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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#knitting #showmeyourknits It's socks! Had a reunion with college friends in late October. They were fascinated by the self-striping sock I was knitting, so since then, it's been socks for all of them. Customized fit for each, because feet are weird and no one is standard. (Latest pair not shown)

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm planning an Ask Me Anything video soon on my YouTube channel. What knitting questions would you like to see answered? #knitting 🧶

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

For this week's #showmeyourknits theme of yellow, I had to go back to July 2006 to find a sock I had knit for my mother (whose favorite color was yellow). I took this photo before I wove in the yarn tail at the toe. Pretty Petals sock pattern by Jeannie Townsend. Yarn is Koigu KPPPM #knitting 🧶

A sock clad foot enters the frame the the bottom. The sock is knit in a yellow and green variegated yarn. In the background are garden plants with spiky flowers that are a similar color to the sock yarn. There are mock cables centered down the front of the leg.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Cardigan almost complete. Just need to knit the zipper facing and sew in the zipper. Will probably take an inch off of the neck to end with the right total length for the zipper I ordered. Yarn is from a lamb fleece I chose from @getbentzfarm.bsky.social farm last fall. #knitting 🧶

A cardigan without a front closure hangs from a mannequin. The yarn is from a black fleece (making the yarn an extremely dark, dark brown). There is a simple knit/purl texture pattern in the fabric where the purls form diagonals. Also a high ribbed neck.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

#showmeyourknits #knitting This blanket was a baby gift for Max the dog trainer. Max recognized Herbie the first time we went to the dog park. He had prevented the dog rescue from euthanizing Herbie for aggression. Herbie wasn't aggressive, just misunderstood. They adored each other. 🧶

A blanket made from light and dark green lies on a hardwood floor. The blanket is knit with alternating sections of knit garter and purl garter for an interesting offset stripe design. On the dog sits a gorgeous black and white Shih Tzu, looking up at the camera.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This week's Technique Tuesday features the double pick up. A beautiful finish for button bands and neckbands (especially nice around a steeked edge). Looks beautiful on the RS and WS! #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/F9uMiVDkuiA

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Double Pick Up for Ribbed Bands // Technique Tuesday

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Really irritated with a paid pattern from a designer who has been publishing since 2014 and has over 200 patterns in his Ravelry store. The design is lovely, but the pattern reads like a first draft from someone who has never written a pattern before.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Finally finished my first handspun sweater (I dyed the gradient, too). I knit it a year ago, but the shoulders were too wide, so I reknit from shoulders to underarms, removed the bands and collar, cut it apart and grafted it together again (then reknit the bands and collar). #handspun #knitting 🧶

A woman is posed with one hand on hip in front of a bookcase full of knitting books. She is wearing a gray cardigan with a polo collar edged in dark teal yarn. The sweater has 2-row stripes of teal alternating with 5 rows of gray. The teal is in a gradient that shifts from darkest to lightest and back again several times from the shoulders to the bottom ribbing. There are five shades of the gradient. The button bands are edged with the dark teal at their base and at the cast off edge. There are 8 teal buttons down the front of the cardigan.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm a fiber volunteer at Gale Woods Farm. A few of their Finn ewes decided to have their babies now, instead of the predicted next week or two. I'm in love with the little peanut on the right. Two sets of twins, one set of triplets, and a set of quads so far! #handspinning #knitting #lambingseason 🧶

A white Finn ewe lays on a bed of straw in her nursery pen. Two buckets hang from the rails on the right and a bag of hay hangs from the rails on the left. In the rear of the pen are three lambs, lying under a warming lamp. The two on the left are white, and the one on the right is mostly black with a white head. That one is a little peanut - barely 3 pounds!

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Knits for babies! Over-the-knee stockings with built in Mary Jane shoes for my grandniece. From a vintage 1940s pattern

A pair of dark pink over-the-knee stockings lie on a gray background. The socks have short row shaping at the knee to create a natural bend, with k2p2 ribbing extending above the bend. The feet of the stockings are worked in garter stitch in a natural color to look like Mary Janes. A bit of the pink shows through between the toe and the little ankle straps which have black buttons.

The stockings are modeled on a baby with chubby thighs, wearing a pair of pink bloomers under her knit dress.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#showmeyourknits Colorwork 🧶 I don't do much colorwork, because I prefer texture. When I do, it's often intarsia. The pattern is Harlequin, from Stitchcraft issue 184, April 1949. It was part of my long term project to knit a sweater from each decade from 1890s-1990s.

A woman stands in front of a bookcase full of knitting books. Only her torso can be seen. She is wearing a body-forming gray pullover with a close-fitting neck. The bottom, neck and 3/4-length sleeves are all hemmed. Down the front center are 7 large triangles pointing downward and divided into halves, with the left half a magenta color and the right half a golden yellow. The triangles are repeated down the arms. On the right arm the yellow half of the triangles can be seen and on the left arm, the purple half can be seen.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This week's Technique Tuesday video: the easiest cast on for top down hats or center-out circular projects. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/zR6Ot6rwEw0

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Easiest Center-Out Cast On for a Top-Down Hat // Technique Tuesday

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Green! Christmas stocking I knit for my daughter's fiance. I've made these for my nieces and nephews, their spouses and kids. I used motifs I picked up from several stocking patterns as well as stitch dictionaries. Lined with wool felt to keep it from stretching.

A Christmas stocking hangs against a rosy beige stucco wall. The stocking is knit in three colors: off white, sage green, and forest green. The top of the stocking has a Latvian braid knit with the two greens, and the stocking is knit in horizontal bands of stranded color work, using two colors for each band, with the width of the bands varying. The largest motif is a Scandinavian snowflake with sage green background and off white snowflake. Other bands have tree motifs, small snowflakes, and zig zag lines. The band on the foot is in sage green with "Sam" in white letters, flanked with three hearts. THe heel and toe are forest green.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I start TWO new top down seamless sweaters with set-in sleeves that use two different construction methods, and I discuss why designers might get something wrong in their patterns, but if you follow their instructions, you'll end up with the right result. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/xQYZhs5089s

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When Designers Get it Wrong, (but Still Knit it Right!) // Casual Friday S8E07

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I had the great pleasure of completing this shawl for @thelooseendsproject on behalf of a knitter whose health made it difficult to finish something this complex. The knitter turned out to be a neighbor who lived just two blocks from me! She is full of creativity, and her surroundings reflect that.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#showmeyourknits 🧶 I won this yarn (BT Quarry) at a retreat last year. Color was Pumice (light gray). I have so many gray sweaters, so I dyed it Berry Crush. I can be SEEN in this sweater. Woolen spun yarn weighs nothing. Pattern is Bellows and buttons are vintage coat buttons, all different. ❤️ it.

Bulky weight cardigan made from woolen spun yarn in a VERY bright shade of fuchsia/magenta. There are V shaped cables on either side, with a textured stitch pattern on the upper bodice that's maybe moss stitch (I can't remember.) There is a nice wide k2p2 button band and a fantastically deep shawl collar that sits nicely up the back of the neck. Four black vintage coat buttons close the front. Each button has a different textured surface.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This special episode of the Casual Friday podcast is a video montage of all the items finished or fixed by viewers who posted photos in my Ravelry group. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/dpSbivEB_0A

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Finish it February - What My Viewers Fixed and Finished // Casual Friday S8E06

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This week's Technique Tuesday video demonstrates the method of cabling without a cable needle that I find most efficient when knitting traveling twisted stitch patterns. youtu.be/ouQ6eLtVvSA #knitting 🧶

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Cabling without a cable needle (traveling twisted stitches) // Technique Tuesday

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Got this braid of 100% Falkland from @knittinglizard.bsky.social Sunday at Crafters Gotta Craft. I wondered if the OOAK in OOAK BLUE reflected the way Minnesotans say "oak," until a friend told me that it means "one of a kind." Ha! Started spinning it this afternoon, till tragedy struck.

A braid of unspun fiber in various shades of ocean blues and greens, with a label that says, "Ooak Blue"

An e-spinner with some of the blue-green wool spun up on the bobbin sits next to a label that says Knitting Lizard Fibers and the broken drive band of the e-spinner.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#showmeyourknits Socks. These are my most recently completed socks, the first project I've knit that started with raw fleece and went through processing, spinning, design to finished project. The dark color makes it hard to see the spiraling design. #knitting 🧶

A pair of sock covered feet touch each other sole-to-sole. The mid-calf length socks are peacock blue and are knit in a k1p1 pattern with a spiraling p3 embossing the rib. The heel is worked with a "plain heel" which is an insta-thought peasant heel (rather than afterthought), modified to accommodate my high arches.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Well, I finished *something* for Finish it February. That, plus tidbits and other things in this week's Casual Friday podcast. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/TqJ_43RXKfk

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Finish it February - What I did and didn't finish // Casual Friday S8E05

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This week's Technique Tuesday video explains how determine the direction of knitting in complex fabrics made with cables, color work, or lace. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/dOyQ6-PMnZs

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Cables, Lace and Colorwork: Which Way is Up? // Technique Tuesday

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This week's Casual Friday podcast includes progress on Finish it February projects (along with a new project), some new-to-me vintage sock booklets, and a spinning update. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/eNLui2q0XSU

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Finish it February 2025 Progress // Casual Friday S8E04

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thank god for @jrabb4.bsky.social's obsession (and instructions) for grafting, or I would be going insane trying to graft this sweater back together in pattern. I can now graft a st off the needle as a purl, while simultaneously turning the grafting thread into a knit. I feel like a magician.🧶 #knit

A dark green fingering weight sweater lies on a gray table. The knit/purl stitch patterns form damask fabric of zig zags and diamonds. The ribbing is in a darker green and made of mini cables. The bottom several inches of the sweater sits on one needle while the upper part of the sweater is on another needle. The fabric is partially grafted together, maintaining the knit/purl pattterning.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In this bonus Casual Friday podcast, I have three tidbits, and I tell the story of how my latest pair of socks started with a visit to a fiber festival in 2019 and ended with a pair of hand spun, hand dyed, self-designed, hand knit socks. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/851MOTfMEUM

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Fleece to Socks: a spin, dye, design journey // Casual Friday S8E03

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

One of my YT viewers went to her local Friends of the Library sale and came across five books that she instinctively knew I would love. She bought them (for the shockingly low price of $1 apiece) and shipped them to me! I could not be more thrilled. There are three -- THREE -- Jane Gaugain books!

Three small books, one dark green, one brown, and one red, entitled Lady's Knitting, Netting & Crochet Book.

Inside the three books, the top one has an inscription that says, "Pauline Bentinck, The gift of her affectionate cousin Sophie Hawkins Whitther, London 1844. The middle book is open to a page that shows hand colored drawings of various items featured in the book, such as a child's Polish Pelisse, a stocking that covers the leg and instep, with a strap to hold it to the foot, and a hat shaped like a mortarboard graduation cap. The bottom book has several grids that depict particular stitch patterns, and a donut-shaped item colored in wedges of blue, yellow, and red.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This week's Technique Tuesday demonstrates how to add in a forgotten kfb increase on the next round or next right side row. youtu.be/EjzOOINy_Jc #knitting 🧶

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How to Fix or Add a Missed KFB (knit front back) Increase // Technique Tuesday

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Today was one of those days where I had to watch one of my own videos in order to remember how to do a technique (modified Dutch heel). To be fair, I hadn't done it since mid-2019.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For this week's stripes prompt, I have a pair of toe-up socks knit in self-striping yarn, with short rows forming the wedge toe. The effect is both really cool, and kinda creepy. Pattern is Tipsey Toes by Sybil R #showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶

A pair of feet wearing socks with stripes in yellow, red, black, blue, and a turquoise and white fake Fair Isle effect. THe stripes turn into wedges at the toes , with the widest part of the wedge on the outer foot, and the narrow part on the inner foot.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's the 1st day of Finish it February, and I had two events to go to (Knitting History Forum via Zoom, starting at 5:15 am my time), and our guild's monthly gathering at a local brewery. My FiF projects require full focus and a quiet room. So how did I start FiF? I cast on for a new pair of socks!

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This week's Casual Friday podcast kicks off Finish it February 2025. In addition, I go behind the scenes of @getbentzfarm.bsky.social 's yarn mill, I finished spinning a skein of gorgeous handspun, and I get some fabulous gifts from viewers. youtu.be/z3VbP2Mfkw0

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FiF 2025, a Yarn Mill, and Gifts from Viewers // Casual Friday S8E02

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A package I've been waiting for arrived at the post office last night, and yet they are telling me I might have to wait until 9 pm for it to show up in my PO Box. Why would it take more than 24 hours to move from one part of the PO to another? I want it noooowwwww.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Are you ready for Finish it February (or Fix it February)? What items are you going to Finish, Fix, or Mend? I put two sweaters in time out last summer, knowing I would pull them out in February to deal with them. (Both were "finished" but I didn't like how they turned out.) 🧶 #FiF2025

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Early start on Finish it (or Fix it) February so that I don't start a new project. Almost finished reknitting the first sleeve of my traditional Danish Night Sweater. Originally knit the sleeves using a skein in a different dye lot . Keeping the cuff dark because I don't have enough of the MC.

The body of an emerald green sweater knit in fingering weight with 8-pointed starts in knit/purl patterns and a cabled neckline.

Two sleeves with a diamond pattern outlined in purls lie on the sweater body. The one on the right has been re-knit in the same color as the sweater body, but has a darker green cuff. The one on the left is dark green, destined to be ripped back to the cuff.

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A newer knitter asked how to distinguish the CO edge from the BO edge. Edges can fool you (there are matching CO/BO pairs amongst the most common techniques). Better to determine the direction of knitting. That's the topic of this week's Technique Tuesday video. youtu.be/iFTEhR8rxcE

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How to determine the direction of knitting (CO vs BO edge) // Technique Tuesday

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I've had a lot of questions about what the difference is between woolen spun yarn and worsted spun yarns, so I recorded a Technique Tuesday video on my YT channel to explain it. youtu.be/nv-F8LRhWk8?... #knitting #yarn 🧶🧶🧶

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Woolen Spun vs Worsted Spun Yarns // Technique Tuesday

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Roxanne Richardson @roxmpls.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hello, world. I'm a giant knitting nerd, seeking to learn something new about knitting every day(ish).

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