Spring Feverish III

I’m past the halfway point with the 2024 Spring Feverish series!

This third one—Waves—can be knit as a full-sized shawl (add pattern repeats), or knit small, as shown, for a versatile piece that can be worn as a capelet, cowl, or short-sleeved shrug.

With this pattern done, I’ve only got one more Spring Feverish design planned. (They’re all center-out and a little more time-intensive than Dog Days and Spring Feverish projects have been in the past, but still smallish. This one takes about 350 yards of sock yarn.) There’s one more immediate project I have to wrap up before the weekend, but after that, if things go well, I may have a whole new themed set of designs for Summer 2024, which is kind of exciting.

One New Design! One I Didn’t Post About!

First off, THOG COWL! This is my attempt at an easy-to-knit kerchief cowl. It is pretty easy to knit, and works in any reasonable yarn—the pattern’s written to measurements rather than x ridges of garter stitch.

Second, STEPPE SHAWL! This one is new today, and I’m somewhat regretting the handspun sample—the details get a little lost in the color—but man, what a satisfying project. If you like garter stitch designs but are a little too advanced for the basic triangle bias shawl or a plain garter rectangle scarf, this could be a project for you. Just—choose better yarn for it, maybe.

Park Walk Shawl.

I didn’t make an update for this one, but Park Walk Shawl is April’s first pattern! It’s knit in little colorful blocks. It’s worked flat and in garter stitch, but you’ll need to be comfortable picking up stitches, so it’s probably—is hopeful beginner a skill level? I think a hopeful beginner could easily knit one.

Ethos Cowl!

The last thing for March is this:

Knit partially flat and partially in the round, this bandana cowl has no seam and is made from about 1.25 skeins of Malabrigo Rios (Frank Ochre).

You can find the .PDF pattern on Ravelry!

(This is also included in the $6 Patreon tier for March as part of the current .PDF library, so if you enjoy that kind of subscription model, it’s not a bad way to support the ongoing patterns and get a few .PDFs for your Ravelry library while you do.)

The Return of Spring Feverish!

When I started this post on the weekend, the main news was that I had re-issued the pattern set discount for the original five mini-projects that made up the original Spring Feverish series. So I’ve done that! And you can see those here, or through the linked image below.

These pre-2020 designs are tiny projects. They’re intended to result in things you can wear right away in transitional weather, so they’re instant gratification all around, or as close as knitting gets to that. They’re mainly kerchiefs/headscarves/headwraps.

BUT NOW THERE IS MORE.

Or there will be more. And the first Spring Feverish 2024 design is live!

SPRING FEVERISH 2024: PROJECT I: Logos Bandana

The pattern as written makes a bandana, and includes instructions for detachable buttons/toggles that make it an incredible versatile finished piece.

The .PDF is versatile: you can also use the same established pattern to keep knitting—if this is a project you like spending time with, knit a bandana and then use the same .PDF with more yarn and more repeats to knit a full-size shawl or baby blanket.

The finished thing is versatile too: wear it as a cowl, a shawl, or even a shrug. (Add repeats for a roomier one.)

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Thanks for bearing with me! After this, I think we should be back on a much more normal schedule. I’m very much hoping to get Projects II & III out by the end of March, so I’ll still be doing quite a bit, but the pace of new things coming out should be a little—well, a little less feverish, I guess.

Pi Day!

Any day can be pie day if you know how to make them. But boy is my time management just regrettable lately.

3.14 pattern .PDF is available now! 3.14 is a hooded cape based on the pi shawl formula, which is nice if you like knitting shawls but don’t like wearing them or have plenty already. I have a free pattern giveaway going right now, and I didn’t think anyone was really seeing the pattern page yet, but almost everyone who’s looked at it has downloaded a copy so they are going pretty fast at the moment.

3.14 takes ~600 yards of bulky yarn. All the yarns I used for the sample are discontinued, so there’s an open call for substitution ideas in the pattern page comments if you like lending advice like that. And eventually, that link might lead to yarn substitution advice.

Edited to add: it’s not Pi Day. This is heavily implied but I am not sure I stated it directly. Pi Day was yesterday and I completely missed it as an ideal launch for the design.

MARCH!

I made a little capelet/shawl/poncho thing. It turned out better than I expected; the buttons really bring the whole thing together.

You can make one too, if you want. The pattern is here.

(I’m probably going to start trying to make one self-promotional post per day somewhere over social media. It’s not something I do regularly—if you’ve been around for a while, you’ll probably know I don’t post often or on a good schedule, and most of my social media activity related to the knitting happens suddenly, as a project is finishing up or has just been published. I don’t know if a steadier pace will work better, but it’s probably worth trying more than one thing before deciding nothing works, man.)

(Yarn is Malabrigo Yarn Arroyo in Immortal and some blue handspun I had which was close in weight! You’ll probably need more than a skein to get a good-sized wrap from your project, but my sample weighs about 105g so it’s very close.)

Devastating!

I’ve also cast on a whole additional IDES of MARCH! shawl in plain cotton, to make it more summery and poncho-like (I’ve been looking at Etsy. Do people wear ponchos. Why are there so many), and oh boy I’m about to do it again—cast on, I mean—for something I’ve been planning and considering for a month or so now. So the net number of projects is not trending in the right direction for me just yet.

(Oh, I’m also selling the sample here! It’s got a little repair card and everything.)

February in Review, March Knitting Pattern Sale!

For February 2024, I had four new designs up—barely. For March, I hope to do the same (but without the ”barely” part, ideally), and I’m also trying a sale to see how that does—buy three or more patterns from my Ravelry portfolio in one transaction, and use the code “March” (creative!) to get 20% off your purchase!

For now, that’s set to run through the end of the month, but I’ll probably re-evaluate it in the week or so.

MEANWHILE, since we’re here, and I didn’t post about January 2024 anywhere, here’s January 2024! Five designs, all fairly complex or at least moderately interesting—real work, no washcloths. (I mean, I graded at least one of my washcloth patterns last summer for multiple sizes, but they’re still a little less work than a hat or a lined cowl.)

All right! That’s probably it for now. I have a couple of warm, winter-ish projects I want to get done before the weather changes too much, which means March or bust, really, but then I’ll be working up a 2024 Spring Feverish series. I haven’t decided yet whether to change the name or keep going, but the designs are pretty fully fleshed out, and if I can keep the forward momentum going, I should get to them really quickly.

Chevron Series

I’ve got the Chevron Rib scarf pattern up, just in time to technically have made 4 patterns for February. (I was optimistic about February. There’s still a day left, but I am not sure—I am not sure optimism was the right approach here.)

I don’t know if this is my favorite of the chevron patterns—I like the cowl. (Even though I feel like those chevrons aren’t as crisp, the colorful waves worn over a grey sweater really appeals to me.)I like the purple one—but it might be my favorite approach to chevron ribbing, even though it doesn’t have quite the simplicity and appeal of the One Row design.

For pure chevrons, I think the wider ones look a little nicer—crisper, more defined— but when you want some ambiguity (is it a plain ribbed scarf or a little weird?), the briefer motif is pretty nice for that.

If you really like chevrons, and scarves, you can currently get all three of my simple chevron scarf .PDFs together for $12! That is like getting one pattern free. The coupon code is “3Chevron” if the link doesn’t supply it.

And now on Ravelry!

I ended up discarding the original new chevron wrap I was working on last week, but now I’m. Well, I’m working on about four others. And I want to release them as a series or set, and make my goal of having four patterns out in February. And there are only three days left in February. So these patterns are going to feature swatch samples instead of complete ones, which is uncomfortable to do, but also kind of fun (race me! who will finish their project first? probably not me! but who knows what this informal Challenge will do, how it will change my approach?).

So first up, we’ve got Two Row Chevron Scarf! This echoes One Row Chevron Scarf but is a bit different, with a more dominant garter stitch texture.

Two Row Chevron Wrap (name very subject to change)

This is the largest, densest wrap—it’s got the heaviest garter stitch component and the smallest gauge. (Gauge is technically free on this though; do what you want!) I’m not even 200 yards in yet, and I’ll have to switch between this and other projects for the next few weeks (weeks!?). My next (concurrent) project is a scarf, and it’s knit more loosely, so it won’t be as arduous.

Will I finish the scarf series? Will it all fall apart? Stay tuned and find out!