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Color Affection Shawl

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The Color Affection Shawl has been on my wish list for a very long time. It’s so much fun casting on a project that I really want to knit. I love everything about beginning a new project, from choosing the yarn, to swatching and casting on.

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I chose 3 skeins of hand-dyed Merino Cashmere Nylon in a gorgeous verdigris green for the main colour, a pale ecru for the first contrast colour and a deep brown as the second contrast colour. The shawl would be fabulous knit using 3 balls of solid-coloured Opal or WYS Signature 4ply sock yarn (we have many beautiful solid colours of sock yarn in the yarn shop).
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Just Knit It Shawl

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I wanted a simple and elegant shawl for wearing as a cosy scarf. I find this style of shawl very comfortable and easy to wear. This is a very easy shawl to knit and great for working on while chatting to friends or watching a movie. Just Knit It shawl is a gorgeous shawl pattern designed by Susan Ashcroft aka Stitchnerd Designs. I really love her wonderful easy to wear designs. I knit her beautiful Lightwaves Shawl in May 2013.

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It is a couple of years since we have walked through the bluebells. Spring for the last few years has been unseasonably cold and wet in Belfast. When it is cold and wet, the nettles tend to grow more quickly than the bluebells and often hide them before they are in full bloom.[Read More]

Mitred Square Scarf

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I’ve been so much fun using up leftover sock yarn from my stash. I’ve combined mitred squares and stripes in this beautiful elegant Mitred Square Scarf.

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It has been interesting playing with my stash of leftover sock yarn in an analogous colour scheme from blues to purples with sparks of green and pink. I adore these cool colours together. It gives a wonderful feeling of an Impressionistic painting with the subtle movement of colour.[Read More]

The Shop on Blossom Street

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The Shop on Blossom Street is the story of four very different women who develop a friendship through the knitting club of A Good Yarn knitting shop.

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Lydia Hoffman has fallen in love with an old shop on Seattle’s Blossom Street.  So she decides to fulfil her dream of opening up a yarn store and moves in to the apartment above with her cat Whiskers.  [Read More]

Evenly Striped Socks

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It is hard not to adore striped socks. I loved knitting these striped socks. These socks are made using 2 different sock yarns. one is a dark grey Lang Jawoll Magic and the other is a lovely Hand Dyed Sock Yarn in greens and reds.

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I used the dark grey Lang Jawoll Magic for the cuff and toe. The cuff is knit in a k1, p1 rib. The toe is a classic toe.[Read More]

Little Prince Socks & Fingerless Mitts

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Have you ever wondered just what can be made from 100g of sock yarn? I asked myself this question and decided to test it out with a ball of Opal Little Prince – Little Prince and the Geographer… I decided to see if I could knit a pair of socks and a pair of fingerless mitts.

Little Prince Socks & Fingerless Mitts

I made life a little harder for myself by making the socks a matching pair of socks. This meant that I had to remove the yarn from the ball after finishing the first sock to cast on the second sock in the right place.  All went well with the socks and they were finished leaving enough yarn hopefully to knit the fingerless mitts.[Read More]

Mitred Squares Blanket – Part 1

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Last year, I spent a little while looking through my stash of 4 ply and sock yarns, and decided that I needed to use some of the leftovers. With this in mind, I started thinking about different projects for using up this beautiful yarn. I’m really enjoying thinking about and planning all the projects that I want to make using this gorgeous yarn.

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For a very long time I have been knitting using 4ply and sock yarn. When I first started knitting clothes for the Sasha doll girls, boys, toddlers and babies, I began amassing a collection of these yarns in a myriad of colours. I have many part balls and scraps ranging in every colour in the colour wheel. All stored in airtight plastic crates and sorted by colour. In addition, I have boxes of small quantities of scraps from projects that I have finished over the years.[Read More]

Blue Fair Isle Leftovers Socks

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When you love knitting socks, if you’re anything like me, you have lots of small amounts of sock yarn leftover. I love creating new projects that use the leftover sock yarn. The Blue Fair Isle Leftovers Socks used 4 different sock yarns. One was a commercial sock yarn and the other three were artesan hand dyed 4ply sock yarns.

Blue Fair Isle Leftovers Socks

I can’t give you the specific colour names of these yarns as their tags are not with the yarns anymore, but I know who made or dyed the yarn.[Read More]

Knit One, Kill Two

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A review of Knit One, Kill Two, Knitting Mystery Book 1, written by Maggie Sefton. When Kelly Flynn’s aunt Helen is murdered, Kelly leaves her job as an accountant in Washington, D.C. and returns to the small town of Fort Connor in North Colorado.

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However, what she thinks will take a couple of weeks in April becomes a period of extended  leave working from her aunt’s house.[Read More]

Arne & Carlos Teddy Bear

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Meet Star Night the Teddy Bear. She is such a fun teddy bear to knit. I haven’t knit very many toys and found the instructions for the teddy bear easy to follow. The finished bear is approximately 40 cm tall.

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This is the Schachenmayr Regia Design 6369 Teddy free pattern. I used 2 balls of Regia Design Line by Arne & Carlos in Star Night Colour 3653 and a little leftover hand-dyed sock yarn in Violet for knitting the snout.[Read More]