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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 09/02/2025

Just finished this gem a month or so ago. Beagle had been in my queue for over a decade, and then I discovered Drift was the cardiganized, feminine version of it, and that was all it took to get it out of the queue and onto the needles!

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

Jackson's book was published in 1845. The final book was published in 1918 here in the US. It's called Knitting and Sewing: How to Make Seventy Useful Articles for Men in the Army and Navy, by Maud Churchill Nicoll.

A book with a green cloth cover is printed with the title Knitting and Sewing at the top, and then a picture of 5 different yarns of various weights and colors, with the yarn unplied in the final inch or two so that you can understand how each yarn is constructed. Under the picture is the author's name, Maud Churchill Nicoll

The book is opened to a page with a pattern for Cap and Muffler Combined. A photo of a hat is shown, with a pom pom at the crown, and the brim folded over so that it is doubled.

The next page shows a photo of the Cap and Muffler Combined in its muffler state. It's a long tube, with a pom pom attached to each of the closed ends. It's basically the World War I version of the popular Musselburgh hat, only with pom poms.

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

Gaugain bks are Vols I, II, & III of The Lady's Assistant in Knitting, Netting, & Crochet Work, publ in 1842, 1843, and 1857, respectively. Next we have another small volume, The Practical Companion to the Work-Table, Containing Directions for Knitting, Netting, and Crochet, by Elizabeth Jackson

A small red book embossed with swirling designs around the perimeter of the cover. In the center of the cover is gold leaf embossing with more swirling designs, along with the book's title, Knitting, Netting & Crochet by Mrs. Jackson.

The book is opened to one of the early pages, where three of the lace patterns found in the book are pictured against a green background.

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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 · 02/02/2025

Not *quite* as creepy if you switch which foot you wear the sock on, so that the wedges bend outward

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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 · 26/01/2025

Cabled items I knit in 2024. The Tarbat hat by Lucy Hague takes traveling cables to the next level. The sweater is Royale by Glenna C, which has traveling twisted stitch patterns. Had been in my queue for more than a decade. #showmeyourknits #cables 🧶

A hat knit in almost-black sits on a bright blue skein of yarn. The hat has traveling cables that zig-zag right and left, but also up and down.

A close fitting sweater in a dusky raspberry pink with a scooped neck has panels of traveling twisted stitch patterns, some of which extend into the ribbings.

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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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