Monday sweater by Petiteknit

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Filcolana Tilia + Sokkegarn from Garnbutikken Fortuna, needles 4mm

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Lessons learned w/18/36NM Colourmart cashmere+top down patterns
Shoulder Width RELAXES wider w/o real seams!
Sleeves (rows) droop A LOT! leave sleeve seams unfinished, ribbing easy to 🐸 til washed
Ribbing almost hopeless
Applies to 50-50 cott-cash yarn, too!

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Shortened sleeves & re-seamed for TRex length
On to buttons:
Dark or light? Hmmmmm🤔
Dark more wintery?
Thoughts?
Dark=brown, light=creamy ivory
I do hate resewing buttons, so I'll mull a while
Feel free to advise, I'd be grateful for thoughts

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My T Rex arms in gorilla-length sleeves on my Book Club Cardigan
No likeE
Open seams, 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 tubular bind offs&ribbing to @ 5"
Re-knit/bind off w/a looser option, maybe EZimmerman's sewn or Jeny's stretchy BO
🤗I tailor used, store-bought knits, too🤗
It's fun!

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All done but the interminable button band😅
Sleeves too long but I might was in hot for last soak/block of FO
Just to live dangerously

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Halfway off Sleeve Island!
#cdrama #TheCoroner'sDiary on IQIYI streaming WIFI&electricity holding steady
ANOTHER SNOW DAY FOR ME!

A maroon wool cardigan with a yarn embroidered flower disguises a bad repairs of moth hole

Most second hand knits I get for not a lot of $ online have undisclosed moth holes or ick repairs.

What me worry?

I’m not an elegant embroiderer but repairing thus to give a nice cardigan more life makes me so happy.
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Sorry. Grouched @ a 'mean' LYS bc
I've wandered so far off this pattern😬, so here are
some fav online yarn sources (& they're v. nice)
ColourMart.com (UK, so +10% trump tariff)
PurlSoho.com
OrangeFlowerYarn.com
WoollyThistle.com
#kpop #ASTRO Sunset Sky

Blue green cabled cardigan in progress, back and both fronts unfinished

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When teaching myself to knit, I asked a LYS clerk @ using diff yarn, gauge and mods on pattern
"I can tell you'll be a problem knitter," she said.
She also asked if I'd bought enough to justify her time
I had but she wasn't wrong, just snide
Ignored her.
🙄WMW?

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Since back and right front are unfinished on needles, I've bagged them to avoid yarn snarls and lost stitches.
Gnawing away at left front.
Then it'll be 🤔 is this long enough draping on dress form or me
#Cdrama #StrangeTalesoftheT'ang (IQIYI) is fun to see

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'What Me Worry' gave way to the prospect of dreaded way-too-short cardigan FO
Unpicked tubular bind off
will knit ribbing once I get a sense of how long I need the damn thing to be. Am whacking away on Front Right ATM.
I feel 😇

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Proof of life: Back almost done, R L fronts next
Love yarn & color
Wish I were better at cables
Still content with process
#kdrama #MyBelovedThief v.enjoyable to HEA😍
#cdrama #UnveilJadewind (VIKI) Olde tyme detective FL&ML in dynastic nastiness good, not gr8

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Proof of life: progress
I'll finish back flat before shoulders/fronts each to seam
Oiled yarn and my knitting=wonky work
Washing/blocking will sort out😶‍🌫️
Cables slow yet satisfying, a kind of nirvana achieved by
knitting them
#Kdrama movie #BloodRain 😲😬😳🫣TUBI

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Proof of life and tenacity: Book Club Cardigan
We have lift off!
There's a lovely rhythm to cables once you get it, not that I have entirely.
Using 18/36NM Colourmart.com cashmere in Misty Cliffs w/7US
Shoulda started diamonds higher. Ah well, WMW

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5 tries and I FINALLY got into the swing!
Thank you all for video suggestions although I learn better staring at photos for some ridiculous reason
So I froze images and printed them!
#kdramas are NOT helpful😑 while cabling but
I’m addicted
Aigoo!

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Book Club Card
I'm stumped
M1R/L & M1Rp/Lp look horrendous
Claw your eyes out bad
Have frogged start 3x
Pattern gives no instruction, just abbrevs.
Using this from PetiteKnit which is neat as a pin in that top-dn pattern
Weirdly conspicuous and awkward for me😩

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Traveler's Shell vs. Churchmouse Modern Wrapper
Mod. Wrapper a better FO to wear
Resizing v. easy
I've knit 12+ versions/resized w/diff.yarn/needles/gauge
I'll use MW to make TS type vesty things w/o sleeves
Can do TS pockets & garter pattern if I want.

This knitter's FO adds cabled shoulder seam and brings diamonds up so points meet either side of 'seam." Also cables on top of sleeve continue, meet at arm pit join to go down so elegantly!

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Working up courage for Book Club Cardigan/Sari Nordlund
Top Down✅
Nice mods by others - see alt text w/photo✅
Charted but need to start @ later row🫣
Cast on more sts to start at that row seems simplest for me
I'm not gr8 at cables
Help?

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Proof of life, if not intelligence: all done but the sew down of pocket sides.
😑

I played yarn chicken and lost.
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What-me-worry fix: whatever knit on!
I'm going with L, it'll be lighter/brighter
None of my aqua-ish kid mohair has=aqua core as OG. I'll tiny-swatch w/bit of OG w/2 to see but WMW?
Advice/Opinions WELCOME!

Sunday
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Proof of life: Traveler Shell/Andrea Mowry progress to date
Fabric light, cozy, fuzzy✅✅✅
BIG✅ Maybe I overshot...
Color much nicer IRL but greens don't come across in photos for me

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Proof of life after watching #Sinners
I've watched #kdrama series #Kingdom, gorier & explicit, but took place over weeks, zombies were inert in daylight, so a relief.
Sinners took place in one 'cursed' 24-hr period
Still shook, frankly. Wow.

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Proof of life Wed.
Spent time fixing dropped sts (1 of 2 held tog) MANY rows below where I was😩
Should I pay more attention? Yes, yes, I should.
Will I?
Nah.
As a what-me-worry knitter, I've decided to check every 3 or 4 rows to find them sooner😇

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At this rate, it'll take 10 days to get to the armpit separation😶
I post this as proof of life/progress
At least it's very soft&fuzzy
#cdrama My Heroic Husband is just the slight historical romcom to watch while nibbling away.

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It's a balmy -1℉
Traveller Shell mods
Tubular CO 3 pcs for vented hem
(Ribbing=3 evenings' work)
Sock knitters will scoff but #2.5 needles are TINY to me
K2tog pocket sts into 1st RS row of body on #5
Body to pits=400sts/row😲😩
At least it's calming😑

Gray Top soooft 5/28NM cash (WS)+ WS haze lace - maybe too droopy Mid choonky wrstd WS chain+WS haze - too bulky Bot J&S shetland wool 2=ply+WS haze (wasted, kid mohair/alpaca fine) not inspired by this combo somehow

Green yarns used Top J Arbon Appledore dk+kidhaze might be a surprise washed/blocked but not inspiring Mid 4/13NM WS+kidhaze Colors not attractive to me Bot LaBienAimee Helix+kid haze✅ Best😲 and a surprise. It's close to what's called for but LBA Little Kumo is suri aplaca haze lace yarn not kid mohair.

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Traveller's Shell swatches
Norwegian-style 2-ply wool "Seaglass" w/Teal kid mohair haze (sub for LBA Kumo suri alpaca)
Body/springiness, light & surprisingly soft, versatile layer.
LaBienAimee Helix (711yds/100g)+hand dykid haze
✅ Best green lowest

My first whack at Andrea Mowry's Traveller Shell available on Ravelry. Cream color yarns held double, a heavyweight cashmere lace 3/28NM from colourmart.com and Nuage cashmere haze laceweight.

By Friday, HIGH will be 0℉. So pretty darn nippy, as they say in Wisconsin.
Must cast on for max COZY lappage
I'm thinking Traveller Shell/Andrea Mowry
Pleasing rhythmic knit✅
Meticulous details✅
Light yet soft&fuzzy outcome✅
Avail Ravelry/her website.
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Pinking shears pattern is a simple meditative knit with extra soft yarn. So it’s a simple comfort knit. I’m About halfway through.🤗

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A palette cleanse pinking shear scarf by Churchmouse Yarns. I’m knitting in one direction tip to tip and tossing in random beads for fun.
Yarn: 3/28nm heavy lacework cashmere + Cariaggi cashmere haze Nuage

I need a shot of color this time year🤗

A zigzag rectangular shawl pattern, Canal Grande, on Ravelry. I 3-needle-BO along Zigzag live st edge after p/u sts on cast on edge. Worked fairly well.

Andrea Mowry very popular Birds of a Feather sideways mostly triangular shawl, with fingering alternating with a haze lace weight in kid mohair. on Ravelry

Churchmouse Yarns "Tapered Cowl" pattern in hand dyed SW DK in faded denim blue.

Top-down triangular shawl inspired by "Simple Lines" free Ravelry pattern in blackish Navy Plucky Knitty Nifty fingering yarn and cream recycled cashmere yarn

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WHAT NEXT?

I'm procrastinating on the fancy Orenburg shawl. That's audiobook only. I need IDIOTPROOF (kdramas).
Did I psyche myself out with über fancy-schmancy yarn?!? 💩.
Ah well...Cast on a new or finish old if I can find them.
Info in alt.