#rhinebeck
Almost done the sleeve!!! Will I sleep tonight? So excited for a Rhinebeck tomorrow. #yarnovernewyork #indiedyersofinstagram #indiedyedyarn #knittersofinstagram #rhinebecksweater #rhinebeck #yarnlove
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Packing for Rhinebeck. I should cast on a new pair of socks, right? #yarnovernewyork #rhinebeck #yony #yarnaddict #knittersofnewyork #indiedyersofinstagram #sockknittersofinstagram
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This year, we decided that our Rhinebeck projects would be matching shawls made out of gradient sets that we got at Rhinebeck last year. Didn’t they turn out great? Also, ten points to all of us for actually having them done in time (minus some blocking). Another ten points to Kylie for somehow also knitting a Rhinebeck sweater - I don’t know how she does so much!
My project is hereon Ravelry. I made mine out of an Angora Online gradient kit, and two colourways of Sweet Georgia Tough Love Sock (Auburn and Walnut).
More Rhinebeck! Thanks to Kylie for the photos.
1) Showing off our fancy friendship shawls (On the Spice Market)
2) I finally got to do chopstick knitting! I didn’t win, but it was super fun and I’ve always wanted to do it but never have before.
3) Heather lives for these cider donuts. Those and the frisbee dogs!
4) Baa
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This is a tale of a project languishing for a very long time, despite the fact that this yarn is gorgeous. I purchased this yarn (Into the Whirled, Pakokku Sock) at Rhinebeck in 2016, and despite grand intentions of knitting it up right away, it sat sadly in the bottom of my yarn trunk for a year and a half. I finally decided to knit them into socks, and at this point, I even got so far as to finish 99% of the process before leaving them to languish once more with no ends woven in the yarn pile of doom. Enter the MCAT - a truly terrible standardized test that drives you to the worst levels of procrastination, such as catching up on laundry and weaving in hundreds of ends. On the plus side, now I have a pair of wool socks ready just in time for our 32ºC heatwave…
Stay tuned for more procrastination project finishes!
Scissors, Lizard, Spock Socks on Ravelry.
When Kylie, Heather and I went to Rhinebeck back in October, I ended up getting a beautiful skein of Malabrigo Sock Yarn. I hadn’t intended to buy it, but when we went to a little yarn shop called Fabulous Yarns which was giving away goodie bags (awesome), they had the Malabrigo on sale and I just couldn’t pass it up. Such pretty purples, and it looks a little bit different whenever the light changes.
Of course, since the yarn was so lovely, I needed to find a perfect pattern to make. I decided right away that I didn’t want to make socks, since I wanted to make something that would be more visible. After a bit of humming and hawing (hawwing?) I decided that a shawl would be the ideal type of knit to make from this yarn.
I wanted something simple, to show off the lovely colours in the yarn, but also something with drape and some interest, so I didn’t get bored knitting it.
I ended up going withAntarktis by Janina Kallio, which is just beautiful. The pattern is well-written, it is simple to knit but not boring, and it shows off the colours of the yarn so nicely. When i purchased the pattern, she had a buy 2 get one free sale, so I have two other patterns to look forward to knitting in the future!
Ravelry link for my Antarktis here. Much thanks to the talented Kylie (at Stitches and Spoonfuls) for the photos.
