Happy Monday

It was a day of finished garments. Thanks for sharing ladies.

Doreen sent this. That's a lot of cables!

Finished Joji's Farm Twist Jacket.  I picked up the yarn in January,  This was my quarantine project!  Had lots of time to work on this.   What a great pattern.  Very easy to follow chart so you know what row you are on. Will have to wait until we can get out to find buttons.

You can purchase the pattern for the Farm Twist Jacket on Ravelry.

This is my ode to cables, boxy sweaters, cropped jackets and women of all ages and sizes and shapes. 

This pattern took a lot of work. Both to knit and to design. In my mind, I wanted to have a cable running down the shoulder with a lot of cascading stitches, slowly transforming into vines and bobbles and branches… 

But as I was knitting my own sample I realized that when grading this pattern to my usual size range I’d have to treat each shoulder and each size differently. I had always pictured this as an all-over cabled jacket, so I would need more cables and different arrangements for the larger sizes. Therefore each size would require different instructions, since the whole body is knit in one piece. 

To be honest, writing it probably took longer than knitting it… But it was absolutely worth it. 

This is another one of my patterns that I present you with pride and joy. I hope you will like it! 

Because the instructions are so detailed and so long, I had to spread the instructions in 2 separate pdfs: One for the smaller sizes and one for the larger sizes.

Andrea sent a picture of her Birds of a Feather. I love the colour!

This is my favourite shawl shape. I knitted it in Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles colour Parklife  and instead of mohair I used cashmere. I also reversed the yarn as I had more cashmere than straight yarn, so I started with mohair and the lace bits are in mohair (a bit lost, the lace I think, won’t do that again) it works out well though.

You can purchase the pattern for Birds of a Feather on Ravelry.

I didn't get much knitting done today. Hopefully tonight. I spent time in the store packing orders. Mr. Canada Post is going to frown at me tomorrow because there are a lot of boxes going out.

Dad and Beth made cupcakes this afternoon. Boscoe was enamoured with dad icing them.

Boscoe is running around like a maniac. Dad would let him lick his fingers. Way too much sugar!!! Dad thinks it's cute. Yup. Dad's gone home.