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Separated the sleeves and now I’m working on the body

Pattern: Argo cardigan Yarn: Knit Picks Woodland in hot springs

Earlier this week I cast on for the Argo cardigan. It starts at the collar and has contiguous set-in sleeves. I’ve never done this type of sleeve before, so I’m interested to see how I like the process. The pattern is somewhat sparse, so not something I’d recommend to beginners. I’m using Knit Picks Woodland in the color hot spring.

I’ve abandoned my MKAL socks, Chameleonic Socks. I haven’t frogged them yet, but I likely will this weekend. Picking up all those selvedge stitches to knit down the front of the foot was too much of a slog for me. Maybe I’ll knit the pattern in the future as there’s parts of it I really like - the heel is really cool and I do like the effect of the front cables. But I may try to figure out a way to do it in the round so I don’t have 100+ selvedge edges to deal with.

ETA: yarn

I started Westknit’s 2026 surprise sock along this week with clue 1 of 4. Images are at the end, so if you’re also making these and don’t want spoilers skip the rest.

I used some yarn I already had. The Drops I was planning on making a different pattern with, but it went well with the Undercover Otter. After just finishing his Delectable Collectible socks and all those color changes, I was relieved to see this pattern only uses 2 colors.

The cast on and all of clue 1 was very interesting. It doesn’t look like a sock yet. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of all the non-sock things it looked like. Maybe clue 2 will move it more in a sock direction.

A SSAL is a new pattern that’s never been released before, and the pattern designer sends you 1/4 of the pattern every week for 4 weeks. No pictures of the completed sock are available until after week 4, so you have no idea what your sock is going to look like when finished.

Pattern: Chameleonic Socks Yarns: Undercover Otter in citadel, Drops Fabel in green turquoise

These socks are officially off the needles, just 4 days before the next surprise sock-along starts.

I’m counting them as done even though all these ends aren’t secured yet:

The toes are supposed to be striped, but I didn’t want to make any more ends to have to weave in, so I just used my variegated yarn. I also included a little pop of bright purple on the bottom of the heel.

Pattern: Delectable Collectible socks

Yarn: lots of different ones, all from my stash

Still chugging along on these socks. The next sock-along starts July 28, so I’d like to have these done before then. Maybe not all the ends woven in though…

I started these socks last August. Then in September I started a new job (in a new career) and didn’t have the mental capacity to work on these socks. They’re Stephen West’s 2025 Surprise Sock Along, and he included everything but the kitchen sink in this pattern.

I just signed up for his next surprise sock, with the first 1/4 of the pattern being released July 28. That gave me the push to want to get these socks finished before then. I highly doubt I’ll get all these ends woven in too, but you never know. Luckily I don’t need as much mental bandwidth to weave in ends as knitting this pattern takes for me.

My socks are done! I have 7g of the blue and 6g of the pink left.

Pattern: Dragon skin socks

Yarn: Bling Your String mystery club - March/April 2026

Still making progress on my socks. I’m planning to knit with the main color until it runs out. If it’s long enough to start the cuff, I’ll switch to the pink and do that.

If I run out of the main before it’s long enough, I’m trying to decide what other color I could use to make a contrast stripe before starting the pink cuff. I have some dark blue but wonder if using a dark color will change the vibe of these socks. I’ll just have to wait and see.

Work was really busy in May and the first part of June, so I haven’t made much knitting progress. My socks were a little too loose, so I ended up unraveling them and starting again with fewer stitches. Today I finished the heels on both socks. Now all that’s left is to knit around and around (and around) until it’s as tall as I want.

I did get some more hair scrunchies made using leftover yarn - I’m up to 6 finished scrunchies.

Received a yarn subscription as a combo Christmas/birthday gift - a 50g + a 20g skein of sock yarn every other month. The theme is Saturday morning cartoons and when the Care Bear colorway came I abandoned my Hermoine socks and cast these on instead. Pattern: Dragon skin socks; Yarn: Bling Your String sock in color Care Bear stare

Knit and blocked a swatch for my next sweater, the Argo cardigan. Yarn: Knit Picks Woodland in color hot spring

Finally I’ve been looking for small projects I can make to use up leftover yarn I have from finished projects. I’ve been making these Soho scrunchies for kids I work with, and they’re a hit:

Edit: formatting

Tonight I finally finished binding off my sweater. I still have about 25 ends to weave in and then give it a good soak and block, but I’m planning to wear it to work sometime next week once it’s dry.

Only the 2nd sweater I’ve ever knit and I’m extremely happy with how it came out. Already planning my next sweater project - a cardigan this time.

Pattern: Sunanami pullover

Yarn: Knit Picks Capretta superwash in color eclipse heather

I got my sleeves done Tuesday night, ahead of plan! I bound off a little short expecting them to grow when I block the sweater. Now I’m debating how I want to tackle the hem ribbing because I don’t want it to pull in and I want the ribbing to be neat:

• Option 1: Use the same needle size as the body (US 4) and knit the ribbing inside out or half twisted rib (k1tbl, p1)
• Option 2: Go down to US 3 needles (same as I used for the sleeve cuffs) and block aggressively 
• Option 3: Using the cuffs, find my ribbing gauge on size 3 needles. Then calculate how many stitches I need to increase to get the ribbing section to be as wide as the rest of the body

I’m leaning toward either option 2 or 3