Unraveled

As soon as Mary-Heather told me I would have the opportunity to show off some of my favorite projects, I knew immediately what I’d do when it was my turn – matching mama and baby sweaters!  I mean, look at these!

From left to right: offbeatchic’s Bloomsbury, nadia1981’s Water’s Edge, and knitwisepurlwise’s A Very Violet Alice.

And then while I was searching I realized there is also an amazing trove of matching daddy and baby hats.  And how could I leave those out?

From left to right: annettle’s I’ve Taken A Viking To You, halfbrits’ Squared, and cheerylady’s Cousins Hat (okay, these two may be cousins).

Once I was down the rabbit hole, I was powerless against this sweetness.  Matching family sweaters!  Big and tiny feet!  Bolo ties!  Monkey family!

From left to right: Kattak’s Family knitalong top, magentabird’s Socks Just Like Dad’s, lirin’s Dad & Tommy’s Matching Christmas Vests, and mykidsmomx2’s Monkey Hat.

Thanks to all the parents of the kids above for permission to feature their cuteness :)  Seeing all these matching FOs sure made my day, and I hope you’ve enjoyed them, too!

The Ravelry forums are home to more than 2.5million topics (y’all are chatty!), and the topic tools are how I manage the conversations I want to follow.  From the topic tools menu I can choose where to enter the thread, adjust which posts are marked as read, and choose to watch or ignore it.  Ignored threads no longer show on my list of topics, while watched threads will show at the top of their forum when there are new posts, so I’m guaranteed not to miss them!

You can pull up the topic tools menu by clicking from the topic list, as shown by the green arrow above.  It’s also available while you’re reading a thread in the bottom right of the screen.  Enjoy wielding your power over the 10.5 million forum posts!

Sometimes you just need a little color in your life.  Today’s eye candy is all about bright, beautiful wovens.

From left to right: myfinn’s Polarity, kasyafka’s 31st, and cutler070805’s Celebration dishtowels.

From left to right: dreamersplace’s J. Herriot, FatCatKnits’ Nerds Li’l Lizzy Tote Bag, genypher’s Woven Journal.

I hope these brightened your day as much as they did mine!

Deep in my heart, I am a sweater knitter.  And at the end of August in Texas, I am ready to dream of fall and imagine what sweaters I might make myself this year.  As I spend my evenings browsing via the advanced search, I love using the filters to narrow down my results to help me find my inspiration.  One quick way I do that is by typing not  and an attribute in the search field: an autocomplete drop-down will appear and I can choose the attribute I’d like to exclude.

(Because sometimes you want to make a sweater for you).