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Knitting my Musselburgh hat while traveling 🧶 Knitting in self striping yarn by Mud Punch in Dagmar Goes to Shetland.

On to sleeve two of my Menton 2 pullover for my son 🧶

The swatch for my Roost pullover in Jamieson’s Spindrift 🧶

This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits : What’s on your needles 🧶 I’m working on a Musselburgh hat while traveling. Still plugging away on the Menton 2 pullover for my son. At the swatching stage for my Roost pullover for myself for the Where We Knit KAL.
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Whoa, you’ve got me beat by a long shot there!! I thought my one hat and two sweaters was a lot to have on my plate 😂

It is a very hard colour to photograph! And oh so lovely 😊 I told him it will likely be ready once the weather is super cold…here’s hoping I stay on track!

It is such a great theme isn’t it? It’s definitely got my creative juices flowing!

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Isn’t it though? It really got my creativity going 😊

Enjoy!! I found that I eventually got the hang of the repetitive bits and didn’t have to constantly look at the chart. Also, learning yo knit cables without a cable needle has been a huge timesaver!

When I heard about the Where We Knit KAL (aka knit-a-long) I was intrigued. Most of the time when I hear about KALs, I am knee deep in an existing project or have too many projects already lined up. This time though, the theme of the KAL grabbed my attention and lined up perfectly with projects that I wanted to knit. . The theme of the KAL is to knit a project inspired by where you live. I think I live in a pretty inspiring place. Prince Edward Island is a place with big, beautiful skies, rich red soil, water views, capes, sandy beaches, winding river ways, and a rolling patchwork of farmland. . I have three projects that I feel would be great for this KAL. I shared them in my last post. The first is the Roost Pullover by Amy Christoffers @savoryknitting. I first came across this pattern in a beautifully written post by @thehealthyknitter. She’d knit three versions of this sweater in colour schemes based upon three trips she’d taken to Shetland. One really spoke to me. She called it her ‘water and weeds’ version. She was kind enough to share the specific Jamieson’s colours that she used. These colours felt very close to my inpiration photos. So I knit a swatch to see if I was close (had to replace one colour I didn’t have). The only thing I felt was really missing from my first swatch was a colour to represent the rich red soil of PEI. So I swapped out the brown and replaced it with a reddish brown. . And voila, I have a colour scheme inspired by where I live. It’s a PEI soil and shoreline inspired colour scheme. . First photo is my final swatch. Swipe to see individual yarn colours, an inspiration photo, and the swatch knit up in @thehealthyknitter’s ‘water and weeds’ colour scheme. The KAL runs from 1 Nov - 31 Jan.

For the Jamieson’s Spindrift lovers out there, my colour scheme is as follows: MC: Stonewash CC1: Dewdrop CC2: Eucalyptus CC3: Yellow Ochre CC4: Paprika CC5: Sand

A view of the West River, PEI.

The first swatch that I knit. This is the @thehealthyknitter’s ‘water and weeds’ colour scheme (though I did have to substitute the colourway Sand for her Ivory since I couldn’t find Ivory anywhere).

I wanted to share about an interesting KAL I’m participating in. It’s being hosted on IG. It’s called the Where We Knit KAL. The idea is to knit something inspired by where you live 🧶 I’ve chosen the Roost Pullover by Amy Christoffers and Jamieson’s Spindrift yarn. Details in alt text. #knitsky

My progress so far on the Menton 2 pullover for my son. The yarn is a lovely heathered green and it is so hard to photograph! I’ve gotten the hang of the cable pattern and doing the cables without a cable needle, so the second sleeve is going in faster. Yarn is Gathering Yarn’s Haynes Creek Heathers in colourway Cedar.

A little closer view of the cables 😊 I used the tubular cast on for the cuffs and it turned out so lovely! I think I’d only ever used it on fingerless mitts before.

The cover page of the Menton 2 pullover pattern, by Meghan Babin.

This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits prompt: CABLES. I used to only knit cable knit projects. Then I found stranded colourwork 🙃 But I still dabble in cable knits here and there. I’ve gotten somewhat ambitious (and maybe crazy) and am knitting a pullover for my son (that he had better wear!).
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That’s a lovely design with such great details 😍

What a lovely pattern and that colour is beautiful 😍

That looks like it will be so cozy 🥰

This is stunning 😍😍😍

I totally agree 😊 Funny how 15 years passed between knitting the blanket then almost immediately felting it in the dryer and now having beautiful mittens 😊

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They are definitely pretty special to me 😊

I hung onto the felted blanket allllll these years because it was still so lovely 🥺 My MIL has become the queen of making felted mittens out of wool sweaters 😊 Nice that the blanket is now getting used, just in a different way 😊

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Goodness, thank you 😊

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My felted wool blanket from 2009 was sewn into mitts for me by my mother-in-law in 2024. I knit it while on bedrest while expecting my second child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after he was born. It was felted in the dryer. The only photographic proof of its existence is from the hospital right after he was born 🙃

Right mitten. My felted wool blanket from 2009 was sewn into mitts for me by my mother-in-law in 2024. I knit it while on bedrest while expecting my second child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after he was born. It was felted in the dryer. The only photographic proof of its existence is from the hospital right after he was born 🙃

Mitten palm 😊 My felted wool blanket from 2009 was sewn into mitts for me by my mother-in-law in 2024. I knit it while on bedrest while expecting my second child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after he was born. It was felted in the dryer. The only photographic proof of its existence is from the hospital right after he was born 🙃

The only proof that the mitts were once a baby blanket 🙃

#ShowMeYourKnits : KNITTING HORROR STORIES 👻 In 2009 I knit a wool blanket while expecting my 2nd child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after his birth. Felted in the dryer. Only photo is from the hospital 😕 I saved it all these years. Last Xmas my MIL made it into mitts for me ❤️🧶 #knitsky

I’ll aim to do that soon 😊

Thanks so much Liv 🥰