Final Sammelsurium Sweater

 I finished my final, for now anyway, Sammelsurium sweater. I now have one in every colour, or colour family at least. That is a colour I would wear.  I decided to add a little bit of stranded knitting to the left sleeve just to spice it up a bit.

Pattern: Sammelsurium by Åsa Tricosa
Yarn: Knitpicks Wool of the Andes Worsted in Grizzly Heather and Almond
Needle: 3.75mm & 4.5mm
Gauge: 20 stitches and 28 rows = 10 cm in stocking stitch

Current weather
14C with light rain. This could be the first sign that summer is drawing to a close.

A Birthday Sweater and Two Ziggurats

 Finished my Wee Niece's birthday sweater. This is another Wonderful Wallaby (Warren Wallaby, done at a tighter gauge) with a fair isle pattern and some dinosaurs. She loves dinosaurs. I had to tighten up the gauge a bit both because this yarn knit up a bit smaller than a worsted weight and to make sure the yellow didn't show through too much, it is a bit but not so much I can't live with it.

Pattern: Wonderful Wallaby by Carol A. Anderson with dinosaurs from Daisy and Storm

Yarn: Knitpicks Swish Worsted in Peapod, Highlighter Yellow, and Garnet Heather
Needle: 3.25mm & 4.0mm
Gauge: 20 stitches and 29 rows = 10 cm

It seems I also never posted about my Down Petrichor and Blue Sammelsurium sweaters. My fourth and fifth ziggurats in less than a year. I'm definitely getting my money's worth from the book. The Down Petrichor, unfortunately, came out too big, the gauge was completely off; I may end up re-knitting it. Yes, I'm willing to do that to get a sweater that works and yes, it is not the first time I have failed to notice that a project isn't working until it's done or nearly done. Fortunately, I love, love, love knitting. Also fortunately, I have purchased yarn for a few more Petrichors so I will knit one or more of them before I take this one apart.

Pattern: Petrichor by Åsa Tricosa

Yarn: Knitpicks Stroll Tweed in Down Heather

Needle: 2.75mm & 3.0mm

Gauge: 25 stitches and 38 rows in 10cm in stocking stitch

Pattern: Sammelsurium by Åsa Tricosa

Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Worsted in Winter Night

Needle: 3.75mm & 4.5mm

Gauge: 20 stitches and 28 rows = 10 cm in stocking stitch

Current Weather
22C and sunny first thing in the morning. The summer heat has been intense this year.

Knock, Knock

 A second Knitted Knocker for Mom. That's it for now.

Pattern: Knitted Knockers Double pointed needles
Yarn: Knit Picks Shine Sport in Blush
Needle: 3.5mm
Gauge: not critical

Current Weather
31C and sunny. There's a heatwave, an actual heatwave. And it's the beginning of June.

Knock me over

 My Mom has been battling breast cancer for over a year now and part of her treatment was a mastectomy. She is now ready to start wearing a bra again so, as per her request, I have knitted her a knocker. The colour is a bit unfortunate for a knocker and the frustrating part is I do have some cream somewhere. The problems is, I put it somewhere safe to be ready when it was time to knit up some knockers but...... I have no idea where that "safe" place is. Sigh. I went ahead and made one with something else from my stash, if colour becomes an issue I will order some cream.

Pattern: Knitted Knockers
Yarn: Knit Picks Cotlin in Canary
Needle: 3.75mm
Gauge: not critical

Current Weather
23C and partly cloudy. Lovely.

The Bunny Blanket

 Huh, how about that? Something that isn't a ziggurat sweater. Don't panic however, there are more of those coming.

In the meantime, I have managed to (finally) complete a double knit baby blanket. It's larger than most at 85cmX102cm knitted with sport weight yarn on 4.0mm needles and with the time it takes to knit up the (totally awesome) double knit fabric it took close to two years (1 year & 11 months) to complete. A lot of that was me getting tired of knitting on it and letting it sit untouched for months on end.

I made up this pattern completely, including drawing the bunny. Drawing isn't my strongest skill as you may have guessed from the rather primitive looking bunny. But, it works for a baby blanket. Maybe I'll try a mouse next.

Pattern: Improvised
Yarn: Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly Big! in White and Lilac
Needle: 4.0mm
Gauge: not critical

Current weather
19C and partly cloudy. Spring has returned after a couple of weeks on hiatus while it snowed.

Third Fall Down the Rabbit Hole

 The Rabbit Hole of Ziggurat sweaters that is.

I just finished my third Sammelsurium by Åsa Tricosa. I have one more to go and then I may move on to something else but I just LOVE this pattern so, maybe not.... Haven't decided yet. I am working on a fingering weight ziggurat too but it's taking a lot longer than the DK weight sweaters.

The pattern calls for three colours but I have a fondness for solid coloured sweaters so that's what I made; it's for me after all. Well, the first two were true solids, for this one I added small stripes to the sleeves and collar just for a little pop of pizzazz.

Pattern: Sammelsurium by Åsa Tricosa
Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Worsted in Rooibos heather
Gauge: 20 stitches and 28 rows = 10 cm in stocking stitch
Needle: 3.75mm & 4.5mm

Cool, you can see my hand print

In other news

Ahab went to the groomers today so he's clean and (sort of) non shedding right now. He spent the ride home telling me all about how much it SUCKS to be clean when you're a dog.

Current Weather
0C and snowing / raining. It's switching between snow and rain at the whim of Mother Nature.

Sweater and Socks

 I finished my second ziggurat a few weeks ago but wasn't sure about the neck line so I delayed posting about it. I have decided to keep the neck line for now so here it is.

I modified the neck, hem, and cuffs to be just a 1x1 rib instead of the folded over version in the pattern. I wanted this to be a really basic sweater.

Pattern: Sammelsurium by Åsa Tricosa
Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Worsted
Needle: 4.5mm & 3.75mm
Gauge: 20 stitches and 28 rows = 10 cm in stocking stitch

And some socks for my BiL. 

Pattern: Basic sock pattern
Yarn: Lang Yarns Super Soxx Color
Needle: 2.5mm
Gauge: 41 stitches and 46 rows = 10 cm

Current Weather
-1C with a snowfall warning. Spring in Alberta.