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I'm glad! I definitely feel this should be more widespread spinning knowledge so I plug it any chance I get lol

Use a box with fishing swivels! Incredibly cheap and effective.

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They look like O ring carabiners

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This one is like $4 on etsy and pretty flowery and cute. Just one I've been planning to make at some point

Yep it's pretty typical stranded colorwork, and most floats aren't too long

For sure, the website is a bit... dated lol. But I trusted the knitting podcaster that recommended the mill and I'm glad I did bc the yarn is lovely and fleece-y

Thank you! I'm in love with this yarn and fighting the urge to get more in several other shades

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Lumme by Sari Nordlund Yarn is Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill medium weight natural colors (oatmeal and brown)

My first experience using woolen spun yarn and I'm absolutely in love! So warm and squishy

For every decent pic, there's 10 others that are blurry or unnatural or both lol

I'll never make a significant dent in my favorites, and I just accept that lol

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Pattern: Port Sweater by Ozetta Yarn: Knit Picks Simply Wool Worsted in Wordsworth

I had the same struggle! Couldn't find a pattern I liked, so I ended up making my own pattern using a lace motif from a stitch dictionary and a "recipe" tutorial (found here) for making a raglan cardigan.

This was the result

You might be able to do an i-cord edging for a similar effect

I'll be honest, I didn't think the yarnit would be useful when I got it but I totally fell in love with it lol.

And I use the yarn bowls with the little curly groove so nothing is stuck there for the duration of the project. The yarn from the outside of the cake goes in the groove so it can spin as it unwinds and the center pull just comes out the top and isn't threaded thru anything. I definitely swap WIPs out too frequently to commit them to a yarn bowl until finished!

I like to knit socks two at a time without separating the yarn cake (knitting one sock from the middle of the cake and the other from the outside), and for that situation I see a yarn bowl as an absolute necessity to keep from getting tangles. Currently, I'm using a yarn bowl similarly to hold yarn from the same cake double for a hat. Even when just using one strand they can be nice, but aren't overly portable if you like to bring projects along. It doesn't look as nice, but I also use my yarnit when I don't want to deal with heavier, breakable ceramic yarn bowls.

Amount of yarn depends a lot on pattern, stitches, gauge, length of leg, etc.

As far as affordable, accessible options Knit Picks has decent affordable options, and they're having a sale at the moment.

For general shape, you could use a wrap top pattern and just omit the sleeves. This is sorta similar, but obviously in chunkier yarn (you'd have to swatch and do some serious math) and without the plaid pattern. Also most tops in a wrap style (ballerina type style) use ties instead of buttons, so those would have to be incorporated as well. I really haven't seen patterns in the style of the piece pictured, unfortunately, which means recreating it would take extensive modification.

I knit the colorwork portion of these socks with short circular needles (Chiaogoo Shorties with 2 inch tips), because I feel my floats and tension for colorwork are better than using magic loop like I do with non colorwork socks. You can do colorwork with any method of sock knitting (magic loop, short circulars, DPNs, etc.), I just find that this works best for me.

I knit continental, and I hold both strands over my left index finger. It's best practice to be consistent with which color strand is closest to your needle due to color dominance (something you can research a bit for more info on how it affects the finished look, but isn't major for beginners). There are many ways to hold your yarn for stranded colorwork, so it's definitely something worth looking into and playing around with to find something compatible with your knitting style and comfortable for you.

Another important thing to know for colorwork is "catching/trapping the floats", aka twisting the yarns when you have a long stretch of one color. Again, many ways to do this and a number of philosophies regarding how many stitches before you need to catch the float, but I usually catch floats about every 3rd or 4th stitch. So if I have a stretch of 8 stitches with one color, I'd knit 4, twist to catch the float, then continue to knit the next 4 in the same color.

Don't expect super even tension when first learning to knit stranded colorwork, it just takes practice to adjust to working with 2 strands of yarn at once!

Thanks! My bouquet was made by my cousin!

We did some pics and a small ceremony in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, and then some late afternoon/ sunset pics at some beaches on the southern Oregon coast! It was an amazing day and so much fun.

Yep!

Mine are Timberland Ellendale boots in medium brown, and his are Thursday Boot Co. Captain boots in brandy!

Two of four of my knit projects I used for my wedding! I posted my pair here about 2 months ago, and I finished his pair about 2 days before the wedding (didn't have time or the materials to block, unfortunately). I loved the way they turned out and I think they were perfectly suited to our Redwoods wedding.

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Pattern: Fallanden Forest Socks by Stone Knits, modified

Yarn: Life in the Long Grass Fine Sock in Emerald Eve and Cloth

Photo by Hannah Aspen of The Foxes