I recently won a very cool mug from Susan at the Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm
I love this mug and drink my coffee from it almost every morning. But look what else was hidden inside the package…
Being in a Martha’s Vineyard state of mind (and when wouldn’t I be???), I whipped up these fingerless mitts. Functional, [...]
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There was a black felted bucket hat. It’s felted to be slightly smaller than the blue one and I think it is the hat I will actually wear on a daily basis. My family is starting to ask, “what are you going to do with all the hats?” I don’t know…send them to people who [...]
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After the Amy Beret spree,
I wanted to try out some other felted hat patterns.
Rolled Brim Hat by Bev Galeskas
This one was a disaster. It has an irregularly shaped brim due to short rows (yes, the irregularity is on purpose?!). I felted it and thought it looked weird because maybe it was under-felted. No, it’s just [...]
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The mittens are done, and by ‘done’ I mean thumbs knitted and any little holes near the base sewn up, all ends woven in, and ready to wear. Done can sometimes mean (for me, I mean) that the knitting portion of my program has stopped. If I didn’t like the shaping of seamed garments, every [...]
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