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Machine Knitting from Becca's Crazy Projects

I managed to finish the back of my sweater. It seemed to take forever and I did learn a few things along the way.

I pinned it to my dress so I could see how it might look. The next step is the front of the sweater. So much more neck shaping for a sweater front. Wish me luck.

Tools and supplies (affiliate links):

Fiskars 7 Inch Softgrip Student Scissors (snipping yarn)

Silver Reed LK150

Knitting Claw Weights

Stanwood Needlecraft Large Yarn Ball Winder

Metal Spring Clamps

The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes ...

added by Becca 4 days, 8 hours ago. under 2026 , knitting , lk150 , machine knitting , yarn

Trimming................... from Exuberant Color

I was going to prepare the layers of a small quilt for basting on my large table in the basement when I remembered I still needed to trim this 16 patch quilt. I didn't look for binding fabric yet.

This is the one with the rooster fabric on the back. The quilt was 72" x 88" before quilting so it will need 8 strips of binding. I'll be searching for a binding piece large enough today.

I got all of these squares pressed and now I need to decide whether I'm going to sew them into 4 ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 6 days, 10 hours ago. under knitting , marcia derse fabric , triangles

Playing with stash................ from Exuberant Color

This block is made from the other pieces on the Fractured Studio die. I cut them a couple days ago and sewed them yesterday. I have made a table topper in the past with these blocks.

I have had a quilt in the back of my mind for a few months, to be made with batiks. I started sorting through them last night while I watched 3 hours of NCIS.

The pile in front is the pieces to be put back on one shelf. Behind it is the pieces I have pulled for the quilt.

Even my knitting is green ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 week, 6 days ago. under batiks , fractured quilt , knitting , stash

Week 40 of 2026 from Thread Head

This week has been about getting the yard and gardens ready for winter, but progress is still being made on a couple of projects I am working on -

This week I finished knitting the sleeves on the cardigan, and I am back knitting on the body.

I tried out a different tie-up and treadling pattern on the Big Top towels.

Photos from Around -

Miss Maggie and GingerSnap! taking turns at the water dish (GingerSnap! didn't have much patience and took a swipe at her, but he was the one that ended up with a cut on his nose!).

This ...

added by Joanne 3 weeks, 1 day ago. under knitting , weaving

Spring Forward, and a Knitting Finish from Romany Quilting

It was time to turn the clocks forward last weekend for daylight saving. Luckily the lap top, tablet and cell phone are clever enough to do it all by themselves. That left the bedside clock, my watch, and the wall clock in the kitchen for me to deal with. The clock in the car doesn't get done, much too hard for me, and I decided not to change the clock on the stove, I don't use that to check the time at all. Down came "Welcome Winter" and up went "Hello Spring" it it's place. The Spring ...

added by Jenny 3 weeks, 2 days ago. under knitting , seasons

Machine Knitting from Becca's Crazy Projects

I've been thinking about knitting something with the LK150. I grabbed my copy of The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes and Gauges took some measurements and cast on. I used a simple e-wrap cast on and then hand manipulated the bottom 20 rows to make 2-by-2 ribbing. That took so much longer than knitting those 20 rows. I think it was worth it and definitely faster than knitting all that ribbing by hand.

I'm going to use a bunch of different colors in wide stripes. I'm just grabbing a color that ...

added by Becca 3 weeks, 6 days ago. under 2026 , knitting , lk150 , machine knitting , yarn

Week 39 of 2026 from Thread Head

This week I started a new "take-along" project -

A pair of handspun socks. Knit two-at-a-time on a long circular needle, from both ends of a ball of yarn. Knitting toe-up, with a simple stitch pattern for interest (knit for two rows, K2, P2 for two rows).

Still working on the "Big Top" towels.

The sleeves on the cardigan are slowly growing too.

Photos from Around -

This year's harvest of garlic, onions and shallots (some dried flowers in there too).

The cats tagging along on a walk.

Full moon over the horizon on tonight's walk.

All the best!♥︎

added by Joanne 4 weeks, 1 day ago. under knitting , weaving

Week 38 of 2026 from Thread Head

This week I finished knitting a hat -

The pattern is the Musselburgh by Ysolda Teague. This is the second one I have made and it is a lovely pattern. This has been on the go since January as my take along project because it is simply knitting in the round (I finished a few other projects along the way too because I knew I wouldn't need a hat for a while).

I used some handspun that had been a few other projects before this, but I think it is perfect as a hat. It is a very light fingering ...

added by Joanne 1 month ago. under knitting

Pink makes the boys wink from Romany Quilting

Pink makes the boys wink, that is what we used to say when we were young pre-teen girls at school. Don't know if it is really true, but I've got a bit of pink knitting this week. First is a pair of very pink socks. They started like this, using some pink sock yarn produced by Breast Cancer NZ as a fund raiser, a Mother's Day gift from my daughter, and I teamed it with a paler pink double knitting yarn. Knitted together this makes my nice cozy 12ply winter socks which I like to knit, and ...

added by Jenny 1 month, 1 week ago. under books , knitting , socks

Week 35 of 2026 from Thread Head

The table runners/towels came off the loom this week -

The towels still need to be hemmed,

but I have started to knot the fringe on one of the table runners (I am trying something different for this one).

I finished a ball of yarn on the cardigan I am knitting, so put the body stitches on hold while I knit the sleeves (two at a time on a long circular needle). I should have plenty of yarn, but just want to make sure.

Photos from Around -

Preserving the bounty of the garden is still well under way. This is ...

added by Joanne 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under knitting , weaving

One more day needed...................... from Exuberant Color

There are four corners finished in this photo. I have 52" left to stitch on the 4th side. I worked on it 4 different times yesterday.

I also baked the chocolate chip cookies and shopped for groceries at two stores.

The humidity was up a little but still tolerable with the windows open.

When I could see I wasn't going to be able to finish the binding I picked up my knitting. I was thinking about which quilt top I might be able to finish before the end of the month while I knitted. Some years August is a ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months ago. under binding , food , knitting

Week 34 of 2026 from Thread Head

The garden is doing well, and this week has been taken up with preserving the bounty of the garden and the fruit trees (apple season is in full swing) -

The vegetable garden.

Almost finished weaving the warp on the loom.

The sleeve stitches for the cardigan are on hold, and it is just straight knit/purl for the body.

Photos from Around -

Miss Maggie returned from hunting covered in cobwebs and seed heads.

Molly having a rest in the shade.

GingerSnap! resting after a night out.

All the chickens this morning.

All the best!♥︎

added by Joanne 2 months ago. under garden , knitting , weaving

Heels - Done from Romany Quilting

I always feel there is something quite magical about knitting heels on socks. On my warm and cozy 12ply socks, these heels are knitted in three stages. First the reinforced heel flap, then turning the heel, and finally the gusset, picking up stitches each side to do the heel shaping. Somebody really clever obviously worked out how to do do all this, and I'm in awe. I have to sit quietly with my pattern, knit one row at a time reading the instructions, and carefully marking off each row in my notebook.

Heels, done

I like to knit my ...

added by Jenny 2 months ago. under knitting , socks , weather

Week 33 of 2026 from Thread Head

This week has been all about cutting more dead trees, chipping branches and spreading the wood chips, but I have a few projects on the go -

I am knitting a cardigan with yarn I finished spinning during Tour de Fleece (using a pattern that I won during last year's TdF - the TANi Cardigan by ANKESTRiCK).

Also have a new project on the loom - more towels (there is a table runner in there too). This is part of a weave along on Ravelry. It is a 'barleycorn weave pattern', something new for me.

Photos from Around -

Some of the chickens ...

added by Joanne 2 months, 1 week ago. under knitting , weaving

Baby Hats and Christmas Stockings from Romany Quilting

Baby hats are great for evening TV knitting, and I finished these a wee while ago. Then they sat till they were finally sewed up. At last they are completed and have been donated to the church where I attend a monthly knitting group, for the Nest Collective group. There is a Columbium refugee family with a new baby the church supports, I was told, and would I mind if the hats get passed on to them instead? Not at all, whoever needs them. One of the other knitting ladies had several pairs of knitted booties which will also be ...

added by Jenny 2 months, 1 week ago. under christmas stockings , hand stitching , knitting

Decision................ from Exuberant Color

All of the blocks were finished and pressed yesterday morning so I had to make a decision on the layout. I needed to clean off my work table. I decided it will be sashing, but wider than I originally tried. I was thinking 1" finished when I first showed the fabrics, but I decided yesterday that the blocks need a little more space between them. Now I'm planning on 1.5" finished sashing. I haven't decided if there will be cornerstones yet. I'm putting this aside now and will work on something else, plus I'm still ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 1 week ago. under 9 patch , black and white , kaffe fabric , knitting , triangles

Week 32 of 2026 from Thread Head

This week I finished knitting a little scarf -

The pattern is Leaf Fall by Nicola Diggins.

I knit it with handspun yarn, a merino/silk blend that I dyed before spinning. I had used the yarn for another scarf years ago and never wore it, so I took it apart to use the yarn again.

It was quite curled before blocking.

After blocking it lays flat.

It was an easy, fun knit, and the pattern was very clear.

Today was the end of the second part of Tour de Fleece (Tour de Fleece Femmes), and I finished spinning the sock ...

added by Joanne 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under knitting , pets

More sorting fun.................... from Exuberant Color

Here is the whole rack that I showed a portion of in yesterday's post. Yesterday I sorted the reds, what fun, and there weren't any I wanted to get rid of. To the right of them is the overflow of Brandon fabrics (which you can see the edge of on the right) and a couple Kaffe yarn dyed wovens. There is a pile of fat quarters in front of the stack. So the second shelf from the top was sorted Saturday and the reds on Sunday. The 2 unsorted shelves are the Philip Jacobs prints. On the bottom ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , knitting , organization , stash

Tiny Christmas Stockings, and Darning from Romany Quilting

I've completed stitching three pair of tiny felt Christmas Stockings, which were handed out at last month's quilt club meeting. Each set of stockings came with an extra strip of felt. These will be hung on the display of Christmas Trees in December, our club's entry in the Avenue of Trees.

Red, white and green

After putting my thinking cap on, I had worked out how I wanted to decorate them. They are tiny, so keep it simple, I decided. Sadly, I failed miserably with blanket stitch, so just did running stitch instead. I'm sure it ...

added by Jenny 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under books , christmas , knitting , socks , stitching

July 2026 monthly recap......................... from Exuberant Color

Two favorites were finished in July. The "Other 16 Patch" was made with Marcia Derse fabrics, front, back, and binding. On this one I staggered the blocks by using half blocks at top and bottom in every other column. I think I like it better than the first few I made with the blocks in rows both horizontally and vertically. This one is 61" x 79.5".

The floral stars was in a time out for a year and half and then I made final decisions to get the top sewn together. A large percentage of the prints are from ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under accuquilt die cutter , knitting , monthly recap

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