You could make more subtle color transitions by marling two yarns together. Cecelia Campochiaro is the expert on marling and I thinks she talks about it in a Fruity Knitting video on YouTube.

WISCON 48 Guests of Honor! Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed! wiscon.net; WisCon logo pictures of Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed

A little birdy told us that Premee Mohamed and Darcie Little Badger are going to be speaking at a feminist science fiction and fantasy convention...The bird is us! WisCon is the convention. Memorial Day Weekend, May 21-25 2026. Online. Exciting! @littlebadger.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com
#WisCon

Who's ready to find out if my chest is more or less powerful after top surgery? 🏳️‍⚧️ 🧬✨

Yes, absolutely. I always swatch for sweaters.

What a beautiful gradient

Photo of the beginning of a knitted garter stitch asymmetric crescent shaped shawl in semi-solid gray. Lines of large yarn-over style holes radiate out from the center of the shawl. The cake of yarn next to the shawl project shows that the gradient color will transition to blue, purple, pink, orange, and finally yellow. The project bag (upside down) features a quote from Jane Austen's Persuasion: "She taught me to knit, which has been a great amusement."

Photo of the beginning of a knitted lace shawl made of variegated yarn in teal, blue, and emerald green. The shawl is so scrunched up on the circular needle in it that there's no discernible pattern, but that's part of the magic of lace. A project bag next to the shawl features scenes from The Lorax wherein the Onceler knits thneeds, with a trim featuring the truffula trees.

I've got two shawls in progress that I'm excited about for #showMeYourKnits.
* Stephen West's Dotted Rays in a gradient called "grumpyxsunshine" from Weird Sisters.
* verybusymonkey's Darwin Shawl in vintage Dragonfly Fibers Dragon Sock "captain Nemo"
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Photo of a laid-flat stranded colorwork yoke sweater-in-progress with a hot pink background and a pattern of zigzagging lines radiating out from the neck in colors shifting from aqua to teal to purple and back to aqua. The top-down yoke is split at the armholes and the sleeve stitches are on barber cords. The body has a set of copper circular needles in it. The two active cakes of yarn are in the upper right corner of the photo on top of a flattened project bag featuring Freddie Mercury in a few iconic poses wearing the yellow military jacket from the 1986 concert at Wembley.

I'm still working away on the Eye Dazzler sweater. Getting close to the end of this long yoke!
Yarn is Spincycle Dream State "on the low" and Moondrake Corriedale DK "electric berry". Heavily modified for gauge and avoiding the swoncho.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky #showMeYourKnits #WIPwednesday

I’ll do a mid-project blocking anytime I’m worried about sizing or stitch tidiness. It’s a great way to make sure it’s turning out right.

Photo of a top-down stranded colorwork yoke laid flat on a gray flannel sheet on top of a yellow ruler measuring the diameter at 13 inches. The yoke is hot pink with a pattern of zig zagging lines that shift from blue to purple. The corrugated rib neckline is standing up so that the ribbing is barely visible.

Photo of the same pink and blue stranded colorwork yoke in the same position but after blocking. the diameter is now 14.25 inches and the corrugated ribbing is lying flat, the colorwork puckering is geon, and the stitches are more even.

The last #fiberuaryChallenge theme "gratitude" is especially difficult today, but I am happy with my current project, the Eye Dazzler sweater. I blocked the top-down yoke on the needles and the stranding is tidy and the size is coming out as expected. Photos before and after.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans

Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender

Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans

Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️‍⚧️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I hate that this topic is necessary right now, but it’s great to see you consulted for your expertise here!

Photo of a pair of hand knit fingerless mitts laying flat on a counter. the mitts are tan with a muted tomato red stranded colorwork pattern on the back of the hand showing a fox hiding in the tall grass with one paw up and its face turned to look behind. Ribbing at the cuff is red and at the finger and thumb ribbing is tan.

Photo of the same pair of fingerless mitts, now shown worn on my hands, with the palms facing up. The palm pattern is vertical stripes of red with plant motifs at the top, echoing the tall grass that the fox is hiding in.

Second, this pair of the Outfoxed Mitts by Erica Heusser, made with Brooklyn Tweed Loft in "camper" and "woodsmoke". More contrast would have been better, but this is yarn I already had.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky #showMeYourKnits

Photo of a pair of hand knit socks lying flat on the floor. The socks are pale aqua and have 6 bands of stranded colorwork cats, each in a different color and facing the opposite way. From the toe up: black cats walking left, brown cats walking right, gray cats walking left, calico cats walking right, orange cats walking left, and gray tabby cats walking right. One sock is flat and even and the stitches look uniform. The other sock (unblocked) is lumpy and the fabric puckers between the cat motifs.

My favorite #showMeYourKnits so far, ANIMALS! First, a pair of the Herding Cats socks from Charlotte Stone, made with a kit from the delightful Dye Mad Yarns. Notice the blocked vs. unblocked difference.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Photo of a brilliant turquoise skein of slightly fluffy 2-ply yarn held in my left hand with a kitchen floor and door in the background. The yarn is *mostly* consistent, with some thicker and thinner spots here and there, and some over- and under-twisted spots here and there.

Photo of a large Ashford drop spindle with the same turquoise 2-ply yarn wound around it on a gray flannel sheet. This was just after I finished plying.

Photo of a shoebox plying set up shown from the top. The shoebox has two takeout chopsticks suspended in the middle of the box, stuck through holes punched in the box's long sides. On each chopstick is a cardboard toilet paper tube with brilliant turquoise singles wound around it. Plying hasn't begun, but is ready to start.

Photo of 4 mini skeins of undyed white and brown handspun wool yarn of (arguably) increasing quality. Each skein is labeled with a number 1 - 4 and the date it was spun and plied. From left to right: #1 2024-03-02 Thick and think with many thick lumps of underspun wool. #2 2024-03-02 - 2024-03-03 Better, but still some thick slubs. #3 2024-03-03 Spun too tightly, with too much twist. #4 2024-? (not visible in the tag) More consistent, somewhat thick and fluffy, but consistently so. Looks like a rustic worsted weight yarn and not a spindle malfunction.

#fiberuaryChallenge "looking forward": This weekend I'm looking forward to knitting with my first handspun yarn! ~170 yds of DK corriedale spun and plied on an Ashford 2.75 oz spindle that I now realize is almost comically large. Last photo shows my practice attempts.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Thank you!

Photo of a younger me wearing sunglasses, dangly earrings, and a fox-colored tee over gray long sleeves. I'm bent over a green sock knitting project on the side of a dirt path that stretches off into the distance on a beautiful sunny day. Low stone walls stretch off to either side and a few small white houses are barely visible in the far distance before a rocky coast along blue water.

Photo of a black project bag with the toes of green toe-up two-at-a-time magic loop socks. The project sits on my lap as I'm riding on the bus from Dublin to Cork, or perhaps Cork to Galway.

Photo of the variegated green socks completed. My feet are stretched out in front of me with my toes curled up over a window ledge. The socks are k5 seed st 2 rib with a latice of traveling twisted stitches wrapping around the sides of the feet and coming to a point before the toes.

#fiberuaryChallenge "where in the world": A favorite photo I took when I stopped to knit socks alongside the path to Dún Aonghasa on Inis Mór, during a long ago trip to Ireland. Pattern is Maeva from @knitty.com, made with KnitPicks stroll. Finished the socks some months later.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Beautiful! Such nice and even reverse stockinette for the cable background.

Close up photo of a hand knit sweater worn by me. The sweater is sock weight yarn in pale aqua with bright aqua and gray variegation. The silhouette is drop shoulder with a mild scoop neck, a faux seam of slip stitches slanting forward to the hem from the underarm, and a split hem with a deep broken rib.

#fiberuaryChallenge "style": my style is best described as "I made this thing and it's teal or purple," but every once in a while I accidentally make something stylish, like this Marklee sweater. Yarn is MCN from Seattle Sky Dyeworks (now Wool for the People).
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Photo of a pale gray cardigan with purple buttons and purple stranded colorwork at the yoke and above the ribbed cuffs. I'm wearing the cardigan over a navy blue tee and jeans and the cardigan takes up most of the photo.

For #fiberuaryChallenge "sweater weather", this is the hand knit cardigan I wore today on my sunny & cold afternoon walk. Photo taken after the sun went away 😕 The pattern is Otra Yoke Cardigan by Skeindeer Knits, and the yarn is Harrisville flyWHEEL in nelson and birch bark.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Close up photo of a cherry red and burgundy garter chevron striped skinny scarf around my neck over a gray shirt.

Photo of a crochet ripple afghan in wide red and blue stripes separated by narrow white stripes. The afghan is folded in half lengthwise and hung over a towel rack.

Close up photo of a knit hat with wide color stripes of fuchsia and eggplant purple and texture stripes of plain stockinette and 1x1 rib. The hat is laid flat on a counter.

For #fiberuaryChallenge "giving back", here are a few charity projects I’ve made:

* ZickZack scarf, KP Swish DK hollyberry & serrano
* Neat ripple afghan, KP Brava worsted white, red & celestial
* Patternless hat, KP Brava worsted eggplant & fairy tale

🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Tea Republik. They have so many delicious teas and tea lattes.

Photo of a table set with two individual tea pots and cups. In the background is a magic loop knitting project in variegated greens and white with a project bag featuring sheep in hats and scarves. In the foreground is a purple self-patterning toe-up sock project on magic loop with a few stitch markers attached.

#fiberuaryChallenge "sip & knit": Here's me knitting with a friend at my favorite tea cafe a few months ago - a vanilla sock for me and a Musselburgh hat for her.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Photo of me holding a petrol green handknit shawl in front of me over my right arm. The shawl has a garter stitch section at the top with a larger section of 3p x 1k twisted rib with the twisted knit lines ending in leaves to make a fancy border. The bases of the twisted knit lines each have 3 turquoise beads on.

Close up photo of the petrol green shawl artfully wrapped around my neck. The beads make a line around my neck suggesting a necklace and the leafy edges of the shawl are draped over my shoulders.

Photo of the entire shawl laid flat on a white table to show the asymmetric crescent shape. The left side has a single leaf at the end of each twisted knit line. The right side ends in two rows of alternating leaves. An arc across the middle of the shawl has the base of each twisted knit line with 3 turquoise beads.

For today's #fiberuaryChallenge theme "finished it", here's the shawl I just finished on Wednesday and wore today. Secession by Kristina Vilimaite in merino bellini yarn from Magliamania in Bern, Switzerland (2017 vacation). I'd never done beaded knitting before.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

Thank you! I hope you get to make one, it was a very fun knit.

Close up photo of combed top fiber for spinning, in a tonal aqua and turquoise palette with some gray and darker blue mixed in. There's a lustrous sheen from the silk content.

Close of photo of me wearing a cyan hand knit tee with cap sleeves. A rectangular lace panel makes a beautiful statement on the front, over a background of stockinette with purled stripes every ~1 inch.

Photo of a variegated teal and hint of brown crescent shaped shawl displayed on the edge of a couch seat. The shawl has a garter stitch base with increases down a center garter spine and an old shale pattern making a wavy lace edging.

Side on photo of me wearing a teal hand knit sweater with a shiny mohair halo. The right sleeve is in the front and center of the photo, featuring a twisted rib and wrapped stitches pattern that is meant to evoke butterflies (or fairies) flying down the sleeve.

The #fiberuaryChallenge "color crush" theme is so easy for me. Turquoise, teal, aqua, blue-green - I love them all. Rambouillet + silk fiber; Joni tee, Juniper Moon Farm damask; Multnomah shawl, Tosh merino light; Fairy bouquet sweater, Neighborhood Fiber Co studio sock + loft
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

So beautiful! The math is almost always worth it.

Photo of me, a brown-haired white woman, from the chin down, standing next to an open doorway wearing a hand knit sweater over a blue collared shirt and jeans. The sweater is rose pink with an Icelandic style stranded colorwork yoke pattern with an oatmeal colored background and gray interlocking vertical loops.

For #fiberuaryChallenge "wear it Wednesday" and #showMeYourKnits "pinks," here's the sweater I wore today: Strokkur by Ysolda Teague. The yarn is New Lanark Wool & Textiles Aran in Heather, Natural, and Pebble, purchased when I was in Edinburgh a few years ago.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky

I tried to buy a second one, but the angle is different now, so I’ll only ever have the one ☹️

I missed a few days of #fiberuaryChallenge and I'm not going to try to catch up. I was having too much fun at Red Alder fiber arts retreat, where I took excellent classes - spindle spinning with Devin Hellman and Portuguese stranded knitting with Ana Campos - and met so many amazing fiber artists.

Photo of some knitting notions on top of a silver background. On the left a small tin containing a collection of tapestry and sewing needles and two needle threaders. On the right, a silver wire pendant on a black cord with two hooks at the bottom; two pins with springs and hooks on the end; and a small, sharp pair of scissors with mauve handles.

Today's #fiberuaryChallenge theme is "project bag contents" so here are the items from my notions bag that I used tonight: my best needle for weaving in ends, a needle threader, Portuguese knitting pins & necklace, and scissors I shamelessly took from my mother when I moved.
🧶 #knitting #knitSky