*if you assume (93h x minimum wage) + cost of yarn. and don't include equipment costs, swatching time, blocking time, time spent staring into the abyss and drawing short row diagrams...
I'm so absurdly proud of myself for this one - I already had 90% of the skills for it (I think the only thing I learned was picking up stitches), and I've knit far more time consuming projects, but this was very intimidating for me!
It's the perfect light layer if the evenings ever get cool again (please tell me the evenings will get cool again), and it's super comfy 10/10.
Details and stats for nerds under the cut (would you like to guess how many metres of yarn this used?)
Pattern is the Fairweather Sweater by Megan Nodecker, with malabrigo ultimate sock in Pascal. It used...drumroll please.. 1.5km of yarn (?!), also known as a hair over 4 skeins.
Decent enough pattern, well-written, if more verbose than I'd like (yes I recognise the irony). I messed around with some design elements I disagreed with (inconsistencies for the cuffs/hem, sleeves decreases were weird vs the cable pattern, changed up the split hem), and would recommend reading the instructions carefully for ordering, because I ended up having to cut yarn at the end of one shoulder, do the second shoulder, and then reattach it IN THE SAME PLACE, which made me irrationally annoyed.
The entries in Feb are for the false starts (I did the swatch with longtail cast on, then started the sweater with german twisted, which provided juuust enough extra stretch over the course of 180 stitches that it pulled the whole thing out of alignment, so I restarted. Twice.), and are not counted in the final total. Final total includes 2.5h of weaving in (22) (!) ends as well.
While I was tracking anyway... have some breakdowns:
skein 1 - 23h 12m
skein 2 - 21h 29m (8g left of this skein)
skein 3 - 25h 25m
skein 4 - 18h 29m
skein 5 - 1h 49m (only used 10g of this skein)
almost 10% of my time (8h 33m) was spend casting on, binding off, picking up stitches and weaving ends
sleeve 1 took 10h 06m, sleeve 2 took 7h 31m. An hour of that difference breaks down as fixing pickup, tinking back 2.5 rows (for some reason? forgetting cabling I assume?), and then undoing and redoing the ribbing with better transition between the two. The rest? Presumably just confidence in the pattern!
Would I track to this degree next time? I don't know. It's nice to have all the data, having to track definitely made me more intentional about knitting rather than getting distracted, though it also made me less likely to pick it up and do a few stitches here and there. It's useful to have the data for future planning, even if I don't track another top again, I have a ballpark for it now. Mostly I want to make sure knitting still feels like a hobby, not a chore.
In this case though, it helped me focus so I can take it on a family holiday and do the whole "oh, this? I made this myself actually" thing. Priorities!
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AFTER TWO MONTHS I AM FINALLY DONE WITH THE BACK OF THIS VEST. yes it is all embroidered. freehanded, drew a sketch on the vest with sharpie and then just went at it. i still have some stuff im doing on the front + another pocket to add and then im dying some linen and using that for the lining. may add a fish skeleton to the weird flap at the top.
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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!!)
bonus picture of a little surprise I made, too :o)
i have a post queued about the purse itself, but since I had so much yarn left over I just had to throw in a little something extra.
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.
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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 (?)
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).
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.
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