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2019 Year End Totals from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

I think this is all of it! My tracking for 2019 wasn't great. I've gone through the blog and the photos on my computer and done my best to include everything.

It doesn't look like I did as much knitting as usual.

Maybe that's because stitching takes so much longer than knitting? In the time that I spent on Little Girl with Cosmos or the Hedgehogs, I could've knit four or five shawls. That's a total guess, but I don't think I'm that far off.

Crocuses on the Windowsill needs a little ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 3 months ago. under 2019fo , year-end totals

Yan at the Dollar Tree? from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

The two Dollar Trees in my area with Crafter's Square aisles have both been stocking worsted weight acrylic. I was curious enough to buy a skein to knit up. I'm not sure why, because I have worsted weight acrylic for small projects already, but new yarn is a tempting thing.

It's not bad! One 130 yard skein was enough to knit myself a pair of pocketbook slippers. Its texture is comparable to the softer skeins of Red Heart Super Saver. For big projects, it would make more sense to buy your acrylic at Michaels or Joanns or ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 3 months ago. under 2019fo , knitting

Hedgehogs in Lingonberries from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

I guess we can hang it on the wall while I search for the perfect frame. I'm still loving the idea of a round one.

Kit: Hedgehogs in Lingonberries, by Riolis

The back stitching was tedious (and I was tempted to skip most of it) but it definitely paid off. My prickly little hedgehogs are actually prickly looking. And their little noses look like actual hedgehog noses! In most of the patterns I've seen, they don't.

added by Michelle 4 years, 3 months ago. under 2019fo , cross-stitch , xstitching

Restful Rainbow Shawl from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

Lion Brand's Shawl in a Ball is exactly the kind of yarn that appeals to me when I'm standing there in the craft store. The promise that I can make a whole shawl with one skein of yarn? Yes, please!

When Hobby Lobby had it on clearance, I grabbed all of the different colorways. This one is Restful Rainbow and it's the least subdued of my choices.

Whether or not you can get a full shawl out of one five hundred yard skein is open to interpretation. This is definitely a shawl and if I'd used ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 3 months ago. under 2019fo , knitting , shawls

Procrastiknitting from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

The plan was to knit a couple of ballband dishcloths for my sister's new kitchen. Three seemed like a good number, but they were quick and fun and it made sense to make a fourth one so that there was one of each color combination.

I also wanted to add something to make it more obvious that it was for the kitchen. That was going to be a little bottle of dish soap or a store bought scrubbie, then I remembered the little rounds ones I'd knitted back when I was making ballband dishcloths a few years ago ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 3 months ago. under 2019fo , knitting

Things to Love About a Troublesome Shawl from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

There are things to like about this shawl. I love the colors and the combination of stockinette and garter stitch ridges, which are the same thing I did on the previous Wildstreak Shawl but look better on this one.

I absolutely love the combination of k2p2 ribbing and garter stitch ridges that keep it from flipping up at the bottom like the last one did.

What I don't love is that there were so many knots in the skeins that I now have eighteen ends to weave in. I also don't love that the loosely spun yarn was ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 4 months ago. under 2019fo , knitting , shawls

Our Coastal Sewing Room from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

Take a look at what we had for our sewing room last week! I got my sewing machine all set up and plugged in and....nothing. The foot pedal didn't work at all. I fought with it for a while before stomping angrily on it and thinking some bad words finally did the trick.

I'll admit that I spent more time on my cross stitching than at my sewing machine, but I did get three bags done. One was a total flop, which sometimes happens when you're making things up as you go along.

This one is ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 4 months ago. under 2019fo

Slow Blue Lace Socks from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

It took me almost two months to slog my way through this pair of socks, despite the fact that I was actively knitting on them. I'd understand if I'd shoved them into a project bag while I was working on something else, but I was actually trying - and failing - to get these done.

I can't explain how or why they were such a hassle. I had good needles. I've knit probably a dozen pairs in this same super easy lace pattern. I've used this brand of yarn before and even though I don't like ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 6 months ago. under 2019fo , knitting , socks

Caramel Me Away Shawl from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

I needed something mindless on my needles so a few days ago I cast on with a cake of self striping acrylic from my Hobby Lobby clearance stash. The plan was to knit a garter stitch triangle until I ran out of yarn and just look at how well that plan worked out for me!

I like this one a lot more than I thought I would. It took the tiniest bit of fiddling to keep the stripe pattern consistent because when I bought the yarn I didn't know there was a trick to selecting the cakes to ensure ...

added by Michelle 4 years, 6 months ago. under 2019fo , knitting , shawls

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