I am ready for fall!! I finished a Dovetail shawl by purl soho out of @lionbrandyarn Wool-ease in Eggplant. It turned beautifully and super squishy. #knittersofinstagram #knitting #purlsoho #lionbrandyarn https://www.instagram.com/p/Cishwt8r5yL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
And this is my current spinning project! It’s some rya lambs wool hand dyed by @milkweedman blended with linen, silk and camel down and spun up into a fingering weight 3ply! Too bad I uh. Lost the bearing for my eel wheel so now I have to wait for a new one to get shipped to me before I can complete this last little chunk. It potentially won’t be the end of this project I will then have to spin a merino silk and linen 3 ply in plain white as a contrast color for a color work sweater. If I decide I want to make another colorwork sweater I’m still not in love with the technique and it would make an immensely pretty lace shawlette or scarf.
I ended up frogging my last scarf because I just wasn’t feeling it right now. Decided to give this pattern from Purlsoho a try. I think I’m liking it…but then of course I do…it’s cables.
Here's a quick project I worked up while I had COVID a couple weeks ago. Fast to dress and weave as a palette cleanser from the frustration of the Christmas towels.
I used knitpicks Dishie cotton yarn sett at 8epi for two hand towels and a washcloth. I bought the yarn originally for some Purlsoho knitted dish towels, but found it to be a little too heavy and absorbent. Like, they got wet and stayed wet.
Tin Tiles dishtowel by Purlsoho in Dishie Kenai:
It was a fun challenge to calculate what I could make with what I had-- all I've got left now is 34g of the orangey brown.
Here they are right off the loom!
And washed up:
I used the draft I designed for the first project I did on my own, which was lionbrand Touch of Linen sett at 10epi. I really like them, they're wonderfully soft and drapey. I'll probably make a separate post for the stuff I've made with the Touch of Linen yarn.
And here are the samples I made with the Yarnworker sampling looms I got for Christmas! Blue fringe is 12 epi, orange is 8. You can see I also played around with different fringes-- I don't really like the way regular fringe looks and twisted fringe takes a long fucking time. I'm interested in like a knotted macrame sort of situation but I think I need to actually look up how to do it instead of just making it up lol
i have been knitting since i was like seven and i have just now internalized make one right/make one left paired increases and which way you pick up the bars between stitches: back to front for M1R and front to back for M1L. like you are leaving the house and then coming back. i can unbookmark the purlsoho instructional page. it’s been so long
hi!! do you have any knitting or crochet advice/good youtube tutorials for beginners? i'm in the process of buying my first set of needles and yarn. ^^
Pattern from @myfavouritethings.knitwear, made with Plenty yarn in Blue Pansy (color discontinued) from @purlsoho. More photos on the blog. Link in bio.