#ShowMeYourKnits Week 76, "What's on Your Needles? While I wait to see if a friend is ready for me knit her a sweater, or go ahead with one for me, I'm knitting some kid sized hats from stash. I'm calling the one the right "lizard." They'll go to a local shelter.

#showmeyourknits FIRSTS! I found a photo online from a McCall's Needlework & Crafts magazine that shows the pattern for the first sweater I knit back in 1960 at age 12. Mine used Bernat Nylo Germantown with a medium gray main color. Intarsia--oy! But it came out just fine and got a lot of wear.

#showmeyournits 2025 knitting: 2 sweaters, 6 scarves, 3 bags, 3 shawls, 2 baby blankets, 1 hat, 1 cowl Natural dyeing: led 4 workshops, 1 artist-in-residence week, 1 open studio week, 5 talks, 8 demos Dyed 75 mini skeins for my project "Dyeing Maine Fibers with Maine Plants" (some fungi), etc.

Happy New Year!

If we'd had access to a Zamboni machine, we'd invite you for driveway hockey.

#showmeyourknits Knitter's choice. Lots of knitting as usual, but no major projects in '25. I was busy with the new community garden & my natural dyeing workshops, so I knit simple skinny scarves using a variety of fibers & dyes. Here are a few--sold a bunch in the summer. Back to color work in '26!

Respect for Canada and Greenland.

4. “Clio, Muse of History” by Charles Meynier at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is my favorite and she seems to be pissed off which is understandable.

#showmeyourknits Week 73 Solstice! Here's The Swan cap knit with 60% merino, 40% angora yarn dyed by Kimmet Croft Fibers Fairy Hare to match the original yarn used by Bohus designer Kristen Ivarsson. This week's prompt reminded me that I rarely knit with white as I do, and teach, natural dyeing.

#showmeyourknits Week 72 is Cardigans. This sweater is based on traditional Scandinavian construction. I just winged it using worsted wool from Briggs & Little because I had it on hand so it's thicker than a traditional sweater knit with handspun. Rugged and warm, I often wear it as a winter jacket.

In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart

#showmeyourknits This week's theme is the holidays. Santa's Wardrobe Ornaments www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... for my granddaughter when she was little. Golden Buddha www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... to replace the glass Buddha that fell off my daughter's tree. These are about a holiday-ish as I get.

I don't know the source, but here it is--

It's Giveaway time! Something fun was promised for today and If the opportunity to win 2 gorgeous skeins of TIbetan 4ply, 366m each of silk, merino and yak blend yarn isn't that, then i'm not sure what else to say.... Importantly to enter --->

#showmeyourknits This week is for gradients, minis, etc. I knit this mini shawl with British Shetland wool given to me by one Ravelry friend then spun by another Raveler. The pattern is Squidlegs by Nick Davis www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib.... The shawl was later given to a knit night friend.

#showmeyourknits Celebrating INDIE Designer & Dyers this week. I'll pick one: Jenise Hope, who's Elephant Cowl design I modified for this vest with vintage commercial Shetland yarn. I also love her afghan designs. My own dyeing, using only natural dyes, developed into my teaching business.

#showmeyourknits Week 68, FLOOF. Head band used a 25 gram skein of Still River Mill 50% quviut, 35% suri alpaca, 15% silk. Pattern: Elisa McLaughlin's Bohemian Cinch Head Wrap. One friend gave me a wealth of different rovings. I'll barter with a spinning friend and knit a sweater for first friend.

#showmeyourknits Week 67. What's on the needles? 4 things almost done: 2 scrappy baby blankets. Husband's sweater needs the neckline finished, grosgrain ribbon and buttons. The weather is getting colder, so this is priority #1. And the endless skinny scarf of handspun alpaca dyed with goldenrod.

#showmeyourknits Week 66, cables. Afghan squares I knit in 2017 with naturally dyed wool yarn before crocheting them together. The finished piece is 50" square and hard to fit in one photo. The pattern is Norah's Vintage Afghan by Norah Gaughan. I used 16 of her 20 squares--don't like bobbles. 😝

#showmeyourknits This week it's horror stories--or dang-I-knit-it-loved-it-then-lost-it stories. I found this easy mitten kit by Friendz Blendz (70% wool, 30% mohair) at Bessie's Farm Goods in Freeport, Maine, when I ran out of knitting projects while visiting family. Fuzzy, fun...LOST 😢

#showmeyourknits Hats off for week 64! A few favorites--

#showmeyourknits SPOOKY! Here's a happy little bat using Anna Hrachovec's pattern BOO the Bat. And a bonus Praying Mantis; pattern by Hansi Singh. Both were knit with wool yarn scraps.

#showmeyourknits SOCKTOBER This rugged pair was knit with Olivia Weiss's pattern, Kitchener: Foot Soldiers, but using a different heal.

#showmeyourknits Week 61, Joy & Caring. It was a joy to offer a hat pattern--in Maine wool ❤️--to support the work of mainefibershed.com. If you are nearby, please visit the Rockport Library in Oct. to celebrate Maine Fibershed. I'm joining the board and will be demonstrating natural dyeing on 10/25.

#showmeyourknits This week's prompt is Autumn. This sweater was made for my great-niece's 2nd birthday a few autumns ago. Knit in the round, steeked. The lower border is the Basket Weave stitch from Barbara Walker's A Treasury of Knitting Patterns. Sport weight wool dyed with dyer's coreopsis,

Getting ready for another fair--this one is presented by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. 3 days and 60,000 happy people. I give talks and demos--"Dyeing Maine Fibers with Maine Plants"--and hang out with sheep, goat, and human friends. Then I spend a week or so recovering.

#showmeyourknits Week 59 is scarves. 2 of my "designs." 1st is a double looped scarf/cowl knit in fingering weight wool, as a tube of different small Scandinavian stitch patterns separated by a few rows of dark green garter stitch. 2nd "scarf" is a sampler of a number of naturally dyed plant colors

#showmeyourknits Week #58 is WIPS I've just started a sweater for the guy who usually says he's so old he doesn't need more sweaters but agreed a cardigan I'm building with Berga Parti, a Swedish wool 2-ply DK yarn handed down by several people 'til it came to me. A handsome chestnut color.

#showmeyourknits This week it's sweaters. Green Wood, a Bohus sweater designed by Kerstin Olsson, is one of my favorites. I used a knit from SOLsilke, steeked it and used some of the colors to knit the frind band facings. There was enough yarn left over for a green tam.

#showmeyourknits This week's prompt is knits for babies. These Sunflower Booties--designed by Kathie Popadin, AKA Nifty Patterns--were knit ages ago with Telemark, a discontinued wool sport yarn from Knit Picks

#showmeyourknits Stripes! Lap robe knit with wool worsted naturally died with logwood, Saxon blue indigo, madder, dyer's coreopsis, marigold, goldenrod, and other leftovers.

#showmeyourknits Here's a scrappy hat knit with fingering weight wool. I use ALL of my scraps.

#showmeyourknits My favorite shawl is this quiet one knit with luscious Hawthorn & Thistle 48/52 Mohair goat /Jacob blend from my friend Steph's flock. The pattern is Understated by Diana Rozenshteyn. Spouse J. expressed admiration for this, one of very few knits he's commented on in 57 years.

It's been 1 year of #showmeyourknits Knitter's choice. I've worn "Water's Edge" a lot since knitting it 9 years ago. It's loosely based on Meg Swansen's pattern "Fair Isle Cardigan" and knit with vintage Shetland yarn I was given in exchange for dyeing a sweater quantity of yarn with goldenrod.

#showmeyourknits This summer layer looks like nothing in particular--it's just a simple stockinette top knit of laceweight baby camel yarn, dyed with logwood (Haematoxylon campechianum). The pattern is Leah Tunic by Purl Soho.

#showmeyourknits Blue! This is the Blue Shimmer cap, designed by Anna-Lisa Mannheimer Lunn of the Bohus group. In this case the hat was not knit with the original Bohus yarns, but using similar colors from Knit New Haven in New Haven CT. A little bright but a satisfying knit.

#showmeyourknits What's on the needles? I've been submerged in gardening for a few weeks but have knit a bit of a skinny ribbed scarf of handspun (not by me) alpaca, dyed with goldenrod from my field. The unknown spinner left couple of thicker yards--maybe teaching someone? I'm leaving it in, too.

#showmeyourknits Garter stitch week. This afghan used up a lot of bright sport weight wool yarn. I knit 2 striped garter tubes, stitched them together, then knit a garter border until I ran out of yarn. I knit lots of baby blankets in garter stitch for a local charity to use up odds and ends.

#showmeyourknits It's yellow's week. Socks knit with WildFoote Luxury Sock yarn dyed with marigolds from my dye garden and based on Ann Budd's Basic Sock pattern.

#showmeyourknits For an earlier World Wide Knit in Public Day that was not also a #nokings day, here are some naturally dyed knitting samples for on-the-spot mini knitting classes.

#showmeyourknits Cowls week. Is it cheating to show a vest knit using Jenise Hope's pattern "Elephant Cowl" omitting the elephants?

#showmeyourknits This blanket is too big to fit in one photo. I dye the yarn with plant materials: madder, walnut, marigold, eucalyptus, loquat and onion. The pattern is www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#showmeyourknits This week it's what's on the needles. Here is a very simple project for occasional moments during the busy spring gardening season. Handspun (not by me) alpaca dyed (by me) with goldenrod from my field for a skinny K2P2 scarf.

#showmeyourknits Skinny PURPLE scarf knit with baby camel laceweight bought by cousin C at School Products in NYC years ago and given to me recently. I dyed it with logwood and knit it using Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's "One Row Handspun Scarf" pattern. Sent to my natural dyeing swap partner in India.

#shiwmeyourknits Cardigans. Here's my Kestrals Alight, pattern by Sarah C Swett, Kauni yarn. Knit about 10 years ago and one of my favorites.

#showmeyourknits DK week. The yarn is a blend of 89% Cormo X wool & 11% colored mohair goat raised by Catawampus Farm & Fiber, Minot, Maine USA, and spun by Vermont Spinnery. I received the yarn in exchange for naturally dyeing yarns for Catawampus. The pattern is Her Home Office by Anne Hanson.

#showmeyourknits Local Yarn Store. I knit this vest with Jacob sheep's wool, raised by my LOCAL SHEPHERD Steph Grant of Hawthorn & Thistle Farmstead, Washington, ME, USA. Spun by Underhill Fibers, Gorham, ME. Naturally dyed by me/Versicolor, S. China, ME. The closures are slices of Jacob horn.

#Showmeyourknits Gift knits. Here's a hat I made for one of the younger members of the family.

#ShowMeYourKnits Week 37 Show me your grays. I love grays! From top/center: shawl, my V-neck sweater, my vest w/ pewter buttons, husband's very heavy fishing sweater, and my favorite hat. Some of these are knit with locally raised Maine wool. My gray knit winter jacket has already been stored.