Textileophile

Hey there! It's been a few weeks since I last posted, and boy have I been productive! I referenced some yarn that was coming, for a project for the friend who is driving my daughter home from school these days.  Well, yarn acquired, shawl cast on, and shawl finished! And it really happened that fast, too.  I knit this baby in six days! The yarn is Freia handpainted yarns in the Denim gradient colorway.  The pattern is Love Is... by Boo Knits, one of my very favorite lace shawl designers. I do have notes about this shawl. It was my first lace shawl in a very long time, I just remembered the last one I did was right around the time I moved here last year. My mind blanked on that till just now, I was about to say it's been years since I knit a lace shawl.  To be fair, it's been years since I knit a traditional all-over lace shawl out of actual lace weight yarn. The actual knitting was quite exciting and fun.  I had 75 grams and 700 yards in the original skein, and ...

 Hey blogaverse! What's going on? I feel like it's been ages since I last posted, but it's really only been a few weeks.  Time is strange.  I've been keeping busy crafting.  Not actually doing anything or going anywhere, though school finally started up, so I have that to set my clock to. In my last post I was working on a hat, well, I finished that hat! go me! Unceremonious FO shot.  I don't even think I blocked it.  It's really soft though and has a nice drape, perfect slouchy hat.  It's weird cause last time I knit a sockhead hat (that's the name of the pattern) I feel like it took ages, and I even shortened it quite a bit.  There's definitely something to this knitting monogamously thing. Again, pattern is sockhead slouch, and the yarn is cashmere and coconuts. I started some handspun socks the next day: There's a nice progression of the last week or so of knitting.  these are done out of the fire gradient I spun up last year for TDF....