep going for longer without the yarn getting in the way or constantly having to attach new yarn. For the roses I cut off strands of ~32 inch for the green and ~27 inch for the red and pink, which is longer than the 24 inch the pattern says to use for everything, but I found that wasn't quite enough to make it to the end.
Yarn
The yarn I used is all from Drops, specifically Drops Flora (65% wool, 35% alpaca) and Drops Alpaca (100% alpaca). When I started I could buy all this in town, which means I actually went to a store and put the colours together with some help from the shop owner. Sadly she's closed her shop in the meantime, so I'm very glad I had enough and didn't have to figure out colour batches or whatever to order online. I actually used less yarn than the pattern called for and have plenty left over!
Because of the nature of both sheep and alpaca wool, this means the shirt has a lot of...structure??? to it. It's a bit fuzzy, and I am a little worried it might be a bit scratchy, but I need to wear a shirt underneath this anyway so it's probably fine. I also have to handwash it, this absolutely can not go into the washing machine, but that's fine, I have a bunch of both knitted clothes and actual vintage/antique clothes that all have to be hand washed and I know the drill by now lol.
Also I used 2.5mm needles that I definitely didn't accidentally bend several times so they're now super wonky. I feel like that's pretty small for a shirt by modern standards? But also I knit mostly vintage/historical so I don't really know tbh.
And a bonus sidenote: I used actual vintage mother of pearl buttons for the shoulder closure that I was gifted by someone who had no use for them. I think they're maybe a little bit big and showy for this shirt but I just really liked the idea of actual vintage buttons on it. Maybe I'll replace them at some point, but for now they're very, very stuck on there.
The making of the shirt:
This project took me absolutely forever oh my god. I bought the yarn in may, and I finished the project in april, so from start to end it's almost a full year. To be fair, I had a busy year and also buggered off to the other side of the world for a month, and took another month to knit my first pair of socks. Still, that puts this project at 8-10 months total - and yes I do actually know someone who had an actual baby in the meantime and we've made jokes about how my shirt took longer to make than for her to grow a new human.
Like I said, the pattern itself isn't difficult per se. However, between keeping track of the intarsia, the shaping of the shirt itself, and the ends of the yarn, I had to pay attention at every stitch and constantly had to keep track of where each strand had to go, when to drop which one or pick which one up. This did make the process very slow and mentally taxing, with 100+ stitches per row.
I had printed the pattern and kept track a lot by making notes and counting things out on the papers which did help a lot:
I did bring this project to the knitting club I go to but my project bag always had the actual project on the needles, extra yarn, these 3 papers, a pen, scissors, a crochet hook for if I dropped some stitches, a measuring tape, and spare fish if I had them lmao.
I'm not gonna lie though: I was really struggling to actually finish this by the last few months. I'm really glad I finished it, but I got really tired of this project several times and definitely prioritized some completely different hobbies for a while. I definitely feel like my brain and also the rest of me need a long break after this (I say while having decided to make a granny square blanket next).
I was also really afraid it wasn't actually going to fit. I had done gauge swatches before I started but without the colourwork (BAD IDEA), and I very carefully tried on the main body at one point when I had just clipped it together with stitch markers and it did not fit then. But I tried it on again (very very scared) after I'd actually sewn it together and it fit! Barely but it did! It hopefully probably fits better too now it's washed, and if it doesn't I can still try blocking it if I want to. But for now, I am tired and don't want to work on it any more.
I will say it's shorter than I expected, shorter also than other vintage clothes I have, so keep that in mind if you're considering making this. For me it just about reaches the bottom of my rib cage, and the bottom actually sits just above my actual waist. I tried it on with pyjama pants and to be fair it did make my legs look much longer than they are, so I guess that's an upside to the shortness of it lol.
And that's it! Project done! I can finally move on to other things!
To everyone who followed my progress, thank you so much! It's been so fun seeing how many people were interested in my silly project and asked for information and updates (and complimented me a lot hehehehehe). I think I went through all the most common questions I got but if you have any other questions (or compliments) feel free to drop them in the replies, send an ask, or to dm me!
I tag all my knitting projects with the same tags (#adventures in knitting, #knitting, #knitblr) so if you want you can scroll back and see the updates happen as I went and also previous (and upcoming) projects.
Ok thank you for reading, byeee
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