Coffee and Craft Podcast Episode 28

Hey lovely humans! My name is Bernadette and welcome or welcome back to the Coffee & Craft Podcast.

FOs

• Fold in the Cheese Teatowel
  • Pattern by Lion Brand. Comes in both knit and crochet
  • Part of their Schitts Creek Collection
  • Black and Grey are Bernat Handicrafter, Yellow is Hobbii Rainbow Cotton 8/8 in sunny yellow

• Yetsas Bolero (also available on ravelry digitally)
  • Yarn is briggs and little regal in grey and sport (doubled) in natural white)
  • Pattern is written in a very strange way. Wording about picking up stitches didnt make sense to me.
  • You can figure it out with experience for the most part but beware

• Candy Corn sweater
  • Reworked the collar, picked up every stitch slipped and on the back neck. Just put in a regular 2 stitch button hole. 2×2 rib for 14 total rows. Used icelandic bind off
  • Inspired by knottymermaids sweater
  • Douglas Cardigan by Andrea Mowry
  • Was able to just use stash. Mostly fingering held double. 
• Snappy Halloween Hat
  • KP Wool of the andes (black, poet, peapod and solar flare) held double with a mohair. 
  • Last of the halloween spooky yarns from KP
  • Snap Hat by TCK
• Good Vibes Blanket to Pillow
  • Decided I didn’t want to keep working on the blanket, so I took what fabric I had and made it into a pillow. Nothing wrong with the pattern I was just over it. 
  • Took what I had and whip stitched it onto an ikea pillow (16×26) form

WIPS & Future Knitting Plan

• Persian Dreams Worsted by Jenise Hope (ravelry link)
  • Also using expansion pack, 2 of each hex
  • Wool of the Andes, US 5, 3.75 mm needle, magic loop then 16” circ
  • starting to do 3 needle bind off on wrong side.
  • calling it at 27 hexes, i have just kinda burnt out. the original pattern only calls for 25 so im good size wise.
• Spooky Sweater for my husband
  • Using Craft Smart and KP Might Stitch for color work accents
  • Pattern is Fall Favorites Collection (ravelry) by Megan Regan
  • Multiple chart options in pattern but going with the ghost chart.
  • Living in spooky iheartewee bag