Botanical Gardens Net Bag

I try not to do a ton of impulse yarn, but I absolutely fell in love with this Queensland Collection Cairns in Royal Botanical Gardens that was in clearance at Northampton Wools. Seeing it, I immediately knew exactly what I wanted to make out of it.

Yarn: Queensland Collection Cairns in Royal Botanical Gardens and Dungarees Fine 

Yarn Suppliers: Northampton Wools and Mind's Eye Yarns respectively

Hook: 3.5 mm and 5.0 mm

Pattern: Mandala Net Bag by Caroline Hosmann (modified)

I had used the same Queensland Collective Dungarees Fine in the edging of my Trio blanket. I love how the colors are picked up between these two yarn colorways by the same producer.

I did make some minor modifications to the pattern due to my choices of yarns with different gauge, which I was really satisfied with.  I started with pattern, went until I ran out of the Cairns, then did one round of the netting in the Dungarees Fine held double. When starting the top I halved the number of stitches and went single strand to get the more closed open that I would like.

For my gauge with the Cairns the number of net stitch repeats in each round is probably higher than it needed to be, but the end result is a very stretchy, generous bag, with some extra structure from the way I did the top.

Do Ewe Yoke KAL

It had been a while since I had done a KAL, and the Do Ewe Yoke (Ravelry link) was right up my alley as it combined both Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool which I am absolutely obsessed with  Zanete Knits's design aesthetic which has been really appealing to me and colorwork. 

The Spincycle Dyed in the Wool are seconds that I had picked up in a grabbag a while back, and the Louet Gems Sport weight I am knitting with was chosen primarily since it was in my stash, I had enough of it, and the colors seemed like they would work together.

Vilora Sock and Glove set

One of the best things about making your own things is the ability to customize to nearly quirky thing you had imagine. I had this idea for my LARP character Vilora, and they came out just the way I had hoped: obnoxious unnatural greens in a coordinated by non-symmetrical color-scheme. 

Yarn: Hobbii Silly Socks Disco

Yarn Supplier: Hobbii Yarns

Needles: US 1 / 2.25 mm

Pattern: none in particular, just based on my own knitting experience

The last pair of mitts that I had made were apparently never blogged, but A) it was in ancient times and B) I made them with long cuffs that generally I found annoying. So I am already very pleased with how useful the new pair are.