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Took my knitting to the beach for #worldwideknitinpublicday so my 🐋 could see the ocean! Loving this #billiejeanyarn from @woolandthegang made from denim and cotton scraps left over from the fashion industry. #ecofriendlyCape Cod is bringing it! It may have taken seven hours in a car to get here but it is pretty darn cute.As promised here’s the second baby blanket I knit last winter, this time for my new nephew (by choice). I wanted the blankets to be related, so I used the @weareknitters pima cotton for this blanket too, in a lovely gray. Then I chose a pattern that also used eyelets, but with the argyle and thicker seed stitch border it felt different and perhaps slightly more suited to a boy. I love how this one came out! Though it was by far the most complex pattern I’d ever taken on (until I took on the whale which I made for the twins big sister.) And I’ve never frogged so many rows before! The pattern was free from ravelry and took a touch of tweaking in one row where the eyelet diamond corner met the border, but was otherwise not too hard to follow. As long as you paid attention! I learned I could not talk while knitting this project or I’d do something silly like forget those cute center eyelets... 🤦🏻♀️ But it all worked out in the end!I just realized I have a backlog of projects I never posted! So to start I thought I’d share this baby blanket I knitted up this winter for a very special new little one in my life! (Did you know there’s a word in German that means Aunt by choice? How amazing is that?!) I knit this baby blanket using gorgeous pima cotton from @weareknitters which I then dyed with avocado pits using my natural dyeing skills from @smileandwave’s e-course. I actually combined two knitting patterns. The main pattern was from @nourishandnestle but I felt that the cotton wasn’t holding the eyelets very well with her technique so I used a different eyelet technique from a ravelry pattern but with the spacing so it would look like the original blanket pattern. And then I totally second guessed the original pattern, and knit the whole blanket at about 1/2 this size before realizing that was a huge mistake. So I knit the first 5 inches of this blanket 3 times, and then a whole other blanket before finally getting to this one. 🤦🏻♀️ But, at the end of the day it turned out so well and my niece loves it! All the bobbles along the edge are great for tiny hands to grab onto. Stay tuned, later this week I’ll post about the blanket I knitted for her twin brother!I have successfully been hooked by another craft, thanks to @thecraftersbox and @inkreel! I am now completely obsessed with alcohol inks and the range of possibilities! Here I used the three bonus kit colors to transform this simple pot from @michaelsstores and it was so easy and so much fun! For now I’m going to leave the saucer (which is attached to the pot) white because I like the contrast, but that might change. Off to paint another pot, this time in a set of blues that I’ve been obsessed with all weekend.I made a pouf! I used the knit pouf kit from @thecraftersbox with @la.reserve.design as a jumping off point. Then I added black yarn I had leftover from their crochet basket kit with @the.hook.nook plus my own circular needles so I could make this larger than the original pattern called for, plus I went down a size in needles so the knit would be a bit tighter. Unfortunately I made a poor choice of stuffing material and it squashes down quite a bit so I can’t use it as a foot stool like I’d hoped. But until I can re-stuff it Basel thinks it works just perfectly, thank you very much! (Swipe to see him perched on his new favorite nap spot.) What a fun project! I might have to use some sturdy cotton yarn to knit Basel his own pouf before I try to take this one away from him. 😂About Me
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