Knit Picks Merino Style, color: Asparagus, 6 balls. $12USD SOLD


Rowan Cotton Tape, color: Electric, 6 balls. $21USD SOLD


Valley Yarns Williamstown, color: #10 Teal, 2 balls. $10USD


Noro Kureyon, color: #157, 7 balls. $35USD SOLD


Cascade 220, color: #4192 Pale Pink, 2 skeins. $13USD SOLD


Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed, color: Dove, 2 balls. $14USD SOLD


Claudia Hand Painted Fingering, color: Plumilicious, 2 skeins. $18USD SOLD


Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Merino, color: Serengeti, 1 skein. $18USD


Farmhouse Yarns Fannie’s Fingering Weight, color: Rose Garden, 1 skein (this is the 360yds version). $16


Fleece Artist Merino Sock 2/6, color: Origin, 1 skein (wound into center pull ball but not knitted, with label). $19USD SOLD


J Knits Superwash Me Sock, color: Amesbury, 1 skein. $23USD


Crystal Palace Panda Cotton Print, color: Picnic, 2 skeins. $10USD


Pigeonroof Studios KALYPSO Sock, color: Poison, 2 skeins. $24USD SOLD


Mountain Colors Bearfoot, color: Marias Falls, 1 skein. $18USD


Sweet Georgia Superwash Sock, color: Omakase 9 (semi-solid red), 2 skeins. $25USD SOLD


Trekking XXL, color: #101, 1 ball. $14USD SOLD


Trekking XXL, color: #143, 1 ball. $14USD


The Knittery 4ply Sock Merino Cashmere (old version), color: Orchid, 1 skein. $22USD SOLD


Louet Gems Pearl (fingering), color: Pewter, 2 skeins. $14USD SOLD


Louet Gems Pearl (fingering), color: Mustard, 2 skeins. $14USD


Wollmeise Sockenwolle 100% superwash, color: Pillars of Fire (from this year’s Loopy Ewe sock club exclusive), 1 skein. $35 SOLD!


Crown Mountain Farms Sock Hop, color: My Boyfriend’s Back, 2 skeins. $45USD SOLD


Meilenweit Cotton Spirit, color: #3001, 1 skein. $12USD

project: Official NaKniSweMo 2008 Sweater
source: available here
yarn: Cascade 220 - 4 hanks
color: Pistachio #8234
needles: #6 & #8 needles
Ravelry page

A very adaptable pattern, it was great to work on a top-down raglan again, so simple to make it as fitted or loose and comfy as you like.

I was so proud to be able to use up some Cascade 220 from the stash for this one too, and only 4 skeins!

Thanks to knitgrrl for a super-fun NaKniSweMo 2008, and all the participants who made some amazing sweaters this year, definitely go check them out!

project: Sweater with Cable Patterns
source: Rebecca Magazine, #28
yarn: Malabrigo worsted - 5 balls
color: Tortuga
needles: #8 needles
Ravelry page

I cannot say enough how much I love this sweater. Basic black, combined with some fun cables and oh-so-soft heavenly Malabrigo. What more could anyone want?

It was a fast and easy knit, made even easier by my only doing the cable pattern on the front, since I knew I only had 5 skeins of this beautiful color to work with. The sleeves of this pattern come out way too big as written, so I did a little creative increasing to make them a more practical size.

And because there’s still a bit more time before NaKniSweMo comes to a close this year, I just had to try and cast on for a second dose of cable fun.

This is the Official 2008 NaKniSweMo sweater, designed by Elaine Hilliard and Shannon Okey. Proceeds from the pattern are going to the Berea Animal Rescue, a no-kill shelter, so how could I resist? This is in Cascade 220 in the Pistachio colorway, perfect knitting from the stash (and that stash is getting WAY out of control—more on that next time). The top-down construction is making this one go by very quickly, so I hope I can have it done before the month is out.