Week 36 of 2025

A couple of knitted finishes this week - 

A sweater and a pair of socks.

Handspun socks - knit toe-up, two-at-a-time on a 2.5mm circular needle, 64 stitches. The stitch pattern is a 4 row repeat with 3 rounds of knit and one round of knit 1, purl 2 - it works great with striped yarn.

The pattern for the sweater is Ranunculus by Midori Hirose. It is a pattern from 2017 and is always in the top ten most popular patterns on Ravelry (there are over 30,000 projects on Ravelry), and now I see why. The cover photos don't do it justice, but when I started hearing about what a flexible pattern it was - knit in any weight yarn, knit top down all the sizes start the same, so it is easy to get the fit you want, plus it takes very little yarn I was sold (I already started another one and have yarn for a third!).

I knit this one with some handspun (spun during TdF this year), held with a strand of commercial mohair/silk (Aloft from KnitPicks leftover from another sweater). I didn't use all the yarn and the sweater weighs about 250g. I was really surprised that I was able to make a long sleeve sweater with the little bit of handspun I had, and thought it would only be a vest (plus I have enough yarn leftover to make a hat).

Photos from Around -

The beginning of the week started hot, then we had a big thunderstorm (lots of rain, winds and hail), and the weather turned cold for the rest of the week (the reason I was able to get so much crafting in).

More rain later in the week, and a little rainbow.

The wild asparagus is easy to spot around the yard now, covered in red seed pods.

Evening walk.

Miss Maggie in the morning.

Surprised to see the cats sleeping close to each other.

All the best!♥︎