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Terin Skyweaver (they/them)
@terinskyweaver.bsky.social
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Knitter. Designer. Queer. Disabled.
Occasional tarot musings.
Tangata Tiriti of Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://www.ravelry.com/designers/terin-skyweaver
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Turns out I've done a *few* extra raglan increases on my 🧶 tshirt while I haven't been paying attention 😆 Back I go...
#knitsky
Photo of some faded denim blue knitting held in a pale hand, with a raglan increase in the centre. One needle at the top of the work on the left, with loose stitches on the right, the other needle a dozen or so rows (who am I kidding, it's sixteen) down, picking up stitches, including stitchmarkers at the raglan increase. In the background, slightly out of focus, is a bright rainbow waves blanket. The pattern I'm working from is free, called the Bad Idea Blouse, using a cotton yarn on 4mm needles.
June 27, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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The sky today
A photo of the sky, clouds cover it in varying layers, dark in a triangle from lower left to upper right and across. The sun is bright to the middle left, hazy behind the clouds. In the lower part of the photo, silhouetted trees and a couple of roofs line the shot, along with a solitary lamppost. The cloud along the bottom is tinted an orange-ish yellow. A photo of the sky, soft and purple, with rounded purple-tone clouds in the lower half of the photo, underlit with yellow. Silhouetted in the foreground are trees, a lit streetlight, and a trellis fence. A roofline is in the front right, cut off by the edge of the photo. The image feels like soft morning stillness before the start of the day.
June 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Was struggling to find something yellow to post for this week's #showMeYourKnits without posting yet another cowl, forgetting this glorious crossbody bag I made a few months ago and use all the time and brings me All The Joy.
Slightly felted to prevent things slipping through any holes.
🧶 #knitsky
Photo of a golden-yellow knitted and felted cross-body bag (beltbag) with a chunky black zip and a black clasp on the righthand side. The belt part is made in garter stitch and is adjustable in length. The colour is glorious.
June 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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This new pattern is inspired by the Star card, perfect for Matariki and the Winter Solstice.
And invites us to ask:
1. Where do we get our nourishment?
2. What futures are we planting seeds for?
3. What are we pouring our love into?
#tarotsky #tarottalk #tarotalt #magicalbazaar #tarotspreads
A photo of knitting from the Hope Grows Roots Cowl, overlaid with three labelled card outlines at the top, below are three questions: 1. Where di we get our nourishment? 2. What futures are we planting seeds for? 3. What are we pouring our love into?
June 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The 2-colour version is great for colourwork beginners, with no float management, while the 3-colour version offers a challenge for more experienced knitters.
Or add the 3rd colour in duplicate stitch.
Varying size options.
On Ravelry now, but if that's inaccessible to you, get in touch. 🧶
#knitsky
Author (a pale skinned androgynous person with short-cropped dark hair on one side and chin-length hair on the other, faces the left) wearing a Hope Grows Roots Cowl in two shades of green, made in DK, wide and tall size.
June 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Sneaking in one last photo of my favourite cowl for #ShowMeYourKnits cowl week.
🧶🧶🧶
#WayHomeCowl #knitsky
Photo of a pale skinned androgynous person in glasses in a black hoodie wearing a pink and pale yellow cowl in a geometric repetitive design - the Way Home Cowl by me, Terin Skyweaver.
June 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Here's the two-colour versions, in fingering & DK weights, #knitsky
Less obviously floral in the pattern, but reeeeeaalllllly satisfying to knit, with no floats to catch.
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Calculating yardage today, so getting closer to a complete pattern. Now I just need a haircut so I can take pretty pictures 🤣
How Grows Roots cowls knit in two colours in fingering and DK weight, laying flat, overlapping. On top is the fingering weight made in pale purple and bold pink. Behind lays the DK made in dark green and yellowy green. The cowl design is made up of ribbing at the top and bottom edges, with stranded colourwork between in a repetitive geometric design reminiscent of leaves and postibly suggestive of flowers if done in the right colours. The pattern is by me, Terin Skyweaver, and is being released soon.
June 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Just finished this cowl today, Hope Grows Roots, perfect timing for this week's #ShowMeYourKnits
so you can get the blocking mat photo
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It gave me lots of me practice at 3-colour stranded knitting, though there's also a 2-colour version without any float management.
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Pattern coming out soon.
Photo of Hope Grows Roots cowl made in grey, golden brown, and white spread flat and drying on a pale towel. The cowl is a design of ribbing at the top and bottom (grey), and a repetitive geometric design reminiscent of leaves (golden brown) and flowers (white). Two Hope Grows Roots cowls of different sizes and colours. One large and grey/golden brown/white takes up most of the photo. Layered over top in the upper left is a smaller one, made in navy blue/green/pink. The cowls' design is ribbing at the top and bottom with a repetitive geometric design reminiscent of leaves and flowers.
June 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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I'm amused by this set, all aces, all reversed. Some thoughts on my pull:
1. Stories of poor self worth
2. Tiny steps count, you don't have to have The Big Idea
3. Where is your spark? That this card has it pointed downwards for this question feels very fitting
Ace of pentacles reversed, ace of swords reversed, ace of torches (wands) reversed, from the Cosmic Slumber Tarot. In the ace of pentacles, an open pale-skinned hand with a red cuff reaches from the bottom of the card towards a yellow-gold coin inscribed with a pentagram in the centre, in front of a leafy green background. There is a tiny figure to the upper right, peeking out of the leaves. In the ace of swords, a dark-skinned hand with a blue cuff clutches a sword which dominates the card, in front of a red cloudy background. Perched on the crossbar of the hilt of the sword is a tiny figure dressed in a blue robe. In the ace of torches, a pale-skinned hand with a dark green cuff comes from the bottom-right, gently clasping a wooden stick with a couple of branching twigs, the top of which is blackened and on fire. The flame is orangey-yellow and red, with whitish smoke rising off the top of the card. Perched on one of the twigs, and clutching the main stick, is a tiny figure dressed in a green robe looking up at the flame. In the background is a purple rocky landscape.
June 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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To pompom or not to pompom, that is the question, #knitsky 🧶

I was going to post this colourwork beanie as my #showMeYourKnits #WIP but I accidentally finished knitting it, I was enjoying it so much (and that finished crown is so satisfying!) - though without a pompom, is it really complete?
A photo from above of the crown of a blue and white colourwork knitted beanie, the colourwork splaying out from the blue crown in a satisfying star shape. The pre-cast-off try-on, with knitting needles still in the crown of the beanie, curls of the circular needle looping around, tails of yarn dangling down. Now the blue ribbed folded brim can be seen, as can the geometric white and blue colourwork repetitive patterning. A hilarious stage of the process.
May 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I had the Six of Swords follow me around for 18 months until I made a knitting pattern from it. Did all the enquiry spreads, the journaling, everything I could think of. Wouldn't leave me alone. Until this. 🧶 Name is short for 'May your pain guide the way home'.
ravel.me/way-home-cowl
Photo of the Six of Swords card from the Fifth Spirit Tarot resting on a knitted colourwork cowl on a blanket. The card depicts a row boat on a black sea with rough water behind, smooth water infront, no one is in the boat but there are six giant nails point down in the bow of the boat. Overhead fly six birds (geese?) in a V formation pointing in the same direction as the boat. The sky looks like the sun might be about to rise, with light coming from just below the horizon and a crescent moon in the upper right corner. Beneath the card is a knitted cowl which has a geometric colourwork design with pointed shapes in light pink on a navy blue background, with navy blue ribbing at top and bottom. The shapes are slightly reminiscent of swords. Beneath both the card and cowl is a soft blue blanket.
April 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The swatch
Swatch of lime green knitting help by a pale hand in front of an out-of-focus messy living room. The top of the swatch has been brushed until it has fluffed up, with tall wisps about 2cm above the knitted fabric in the main bulk and some even taller
April 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Two fluffy wristwarmers coming up! 🧶🧶🧶

Made from simple rib in the round, worked in the flat for the thumb hole, before joining back in the round. And then fluffying up with a slicker brush. I'd recommend a test swatch first.

Now I want to make all the fluffy things.... 😁

#knitsky
Two lime green wristwarmers lie before you, one fluffy, one not. A slicker brush lies above them, ready to go to work. The unfluffed wristwarmer shows that they are made in a simple ribbed stitch, with a hole for the thumb part way down from the top.
April 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Working on this hypersaturated cowl this week #knitsky #showMeYourKnits 🧶
I love how from across the room the colours just blend together into a fantastic pinky-purple of my inner child's dreams
Photo of a knitted cowl work in progress in stranded colourwork made of lilac-purple and bright almost-orangey-pink. Ribbing at the bottom is in the purple. A thumb and finger are visible at the left top holding the needles. The colourwork pattern is repetitive geometric-ish and sort of leafy. It is from an upcoming design by me called 'hope grows roots', this is a sample made in fingering weight yarn, but it will also be available for DK weight yarn.
April 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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#knitsky my swatch pile is looking amazing right now! Found some cones of bright colours at an op shop recently, so I'm not sure what I'll knit yet, but the colours are making me happy. The green fuzz on top? that's requested wristwarmers for a young friend, made with a slicker brush 😁 🧶🧶🧶
Photo of a haphazard pile of small knitted rectangles on a white windowsill in bright colours - blue, pink, yellow, pastel pink, with a fuzzy lime green one on top. They all have tails of yarn hanging off. Green trees are visible out of focus beyond the window.
March 31, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Sky smiles
A small thin crescent moon is seen in a clear blue morning sky beyond a roof edge, shaped like a smile.
March 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Celebrating #showMeYourKnits colourwork week by working on yet another version of my Way Home Cowl, my first published pattern. Didn't quite know what to expect with this variegated yarn from hand-me-down stash, but is looking lovely. 🧶 #knitsky
Stranded colourwork knitting of the Way Home Cowl in navy blue and variegated bright colour in geometric shapes, held in front of black clothing, with the wire of a circular knitting needle visible at the top of the knitting, ribbing in the navy at the bottom.
March 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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no cheating, post the last photo of your pet
A photo of a fluffy husky seen through a windowed door. The husky is lying down looking away from the camera, ears up. The husky is mostly black from this angle, with white visible at the lower edges and the inside of the ear. She looks very soft. Behind the husky is visible a vertical post and some green bushes
March 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Behold the blood moon! By which, of course, I mean, an incredibly blurry photo of said moon, in which you can barely tell it is either moon or eclipse, but there _is_ some red. It was a lovely bright crescent here, with a dark red rest-of-whole. #bloodMoon
An incredibly blurry photo of the blood moon from 14 March 2025, showing a wobbly blurry circle with a bright white crescent on the lower right and the upper left filled with darker red, all very unsharp and out of focus. The sky is probably out of focus too, but as it is just black, it is hard to tell.
March 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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This morning's progress was joining in the round. This afternoon's... not so much. Sigh.
🧶 #knitsky
A pile of pink and white yarn noodles haphazardly on top of the back of pink and white stranded colourwork knitting. It's a big and messy pile. If you could see the face of the photographer, it would not be a pleased face.
March 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I'm liking the way the colourwork of my #skyKAL is coming out, but long rows on 3mm needles sure do take a lot of knitting 🙃 ...whose idea was this again 🤣
#knitsky
A close-up photo of some knitting on it's needles, blue stitches at the bottom of the photo give way to geometric blue and black patterning halfway up, with odd coloured flecks in the black. A couple of stitch markers are visible on the needles.
February 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Stash-diving to whip up a quick little felting project, only to find that one of the yarns must be superwash. Sigh.
I guess this is what you get when you inherit yarn from someone who never kept the labels. Can't frog it now 🤣
#knitsky 🧶
A square of colourwork knitting, the front of a coin purse, lies on a black background. It is made of peachy-pink leafy shapes on a purple background. The peachy-pink yarn has been felted. The purple stitches remain defined and unfelted, with some looseness where the purple top edge has not shrunk with felting, but the lower colourwork has. The colourwork pattern is currently called, 'May your hope grow roots', and is a forthcoming design.
February 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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#ShowMeYourKnits asks for WIPs, but I don't think I can count them all without panicking slightly, so here's one my hands are enjoying. A new colourwork design and some nice shades of green 🧶 #knitsky
A half-made knitting project draped over balls of yarn on a pale grey couch. It is colourwork in two shades of green, the lighter and yellower shade slightly reminiscent of leaf patterns against the darker green which also forms ribbing at the bottom of the knitting. Some of the back of the knitting, with floats, is visible at the bottom of the photo.
February 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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My #skyKAL knit looking like a sea of blue in my lap this morning 💙 🧶
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A half-knitted blue garment is scrunched up on circular needles, forming waves and undulations of soft fabric. The ends of the needles and a stitch marker and visible in the foreground.
February 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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I cast on a bold pink project this week because I needed the dopamine. I had to dig out some straight needles for it because all my right size circulars were already taken. So maaaybe I have too many WIPs on the go rn. But at least this one's vibrancy is making me happy. 🧶
#showmeyourknits #knitsky
Bright pink knitting on a straight knitting needle, with some white colourwork at the top, lies diagonally across a black-clothed lap. A few lightbulb stitch markers are visible along the needle. The bottom of the knitting has rolled up a bet, showing the reverse side at the bottom right of the picture.
February 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM