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Diane Therriault
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Wife, mom, retiree, knitter, tenor, volunteer, thrifter, nerd.
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Living within the unceded traditional territory of the Qualicum First Nation.
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#ShowMeYourKnits stripes
My second pair of adult socks (November 2022)
Pattern: One Sock by @kateatherley.bsky.social
Yarn: Amble by @thefibreco.bsky.social
🧶 #knitsky
A pair of hand-knit socks lay on a beige background. The socks have grey toes, heels, and cuffs. The rest of the socks are striped in grey and dark blue, with each stripe being two rows.
August 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits purple
#knitsky
pattern: Snow Wonder (Women) by Heidi Kirrmaier
yarn: Briggs & Little (thrifted) and Coopworth Mohair (thrifted)
A deep purple, hand-knit sweater is worn on the torso of a person. The sweater has raglan sleeves, and is mainly done in stocking stitch. The cuffs and neck are done in 2x2 ribbing. A single, large snowflake appears on the front of the sweater, comprised of bobbles knit using a lighter-coloured purple-blue yarn.
May 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits gifts
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Knit about three and a half years apart for best friend’s granddaughter.
Pattern: Kimes by Taiga Hilliard
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A folded infant-sized cardigan lays on a stack of folded knitting. The cardigan is knit in a variegated yarn of multiple greys. Most of the body of the sweater is in stocking stitch. The neck, cuffs and button band are in garter stitch. There are seven grey buttons. A blue child-sized hand-knit cardigan lays on a red dog blanket. The cardigan has raglan sleeves, and is constructed using stocking stitch. The neck, cuffs and button bands are in garter stitch. The ten buttons are each a different colour.
April 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits Colourwork
🧶 #knit 2024
Pattern: Baa-ble Hat by Donna Smith
Yarn: Briggs & Little Regal
A hand-knit hat is worn on a head. The hat is brown at the bottom and blue at the top. There are white sheep with black legs, faces and tails at the transition between the brown and the blue. There are many white dots on the blue, and a few in the brown, signifying that it is snowing. The brim is constructed using 2-by-2 ribbing, and the rest of the hat is in stocking stitch.
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits Green (ish)
#knitting
Pattern: Baby Blanket with Stars | Couverture étoiles by Mathilde - Le Pavillon Créatif
Yarn: Patons Cotton Chunky (thrifted)
Finished September 2021
The top left corner of a hand-knit baby blanket. The blanket is of a solid green bordering on teal. The background is fashioned in plain stocking stitch. Five five-point stars are visible. The stars and the blanket’s border are knit in seed stitch. The same baby blanket. The blanket is folded, and a corner is folded back to reveal that the back side of the blanket is lined with flannelette. The flannelette has a pale green background, and is patterned with small cartoon animals: cows, penguins, alligators, ducks & monkeys.
March 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits Lace 🧶
Scarf knit in 2021 as a gift for a very kind friend of our son’s
Pattern: Raising Abel by Laurie Beardsley
Yarn: No idea. A very intense rainbow lace-weight yarn bought on a whim
A hand-knitted lace-weight scarf, in rainbow colours, where the colours change in diagonal waves
February 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits What’s on your needles? 🧶

Ribbing and a very stern blocking to go. . .

Pattern: Goldwing by Jennifer Steingass
Yarn: Viking Wool (thrifted)
A medium grey and dark grey sweater lies on a beige carpeted floor. From the top down, the rolled neck starts in dark grey, and the light grey is introduced. By the end of the yoke, the predominant colour is the light grey, and the boy of the sweater and most of the sleeves are solid light grey. The dark grey is introduced again before the end of the sleeve cuffs, in a pattern similar to that of the yoke. The sweater is unfinished, with the lower body ribbing being in progress in the light grey. Loose ends are visible.
February 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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❤️ I recognize those socks! They’re my travel project, too :-)
A completed hand-knit sock and a partially completed, matching sock. The main colour is pink, starting at the cuff with a light pink and gradually becoming a deep pink in the foot. There is a dark green leafed vine encirling the cuff, and a light green leafed vine encircling the foot near the toe.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits Stripes 🧶
My first pair of socks, in 2022
Pattern: One Sock by Kate Atherley
Yarn: Amble by The Fibre Co.
Of course I knit two right socks 🙄 (i.e. the jog is on the same side of both socks)
A pair of striped, blue & grey hand-knit socks rest on a beige background. The cuffs, heels and toes are solid blue, and the rest of each sock is striped.
February 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Cables
Alternated three skeins, changing at faux eam
Pattern: Ink by Hanna Maciejewska, shortened to fit under jacket for travel
Yarn: Emily C Gillies Merino Sock Yarn in Mom Jeans, purchased at @woolandwaves.bsky.social
#Knitting #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶
A blue cardigan lies drying on blocking mats. The bulk of the sweater is knit in reverse stockinette. It sports a cabled strip that makes up the collar, follows the front edges of the cardigan part way down, and then veers off towards the hips. The triangular space created between the cabled strip and the hips at the bottom of the cardigan is filled by ribbing. A similar cabled strip runs vertically down each sleeve, below the elbow.
January 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits Christmas sweater knit in 2023, every day except one, for 99 days. 🧶
Pattern: Festive Yoke Pullover by Skeindeer Knits
Yarn: Estelle Double Knit (I think)
A pullover lays on a deck. The main colour is a dark grey. There are 8 horizontal strips, each with a different Christmas-themed object in very light grey, and the strips are separated by red accents. The objects chosen for this sweater were poinsettias, Christmas trees, reindeer, snowmen, candles, bells, reindeer heads, and gifts.
January 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits I only have a blocking picture.

Pattern: Marianas Shawl, modified to be rectangular

Yarns (thrifted): Handmaiden Rumple & Handmaiden Angel Hair
Textured blue and yellow rectangular shawl, stretched on blocking mats.
January 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Total score!

It included some balls of frogged yarn and a slipper, but I’ve been knitting the unused yarn so far.

I’m starting to think that there might be enough for a second sweater.
Skeins of Viking Yarn Icelandic wool sorted on a wooden floor, all in grey/brown hues. Two are light, three plus a small ball are dark, and nine plus two balls are medium. Tens balls of frogged yarn and a slipper rest on a wooden floor.
January 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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One sleeve to go on the same sweater.

Yarn is thrifted Viking Wool.
Grey/Brown in two tones sweater under construction in lap. A cat is just visible, snuggled up next to knitter.
January 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Socks. Chargers/cables took up more space in my carryon. Started pair on way to Italy, finished up first sock waiting in line for St. Peter’s Basilica (as one does) and started second sock on trip home.
Pattern is Wildflower Meadow by Andrea Rangel. Yarn is June Roses by Gauge Dye Works.
Almost complete sock in pink starting with light pink at cuff and becoming brighter and darker towards the toes. There are dark green leaves circling the able in the light pink, and light green leaves circling the ball of the foot in the darker pink. Same sock almost finished, standing in line in Vatican City. Gauge Dye Works of June Roses yarn made into Wildflower Meadows sock Pink and green yarn caked in preparation for trip
November 21, 2024 at 11:02 PM