#ShowMeYourKnits My current #WIP is a #mathart exhibition piece that I’m still keeping mostly under wraps, but here’s a sneak peek. The knitting is nearly complete; the blocking and mounting will take a few days on their own. 🧶 #knitsky #mathknit #mathknitting #symmetries

#ShowMeYourKnits Luckily, I bought a heap of self-striping sock kits from Lollipop Yarns before they vanished. Since there’s always half a pair’s yarn left over, I decided to helix knit the remnants of two kits for stripe-on-stripe chaos #socks. 🧶 #knitsky 🧦 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits Shawlography has brought me #joy on several fronts. Beyond the pattern being a surprise, I was surprised when my entire knitting Zoom crew jumped into the MKAL with me. And this year, it was a joy to take it apart and put it back together the way I wished I’d made it. 🧶 #knitsky

#ShowMeYourKnits My favorite #scarf knitted for myself. With two yarns, the free pattern turns linen stitch into bumpy vertical stripes on one side and flat horizontal stripes on the other. I ditched the trendy urban neutrals for neon Noro on black. 🧶 #knitsky www.purlsoho.com/create/2017/...

#ShowMeYourKnits 🧵1/2 Just finished a long knit and am unusually indecisive about my next knit. So I turned a finished object back into a #WIP. I did the #westknits 2021 Shawlography #MKAL as a mystery, with a few mods. I always regretted having swapped the colors in the brioche section…

Opening Convocation. “Tell me you were running late this morning without telling me you were running late this morning.” 🤦‍♀️

It’s been a while since I posted any progress shots of my Vitamin D Cardigan, so here are both sleeves and some of the short rows. We have hit the technically wearable phase! 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... thebluebrick.ca

#ShowMeYourKnits To add a touch of color to my Iced cardigan (@stolenstitches.bsky.social), I mixed in some Noro for garter #stripes in the shawl collar. Three rows in between switching yarn makes the front and back of the collar both the “right” side. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/sgo...

#ShowMeYourKnits My most satisfying knit from #scraps: a möbius Chevron Cowl made with various pink and brown fingering yarn #leftovers held together. The half-twist makes the diagonal “ribs” slant in opposite directions where they meet at the center. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I have so many #shawls that I fell into decision paralysis this week. But here’s an old Sagratino shawl I should really pull out more in the fall. The pattern calls for wool fingering yarn, but I fell for this thicker Noro cotton blend. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits #knitterschoice … and THERE’s the gradient! On to the second sleeve… The shop.thebluebrick.ca sweater kit is in Blossom. I’m less certain of how the gradient yarn will work in the body, where it meets Vitamin D’s short rows, but I’m looking forward to finding out. 🧶 #knitsky

#ShowMeYourKnits #knitterschoice Early in my current WIP, I reproduced a rare knitting error I last made 15 years ago: passing the edge of the knitting through a hole in the knitting. Nothing for it but to rip back and reknit. A nice reminder that spectacular missteps are part of the journey. 🧶🙃🎉

More post-Bridges posting: my Math + Fashion show outfit. The skirt and top feature two renditions of one triangle tiling in the hyperbolic plane. I coded the Poincaré disk tiling in Processing and @spoonflower-social.bsky.social printed it on fabric. #bridgesmathart #mathart #mathfashion

I saw a bunch of people starting these squares at Bridges with yarn distributed on @mathgrrl.com‘s behalf, but I only just visited the pattern page. How cool! 🤯😍 To Laura’s tags, I’ll add #gameoflife #cellularautomata (which might not be active tags but should be) and #crochetsky. Also 🧶. 😉

No surprise but @jilltwiss.bsky.social has done it (writing something smart and funny) again!

I’m back home, slowly getting over my post-Bridges-Eindhoven jet lag. On my way to the conference, I spent a day in Amsterdam and visited the yarn mecca that is Stephen & Penelope. No comment on the damage to my wallet. 🙃🥰😉 🧶 #westknitsarethebestknits www.stephenandpenelope.com

#ShowMeYourKnits No photos of me in my As If Tee Lite by @knitandcroshay.bsky.social. Too bad, as it’s the perfect #summerknit. I don’t do cap sleeves, so I redesigned the sheer top part with set-in half sleeves and a back seam. Color: Disco Inferno 🪩🔥 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I’ve already posted so many of my #blue knits. But there’s #mathart in the air, so here’s The Symmetries Diagram Themselves from 2018. This is the second time I knitted a wall hanging with the symmetries marked by beads. 🧶 #knitsky gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

#bridgesmathart is almost here! Crystallographic Napkin Ring Series is the artwork Ellie Baker and I made for Bridges Eindhoven. It showcases our new software tools for making fabric designs that coordinate with bead crochet. #wallpapergroups #mathart gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

#ShowMeYourKnits My July #WIP: the top of a Vitamin D cardigan. But surprise!—I’m actually using a gradient sweater kit from shop.thebluebrick.ca, so the color will shift near the body/sleeve split. Stay tuned! I’m loving the pattern so far. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#CrochetAway Maybe this theme will finally shame me into sewing the lining and attaching the strap to the Spica #Bag I crocheted three years ago, but probably not this week. The designer is the queen of embossed crochet. Highly recommend. 🧶 #crochetsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits Some year, I will finish tweaking/writing the pattern for this #garterstitch mosaic cardigan featuring the seven frieze groups and have it test knit. 😬😳 Photos by Justin Foreman, modeled by Jasmine Long. 🧶 #knitsky #mathknitting gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

#CrochetAway The return of #blanket is well timed, as I just *almost* finished my Fable Blanket end-of-bed throw. The scale and my calculations say I don’t have quite enough yarn for the final border round, so this is parked until I can search my Noro stash for compatible scraps. 🧶 #crochetsky

#ShowMeYourKnits I’d dreaded the inevitable #yellow week because I don’t really knit yellow. I forgot this Cabled Sunburst Washcloth, part of my campaign to turn two miniskein sets of Euroflax into myriad washcloths. ☀️🫧💦 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits #mathart 🧵 After I broke into two-color brioche, I had a brainwave that I could do this really cool thing as a knit #cowl. It was two years before I finally made my first try, shown here. Explanation and photos to follow; keep an eye on main and background colors. 🌈 🧶 #knitsky

#ShowMeYourKnits Three knit #cowls from my brioche-learning journey. (More on that in the reply post.) The blue and white cowls went to a friend and my mom. I tuck the stash buster into my coat pocket when it’s chilly out. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits A Curlicue #blanket I knit for my friends’ baby. The pattern is no longer available, but the raveler whose project I linked helpfully points to online sources for the center stitch pattern. Browsing the projects will show the rest. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/ALB...

#CrochetAway I was just lamenting not having a knit WIP, and one reason is this rarer (for me) crochet #WIP. This is the halfway point of an end-of-bed throw that will be around 3.5 by 7 feet. Don’t ask how much the (on sale) Noro yarn cost. 😬 🧶 #crochetsky www.ofmarscrochet.com/products/fab...

#ShowMeYourKnits An improvised garter-stitch crib #blanket I made for a colleague. I was going for “log cabin knit blanket, but symmetric” with a minimalist palette. Plus some vaguely math-y proportions as described in the alt text. 😉 🧶 #knitsky

I didn’t post for #ShowMeYourKnits #WIP week because unusually, I hadn’t started one. But then I realized I do sort of have a (mostly) knit WIP; I looked back at my second Mandalay Medallions and realized that it’s actually pretty wearable—if I weave in a zillion slippery ends. 😬 🧶 #knitsky

I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...

#ShowMeYourKnits It seems the Jemma Pullover by Elsebeth Lavold isn’t popular: only two projects—with no photos—on Ravelry. I’m not sure why, as it’s a lovely spring sweater and an intermediate knit. Here’s mine in a pale #purple cotton/rayon yarn. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I made Flower Child in pink yarn, but wasn’t 100% happy with it. The central flower had a fixed chart, so on plus sizes it looked too small. After recharting and drafting and tweaking, I had this lavender #purple, more fitted sweater. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits Early in my knitting career, I got this #purple and green Manos del Uruguay yarn at @purlsoho.bsky.social. The Prismatic Scarf pattern lets variegated yarns like this shine. The link explains the mods I borrowed from a fellow raveler. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/sgo...

#ShowMeYourKnits I believe these #purple and blue Wyvern Socks are the first socks I ever knit. They would have benefited from a less stripey yarn, but this is how we learn. Pretty sure I kept this pair; have no idea where they went. 🧦🤷‍♀️ 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits A #purple Mandalay Medallions pullover I knit over a decade ago. I like the theory of the sweater more than the outcome. With more pattern experience under my belt, I should try for a deeper, more open flowered yoke. But the yarn… 🥰 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I might have a *few* #purple knits, yes. I needed a special pattern for this three-color yarn set, so with the advanced search in Ravelry (“colors used” for the win!), I found this old MKAL from Lisa Hannes. Fun to make, fun to wear. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I stashed a grey lace yarn for my Summerhill #cardigan, but when I got this gradient sweater kit from shop.thebluebrick.ca, everything just clicked. I had to frog and reknit a few times to get the colors to line up as I wished. Worth it! 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Am I actually *learning* German to a significant degree at this point? Probably not. But I’ve long since passed the point of no return. I’m clearly doing at least the minimum on the app every day until one of us is kaputtgegangen. 🦉🔥 #duolingo #cantstopnow

#ShowMeYourKnits When I first saw the pattern, I loved the way the Jali Cardigan fits lace and cables together for its high-impact trellis texture. Still do. I knitted it in Ianthe, a merino/cotton #DK yarn, and it’s one of the knits I wear most often. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I love the photography-inspired gradient yarn of #indiedyer thebluebrick.ca. Don’t ask how many Blue Brick skeins and kits I have stashed. 😳 Here’s my Origami Shawl in color way The Deluge. Also, sorry about the threats and tariffs. 🤬🪧❗️ 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I’m a big fan of #indiedyer @lolabeanyarnco.com for the spectacular yarn and the fierce activism. Picked up these sweet DK skeins with no pattern in mind, then found Killer Queen. My #LYS helped me find my MC, and the rest is history. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits I learned to knit my first sweater at my #LYS, Crazy for Ewe. The class also taught us how to take body measurements and adjust patterns. Being reckless and inventive, I decided to add bell sleeves to Elsebeth Lavold’s pattern. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/sgo...

#ShowMeYourKnits A #gift for a colleague. I widened the Cubic Scarf chart to fit the monogram. The design has color-swapping mirror symmetry, so the front and back patterns are the same. I had to “cheat” to make the AJ work on both sides. 🧶 #knitsky #doubleknitting www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

WIP no more! My Eccentricity shawl is done and blocked and worn on a windy day. I learned how Xandy Peters’s stacked stitches work, and four of five yarns were leftovers from other projects. Inspired by a Raveler, I added picots to the bind off for fun. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/mam...

#CrochetAway #necks So, bead crochet rope. It’s crochet, but it’s also kind of totally not? Anyway, here are some of the bead crochet necklaces I designed and made for the first edition of my and Ellie Baker’s book. Also, to wear. 😀 Second edition soon! 🧶 www.routledge.com/Crafting-Con...

#ShowMeYourKnits When she heard I’d bought some lace yarns with the birthday money she sent me, Grandma Bel demanded a “sexy light luxurious” scarf. (She was 100 at the time, so exempt from the usual yarn #gift protocol.) A diva to the end. ❤️ 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits My Chinese Lace Pullover, knitted sometime around 2012. Louisa Harding calls this color of tweed yarn “denim,” but it is 1000% #grey with white flecks. Or #gray, if you prefer. I really should wear this sweater more often. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#CrochetAway #animals I have a dear friend who adores #owls, so as soon as I saw this purse pattern, I knew I had to make one for her. To make it more practical for regular use, I doubled the size by holding DK yarn double and lined it with fabric. 🧶 #crochetsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#ShowMeYourKnits #WIP Wanted to try a stacked-stitch design by @xandypeters.bsky.social, so I dove into my stash for Eccentricity. I used a smaller gauge and have enough yarn left, so I’m now adding an extra lace insert. This shawl will be so very big! 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...