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Kitchener Witch
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I love knitting, passionate about equality, and accessibility. She/Her
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I finally finished my November gnome. In my defense, it just needed the bits sewn on, but I had a fall right before Thanksgiving and just put it on the back burner. This pattern is Gnoel by Sarah Schira, who I recommend for all things related to knit gnomes.
A large hand knit gnome, with winter colorwork. The colors are pea green, fuchsia, dark green, teal, and grey. The main color of the body is the pea green, with a Norwegian star, made of the dark green, with teal in the center, framed with a squiggly line of fuchsia. The star motif repeats around the body. The hat has a repeated motif of evergreens in the dark green, on a grey background, with diamonds at the base in two rows with the dark green closer to the trees and the teal below it, over a background of pea green. Below the diamonds is the hat brim in fuchsia. Above the trees is a zigzag line of the dark green with spots of fuchsia between the points. Top of the hat is squared off with fuchsia. The nose is grey, as well as the beard, which is fringed around the lower edges. The arms are made of pea green for the sleeves and fuchsia mittens.
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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A few years ago I knit this very large garter stitch shawl. It was called shifting chevrons, by Stephen West I think. It's my only shawl designed by him. I washed it this morning after bringing it out for the cooler weather.
Very large shawl, that doesn't entirely fit in the frame. The shawl is created using 7 colors in 7 wedges, with the stripe pattern shifting by one layer each wedge the first wedge. Unfortunately, I'd couldn't take a picture with all of it visible, as I would need a bigger house and 2 more sets of blocking mats, so it's folded with a wedge and a half on top, each side, and one wrong side wedge in the middle, where several woven in ends can be seen. The colors are silver, a heathered cool redish color, pink, deep purple leaning towards red, dark grey, lavender, and black.
October 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I did a thing
Two fresh baked loaves of bread, viewed horizontally, one above the other. The upper loaf is on a more oval shaped cooling rack. There's a beige counter behind the loaves. The loaves were formed, and baked without a pan, creating a more irregular shape. Each loaf was split across the top to create a nice line when rising in the oven, though some splitting on the sides occurred where the loaves were folded.
October 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Guess who's finished! Look everyone, the monster and the bride. I'm so happy about them, though not unaware that the monster kinda looks like a green penguin. The silver brackets weren't meant to look like eyes, but they do. Not sure it can be helped. Gotta figure out neck bolts
Side view of hand-knit Frankenstein's monster gnome.The top portion is a dark green, with a flat round top, creating a very cylindrical head. There's a bright green section representing the head, with silver bracket shapes knit with fair isle knitting. There's a large round nose in the bright green, and under the nose is a beard made with the same dark green as the top of the head. The body is made out of a lighter grey-green color, with black feet. Front view of hand-knit Frankenstein's monster gnome. The head is made of a dark green with a flat top and cylinder shape. There are silver brackets knit in fair isle where the dark green transitions to the bright green of the face. The large round nose is knit in the bright green. Under the nose is a beard knit in the dark green in garter stitch. The arms are I-cords with the lower part out of the bright green. The rest of the arms and body are knit using a grey green. There are 2 black shoes also knit. Frankenstein's monster gnome and the bride gnome together. Both hand knit. The monster is on the left and the bride is on the right. Both gnomes are about the same height. The monster has a flat dark green cylindrical shape in top, and the bride has a charcoal colored conical shape, with white streaks in chain stitching barely visible on both sides. They both have bright green noses, with the monster having a band of the same bright green for the lower part of the head. There are also silver brackets knit into the transition of dark green to bright green using fair isle knitting. The monster's body is knit in a light grey-green, and the bride's is white, with grey chain stitching in lines to represent the flowing gown. Both have I-cord arms, that match the body color, except for the lower part, in the bright green, to represent the hands. The monster has black shoes, also hand knit, but the bride has no visible feet.
September 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I promised you all a bride of Frankenstein gnome, and here's the proof I've been working on it. Also, tomorrow I should have pictures of the monster. Because the Bride demands a companion. Here's some pics.
A hand knit gnome knit in the style of the 30s Bride of Frankenstein. The top is a conical grey with a small amount of white showing on the top right. The bottom is knit in white, with grey details to give reference to the flowing shrowd or gown worn in the classic film. The nose and hands are bright green. Background is a wood grain surface with a blank canvas behind the gnome. The bride of Frankenstein gnome seen from the side. Going up the conical gray top, there is a white line of chain stitching to represent the white streaks in the Bride's hair. The bottom is the hand knit white, with grey chain stich details. The bright green nose is seen to the left, where the top grey and bottom white meet. The background is a wood grain surface and a plain piece of canvas behind the gnome.
September 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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So, I've been working on a pink a long and am fairly close to finished. The pattern is Cocoknits Flynn, to which I added a lot of hip shaping. I made a couple of zipper facings in a much tighter gauge to sew in later. Yarn is two strands of bubbly boucle from the place I am irritated with.
Hand knit vest made in fluffy yarn laid out on a blocking mat with a grid. The yarn is a bright fuchsia. Two strips of knit fabric are visible in the top left, to be sewn in later as a zipper facing. Lower left corner has a small swatch for a different project visible in bright pink and pea green.
September 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Time for a tee-shirt update.
Back tee-shirt piece sewn together up the middle. There is a bold Chevron pattern with a deep purple and bright pea green stripe make up the Chevron detail. Pattern continues to the sleeves uninterrupted. Front pieces of tee-shirt seamed up the middle. The front has the same bold deep purple and pea green Chevron pattern, but has a deep v-neck carrying on the pattern. Sleeves continue the pattern uninterrupted. Top view of the Tee-shirt seemed together at the shoulders. The back piece has been raised up about an inch before seaming. Inside view of a center seam of the deep purple and pea green Chevron stripe. Each stripe is matched and seamed up, with a contrast visible in the salvage.
July 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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So, in an attempt to get me to focus on this project, I started blocking. I have the first piece, which already had ends woven in on the boards. With a combination of knitteing on the 4th piece, and weaving in the ends of pieces 2 and 3, I hope to finish the bulk of the knitting in 4 or 5 days.
One half of back if a T-shirt, pinned to measure on gridded blocking boards. The piece is knitted with a modular garter stitch construction, that creates a diagonal zigzag. The sleeve is built into the piece and continues the design without change. The colors are deep purple and pea green, and the garter stitch texture changes orientation with the color changes.
July 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Google image depicting the screw on a sewing machine bobbin casing
July 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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So, what am I doing that's pattern free today? a modular T-shirt. Here's some of the pieces already done, then I'll explain the process.
Two back pieces of a hand knit modular T-shirt. The stitches created a zigzag Chevron pattern, which continues into the sleeves out of a deep purple, and pea green yarn. Background is just a sage green bedsheet, that really doesn't honor the palette of the garment pieces. One piece of the T-shirt front. It is in the same stitch pattern of zig zag, which will form a Chevron pattern when the other piece is complete. There's a v-neck beginning with the deep purple beginning the piece. Same unfortunate sage green background as the first picture.
July 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I don't jump into the crochet pool very often, as it's more difficult for me, but the love is there. The cozy is adapted from a soda can cozy in the book "Dark and Dramatic crochet" by Alexis Sixel. I honestly not sure if I adapted a crochet pattern before, but had a much bigger jar to cover
A large jar with a cozy made of a tonal black yarn at the bottom and a slimy yellow green at the top, worked to look like it is oozing out. The jar is on a white shelf over too packs of loose leaf paper, one with orange print on the label, and one wth blue. To the right there is a fabric basket with tan fabric in the lower half and white on the upper.
May 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Image of dead star trek character in a red shirt laying on brown, hard ground, with a few dead leaves.
April 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Well, everyone, the tee-shirt I knit based on patterns in the cocoknits sweater workshop is done. Now, there is a fairly similar cocoknits pattern on the website for 8 dollars. It is before they started taking size inclusivity seriously, and the gauge isn't an exact match, but
A blue tee-shirt pinned to gridded blocking boards. In the lower left, there's an open box of blocking combs with some out pinning down the tee-shirt.
April 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I'm probably not going to finish this tee shirt today. I'm having hand problems. But when I say I am painfully close to finishing it, I'm not making it up.
A close shot of blue knitting, with the purl side out. A row of stitch markers on the left are used to mark progress. The markers are from the top green, 2 red, and orange. The needle cable is red. The knit side of the garment is visible at the bottom of the shot, showing where the front and back were separated from the bottom, indicating half the garment has been finished, and only a few rows are left on the other side.
April 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Finished hanger.
Finished needle hanger with 3 circular needles hanging from it. The hanger is knit of beige yarn. It hangs from a dowel in front of a white door. While 2 of the needles seem to blend in color wise, the 3rd set is blue.
April 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Today, the knitting hanger started yesterday is off the needles, blocked and stitched up. As mentioned yesterday, I began at the bottom, with 2 sets of 4 row vertical buttonholes, above that is 3 sets of 2 row buttonholes, and above that is 10 sets of eyelets. I folded the piece with wrong side
A beige narrow strip of knitting with slits and eyelets. At the bottom of the picture a row of purl stitches creates a ridge which marks a change to plain knit stitches. Knit piece is pinned out to gridded blocking boards. The second half of the knitting is shown, with the same beige yarn. At the top, we see the first ridge of purl stitches, that was at the bottom of the first photo. After a section of plain knitting, there is another ridge of purl stitches. Beneath that ridge is a section of plain knitting matching the length of the first section of knitting containing the slots from the first photo. Piece is pinned to gridded blocking boards. Third picture shows the knitting removed from the blocking board. The piece was folded in half and sewed together, with only the slotted side showing. It curves slightly on a wood grain background.
April 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Hello everyone. I decided to give an example of living without patterns. I decided to get some fixed circular needles after years of using interchangeable needles. This is because I have had very bad luck with wooden and bamboo interchangeable, and I'm starting to not want to fight with twisting
The beginning of a knitting project, in a pale barige yarn. It is on a dark blue background for contrast, with a small amount of wood grain visible at the left side of the image. The stitch pattern is in stockinette, with buttonholes evenly spaced throughout.
April 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I recently finished another pair of socks, and am a bit hyper focused on socks at the moment. I think this is stroll yarn from knit picks, but not entirely sure. The picture doesn't do the heathered yarn justice, though working with a single color yarn was a little boring. They are worked
Deep green heathered hand knit socks on a wood grain background.
April 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Believe it or not, this sock post will also turn to a knitting hot take. I didn't use a pattern, and used patons kroy sock yarn. I lost the label, but you should be able to find it from the picture
A striped sock with the colors purple, grey, light blue, blue leaning towards teal, and a blue green, with a cream color between each stripe.
January 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Someone has thoughts about the vet saying she has to lose weight.
Small dog, with a lot of Chihuahua in her intently looking at person holding camera. She's a black and tan, with a lovely pale pink stripe in going vertically down the front of her nose. The right side of photo, shows a little teeth from her lip being naturally higher on that side.
January 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This is Gnolan, from the Sarah Schira book, The Gnomes of Grimblewood. I used Knit Picks Pallette yarn, and have to say it's much more pleasant to work with than superwash. Believe it or not, I'm working on more than Gnomes, but really enjoy them. This is my January gnome for the KAL
A knit gnome, with a curled hat pictured on a gridded blocking mat. The gnome stands about 10 inches, and has a cylindrical body. The hat is stripped with 5 colors, the lighter colors of periwinkle, lavender, silver creating a soft blending effect, rather than distinctly standing out, and the darker color is a false black created by dark heather yarns with heavy blue undertones. The dominant color of the body is the darker yarn from the hat, with thin stripes of the periwinkle and lavender in alternating stitches. The alternating stitches are not really noticeable. The beard is knit from the silver yarn and is hooked on the gnomes left arm. The nose is in a tan color. The gnome has no visible eyes.
January 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I did the cocoknits Milli kerchief, in stroll rainforest heather. I used a bit under 100 grams, and still got more scarf than expected. This is almost a shawl. The instructions are pretty relaxed, so you can customize size by weight. I used size 5 needles. It's a very fun knit.
A triangle scarf with extended ties creating a curved top pinned out on grided blocking mats, with mostly empty purple containers of blocking combs in the lower right corner. The color is a deep heathered green, with jeweled undertones when the light is right.
December 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Here is the finished Gnana's. She was a lot of fun to knit, though I got impatient spreading the knitting out over so long. I am considering doing the year of gnomes for 2025.
A knit gnome with a purple and red cloak. The body is mostly peach, with purple and red slipped stitches in a mostly stripped and dotted design. Bottom of the gnome is red, with purple slipped stitches creating a motif that is kind of like a letter T. She has long white braids and is holding a snowflake charm, and wears wire framed glasses with no eyes
December 20, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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These are the gnomes and trees I've knit over the last couple weeks. They are Gnoddy and Gnorri from the Gnomes of Grimblewood by Sarah Schira. I really love these gnomes. The trees are Wee Trees by Sarah Schira, pattern on Ravelry.
From right to left, a small cone shaped green-blue tree with a spiral, a bit behind that a larger one with the same color, a gnome with a speckled hat with a dark brim with ear flaps wearing a chartreuse sweater, and a gnome with an orange and green striped hat, with orange pockets in it's beard and a green body. 2nd gnome has little feet.
November 26, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Okay, maybe I'm emotionally stable enough to venture from toys, but socks are still a mental health project. No pattern, using Regia sock yarn. I'm not sure the color way, but it's part of the Arne and Carlos line, and the dominant color is purple.
Beginning of a tie up sock, with ribbing on the top of the foot. The yarn is self stripping, with purple, blue, white, and pink visible. Background gridded blocking mat.
November 14, 2024 at 9:06 PM