Alla Hale
@harvestedhues.bsky.social
Building community through creativity in the Twin Cities.
natural dyer 🌿 data scientist 📊
longtime knitter 🧶 lifetime pattern seeker 👀
Classes and more information: https://lnk.bio/harvestedhues
natural dyer 🌿 data scientist 📊
longtime knitter 🧶 lifetime pattern seeker 👀
Classes and more information: https://lnk.bio/harvestedhues
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May 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Thank you! That’s cool!
April 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thank you! That’s cool!
This is lovely. How are you accomplishing the colorwork with the contiguous sleeve? Is it a new piece of yarn for each row? Intarsia in the round? Is this a cardigan knit flat?
April 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is lovely. How are you accomplishing the colorwork with the contiguous sleeve? Is it a new piece of yarn for each row? Intarsia in the round? Is this a cardigan knit flat?
April 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The mittens ended! 🧶
I didn’t quite make the March to the Finish deadline, but they were blocking on 3/31, and all ends were snipped on 4/1.
I didn’t quite make the March to the Finish deadline, but they were blocking on 3/31, and all ends were snipped on 4/1.
April 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The mittens ended! 🧶
I didn’t quite make the March to the Finish deadline, but they were blocking on 3/31, and all ends were snipped on 4/1.
I didn’t quite make the March to the Finish deadline, but they were blocking on 3/31, and all ends were snipped on 4/1.
Everyone got through the binding, and will quilt them at home.
March 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Everyone got through the binding, and will quilt them at home.
I think it stems from how you were raised.
Or maybe it’s birth order 🤷🏻♀️
Or maybe it’s birth order 🤷🏻♀️
March 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think it stems from how you were raised.
Or maybe it’s birth order 🤷🏻♀️
Or maybe it’s birth order 🤷🏻♀️
I got you! These were actually out of a Latvian pattern book, but I don’t know whose hands they were intended for or what gauge they were supposed to be. Because on my 00 needles, at a gauge of 12 st/inch, I still had to cut off 1/3 of the pattern to fit my hands.
March 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I got you! These were actually out of a Latvian pattern book, but I don’t know whose hands they were intended for or what gauge they were supposed to be. Because on my 00 needles, at a gauge of 12 st/inch, I still had to cut off 1/3 of the pattern to fit my hands.
And yet they live… I have been so tempted to put this entire project in the trash can so many times. But I like the yarn too much.
March 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
And yet they live… I have been so tempted to put this entire project in the trash can so many times. But I like the yarn too much.
Okay, last post on this: I am considering lining the mittens with a second layer inside. 🧶 Knitter logic, I guess.
March 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Okay, last post on this: I am considering lining the mittens with a second layer inside. 🧶 Knitter logic, I guess.
Oh, and this is all on size 00 needles. I forgot the part at the beginning where I started on size 1s, and the mitten came out fit for a giant.
March 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Oh, and this is all on size 00 needles. I forgot the part at the beginning where I started on size 1s, and the mitten came out fit for a giant.
7/7
This leads me to now. All I have left are the cuffs. Which I will do in corrugated rib. Because that’s what knitters do.
This leads me to now. All I have left are the cuffs. Which I will do in corrugated rib. Because that’s what knitters do.
March 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
7/7
This leads me to now. All I have left are the cuffs. Which I will do in corrugated rib. Because that’s what knitters do.
This leads me to now. All I have left are the cuffs. Which I will do in corrugated rib. Because that’s what knitters do.
6/ Mitten surgery ensues. This is ugly. Unpicking 3 rows of mitten hand, knitting two rows of mitten hand on the thumb, grafting, edges a mess. I almost died. But it worked out. 💪🏻
March 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
6/ Mitten surgery ensues. This is ugly. Unpicking 3 rows of mitten hand, knitting two rows of mitten hand on the thumb, grafting, edges a mess. I almost died. But it worked out. 💪🏻
5/
Now, to attack the offending thin thumb on mitten 1: plan was to widen the opening and then pick up stitches for a new thumb. But of course, the thin thumb is one pattern repeat too low compared to the second mitten.
Now, to attack the offending thin thumb on mitten 1: plan was to widen the opening and then pick up stitches for a new thumb. But of course, the thin thumb is one pattern repeat too low compared to the second mitten.
March 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
5/
Now, to attack the offending thin thumb on mitten 1: plan was to widen the opening and then pick up stitches for a new thumb. But of course, the thin thumb is one pattern repeat too low compared to the second mitten.
Now, to attack the offending thin thumb on mitten 1: plan was to widen the opening and then pick up stitches for a new thumb. But of course, the thin thumb is one pattern repeat too low compared to the second mitten.
4/
Then I noticed the finger decreases were different on the two mittens. Ugh.😤 I ripped and redid the finger decreases on the first mitten. Three times! I finally had matching tops with decreases beginning on the same row.
Then I noticed the finger decreases were different on the two mittens. Ugh.😤 I ripped and redid the finger decreases on the first mitten. Three times! I finally had matching tops with decreases beginning on the same row.
March 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
4/
Then I noticed the finger decreases were different on the two mittens. Ugh.😤 I ripped and redid the finger decreases on the first mitten. Three times! I finally had matching tops with decreases beginning on the same row.
Then I noticed the finger decreases were different on the two mittens. Ugh.😤 I ripped and redid the finger decreases on the first mitten. Three times! I finally had matching tops with decreases beginning on the same row.
3/
I took them out of timeout and started the second mitten, hoping to make some tweaks to the thumb. Finished knitting everything but the cuffs on the second mitten. Happy!
I took them out of timeout and started the second mitten, hoping to make some tweaks to the thumb. Finished knitting everything but the cuffs on the second mitten. Happy!
March 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
3/
I took them out of timeout and started the second mitten, hoping to make some tweaks to the thumb. Finished knitting everything but the cuffs on the second mitten. Happy!
I took them out of timeout and started the second mitten, hoping to make some tweaks to the thumb. Finished knitting everything but the cuffs on the second mitten. Happy!
2/
I finished the finger decreases on the first mitten, and knit a thumb that was big enough for only my pinky! Threw these offending mittens in timeout for months!
I finished the finger decreases on the first mitten, and knit a thumb that was big enough for only my pinky! Threw these offending mittens in timeout for months!
March 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
2/
I finished the finger decreases on the first mitten, and knit a thumb that was big enough for only my pinky! Threw these offending mittens in timeout for months!
I finished the finger decreases on the first mitten, and knit a thumb that was big enough for only my pinky! Threw these offending mittens in timeout for months!
1/
First, I hated the way I was catching my floats. I wanted them to be neater on the back, so I frogged and restarted the first mitten after I had made space for the thumb.
First, I hated the way I was catching my floats. I wanted them to be neater on the back, so I frogged and restarted the first mitten after I had made space for the thumb.
March 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
1/
First, I hated the way I was catching my floats. I wanted them to be neater on the back, so I frogged and restarted the first mitten after I had made space for the thumb.
First, I hated the way I was catching my floats. I wanted them to be neater on the back, so I frogged and restarted the first mitten after I had made space for the thumb.