Entries tagged with knitting crafting

Current Mood: pissed off

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Binding up luck with knitting, orange version

So I’m trying to decide what particular shade of orange would work best to bind up the Orange Excrement’s luck

cheaper yarn here that would work with my black yarn in stash: https://www.simplysockyarn.com/cascade-yarns-heritage/
Or support a local Black-owned yarn business here: https://athayneshouseyarns.com/collections/dye-to-order
or knit from stash here: https://www.ravelry.com/people/kaylarudbek/stash/postcard

most likely would do a two-color mosaic stitch shawl, trying to decide if I would keep it or donate it (I dislike the color orange in general, most shades of it look awful on me)

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Hearts of Space seasonal channel

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More crafting thoughts

1) I wound up going through three bins of yarn to find the specific pink yarn that I wanted (Stunning String Studio MKAL 2021 last project). I cast on this week and I am over halfway through the rows (it’s a symmetrical triangle top-down so it gets larger as I go, area goes as 1/2 base x height). As I mentioned over on Bluesky, I get urges to knit with specific colors at certain times of the year. The pink urge tends to hit around early February and then the green urge hits in early March. Cream is always on the color menu, and then I tend to cycle back and forth across the color wheel (so green to red, yellow to purple, white to black, etc.) The blue/gold combination urge tends to hit around early fall ( I keep on trying to find something that looks like the Notre Dame colors and not the Michigan colors. I pulled all those shawls together and I have at least four already made, probably yarn enough for another four or five).

2) I found yet another embroidery project in progress; I may take it with me on vacation later this month. I think that brings me up to seven? projects in progress.

3) If I do the magic knot technique on a bunch of the little leftovers from Winter Wonderland, Costa Rica, and Tour of Ireland, I could make at least three more neck gaiters and clear a lot of yarn entries out of Ravelry. Winter Wonderland was about 11 different colors, Costa Rica was 21, Tour of Ireland was at least another ten. So that would be three small projects that would accomplish a lot of the Roman-style decimation of my yarn stash. It will be a fiddling process to get the yarn all fastened together. But it looks like magic knot doesn’t show any ends to weave in once it’s connected up.

4) I think that Facebook’s algorithm is messing with my posts of my knitting, as I get more likes on Bluesky from total strangers than I do from people I have known for decades on Facebook. And I just joined Bluesky a few months ago at most.

Current Mood: contemplative

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Crafting: planning for 2025, shaking head over knitting

So shaking my head here about how I can take the same brand of yarn and wind up needing different amounts even when I am knitting the exact same pattern three times in a row with the same needles (https://www.ravelry.com/projects/kaylarudbek/dish-towels-2) first towel used over one ball of main color, second towel used exactly one ball of main color (I did have to cut the last MC section short) third towel looks like it will take more than one ball of main color. Weird.

The crafting planning for 2025 is starting already. I would like to get 103 different yarn entries out of stash this year (knitting them up, giving them away, or selling them all count as gone out of stash). Second, I would like to cut my Ravelry queue down to a manageable size as with the rate I currently am going, it would take me 90 years to get through it. Maybe this year I can manage to have three projects active at once: hard one for the living room, easy one for continuing education courses, and a sock or hat for the treadmill. This past year I had gone down to two active from my usual standard of four active at once. Having different projects at different difficulty levels is a good thing. Although I also want to finish more cross stitch and embroidery projects as well. And weaving uses up a lot of yarn in a very short time, so I should warp up the loom again. I also need to do a proper inventory of my craft books (hard copy and electronic).

I will let myself buy yarn for the Balliemore cardigan https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/balliemore and the Icelandic tree skirt https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jolaskjol but maybe I should wait until September as I have so much yarn to get through already. And yes, I did sign up for Stunning String Studio’s MKAL club for 2025 already as I like the format and their yarn and patterns. I will buy some of their yarn fairly soon as I am going to switch a short cowl/poncho into being a proper sweater (although maybe I should wait until the next club order in order to get free shipping).

Fibre space had some of the Jamieson’s yarn that would have worked for the cardigan, but unfortunately in all the wrong colors so I walked out of there with yarn for three shawls instead of one sweater. Two of the shawls will be https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/synchronicity-5 and https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pressed-flowers-3, but I need to figure out which pattern for the third one (gradient yarn in a DK weight so a plainer stitch pattern that can stand up to gradient and sparkle in the yarn)