the fiber fetishist

I know it’s not officially fall yet but I started to smell it last week. I know it was 88°F earlier this week but it didn’t stop me from noticing the leaves turning yellow. I know it’s still August but my mind has already switched to fall. Startitis is trying to strike, and hard. I’m [...]

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I think it happened while my mom was visiting last month. I suddenly decided I needed to knit Jared Flood’s design, Quincy [ravelry]. I hadn’t particularly been interested in knitting it and then BAM! I was. front I don’t knit with bulky yarn much. While I could have doubled some DK weight yarn or something, [...]

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A friend of mine had a family pug die recently. It made me sad and I decided she needed a knit pug. hi! Give a pug a hug! real and fake I’m a little pug [video]! a rolly polly bug The pattern, Wasabi the Gregarious Pug [ravelry], is designed by Rebecca Danger of Dangercrafts. It [...]

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Yep, still working on Dr. G’s Memory vest [ravelry]. dr. g’s I am enjoying this pattern — it is fairly mindless in the sense that the cables are easy to read and I don’t need to look at a chart. The yarn is also really nice to knit with — Brown Sheep Lanaloft Worsted. I [...]

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I’ve met my goal of fixing Buttercup [ravelry] in August — hooray! all fixed It’s still a little wonky from redoing the entire feather & fan portion that I frogged, but it should even out with a wash (along with my rowing out there, ha). I actually wasn’t sure I was going to get it [...]

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I started knitting a Wispy Cardi (Hannah Fettig’s updated modification of her original design Whisper Cardigan that was published in Interweave Knits) a few weeks ago for no real reason. Knitting a sweater in laceweight yarn – even a heavy laceweight like the malabrigo lace I’m using – on US5 needles is taking a long [...]

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I received a catalog earlier this week. squish squish I am not sure why this super duper chunky garter stitch pillow is calling to me, but maybe if I hold this yarn doubled I can approximate it. You know, if I have a needle that big. [The Company Store catalog, the pillow in question is [...]

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If one were to take a look at the projects I have started but not finished [my ravelry projects page], a handful of things would stick out. First, I am not the speediest crafter in the world, so that vest I started a few weeks ago is only about 1/3 done. Second, I quickly lose [...]

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