Knitwitterly

Got lucky and got a lot of fleece to play with for a very good price.

After thinking about it for a few days I decided to spin up the gold fleece first - and I love how it looks!

The Loose Ends Project matches crafters with a project that is unfinished because of death or disability. They offer help with a spectrum of textile mediums in over 80 countries. One project I find particularly lovely: “My mom was making this octopus for me. She was 67 years old when she passed away from COPD. She was hospitalized for pulmonary rehab several times and would always take it to work on while she was there and loved to talk about it with people."

It's my first N7 day!

This is a knitted shawl that is also a Galaxy Map from the Mass Effect trilogy! I saw the yarn at a fiber festival, and the idea leapt into my head and refused to let go. I had such fun (and some screaming) figuring out the knitting coordinates for each relay on the map. The relays that are for homeworlds are in the actual shape of a mass relay, with a blue bead in the middle. All other relays are the circular shape you see whilst navigating the map in game. Each relay is color-coded to indicate which game it was used in: 1 is blue, 2 is yellow, and 3 is red.

I am so so so happy with this piece. It turned out just how I hoped it would, and it's so pretty.

i am very proud of this yarn, made from a local wool breed which I carded myself. the greys and browns are so pretty too. unfortunately i broke my plying tool in the process, i didn't realise the tension of wool could crush plastic, that was a big shock

As you may have guessed, I am not doing the MKAL this year, mostly because I want to finish up my current design and start preparing for future designs. I made a goal for myself to get four patterns out this year, and I am on course for accomplishing that.

I started this baby quilt by going through my scrap bin and just picking a bunch of colors to make half square triangles with. I had no real plan. I thought I was going to go with that first arrangement, but after trying a few, I knew I struck gold with the final arrangement. I set aside the squares I originally made with white and added the black corner squares.

Once it was all together I decided the design should speak for itself and just went with a stitch in the ditch around the colored blocks and then used the last scraps of that black fabric as a binding. Naturally, my cats had to help along the way (I promise the quilt is not that small, that’s just a 16 pound cat). This will go to a close coworker who is expecting their first this winter.