Diane Therriault

Wait until your cat figures out that you’ll run the tap for her when you get up in the night to pee, so she starts to wake you up whenever she’s thirsty 🤦🏼‍♀️

So happy for you! Sending hugs.

Good to know! Thanks. We had a few bad experiences, but the last would have been [thinks a bit] seven years ago after which we started using Comox if possible.

Not sure where on the Island you are starting from, but Nanaimo is often weathered out. Comox is much more reliable.

I remember thinking “What?!? You mean it gets worse?!?”

Sending hugs ❤️

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A pair of hand-knit socks lay on a beige background. The socks have grey toes, heels, and cuffs. The rest of the socks are striped in grey and dark blue, with each stripe being two rows.

#ShowMeYourKnits stripes
My second pair of adult socks (November 2022)
Pattern: One Sock by @kateatherley.bsky.social
Yarn: Amble by @thefibreco.bsky.social
🧶 #knitsky

A deep purple, hand-knit sweater is worn on the torso of a person. The sweater has raglan sleeves, and is mainly done in stocking stitch. The cuffs and neck are done in 2x2 ribbing. A single, large snowflake appears on the front of the sweater, comprised of bobbles knit using a lighter-coloured purple-blue yarn.

#ShowMeYourKnits purple
#knitsky
pattern: Snow Wonder (Women) by Heidi Kirrmaier
yarn: Briggs & Little (thrifted) and Coopworth Mohair (thrifted)

I use a row counter chain so I am less likely to forget to update the counter (a different problem). I have to touch the counter to complete the row.

Like you, I change the counter after I complete the row. I know if the chain shows row n, then I have completed row n and am working on row n+1.

Definitely save for retirement. TFSAs and RRSPs are your friends.
However, unless legislation has changed, if you are in Canada and it’s a company pension (not managed outside the company, like for a union pension), the pension is vulnerable to the continued existence of the company. Tread carefully

A folded infant-sized cardigan lays on a stack of folded knitting. The cardigan is knit in a variegated yarn of multiple greys. Most of the body of the sweater is in stocking stitch. The neck, cuffs and button band are in garter stitch. There are seven grey buttons.

A blue child-sized hand-knit cardigan lays on a red dog blanket. The cardigan has raglan sleeves, and is constructed using stocking stitch. The neck, cuffs and button bands are in garter stitch. The ten buttons are each a different colour.

#ShowMeYourKnits gifts
#knitsky
Knit about three and a half years apart for best friend’s granddaughter.
Pattern: Kimes by Taiga Hilliard
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Try the Finchley Graft. It's a much easier alternative carried out from the WS

adding #knitsky works

A hand-knit hat is worn on a head. The hat is brown at the bottom and blue at the top. There are white sheep with black legs, faces and tails at the transition between the brown and the blue. There are many white dots on the blue, and a few in the brown, signifying that it is snowing. The brim is constructed using 2-by-2 ribbing, and the rest of the hat is in stocking stitch.

#ShowMeYourKnits Colourwork
🧶 #knit 2024
Pattern: Baa-ble Hat by Donna Smith
Yarn: Briggs & Little Regal

Row 1 (RS) should say THRICE instead of TWICE. Then the math works.

The top left corner of a hand-knit baby blanket. The blanket is of a solid green bordering on teal. The background is fashioned in plain stocking stitch. Five five-point stars are visible. The stars and the blanket’s border are knit in seed stitch.

The same baby blanket. The blanket is folded, and a corner is folded back to reveal that the back side of the blanket is lined with flannelette. The flannelette has a pale green background, and is patterned with small cartoon animals: cows, penguins, alligators, ducks & monkeys.

#ShowMeYourKnits Green (ish)
#knitting
Pattern: Baby Blanket with Stars | Couverture étoiles by Mathilde - Le Pavillon Créatif
Yarn: Patons Cotton Chunky (thrifted)
Finished September 2021

A hand-knitted lace-weight scarf, in rainbow colours, where the colours change in diagonal waves

#ShowMeYourKnits Lace 🧶
Scarf knit in 2021 as a gift for a very kind friend of our son’s
Pattern: Raising Abel by Laurie Beardsley
Yarn: No idea. A very intense rainbow lace-weight yarn bought on a whim

Moleskin?

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A medium grey and dark grey sweater lies on a beige carpeted floor. From the top down, the rolled neck starts in dark grey, and the light grey is introduced. By the end of the yoke, the predominant colour is the light grey, and the boy of the sweater and most of the sleeves are solid light grey. The dark grey is introduced again before the end of the sleeve cuffs, in a pattern similar to that of the yoke. The sweater is unfinished, with the lower body ribbing being in progress in the light grey. Loose ends are visible.

#ShowMeYourKnits What’s on your needles? 🧶

Ribbing and a very stern blocking to go. . .

Pattern: Goldwing by Jennifer Steingass
Yarn: Viking Wool (thrifted)

Brioche is so pretty, but hard to read.

I’m working my way through Brioche Lockdown School (search “lockdown” in Ravelry patterns). 🧶

A completed hand-knit sock and a partially completed, matching sock. The main colour is pink, starting at the cuff with a light pink and gradually becoming a deep pink in the foot. There is a dark green leafed vine encirling the cuff, and a light green leafed vine encircling the foot near the toe.

❤️ I recognize those socks! They’re my travel project, too :-)

A pair of striped, blue & grey hand-knit socks rest on a beige background. The cuffs, heels and toes are solid blue, and the rest of each sock is striped.

#ShowMeYourKnits Stripes 🧶
My first pair of socks, in 2022
Pattern: One Sock by Kate Atherley
Yarn: Amble by The Fibre Co.
Of course I knit two right socks 🙄 (i.e. the jog is on the same side of both socks)

A blue cardigan lies drying on blocking mats. The bulk of the sweater is knit in reverse stockinette. It sports a cabled strip that makes up the collar, follows the front edges of the cardigan part way down, and then veers off towards the hips. The triangular space created between the cabled strip and the hips at the bottom of the cardigan is filled by ribbing. A similar cabled strip runs vertically down each sleeve, below the elbow.

Cables
Alternated three skeins, changing at faux eam
Pattern: Ink by Hanna Maciejewska, shortened to fit under jacket for travel
Yarn: Emily C Gillies Merino Sock Yarn in Mom Jeans, purchased at @woolandwaves.bsky.social
#Knitting #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

A pullover lays on a deck. The main colour is a dark grey. There are 8 horizontal strips, each with a different Christmas-themed object in very light grey, and the strips are separated by red accents. The objects chosen for this sweater were poinsettias, Christmas trees, reindeer, snowmen, candles, bells, reindeer heads, and gifts.

#ShowMeYourKnits Christmas sweater knit in 2023, every day except one, for 99 days. 🧶
Pattern: Festive Yoke Pullover by Skeindeer Knits
Yarn: Estelle Double Knit (I think)

Textured blue and yellow rectangular shawl, stretched on blocking mats.

#ShowMeYourKnits I only have a blocking picture.

Pattern: Marianas Shawl, modified to be rectangular

Yarns (thrifted): Handmaiden Rumple & Handmaiden Angel Hair

Have you tried the Finchley Graft? It’s worked from the wrong side instead - and is so much easier.

Skeins of Viking Yarn Icelandic wool sorted on a wooden floor, all in grey/brown hues. Two are light, three plus a small ball are dark, and nine plus two balls are medium.

Tens balls of frogged yarn and a slipper rest on a wooden floor.

Total score!

It included some balls of frogged yarn and a slipper, but I’ve been knitting the unused yarn so far.

I’m starting to think that there might be enough for a second sweater.

Grey/Brown in two tones sweater under construction in lap. A cat is just visible, snuggled up next to knitter.

One sleeve to go on the same sweater.

Yarn is thrifted Viking Wool.