I wanted to highlight the subtle differences of how these 4 bases take their Dragon dye. Drogon is red & black, Rhaegal is green & bronze, and Viserion is cream & gold with bronze speckles.
Single Ply Merino
Fingering Weight
100% Single Ply Non Superwash Merino
100g/337 yds
Single Ply Merino is fluffy and soft for those squishable light projects. This lot is very bright, true, and clean!
Merino Silk Sock
Fingering Weight
70% Non Superwash Merino/30% Silk
100g/440 yds
Merino Silk Sock is shimmery, soft, and strong. This lot is light, mottled, and clear!
High Twist Merino Sock
Fingering Weight
100% Non Superwash USA Merino
100g/415 yds
High Twist Merino Sock is plump, soft, and springy. This lot is super bright and vibrant!
High Twist Merino Tencel Sock
Fingering Weight
85% Non Superwash USA Merino/15% Tencel
100g/415 yds
High Twist Merino Tencel Sock is tight and twinkly. This lot is dark & moody, but water colored & easy at the same time!
There you have it! These Dragons will hit the Etsy shop this Friday at 5 pm Eastern time!
I haven’t been posting much to the blog lately! I’m knee deep in 10 week old baby duties with a 3 (!) year old to further complicate things. I actually do have WIPs and FOs despite the baby being a terrible sleeper and crabby all the time always. Working on big boy birthday plans, Christmas prep, and actual physical knitting has cut into any time I would ordinarily have taken to write blog posts. Modern motherhood is a lonely and isolating time – which isn’t new information to me. But I am finding out that I have plenty to say about knitting and yarn, but nobody to whom to say it. The only time really have to write is during nursing (like now), but during the night it’s all I can do keep my eyes open.
I think I’ll be posting my knitting stream of consciousness here more often, and some photographical evidence of my life on Instagram.
Nothing much exciting is happening now. I’m just trying to get as far as I can on Scottie’s sweater by Christmas. There’s a snowball’s chance of me finishing it, but it’s giving me direction.
Wow that was disjointed and a mess! Love you! Bye!
I’m here checking in and to update you all on my third round of FibreShare :).
Also, I had a baby. He’s real cute.
Dez
Sending to Jessica in Phoenix
Putting together Jessica’s package was a ton of fun! She loves bright colors, fingering weight yarn, loves coffee, Halloween, journaling, has a million house plants, 2 daughters and some furry critters!
I got her some treats – coffee (unground so she could decide how to grind it and because Scottie was throwing a tantrum about not wanting to use the coffee grinder at the store) and Halloween snacks. And an adorable Dia de los Muertos skull and skeleton coffee mug.
I found a journal with succulents on the cover and little sticky notes with succulents on them too.
I sent one of the project bags I made, which turned out to be her signature color (!) and added some progress keepers (unpictured because they’re inside the bag pocket and I’m stupid).
And I sort of went nuts on the yarn. Since I don’t have much of a stash myself since I prefer to buy for a project in mind, nor do I dye superwash yarn (which is Jessica’s preference to knit with!), I got to yarn shop in earnest.
Blue Moon Fiber Arts – BFL Fingering Superwash in “It’s my party & I’ll dye what I want to”
Hedgehog Fibers – HF Sock in “Bubble” (maybe, I didn’t write it down, oops)
I’d add more detail, but my brain fell out because babies don’t let you sleep.
Receiving from Allison
Let me tell you something about Allison – she works fast! I received her package a full month before it was due to send, and it was such a pleasant surprise. She really took my preferences to heart, which was much appreciated!
She sent the most delicious tea – David’s Tea Blueberry Jam. It’s gone. I snarfed it. And I drank it exclusively out of the amazing David’s Tea mug she sent with its own strainer and measuring spoon with a knit pattern on it. Plus it’s huge which is my favorite size!
There’s a sample of Lana from Green Mountain Spinnery which I think I’ll add to a pair of socks at the cuff or something for embellishment since it’s just a little sample. It’s a really gorgeous dark blue called “Noche”.
And lastly, Allison included a skein of Tigger Targhee from Blue Moon Fiber Arts in “See scum, sea scum run”. It’s a super high twist, non-nylon, non-superwash sock yarn and I’m puuuuuuumped to make socks from this. So pumped.
Okay that about covers it! Obviously I highly recommend FibreShare, so go follow them to find out when the next one is in 2019!
You may remember that I was due with baby boy #2 October 1st. Well it’s October 2nd, and wouldn’t you know it – still pregnant. I’m quite happy to roll around like Violet who turns into a giant blueberry in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory because having a newborn is a whole thing. Did you know? It’s like a lot of work and stuff.
Me, today, colorized.
Anyway, I bring up my mass-acquisition & impending tummy friend turned roommate situation because I put the Etsy shop in vacation mode as of today. I just want to make sure nobody is waiting to get an order filled if I suddenly go into labor.
With that said, I do anticipate a lot of exciting changes in the upcoming months. I may need a few of those months to remember how to function on no sleep and nurse 486 times a day, but I have a ton of ideas. My Notes app looks like a random word generator with all of the disjointed thoughts that occur to me. Here’s what’s kaleidoscoping around my brain & already in the works:
New colorways
New bases
Sets
Kits
Collaborations
Clubs
Fun bags (lol not boobs)
And I don’t intend to stay with Etsy forever – at the moment I like being able to use their search engine to guide people to my corner of the hippy-nonsense-yarn-world, but I’m pretty particular with how I’d like my shopping platform to look, and I have a lot more to offer than Etsy can help with. SoOoOoOo eventually, I’ll either add shopping on this website in addition to the Etsy shop, or I’ll completely transfer everything over here.
TL;DR – Etsy shop is in vacation mode, it’ll open with in-stock items after the baby comes.
Sorry for shouting. But Autumn means time is actually moving even though I’m 798 years pregnant and feels like I always will be. I’ll be 40 weeks on October first, so baby will likely be an October boy.
Since my last WIP update last month (I swear it always feels like 3 days passed rather than 30), I’ve had a few goings on in the Etsy shop.
I had a bit of a shop update with some new colors (mostly Once in a Lifetime – if they’re well-loved I may try to approximate how I came up with them again!).
Electric SunsetPumpkin Spice LatteFrench Silk
And I’m having a giveaway – not for any reason in particular. Maybe 200 Instagram followers, maybe pre-baby crazies, maybe I just felt like it! At any rate, go to this Instagram post to enter. You’ll win your choice of one of these 2-3 skein project bags (quality AF if you ask me) and any skein of yarn from my Etsy shop!
Comment & tag a friend on this Instagram post to win!
I’m trying to be more of A Photography so that my website, shop, and Instagram look more professional. I still have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m trying!
Moving right along, I have 0 finished objects. :(. That feels like a bit of a let down, but everything I’m working on is pretty sizeable, and I’ve put in a lot of work on each one. SoOoOoOo we’ll just skip right ahead to WIPs!
Works in Progress
Okanogan Socks – For Jason!
I did like maybe 5 more rounds on these socks since last month, but look! The first stripe color is happening! I had a day where I was waiting for Renee’s sweater to dry (I had to block the shit out of it), so I picked these up out of obligation to giving my husband socks before winter is over.
This is what I have been working on monogamously since I finished quadrant 2 of my Rose cardigan below. Renee will be visiting in early October, and while it’s basically impossible that I would have it finished by then, I’d like it to at least be try on-able at that time. Here, you’ll see it being blocked the ever-loving shit out of. Some of the textured stitches I was trying out for the yoke are quite inflexible, so I wanted to see if it was even worth incorporating it into the final design. Otherwise, the sleeve stitches are separated and I’m a good 5 inches into the body. I’m working on some texture for the body, so we’ll see how that turns out as well. At any rate, I will be working on this until it’s DONE so Renee can actually wear it, and so I can move on and knit for MEMEME because I’m selfish.
Pattern: In progress, I’ll get it released in Eventual Land
Yarn: Fuzzzy Green Fibers Geauga on a OOAK color
Ravelry Project Page: Nae’s Sweater
Rose Cardigan
This cardigan is what I really want to be working on. I’ve finished two quadrants now, and I’m itching to start the 3rd. I might do like an inch of it just so I can pick it right up once I finish Renee’s sweater. But that would be a breach of my monogamy. Whatever, these are self-imposed rules.
I hadn’t started this yet during last month’s post, so I feel like this is significant progress! I got Scottie’s hoodie going up to connecting the pockets back to the body, and now it’s just stockinette up until where sleeves get attached. I think I may bring this with me to the hospital for possible mindless knitting after the baby comes and we have to stay a night or whatever. This may possibly be a ridiculous thought (that I’ll be able to knit even 1 stitch after baby comes), but I’m bringing it anyway.
Okay this is just a swatch, but it’s progress. I think I might actually properly start this soon once I find gauge. It’s a primarily double crochet pullover in DK weight, so I know it’s going to be a quick project. I just need another project bag.
This section is going to just keep growing. Why don’t I keep it to the next 3 things I plan to cast on! (And a sewing project that is probably going to remain only theoretical.)
I’m really excited about this shawl – both to wear and to showcase these Game of Thrones Dragons Colorways. I have already dyed up a skein of Viserion for myself, but need to find time to dye a Drogon and Rhaegal. Full disclosure, I dyed a TON of these for an Etsy order and need a little separation to make my heart grow fond again.
So, once I actually get Jason’s socks done, I’ll be casting these on. This pattern is 1 of a set of 3 being released by Salapaloosa Knits – the Deathly Hallows socks! The Elder socks are available for preorder now through her Ravelry page if you’re interested! I haven’t bought it yet, but will once I have a minute. I can’t wait for 3 pairs of contrast heel-toe-cuff socks that represent the Deathly Hallows. Let’s not hold our breath on my knitting speed though.
When I first saw this pattern I was like “omg no why stop”. However, since then I’ve seen some others make this in some more muted colors and use techniques to make it more cohesive, so now I’m like “omg this is brilliant for leftovers”. What I plan on doing is using the same color for the neck, body hem, and sleeve cuffs; the entire thing will be marled with charcoal; I will fade 4 colors from top to bottom rather than just striping them; and the right side is going to be reverse stockinette so the fade is even less stripey. Now, I’m usually only a proponent of fades that actually were meant to blend into each other, but I think with the combination of holding charcoal with the colors I’m fading and doing reverse stockinette will make them blend a bit more. This will all make a lot more sense when I cast on. Which I technically could do at any time because I don’t need to buy or dye anything to accomplish this pullover.
We’ll see if I ever manage to make this, but I do have all of the materials. Maybe I’ll cut the pieces out one day and just do like one sewing instruction a week and then the baby will be in kindergarten and I’ll have a sweet backpack.
So this is what I’ll be working through until baby gets here! Then he’ll be dubbed “The Showstopper” until I relearn how to get anything done like eat or pee or just-run-a-business-from-my-house-nbd.
