Knitting, Sci-fi and other stuff...

This years fair has come and gone. We didn't get to attend quite as many days as I would have liked. It turned into a pretty busy week with family time and a much needed staycation for me. I was able to submit nine entries total to this years exhibitions. I think I did quite well overall. I'll try to list these items in order as far as to when I completed them. First up in the child's hat category is a colorwork hat  Prism , in three colors of Malabrigo Arroyo. In the adult hat category another Prism, but with the colorwork charts worked a bit differently. This was an incredibly fun pattern to knit.  It's by TinCanKnits and has a ton of color variations.  I absolutely love all of this groups patterns, they are extremely well written and worth the money for the paid patterns. Next up in the winter scarf category is  Sophie Shawl  by Petite Knit.  This took Instagram by storm back in the spring and I finally jumped on the bandwagon when I saw another one knit up

      The 2023 Lewis County Fair is just a few weeks away.  Last year was the first year ever I had myself together enough to enter some of my crafting into exhibition.  This coming year I'm entering even more items.  I thought it would be fun to look back at last year first, since I wasn't blogging at the time. Permutation Hat Permutation Hat      First up was Permutation.  Pattern  is by Hunter Hammerson.  (It is currently not available for purchase).  I used yarn I received specifically for this pattern in a swap.  While I was away from blogging, I've been participating in swaps.  Most of them have been through the Nerdy Swaps swap group on Ravelry.  The black yarn is Valley Yarns Northampton and the self-striping is Happy Sheep Wool Power Print.  It was my first time using either of these yarns.  The Wool Power Print is slightly heavier than the Northampton, so it made the star stitches a bit tricky, but overall, I was really happy with how the hat came out.  These were