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Episode 327

May 12, 2024May 12, 2024 by Sara

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HUDSON VALLEY TEXTILE PROJECT

Here is the Hatsuki by Rievive in Lindy Chain yarn overdyed with indigo. It is a beautiful sweater with amazing drape and I predict it will get lots of wear this summer.

Fun and colorful handknit socks in Gale’s Art Graffiti and Asphalt. These are knit cuff-down with 3×1 rib, an eye of partridge heel, and a double gusset under the foot. They fit well and go with everything.

I’m working on opening up the tips of this Kerry Hill fleece that Emily shared with me. It was an MDSW 2023 purchase. Look how bright white! After the picking, I’ll create batts using a drum carder borrowed from Hope.

Currently considering RibWave design by Joanna Ange for handspun Lenore yarn

“In My Next Life Let Me Be a Tomato” by Natasha Rao

2 thoughts on “Episode 327”

Sara says:

May 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm

Hi, Nancy. thank you. Thank you! I do feel like saying SWATCH out loud was kind of a dare I made and now I have to follow through so I can tell you about it!
Nancy says:

May 15, 2024 at 6:06 pm

So much to like in this episode! Your finished knits, the fleece, the tomato reincarnation – also love the sleeve detail on RibWave and looking forward to seeing how that lnits up in your handspun.

Arrows and Doorways

The design for this super-cozy cowl was inspired by textiles in a hotel lobby. Concentric geometric shapes kept playing in my mind until finally I was able to chart the pattern and get it onto my needles. The interplay of this chevron-like patterning has a mesmerizing effect–while you’re knitting and when you wear the finished accessory.

Knit up a cowl with yarn from your stash, adding some magical new mini-skeins from your advent calendar, or exchange leftover yarn with a friend. The design invites frequent color changes, and makes an ideal knit for the advent season. It could be just as striking knit with two high-contrast colors.

While most cowls of this type are seamed within a band of a single color, this pattern incorporates a technique called stranded donut grafting, an incredibly clever and completely seamless graft that allows you to maintain colorwork patterning so that your starting and ending rounds are undetectable. Really! With many possibilities for color play and a new technique to add to your skill set, this cowl pattern is really an opportunity for knitters to level-up!

NEW PATTERN DESIGN!

ONE DARK BLUE NIGHT

This hat is the third in a series of patterns inspired by teachings in Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves. This time, I drew inspiration from Estés’ retelling of a Japanese tale, Tsukina Waguma or “The Crescent Moon Bear,” in which a young woman travels to the cave of an incredibly intimidating and ferocious bear. She makes several journeys to the cave, leaving food and quickly retreating, until “one dark blue night,” she musters the courage to stand her ground and ask for what she seeks--one hair from a moon-shaped patch on the bear’s chest--which she is granted. The young woman returns, triumphant, to the old healer who has sent her on this quest. She believes this single hair is the magic ingredient in solving the problem that plagues her. She holds it forth, but the healer tosses the hair into the flames. The young woman is in despair until she realizes the true lesson of her quest: that using her determination, courage, and patience, as she did with the crescent moon bear, will help her to confront the challenge at hand.

The moon phase motif of this colorwork hat is meant to capture the magic of a dark blue night--when the moon shines brightly overhead, the frosty air sparkles with possibility, and we succeed in summoning accumulated wisdom from deep within ourselves so that we can apply it to our own healing. Choose colors to conjure a wintery night sky, or select a palette of your signature colors.

Available on Ravelry December 20th.

Yarns at Yin Hoo

Episode 327

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