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Tania (she/her)

@taniapendy.bsky.social

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Avid knitter, voracious reader, calligrapher, bookbinder, amateur gardener. Lover of colour. Lover of beautiful words (aka great quotes). Doing my best to find joy in this all too mad world. 🧶📚🖋️📓🌱🇨🇦

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hi, I’m Tania 😊 A little intro 🦋 I’m an avid knitter (love colourwork, cables, texture, learning new techniques), voracious reader, & lover of great quotes. Spent many years as a calligrapher. Enjoy bookbinding too. Love puttering in my flower and veggie garden in summer. 🧶📚🌱🖋️ Say hi in the thread 👋🏻

I’m pictured here taking a selfie in a mirror. I’m wearing a colourwork vest that I knit. It’s a pattern called the Flagship Vest by Espace Tricot. Colours include cherry red, ice blue, olive green, mustard, and navy. The background colour is a heathered colour they call Sweatshirt.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 4d

Lovely!! It’s such an enjoyable knit isn’t it?

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Some day I will learn to love knitting socks 🙃 I’ve only ever managed one pair 😂

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much 🥰

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you 🥰

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Fair Isle Friday 😊🧶

Pattern: Sea Faerdy vest by Gudrun Johnston
Yarn: Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift

#knitsky #fairisle #swwfairislefriday #fairislefriday

Modeling my recently completed Sea Faedy vest in front of a bluey green tile wall. I knit this best using all Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift colours.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 9d

Goodness, thank you 🥰

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks so much 🥰 Happy you feel the same too 😊

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks so very much for your kind words ❤️ It was nice to be able to bring some comfort when they were sick 🥺

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you 🥰 It amazes me how very different they are, just by changing colours from light to dark or vice versa.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you for your kind words ❤️

I hope to knit myself one sometime 😊 It was a great portable project.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you 🥰

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve not tried the rings before. I usually hold one colour in my right and one in my left. A mix of knitting styles 😊

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

This past weekend’s #ShowMeYourKnits prompt included things you knit that bring JOY ✨ I have to say that for the most part, all my knits have brought me joy and comfort too. I am particularly happy when knitting colourwork and when mastering a new to me knitting skill (most recently lace).
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Modeling my first Sea Faerdy vest by Gudrun Johnston (I’ve since knit a second one in a different colour scheme…see next photo). This was a joy to knit! I loved seeing the pattern take shape!

Knit in Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift.

My seeding Sea Faerdy vest. I love how the change in colour scheme accentuates different parts of the pattern. I’m the darker colour scheme I find that the star pattern really pops. I’m this colour scheme I find that the diamonds pop more.

Also knit entirely in Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift.

I’m currently knitting the Melby Yoke cardigan by Gudrun Johnston (while wearing the Peerie Shop Cardi by Mary Jane Mucklestone). I’m really looking forward to finishing the second sleeve and then joining in the round to complete the Fair Isle yoke 😊

My first challenging lace knit. This is the Floriosa shawl by Justyna Lorkowska. This was a challenging knit and very hard on my hands. I had to take a few weeks off of knitting after I’d finished it. More breaks and stretching in the future!

Knit up in Julie Asselin Merletto in Rose Gold.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 11d

#ShowMeYourKnits prompt this past weekend was knits that brought joy or that I’d knit to care for others. I thought I’d share 2 hats (modeled by me) that I knit for two special people who were fighting cancer. Both have sadly since succumbed to the disease 💔
#knitsky #knittingforothers #knitforlove

I’m modeling a Musselburgh hat by Ysolda Teague. Knit in self striping yarn by Mud Punch in the colourway Dagmar goes to Shetland. The colours in the stripes include light and dark peachy tones, maroon, and three shades of green.

I knit this hat for my cousin (in Feb 2024) who was fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer. They sadly passed away in Nov 2024.

The view of the Musselburgh hat from the top down.

I am modeling the Leith Hat that I knit for a friend (in May 2024) who was fighting cancer. He sadly passed away in late August 2025.

It is knit in Espace Tricot’s Jolly DK. I think the colourway was Robin’s Egg Blue.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks so much 🥰 Enjoy diving into colour!

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 16d

Also, went to a small locally owned toy store that has a wee yarn corner. Only needed 2.75mm DPNs 🙃 but these lace skeins of malabrigo were so gorgeous that I brought them home too 😍🧶

Four skeins of lace weight malabrigo yarn lay on a white countertop. They are 100% baby merino wool. Now to find a project that will do them justice 😍🧶

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 16d

Summer’s end and back to school grind caught up with me. Haven’t shared much knitting lately. I knit a lot of small things this summer…kerchiefs and shawls as gifts. Easy to pick up & put down, not too taxing. Back to knitting my Melby Yoke cardi now. Loads of stockinette to get through 🙃
#knitsky 🧶

Outside on my back deck in the sun. Feet up on the outdoor coffee table and making progress on my Melby Yoke cardigan by Gudrun Johnston. It’s a fingering weight knit, and bottom up construction, so the miles and miles of stockinette I have to knit before the fun yoke may take me a good while. Not to mention the two sleeves that I also need to knit. I’m loving this combination of colours. It feels joyful to me. The MC is called Nighthawk. All yarn is from Jamieson’s.

I stayed out knitting on the back deck so long that the sun moved around to the front of the house. Still have my feet up on the outdoor coffee table. Making more progress on my Melby Yoke cardigan. Wearing my Peerie Shop Cardi by Mary Jane Mucklestone.

Moved to the front of the house to follow the sun 😊 Still plugging away at knitting my Melby Yoke cardi. I can’t wait to get to the lovely yoke! But first I have to knit the two sleeves and join them with the body in the round (this design is steeked).

This is the colour scheme for the yoke on my Melby Yoke cardi. It’s my own play on the designer’s colour scheme. A bit more bright and joyful 😊 Looking forward to getting to this stage in the project. Knitting stockinette in fingering weight takes a loooooong time.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Beautiful 😍 I am so looking forward to sweater weather!

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Aug 23

This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits theme is BABY 😊 There’s nothing quite so satisfying as knitting up a baby sweater in a fraction of the time of an adult one! Here are a few of my recent ones. Antler cardigan by Tin Can Knits, Curlicue Yoke and also Fox Baby yoke both by Claudia Quintanilla.
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A baby cardigan lies on a wooden coffee table. It is knit in red violet yarn, has a cable yoke, and has lovely chunky pottery floral buttons.

Pattern is by Tin Can Knits and is the Antler cardigan. The pattern includes adult sizes too.

A baby sweater lies on a wooden coffee table. It is knit in hand painted dark blue yarn and has a curlicue pattern at the yoke that is knit in cream coloured yarn.

Pattern is Curlicue Yoke by Claudia Quintanilla.

I have almost finished this sweater despite its unfinished state in this photo. It is the Fox Baby Yoke sweater by Claudia Quintanilla. Main colour is a deep green. The yoke has small fox faces all around the neck. I’ve since stitched in the eyes using duplicate stitch. All that’s left is to sew a button at the back of the neck where there’s a little gap to help it get over a baby’s head.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Aug 11

What an amazing sweater!!

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Aug 10

Goodness, I hope that you’re being well cared for and will be feeling like yourself soon ❤️

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Oooh, those cables are gorgeous 😍

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Aug 3

This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits prompt is SHAWLS 🧶 I have great fun knitting shawls in between sweaters and cardigans and other accessories. There are so many wonderful patterns out there! These are only a few of the ones that I’ve knit in the last year or so. More details in alt text.

The Fleur Shawl by Espace Tricot was a fun knit and it’s so cozy and squishy to wear 😊 Knit in Woolberry Fibre Co DK and Sweet Skein O Mine lace.

I knit the full version of the Hansel hap back in March/April. The pattern is by Gudrun Johnston. I learned a lot and really had fun seeing it take shape. The main colour was Briggs and Little Sport and the contrast colours were all Jamieson’s Spindrift.

I really love knitting the Dotted Rays shawl by Stephen West. This is my third one! It was a pattern that I quickly got the hang of and found was pretty portable 😊 Knit in Fleece Artist’s Organic Cottage Socks in their Thousand Islands colourway.

This is the Aestlight Shawl by Gudrun Johnston. I love its mix of lace and garter stitch. Knit in Briggs and Little Sport in Sheep’s Grey.

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Jul 28

How wonderful these all are 😍 And yay for turning 1 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Jul 24

Wise words for an upside down world.
#knitsky

A white piece of paper lays on a knitted shawl. The shawl is green and has rows of white bobbles. The paper reads: Knit on, with confidence and hope, through all crises. - Elizabeth Zimmerman

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