You Can Spin the Light to Gold

Finally, the last of my summer projects. This is an Infinitude Scarf, made from the yarn left over from my Leitmotif Cardigan. I finished this in approximately July, and envisioned a blog post called “Right Trend, Wrong Season,” but as we know, the crush of dissertation-finishing, job-finding, and apartment-hunting meant that no knit-blogging happened at [...]

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Autumn Arbor

I’ve finally finished my Autumn Arbor Stole! It’s my first stole ever, and I love it. I was worried that stoles would be weird and hard to wear, but I think it’s actually easier to pull off fashion-wise than a shawl. For one thing, you can just treat it as a really large scarf:   [...]

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Summer’s Spinning

What you see here is my summer spinning project — a light fingering-weight yarn spun from a mohair/merino/angora blend from Cheltenham Cottage. This was a serious pain in the butt to spin because it was very clumpy, so the finished product is not as even as I’d like. Because of the high variegation in this [...]

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