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[personal profile] ladythmpr2024-10-23 10:12 pm

Day 23: A day of finishes

During my stitch-in today, I finished putting together my revamped autumn wreath, and hung it on my front gate!

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[ID: A wreath formed by small rusty water cans, with yellow, orange, red and purple faux floral and leafy elements attached, hanging on a silver wire gate. End ID]

And I also finished the pink baby hat that I've been working on this week.

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[ID: A pink knitted baby hat. End ID]

Now, I get to play with my new sock knitting loom!
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[personal profile] ladythmpr2023-10-10 09:12 pm

Days 9 and 10: Mostly knitting

Day 9

After a longish day, but a nice visit with my mom over lunch, I only had energy to put 5 more rows in the baby hat, but that included a yarn change:

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[ID: 20 rows of knitting, 10 in a reddish yarn and then 9 in a navy blue, followed by 1 row of the red-ish yarn again, on a purple round loom. End ID]

Day 10

A few little things: I found some frames for a couple of small stitched pieces, I finally remembered to bring in the yarn that I washed over the weekend, and I finished the two-toned baby hat! (Weaving in all the ends was time-consuming.)

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[ID: A completed baby hat with a wide navy stripe in the middle, bordered by narrower red-ish stripes. End ID]
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[personal profile] ladythmpr2023-10-07 10:26 am

Day 6: Still more yarn

[Posting a day behind again]

It's still too freaking hot. I went outside in the late afternoon to work on yarn, when the yard was in shade, with a wet towel around my neck and a bunch of ice pops in an insulated bag.

I detangled a few more tangles in the yarn I worked with on Day 5, and got it tamed into a ball:

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[ID: A wound ball of detangled baby-pastel variegated yarn. End ID]

Then, I wound that yarn into a skein for washing:

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[ID: A large skein of baby-pastel variegated yarn, tied up for washing. End ID]

Then, I wound 2 more skeins of yarn into washings skeins; these were a lot easier to wind, because they were pretty much brand new skeins that had been donated and left in a zip top bag:

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[ID: 2 skeins of cool-toned baby-pastel yarn, tied up for washing. End ID]

After dinner, I knitted the final 7 rows on the current baby hat,

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[ID: 25 rows of knitted red-ish yarn on a purple round loom. End ID]

and finished the hat by closing the top and tightening the brim.

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[ID: A red-ish knitted premie hat. End ID]
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[personal profile] ladythmpr2023-10-04 08:57 pm

Day 4: A completion!

I finished assembling the axolotl! It took longer to stuff, close, and attach all the pieces than it did to knit all the pieces!


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[ID: A completed knitted axolotl doll, knitted in a variegated gold/white/grey/brown yarn. End ID]

I found the pattern at Loomahat.com !