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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits Warning: swears past the swipe! I’m #excited that two years after knitting this, I finally made the mounting block and hung it on my wall. I’m #proud of the design. More details in alt text. I’m hoping to post the illusion knitting chart on Ravelry soon-ish. 🧶 #knitsky

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits I’ve posted so many of my knits with #stripes already that I was going to skip this week. But I thought it was a good excuse to gather all of my self-striping-yarn socks, including the one I’m knitting now. Funnily enough, I never used to like knitting socks… 🧶 #knitsky

Six pairs of hand knit socks lying on a wooden deck, plus a nearly finished first sock of a seventh pair. From left to right: three pairs of Vanilla Extract socks in muted rainbow-ish stripes with grey outlines, toes and heels, in various shades of blue-green, and in various shades of blue; a Serendipitous Journey pair in browns and orange-yellows, a Serendipitous Journey pair of very tall socks with Vanilla Extract toes and heels in blues and purples, and a pair with an improvised slip-stitch brick-like pattern in pastel pinks and greens. Beneath this row of socks is a single sock with purple toe, heel, and partly knitted cuff that is striped with five shades of green, blue, and purple. This pair is once again Serendipitous Journey with Vanilla Extract toes and heels.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits The socks so nice, I knit them #twice. I subbed my preferred toe and heel into the second pair, and made them much taller. Assigned texture on self-striping yarn. I cast on another pair today… Thanks, @disturbingthefleece.com! #knitsky 🧶 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Two pairs of Serendipitous Journey socks, pattern by Fatimah Hinds (Disturbing the Fleece), lying on the floor. On the right is the first pair I knit, with stripes in various shades of yellow, brown, and beige. The toes, heels, and cuffs are brown. On the left is the second pair, which is much taller.The toes, heels, and cuffs are dark royal blue, and the body is striped in various blues and purples. I knit both with sock kits from Lollipop Yarns, now defunct.

My legs in the tall blue and purple socks. The color way is Bluely Madly Deeply, which has stripes in eight colors, alternating dark blues and jewel tones in blue and purples. Unfortunately, I ran out of yarn before I reached my knees, but I got most of the way there. I’m waiting for the weather to be cool enough to wear them.

My feet in the brown socks, which are a more typical sock height. This color way is Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound; every other stripe is beige, and the beige alternates with mustard yellow, caramel, coffee brown, and dark chocolate. The texture of the knitting is clearer in this photo; on top of the foot, the beige stripes are stockinette and the other stripes are reverse stockinette, which raises them above the beige background. The soles are stockinette, while the backs of the legs and the cuffs are 2 by 2 ribbing.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#showmeyourknits #tools A few essentials: my only needle gauge that goes down to size 000 (a size I use!) and my well-worn sheep tape measure, both from my #LYS. I keep them in the handy inner pocket of this project bag that I got… somewhere. Hang on, it’ll come to me. 😉 #knitsky 🧶🐑

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sure, I’ll play. Frieze Frame, a bead crochet piece I made quite a long time ago. 🧶 Quote post with something that is a circle. 🔵

Frieze Frame, 2015. A beaded disk adorned by seven concentric multicolored rings with repeating patterns against a background of black beads. The colored designs are in red, yellow, and blue, and the disk is mounted in a red square frame, in front of a yellow mat. The designs represent the seven frieze groups. Frieze Frame contains 6471 beads, each one crocheted on by hand.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits I finished these knit #socks. I’m quite pleased with the experiment, and might use this improvised Frankenpattern again. It’s the perfect season for the Spring Forward color way. 🧶 #knitsky

My outstretched feet with pastel socks in pinks and greens pulled over teal tights. The heels and toes are lavender, and the legs and the tops of the feet have a slipped stitch pattern that breaks the reverse stockinette stripes into little bricks. The inner edges of my feet show a bit of the stockinette sole, where the unadorned self-striping pattern in the yarn is visible; six colors of stripes with single rounds of grey in between the stripes.

My feet in the same socks stretching up to the sky, because it was a pretty blue sky flecked with clouds and I was feeling silly. The socks go part way up my calves, a fairly typical sock height. The 1 by 2 ribbing at the cuffs lines up with the slipped stitch design. The patterns I based these on are linked in my previous work-in-progress post.

I’m getting a bit bolder about incorporating socks into my outfits. On this day, I wore these socks with the teal tights, orange and brightest blue flowered dress, and blue and pink and metallic gold brocade-and-leather Fluevog boots with the neon orange laces and soles shown here. Only an inch or two of sock protrudes from the top of each boot. The socks don’t match, but also they do.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

For some reason, someone (mouse?) keeps chewing little holes into this particular dress. So in between bouts of knitting 🧶, I’ve been improvising some vaguely coordinating mends. Trying to level up my embroidery skills, I guess. #visiblemending #wonderfil 🪡🧵

The center front of a “Baby Shark” button-up dress from Zuri, with two embroidered mends on either side of the placket. The fabric has a faded blue background covered with swarming reddish black fish with white eyes. The mend on the lower right (worn on the left) is a crooked little fish in a lighter and greener blue than the background, swimming in between two of the black fish. It’s the oldest mend. Maybe I should stitch the fish an eye? In the upper left, I made a little sea shell with blue and green thread.

A closeup of the lower skirt of the baby shark dress, where I covered a hole in the fabric with a starfish in blue, teal, and purple. This was my second mend, and I doodle-stitched it in several layers until I was reasonably happy with the result. The baby sharks on the dress were black when I got it, but repeated washing has worn away the dye so that they’re now dark purply red with a thick black outline.

A closer close up of the embroidered shell on the right upper chest (just to the left of the placket as viewed). I sewed it just after the starfish. The base of the shell is pale green, and the top is woven with a fan of pale green as the warp and light blue as the weft. The thread in all the mends is Wonderfil Spaghetti Thread that I bought for a math fashion project and will be using for years to come.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits #whatsonyourneedles #inspiration I’m knitting the second sock of a pair inspired by the two patterns linked here and a Spring Forward sock kit from the erstwhile Lollipop Yarns. Bring on the flowers! 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

One completed sock in spring colors alongside the toes and partial foot of its mate on a circular needle. The toe, heel, and bind off are in a tonal purplish pink. The self-striping yarn for the rest of the sock has stripes in six pastel colors separated by thin grey outlines. The first stripe matches the purplish pink of the heel, and then there are pink, cantaloupe, grey-green, pale green, and light green. The slip stitch pattern on the leg and the top of the foot are loosely based on Stephen West’s Rain or Shine socks, and the texture is lined up to the yarn colors as they emerge in the style of Fatimah Hinds’s Serendipitous Journey socks.

The completed first sock on my outstretched foot, with a clear view of the top of the leg, foot, and toe. Between the solid-color portion of the toe and the ribbing at the cuff, the fabric has a texture reminiscent of basket weaving or brickwork. I achieved this with three rounds of reverse stockinette for each stripe and either one or two rounds of stockinette in between to keep the texture roughly synched with the color changes. Staggered slip stitches in the reverse stockinette strips divide each bumpy stripe into little five-stitch rectangles stacked like bricks. The ribbing at the cuff is 1 x 2, so that the columns of knit stitches line up with the slip stitches.

The finished sock on my foot again, but in side view. Here, the heel and a bit of the bottom of the foot are visible. Since the sole of the sock is plain stockinette, this angle shows the unadulterated self-striping pattern, with the single round of grey in between the pastel stripes. I have only seen this outline effect in sock color ways from Lollipop Yarns, and it’s one of the reasons I’m so sad this independent dyer has disappeared. If you know of any active dyers who do this effect, please tell me about them!

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits My not-yet-blocked silly-huge Samen shawl, knit with yarn from Amsterdam. Three colors of wool fingering held together with three colors of mohair in giant #garterstitch chevrons with interspersed lace wedges. 🧶 #knitsky #westknitsarethebestknits www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My Samen shawl laid out on a wooden deck floor. The shawl is a very long, shallow asymmetrical triangle. The shorter half, farthest from the camera, consists of six thick garter stripes in three blended colors, a reddish tan, a pale blue flecked with brown, and a deep maroon. The stripes bend between the two (unequal) halves of the shawl, and on the closer, longer half, there is a wedge of stockinette lace with a simple eyelet grid in between each pair of garter stripes. Each of these regions is a different color combination made by remixing the fingering wool and mohair lace colors. From the center to the outermost chevron, the wedges are pale blue with chestnut flecks, deep chocolate brown, tan with chestnut flecks, tan with dark brown flecks, and pale blue with maroon flecks. I didn’t quite have enough aubergine wool and maroon mohair, so the outer chevron is a couple of rows thinner than the others, and the bind off is aubergine wool with chestnut mohair.

My Samen shawl next to my 20-pound cockapoo, for scale. Kiko is happy that I haven’t wrapped her up in the shawl—yet. Maybe after I block it.

The original pattern, by Stephen West, only has six color combinations, with the lace wedges alternating between three color blends. Back when I bought all the yarn, I had vague thoughts of mixing this up, and when I saw how low the contrast was between the aubergine and maroon garter stitch stripe and the aubergine and brown lace wedge, I was certain I wanted to remix the other wedges. As in the original pattern, each wedge uses the wool color from one adjacent garter stripe and the mohair from the other. Counting the thin edge of aubergine and chestnut at the bind off, the shawl has all nine color combinations of wool and mohair.

My Samen-dedicated haul of yarn from Stephen and Penelope, to which I made a pilgrimage while passing through Amsterdam. There are two skeins of each of the six colors. In the top row, Glowhair, a mohair-silk blend, in corduroy (the one I’ve been calling maroon), chestnut, and truffle. In the bottom row, Bicycle (100% merino wool), in aubergine, biscuit, and cirrus. The fabric from holding these together is SO plush, and knitting with them was a tactile delight.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

#mathart #mathknitting #JMM2026 This year, the math art exhibition at the Joint Mathematics Meetings invited me to be a featured artist, giving me the chance to assemble this mini-retrospective of my knitted and beaded work. Links to the catalog entries are in the following posts. 🧶 #knitsky ☺️

My featured-artist display at JMM 2026 in Washington DC. Four of the works are hanging on a zig-zag of beige, custom-cut mats, and the fifth is on three black jewelry stands. All pieces were accepted into one or more juried exhibits at JMM or Bridges in the past decade. The blue knitted wall hanging, second from the left, is the solo piece that was accepted into this year’s exhibition.

A closer view of the first two panels of the folded mat backing. The three pieces were 28 inches tall and 14, 28, and 28 inches wide, which is bigger than it sounds when you’re carrying them.

On the left is Fundamental Frieze Scroll II from 2018, a tan knitted wall hanging which was the precursor for the new piece to its right. That new piece, The Fundamentals of Lace, is knitted in blue on smaller needles but is both wider and taller than the older work. Both wall hangings are composed of the same fundamental region, a small lace motif in a lambda or Y shape, and both have colored beads embedded in the fabric to mark the symmetries. For more details, go to the following post for the online catalog links.

A close up of the rightmost mat panel and the jewelry set. As before, for more details you can follow the catalog links in the following posts.

The last mat panel has two knitting wall hangings suspended from pins at the top of the panel. To the left is Float Free, Bumblebee, a wall hanging in two-color mosaic knitting with yellow and black yarn. Like the two pieces in the previous photo, the knitted fabric is rectangular and lashed to dowels at the top and bottom. The fabric is divided into horizontal and vertical strips with different repeating abstract designs.

On the right of the mat is Redistribution, a wall hanging that has the overall shape of an hourglass whose top segment is shorter than the bottom segment. The upper portion is fan-shaped, with a network of dark purple stitches over a background of pale green stitches. The lower portion is flared like a trumpet and juts away from the wall, with a network of light purple stitches on a background of dark green.

To the right of the folding backdrop is Map Coloring Jewelry Set, the oldest artwork in this display. A bead crocheted necklace with pendant, a bead crocheted bracelet, and bead woven earrings in eight matte colors with gold accents hang on a black necklace form and black bracelet and earring stands. This jewelry set won a prize in the JMM 2015 exhibit, and now and then, I still wear it.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits My JMM 2026 conference-talk knitting. One down, one to go. #WIP 🧶 #knitsky 🧦 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

A solitary knit sock lying on its side, waiting for me to finish its mate. The pattern is essentially Serendipitous Journey, but with the toe and heel from Vanilla Extract. I’m using a stashed sock set from the now defunct Lollipop Yarns in the color way Bluely Madly Deeply, which alternates four stripes in dark blues with four stripes in brighter blues and purples with dark blue flecks. The toe, heel, and cuff are solid dark blue, with the tonal variations of hand-dyed yarn.

The same striped sock in Bluely Madly Deeply, except this time it’s on my left foot. On the top of the foot and the front of the leg, the brighter blue and purple stripes are in reverse stockinette, making them pop out above the dark blues in stockinette. The sole of the foot is in smooth stockinette, while the back of the leg and the cuff are in 2 by 2 ribbing.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits #knitterschoice Fundamentals of Lace, 2025: the newest #mathart I’m exhibiting at the Joint Math Meetings next week. Details (like the allusion in the name) are through the link and in the alt text. 🧶 #knitsky #mathknitting #symmetries gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

The catalog photo of Fundamentals of Lace, a knitted wall hanging. The piece is a rectangle of blue knitted lace lashed to wooden dowels at the top and bottom. The fabric has white, yellow, and red beads knitted into the lace. The rectangle is divided into a 3 x 3 grid of different lace designs, and each section has its own pattern of colored beads that mark the symmetries of the design. The white beads, which are always in vertical or horizontal lines, mark the axes of reflection (mirror) symmetries. The yellow beads (also in vertical or horizontal lines) mark the axes of glide reflection symmetries. The red beads, which are slightly larger and more spaced out, mark centers of rotational symmetry.

Fundamentals of Lace after blocking and before attaching to dowels, lying flat on a wooden deck. Each of the nine lace designs is made up from smaller lace motifs arranged in four rows and six columns. Disregarding any beads, the motif in the upper left corner of each design is identical, a rectangle with eyelets along one diagonal and half of the other diagonal forming a lowercase lambda. The part of the motif under the lambda is an eyelet mesh, while the regions above and to the left are solid stockinette. The rest of each design consists of the same motif in various orientations, some like the original, some flipped vertically, some flipped horizontally, and some rotated by 180°. Mathematically, the motif is a “fundamental region” for the design; hence, the title of the work.

Fundamentals of Lace, pre-blocking. The lace is rumpled and uneven, and the lines of beads are much wobblier than in the finished work.

Algebraically, we can prove that there are exactly nine possible symmetry structures for a design in a non-square rectangular grid repeating in two directions. The structures are expressed by the beaded markings: for instance, the middle panel gives an example of a design with no 180° rotational symmetries that has both reflections and glide reflections, and any repeating design that has evenly spaced, parallel symmetry axes that alternate between reflections and glide reflections and nothing else except translations (just sliding the design without twisting or flipping) has the same abstract symmetry structure.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits Slipping in under the wire this week because I never posted my finished Vitamin D #cardigan. I wasn’t sure the darkest purple yarn would last through the entire edging, and I’m so glad it did. Really ties the whole sweater together. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My Vitamin D cardigan lying flat on a wooden deck. I knit this with one of The Blue Brick’s all over gradient sweater kits in the Blossom color way. The body of the cardigan flares out like a semicircular shawl, with the front right corner folded over the left side of the sweater. Raglan sleeves stretch out to either side. The upper body is neon lime green, which fades through pinks and magentas to a deep purple toward the cuffs and hem. Around the neck, front edges, curved hem, and cuffs of the sweater is a thin garter border in the darkest purple of the gradient.

The damp Vitamin D cardigan being blocked on top of a bed. The body of the sweater is spread out to show that it is essentially a semicircular shawl, while the sleeves are stretched out underneath. I mostly smoothed out the shape by just tugging the body so that the bottom curve looked even. There are four pins holding the shoulders and bottom corners in place, but the cardigan is otherwise unpinned. This view displays the way that the back of the cardigan has the complete gradient, while the short row shaping in the fronts creates several abrupt color jumps from bright green to pinkish green to vibrant pink.

The almost finished cardigan before I picked up along the front edges and the neck and knit the dark purple garter stitch border. The sweater is in a similar position to that in the first image, except that the left front is crossed over the right. The gradient in the sleeves doesn’t darken quite as much as in the body, so when I found that I had enough dark purple left, I picked out the original cuffs, extended the stockinette a bit, then knitted the garter cuffs in the same color as the front edges.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits My current #WIP is a #mathart exhibition piece that I’m still keeping mostly under wraps, but here’s a sneak peek. The knitting is nearly complete; the blocking and mounting will take a few days on their own. 🧶 #knitsky #mathknit #mathknitting #symmetries

A closeup of a blue knitted lace artwork with embedded glass beads. The section shown is divided into four rectangles of lace by strips of garter stitch, and each rectangle has its own repeating lace design. The beads form white lines, yellow lines, and red dots in various configurations. If you’re curious about the underlying math and don’t want to wait until I post the finished artwork, look up my Fundamental Frieze Scroll artworks, which were the precursors to this piece.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits Luckily, I bought a heap of self-striping sock kits from Lollipop Yarns before they vanished. Since there’s always half a pair’s yarn left over, I decided to helix knit the remnants of two kits for stripe-on-stripe chaos #socks. 🧶 #knitsky 🧦 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Three pairs of socks lie flat on a wooden deck. The pairs on the left and right are stacked so mostly the top sock is showing, and the left and right socks of each pair match. The left and right socks of the middle pair do NOT match, and they are laid out side by side. The lefthand pair is striped in an eight-color sequence of greens and blues, with solid teal at the toe and heel. The right-hand pair is striped in a six-color sequence of various blues, with dark royal blue toes and heels. In the middle pair, the striped yarns from both outer pairs of socks are helix knitted together so that they flow seamlessly around the sock like the stripes on a candy cane. One sock has a teal toe and a blue heel, while the other has a blue toe and a teal heel.

My bonus pair of socks on my feet, which are side by side on the deck floor. My toes are pointing towards the top of the photo, teal on the left, blue on the right. I really enjoy the way these socks go together without matching. The stripes in both sock kits alternate light and dark, and I tried to keep them out of phase so that I would have light on light, light on dark, and darks on dark. The different numbers of colors in the two kits (eight blue-green, six blue) also naturally shuffled things up. The result is that in place of the crisp, four-to-five row stripes each ball of yarn makes on its own, these socks have broader stripes of mixed shades with blurrier edges.

My feet in the blue-green-blue chaos socks, but crossed to better show the inside edge and heel of the left sock. I do a fair bit of show-off knitting, but my goal with these socks was to take a break from complicated patterns and enjoy the exquisite colors. Vanilla Extract, the pattern I used for all three pairs of socks, is now my go-to nothing-fancy sock pattern. I experimented with several different types of ribbing for the cuffs; this pair has 1x1 twisted rib, which I particularly like for the muddled striping.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits Shawlography has brought me #joy on several fronts. Beyond the pattern being a surprise, I was surprised when my entire knitting Zoom crew jumped into the MKAL with me. And this year, it was a joy to take it apart and put it back together the way I wished I’d made it. 🧶 #knitsky

My Shawlography, after its recent brioche-flipping surgery, draped across a grey stone slab and the brickwork under it. This was Stephen West’s Mystery Knit Along in 2021. I’m not really a mystery knit along fan—I sometimes knit them after the fact, since I prefer to know what I’m knitting—but I got swept up in this one and it was a blast! The yarn kits from Stephen and Penelope dropped right around my 50th birthday, so I splurged and ordered the Flamingo Cherry Mominoki yarn kit. My pattern modifications were holding a glittery mohair from my stash with the pattern yarn color in a few places (love!), and switching foreground and background colors in the brioche stripe (regret). Here, I’ve reknit the stripe so the colors are as planned, and the black in the foreground echoes the black in the multicolor fan at the center of the shawl’s crescent.

My Shawlography lying on a bed, midway through the process of grafting it back together. The color way consists of black, dark purple, dark cherry, flamingo pink, and purplish ecru. In the center of the semicircle, the shawl starts with a tiny cherry semicircle, surrounded by a fan of textured stripes in prominent black with the other colors peeking out from behind. The shawl design has a two-color brioche strip many sections later that echoes that central fan, with black in the raised foreground and cherry behind it. I flipped them, thinking the brighter color would look better on top, and my fervent desire to go back to the original design is what moved me to pick the shawl apart in the first place. I thought I was going to knit a new startup row, attach the brioche strip the other way, and then make a second incision to flip the border, but I decided it was easier to knit a new brioche section from scratch so I only grafted once.

My Shawlography as I originally knit it, wrapped around my stoic blonde cockapoo. Good girl, Kiko. I’ll take it off soon, I promise. With the flipped brioche colors, the cherry yarn in the brioche together with the cherry in an earlier section of red and purple were just too much of the cherry color for me. It felt like the shawl was out of balance.

The mohair I added is a sparkly lavender grey. I held it with the black for the i-cord spiral that looks like an old telephone cord, with the cherry in the line of bobbles, and with every sixth garter stripe in the border, so it cycles through all five yarn colors.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits My favorite #scarf knitted for myself. With two yarns, the free pattern turns linen stitch into bumpy vertical stripes on one side and flat horizontal stripes on the other. I ditched the trendy urban neutrals for neon Noro on black. 🧶 #knitsky www.purlsoho.com/create/2017/...

My rectangular Reversible Stripes scarf, pattern by Purl Soho, laid in a zigzag on a wooden deck. The arrangement shows three segments of the right side and two of the wrong side. I’m calling them right and wrong for clarity, but as the name implies, both sides are meant to be showing. The scarf is knit from a solid black yarn and a bright jewel-toned slow-color-change Noro yarn that cycles through teal, mustard yellow, pink, lavender, cornflower blue, and grass green. At this scale, both sides of the scarf look like a dense field of bright color dabs carpeting a black background, with a more bumpy texture on the right side.

A slightly up-the-nose selfie of a younger me wrapped in the Reversible Stripes scarf she’s just finished. I’m wearing a melon colored top, whose front is mostly covered by the spread-out ends of the scarf running down my chest and off the bottom of the photograph. Both ends are showing the right side, with vertical columns of jewel-toned purl bumps jutting out from the black yarn. In fact, the black yarn has a similar texture, but being black and slightly thinner, it visually recedes into a backdrop for the brilliant Noro colors. Around my neck and at the inner edges falling from my shoulders, the scarf folds over to show the wrong side. The stripes here are smoother and run horizontally, each stripe a sequence of alternating knitted Vs and yarn slipped to the front.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits 🧵1/2 Just finished a long knit and am unusually indecisive about my next knit. So I turned a finished object back into a #WIP. I did the #westknits 2021 Shawlography #MKAL as a mystery, with a few mods. I always regretted having swapped the colors in the brioche section…

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Shawlography pattern by Stephen West

This semi-circular shawl was originally published as the Westknits Mystery Shawl Knit Along in 2021. Choose five contrasting colors of fingering weight yarn and enjoy all of the fun textures throughou...

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Opening Convocation. “Tell me you were running late this morning without telling me you were running late this morning.” 🤦‍♀️

The lap of my academic robe, dark pink with black velvet trim. Below it on the grass are my feet with red glossy polish on my toenails. My left foot is in a beige suede sandal, while my right foot is in a metallic black sandal.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It’s been a while since I posted any progress shots of my Vitamin D Cardigan, so here are both sleeves and some of the short rows. We have hit the technically wearable phase! 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... thebluebrick.ca

My Vitamin D cardigan just after I finished knitting the sleeves. At the top of the image is the sweater’s yoke with its grids of eyelet increases, the fronts and back on stoppered circular needle cables. This section of the cardigan is crescent shaped and blisteringly bright green. The sleeves, which jut down and outward, show the yarn’s gradient fade through pinks into maroon and purple.

The Vitamin D cardigan in progress. The sleeves are knit flat and then seamed, and this photo shows the sleeves after I’ve sewn them into tubes. The upper part of the cardigan is now folded so the left front overlaps the right front, and the sleeves hang down.

The Vitamin D cardigan after the first set of short rows. Since the pattern stops these short rows before reaching the front edges of the cardigan, the cable of the knitting needles encircles the body, with both needle ends emerging a few inches from the edge of the left front. The color of the body has reached the greenish orange, melon-y tones, with a smooth color fade on the back and a sharper color jump towards the front corners of the short-row wedge. The rest of the cake of body yarn sits in the lower right, showing the rest of the color fade into magentas and purples.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits To add a touch of color to my Iced cardigan (@stolenstitches.bsky.social), I mixed in some Noro for garter #stripes in the shawl collar. Three rows in between switching yarn makes the front and back of the collar both the “right” side. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/sgo...

Me fifteen years ago wearing my recently knitted Iced cardigan. I am standing on a lawn in front of hedges and a fence, with a river and a bridge in the background. The cardigan is a double-breasted blue-grey in stockinette with garter cuffs and hem and a thick multicolored striped garter shawl collar that overlaps in the front. There are two large triangular wooden buttons holding the cardigan closed on the left side. A leash handle is in my right hand; the less-cropped version of this photo found through the pattern link shows my fluffy dog sniffing the grass in the lower right.

The Iced cardigan lying flat on a black metal deck table with the right sleeve hanging over the edge of the table. The cardigan is buttoned closed, and the shawl collar is slightly folded over around the neck. The striped collar has pastel colors streaked through the blue-grey main color: bits of yellow, green, red, purple, and white. The oversized buttons are pie wedges cut out of a large round branch with the bark still attached, made and sold by The Hickory Tree on Etsy.

A closeup of the left side and back neck of the open cardigan lying on the deck floor. The two wooden buttons are on the right side of the photo, as is the back of one of the two large snaps that hold the right edge (on the left of the photo) closed when the cardigan is fastened. The striped collar is folded to reveal the front of the garter band on the side and the back of the garter band at the top. Since I knit three rows of each color, the pattern is a garter ridge in the heathered blue-grey background yarn, a ridge in which the background yarn and the pastel Noro interlock, and a ridge with just the Noro, repeated up to the outer edge of the shawl collar. This left me with quite a few ends to weave in, since each yarn jumped sides at each color switch.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits My most satisfying knit from #scraps: a möbius Chevron Cowl made with various pink and brown fingering yarn #leftovers held together. The half-twist makes the diagonal “ribs” slant in opposite directions where they meet at the center. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My scrappy Chevron Cowl, made from five lace to sport weight yarns held together in different combinations. The cowl is a seamless möbius band, so it has one surface and one edge. The center of the band is a highly mottled pink, while the border is made from variegated pink and solid brown yarns held together with a pale pink mohair lace. The cowl is folded much as I would put it over my head, with the back horizontal and the front in a downward pointing V. As with möbius cowls in general, it lays in position flatter than a long cylindrical cowl.

The in-progress cowl, shortly after I started the border. Since the cable needle runs through the entire edge of the möbius strip, the fabric is wrapped into a compact cowl. For fun, when I started the border, I made the diagonal texture slant in the other direction. So in the finished cowl, if you follow a stockinette or reverse stockinette stripe, it makes a W shape instead of a V.

The beginning of the cowl together with the five balls of yarn that make it up. The pattern uses the famous Cat Bordhi möbius cast on to start knitting along the midline and knit outward along the single edge of the möbius band. In the wooden yarn bowl at the top are a highly variegated pink ball of yarn and the tail end of a dark pink solid. Below the bowl, a small ball of a slightly lighter pink solid rests on two full balls of yarn that went into the border, a coffee brown wool blend and a pale pink mohair blend lace.

The proximate cause of the cowl. Crazy for Ewe, my local yarn shop, was doing a community project where they asked people to knit garter-stitch hearts in pinks and reds. Here are the seven hearts I made from various pink leftovers. The one at the top used the variegated pink held with one of the solid pinks. I loved the combination and I had a lot of the variegated pink left, so I started planning the cowl.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits I have so many #shawls that I fell into decision paralysis this week. But here’s an old Sagratino shawl I should really pull out more in the fall. The pattern calls for wool fingering yarn, but I fell for this thicker Noro cotton blend. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My modular Sagratino shawl, a shallow V of hexagon motifs in three slow-change color ways. I don’t remember which Noro yarn this was, but it’s one with more subtle color variations than the typical Noro. The hexagons are knitted from the outside to the center, and they each have six eyelet curves spiraling into the center. The sides of the shawl’s V are three hexagons wide.

The six balls of Noro yarn that went into the shawl. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to turn one or more tags to show the name of the yarn, but you can read that it is a blend of 50% cotton, 35% silk, and 15% wool. There are two balls of each color way. From left to right, they are shades of blue, pinks and purples with a tiny bit of blue and green, and shades of mossy green.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits #knitterschoice … and THERE’s the gradient! On to the second sleeve… The shop.thebluebrick.ca sweater kit is in Blossom. I’m less certain of how the gradient yarn will work in the body, where it meets Vitamin D’s short rows, but I’m looking forward to finding out. 🧶 #knitsky

My Vitamin D cardigan in progress. The sweater is knit from the top down in one piece. One sleeve, knit flat and still to be sewn shut, juts out to the left. The top of the other sleeve, the back, and both fronts are on circular cables, with stoppers screwed to the ends on the back and fronts and the size 2.5 needle tips ready to start the second sleeve. The top of the cardigan is all bright green, but the left sleeve fades through pink into maroon.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits #knitterschoice Early in my current WIP, I reproduced a rare knitting error I last made 15 years ago: passing the edge of the knitting through a hole in the knitting. Nothing for it but to rip back and reknit. A nice reminder that spectacular missteps are part of the journey. 🧶🙃🎉

A close up of the Vitamin D cardigan I’m currently knitting after I found a truly implausible error. My fingertips are at the top, holding down the cast-on edge to show the problem. In the middle of what should be a line of regularly spaced yarn-over holes, one hole seems to be missing. On closer inspection, I realized that at some point when I was returning some stitches that had come off the needle, I must have accidentally let the top edge run through the “missing” eyelet. I debated just leaving it since I was well past this point, but instead took a deep breath and ripped back a few dozen rows to fix it. Definitely the right call.

What the top of the Vitamin D cardigan is SUPPOSED to look like. There are radial grids of yarn-over increases on the fronts and the back of the cardigan, with plain stockinette wedges for the tops of the raglan sleeves. The error I had to pick out was at the top of back, where the now unobstructed top edge is curling the way unsupported stockinette does. This image is just over halfway through the increase section at the top. As of this posting, I’ve finished this section and am knitting the first sleeve, where the color gradient kicks in.

Early in the knitting of the Summit shawl I made in 2010. The light blue shawl consists of wavy strips of stockinette with dropped-stitch ladders and big open holes between them. In the first row of holes, I managed through a lapse of attention to twist the fabric so that the bottom edge actually ran through one of the holes, but didn’t notice until I had finished the entire second row of holes. (Wine and conversation were involved.) While ripping back to the offending twist was annoying, it did give me a good laugh.

The middle of the unblocked Summit shawl. I spread out the rectangular shawl loosely and let the middle stay bunched up to show the drape and the depth produced by the curl of the unblocked strips of stockinette that undulate between the lines of drop-stitch framed holes. I will link this pattern (as well as the cardigan pattern) in a reply post. I knit this in the raw silk yarn from the pattern, in the same pale blue color.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

More post-Bridges posting: my Math + Fashion show outfit. The skirt and top feature two renditions of one triangle tiling in the hyperbolic plane. I coded the Poincaré disk tiling in Processing and @spoonflower-social.bsky.social printed it on fabric. #bridgesmathart #mathart #mathfashion

Me wearing the look I submitted to the 2025 Math + Fashion show at Bridges Eindhoven. From top to bottom: a purple, blue, and teal polygonal quilted top I machine-sewed and hand embroidered, an aqua camisole, a two-thirds-circle skirt printed with a hyperbolic tiling outlined in purple that fades from teal to purple, aqua tights, white and silver platform shoes by United Nude. I’m also wearing a bead crochet bracelet in white, green, blue, and purple. My arms are spread wide to show off the bell sleeves of the top. Behind me is part of a mural by Carrie Patterson, Ash Scherer, and community art students from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Spoonflower printed the fabric for the top and the skirt. The polygons for the top are printed on cotton jersey fabric, while the skirt panels and the fabric for the waist and pockets are on a cotton/linen blend.

Another submission photo for my look in the Bridges Eindhoven Math + Fashion show this July. I’m standing in front of a different section of the mural with my arms spread diagonally and a huge, open-mouthed grin. I think that Ariel Webster, the photographer, caught me in the middle of laughing at something.

The top is stitched out of two-layer polygons that are like pillows without stuffing: purple dodecagons (12-sides), teal octagons (8-sided), and medium blue squares. There are also some cut-off slices of polygons to make the hemline and cuff-lines a little less unruly. I hand stitched these together to make a cropped top with flared sleeves, then hand embroidered the dual tiling in white running stitch. A decorative embroidered star appears in the center of each polygon, marking a vertex of the dual tiling. The tiles outlined in white are approximations of 30 45 90 hyperbolic triangles, the same triangles that appear in the Poincaré disk tiling in the skirt.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I saw a bunch of people starting these squares at Bridges with yarn distributed on @mathgrrl.com‘s behalf, but I only just visited the pattern page. How cool! 🤯😍 To Laura’s tags, I’ll add #gameoflife #cellularautomata (which might not be active tags but should be) and #crochetsky. Also 🧶. 😉

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I’m back home, slowly getting over my post-Bridges-Eindhoven jet lag. On my way to the conference, I spent a day in Amsterdam and visited the yarn mecca that is Stephen & Penelope. No comment on the damage to my wallet. 🙃🥰😉 🧶 #westknitsarethebestknits www.stephenandpenelope.com

Yarn heaven. A photo from the back corner of the shop. In the lower left is part of a table festooned with colorful Stephen West shawls, leather project bags and balls of yarn. In the middle right, a low cabinet with eight half-full yarn cubbies; the shop’s swift and ball winder are on the right edge. Along the back of the photo are half a dozen or so carefully arranged hanging yarn displays that fill up all the available wall space. These represent, if memory serves, less than half of the yarn arrayed against the walls of Stephen & Penelope. In front of the wall displays is a couch covered in a huge Stephen West knitted blanket. Several more cabinets, shawls, and pride flags complete the scene.

Another view of the back part of the shop. I was standing past the far side of the mustardy green sofa, facing a back wall display of Life in the Long Grass yarn. Five more sections of hanging yarn are visible along the side wall to the right, mostly in-house yarns. The large section at the right edge of the photo is all Bicycle yarn, some skeins of which might have fallen into my yarn basket. The modular blanket on the couch has diagonal stripes in greys, greens, browns, and melon-y orange. Behind the sofa is a low yarn cabinet. In front of the sofa is a small round table draped in a circular teal Slipstravaganza blanket. The table top is overflowing with baskets of yarn, and two neon-bright knitted onesies hang over the front edge.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits No photos of me in my As If Tee Lite by @knitandcroshay.bsky.social. Too bad, as it’s the perfect #summerknit. I don’t do cap sleeves, so I redesigned the sheer top part with set-in half sleeves and a back seam. Color: Disco Inferno 🪩🔥 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

The front of my hot pink As If Lite Tee by Shay Johnson. This rewrite of the As If Tee was a collaboration with Magpie Fibers, and I used their yarns Swanky Sock and Plume. The latter is a cashmere silk blend that looks and feels like a mohair silk lace yarn except softer. The lower body of the sweater and the peaked bust line are knit with both yarns held together, as are the collar and cuffs. The section above the bust is knit in Plume alone, making it delightfully sheer and airy. This color was part of Magpie’s summer 2023 collection, where all the colors had amazing 70s dance music names.

The back of my As If Lite Tee. I don’t like wearing sleeveless or short sleeve tops, so I needed something other than the original cap sleeve design. This was a bit tricky, because the top—at least the section where the two breast peaks are—has to be knit flat, and I don’t particularly like drop shoulders, so picking up sleeves from the cap ends wouldn’t work. I decided to put a centered seam in the middle of the back and to make the tops of set-in sleeves with decreases around the shoulders. Then I knit down from the armholes (which I provisionally cast on) until I had the length I wanted and finished with the cuffs.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits I’ve already posted so many of my #blue knits. But there’s #mathart in the air, so here’s The Symmetries Diagram Themselves from 2018. This is the second time I knitted a wall hanging with the symmetries marked by beads. 🧶 #knitsky gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

The Symmetries Diagram Themselves, 2018. A light blue knitted lace banner mounted on a wooden dowel, hanging against a beige background. The fabric is divided into seven sections, each with a different lace design, separated by garter stitch borders. Six of the designs are vertical strips arranged in a 2 by 3 rectangle on the body of the banner, and the seventh constitutes the lower border. Lines of white beads mark axes of reflection symmetry; lines of yellow beads mark axes of glide reflection symmetry; bronze beads mark centers of 180° rotational symmetry, and red beads are registration marks for the translation symmetries. The seven designs represent all seven frieze groups, i.e., all the possible symmetry structures for a pattern that repeats in one direction.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

#bridgesmathart is almost here! Crystallographic Napkin Ring Series is the artwork Ellie Baker and I made for Bridges Eindhoven. It showcases our new software tools for making fabric designs that coordinate with bead crochet. #wallpapergroups #mathart gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

Crystallographic Napkin Ring Series by Ellie Baker and me. Fifteen cloth dinner napkins are folded and rolled into cones, then arranged like the petals of a flower. Each cone is bound by a bead crochet napkin ring with the same design that is on the napkin fabric. To make the rings easier to see, the napkins are folded to place a strip of the unprinted back side of each napkin under the ring. Each of the 15 napkin/ring pairs corresponds to a different wallpaper group (one of 17 possible symmetry structures of designs that repeat in two independent directions in a plane). The other two wallpaper groups are provably unattainable in bead crochet. Charles Wampler proposed the clever method for adding two more groups to our earlier 13-group bead crochet theorem. Spoonflower printed and sewed the napkins from graphics files we generated.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits My July #WIP: the top of a Vitamin D cardigan. But surprise!—I’m actually using a gradient sweater kit from shop.thebluebrick.ca, so the color will shift near the body/sleeve split. Stay tuned! I’m loving the pattern so far. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

The beginning of a Vitamin D cardigan, which is knit from the top down in one piece. This pattern by Heidi Kirrmaier is very popular (over 5000 projects on Ravelry), and the result is something like a crescent shawl with raglan sleeves in it. The knitting so far is on a long circular needle (two cables with a connector), and the fabric is clearly divided into five expanding sections: front, sleeve, back, sleeve, front. The sleeves are plain stockinette with make-one increases at the edges, while the back and both fronts have a simple grid of yarn-over eyelets for increases. The fabric and the attached ball of yarn are bright green; however, for each sleeve and for the body, I’ll switch to the fabulous coordinating gradient skeins from The Blue Brick’s sweater kit. It felt more fun to leave the other colors as a surprise for later, so no photos of the unknit gradient… yet.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#CrochetAway Maybe this theme will finally shame me into sewing the lining and attaching the strap to the Spica #Bag I crocheted three years ago, but probably not this week. The designer is the queen of embossed crochet. Highly recommend. 🧶 #crochetsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

The complete but unlined crocheted body of a pale green Spica Embossed Bag, designed by Natalia Kononova, a.k.a. Outstanding Crochet. Embossed crochet uses a combination of front post and back post stitches to create a sort of bas relief texture that people (including the owner of my local yarn shop!) often believe is knitted at first glance. The rectangular bag has alternating branches of broad smooth leaves and branches of small flower buds running up the sides and slit handles at the top. There’s also a long strap, not pictured here, that I will attach once I’ve properly reinforced the handles and lined the body. I’m 95% sure I used Rowan Creative Linen, a linen/cotton blend.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits Some year, I will finish tweaking/writing the pattern for this #garterstitch mosaic cardigan featuring the seven frieze groups and have it test knit. 😬😳 Photos by Justin Foreman, modeled by Jasmine Long. 🧶 #knitsky #mathknitting gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

Jasmine Long (at the time a student at the college where I teach) wearing a boxy garter stitch cardigan with bright mosaic color work on the lower body and sleeves. The pattern is called Seven Peaks. The main color is a light/medium blue, and the color work sections consist of seven strips of two-color decorative patterns in pairs of the main color, orange, yellow, and magenta. The colored bands on the body run from mid-chest to hem, and the coordinating thinner bands on the sleeves start a couple of inches below the elbows and extend to the cuffs. The textured button band has eight pearly white buttons, one in each two-color band and one just above them.

Another image of Jasmine Long in the Seven Peaks Cardigan. Here, she is buttoning the top button (or more likely miming that) to better show the designs on the sleeves. From the top to the bottom of the sweater, the colored bands on the body and the sleeves are blue and orange, orange and yellow, yellow and magenta, magenta and orange, orange and yellow, yellow and magenta, and magenta and blue. In each set of bands, each of the seven designs represents a different one of the seven possible frieze groups, which are the different types of symmetry that patterns that repeat in a single direction (horizontally here) can present.

Jasmine Long in a side view in the Seven Peaks Cardigan, smiling, with her left hand in her hair and her right arm hanging down. Both Jasmine and the photographer, Justin Forman, were very gracious with their time and their willingness to experiment with different poses and camera angles. This version of the cardigan was designed for a math fashion show, and so I kept it simple, but the version I made for myself has pockets! Working those in without disrupting the color patterns was a fun challenge. Assuming I ever manage to publish a pattern, I’ll definitely include the pocket option.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

#CrochetAway The return of #blanket is well timed, as I just *almost* finished my Fable Blanket end-of-bed throw. The scale and my calculations say I don’t have quite enough yarn for the final border round, so this is parked until I can search my Noro stash for compatible scraps. 🧶 #crochetsky

My Fable Blanket, design by Of Mars, minus the final border round and the blocking. I’m using a total of four balls each of two different but similar color ways of Noro Ito, one with more of the blues and purples, the other with more of the oranges and pinks. Both skeins also have blacks and greys and muted browns. The blanket is lying on a clover-flecked lawn, next to the remnants of the last two skeins. Unfortunately, these remnants are just a bit short of what I need for that final round and I am separated from my stash, but my eventual plan is to raid my Kureyon leftovers for something vaguely compatible and use it for the short sides.

The Fable blanket and the uncrocheted Noro Ito from a different view. Here, the long thin blanket runs diagonally from the lower left to the upper right. I’m making this as a throw for the end of a wide bed, so its unblocked dimensions are roughly seven feet by three feet. The stitch pattern of the blanket has lots of highly textured stitches that, together with the moderately long runs of color in the yarn, produce a riotously colorful fabric. Most prominent in the image are the rows of large bobble stitches and the rows with a triple-crochet zigzag on top of double crochet.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits I’d dreaded the inevitable #yellow week because I don’t really knit yellow. I forgot this Cabled Sunburst Washcloth, part of my campaign to turn two miniskein sets of Euroflax into myriad washcloths. ☀️🫧💦 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Two Cabled Sunburst Washcloths and three pairs of Bodhi Leaf Washcloths laid on a weathered wooden deck. At the top, a yellow sunburst is half covering a darker sunburst that is somewhere between maroon and beige. Each sunburst is round, with wavy cables radiating outward from a central disk and a bumpy picot edge. At the bottom, the six Bodhi leaves are fanned out. Two are dark pink, two are bright pink, and two are ecru. At the top of each leaf is an i-cord loop for hanging the washcloth.

A closer view of the two sunburst washcloths by themselves. This pattern was written for a cotton yarn, but I got two kits of linen yarn meant for the Bodhi Leaf Washcloth from MDK’s summer 2018 pattern collection. So I decided to knit some of the warmer colors into the Cabled Sunburst Washcloth, which I’d bookmarked in Ravelry ages ago.

The two mini-skein sets of Louet Euroflax I got from Modern Daily Knitting. There are two sets of five colors each. On the left is beige, saturated dark pink, yellow, pale orange, and ecru. On the right, various pinks (including the maroon-y beige-y yarn from the second sunburst) and a dark purple.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits #mathart 🧵 After I broke into two-color brioche, I had a brainwave that I could do this really cool thing as a knit #cowl. It was two years before I finally made my first try, shown here. Explanation and photos to follow; keep an eye on main and background colors. 🌈 🧶 #knitsky

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits Three knit #cowls from my brioche-learning journey. (More on that in the reply post.) The blue and white cowls went to a friend and my mom. I tuck the stash buster into my coat pocket when it’s chilly out. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

The right sides of my two two-color brioche Owl Cowls, designed by Joan Hughes. I made both with the same two colors, an almost-white pale blue and a greyish navy blue, but the cowl on the top has the dark yarn as the main color and the one on the bottom has the light yarn as the main color. Increases and decreases bend the brioche stripes around to form an abstract design that looks sort of like a stack of owl faces. These were my first knits with brioche stitch that was more complicated than vertical stripes. I gave one of these cowls to Mom because the colors are similar to her college colors, and gave the other to a friend who loves owls.

The same two Owl Cowls as in the previous image, except that the top one is flipped inside out to show the “wrong” side. Now, the more prominent color showing on both cowls is the blueish white, and you can see the subtle difference between the right and wrong sides of shaped two-color brioche. For instance, for some curves of light stitches that appear connected on the right side of the bottom cowl, the complementary curves on the wrong side of the top cowl are separated by a sliver of the dark blue yarn.

This stash cowl is a heavily modified version of Joan Hughes’s Brioche Criss-Cross Cowl. The main color is part of a pink fade set of mini skeins, going from a rich, dark pink at the bottom to a pastel pink at the top. The contrast color switches from the bluish white of the Owl Cowls to the greyish navy blue of the Owl Cowls, with the darker pinks over the lighter blue and the lighter pinks over the darker blue. The shaping of the brioche stitches produces a braided effect running down the cowl, which is knitted in the round.

The wrong side of the stash criss-cross brioche cowl. Now the two blue yarns are on top. Because of the abrupt shift from dark to light in the middle of the cowl, it looks much weirder from this side.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits A Curlicue #blanket I knit for my friends’ baby. The pattern is no longer available, but the raveler whose project I linked helpfully points to online sources for the center stitch pattern. Browsing the projects will show the rest. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/ALB...

My blue and yellow knit Curlicue blanket, spread out on a lavender bedspread. The blanket features an all over lace pattern with vine-like lines of eyelets and columns of decreases dividing the fabric into little, curvy bits of stockinette. Starting and ending with blue, the blanket alternates between pastel blue two-repeat stripes and pale yellow three-repeat stripes. The blanket has a simple garter stitch border.

A close up view of a corner of the Curlicue blanket. The image gives a clearer view of the slightly wavy lines of double decreases that run up and down the blanket in between the different eyelet “vines.” The texture of the blanket and its curviness is created by the way the stockinette leans towards the decreases and away from the eyelets as you travel up the blanket. The top garter edge is noticeably scalloped by this effect.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

#CrochetAway I was just lamenting not having a knit WIP, and one reason is this rarer (for me) crochet #WIP. This is the halfway point of an end-of-bed throw that will be around 3.5 by 7 feet. Don’t ask how much the (on sale) Noro yarn cost. 😬 🧶 #crochetsky www.ofmarscrochet.com/products/fab...

A long rectangular strip of a Fable blanket laid out next to the four huge balls of Noro Ito yarn yet to be crocheted. I’m using a total of four balls each of two different but similar color ways of the long-color-change yarn, one with more of the blues and purples, the other with more of the oranges and pinks. Both skeins also have blacks and greys and muted browns. The stitch pattern of the blanket has lots of highly textured stitches that contribute to a riotously colorful fabric. Most prominent in the image are the rows of large bobble stitches and the rows with a triple-crochet zigzag on top of double crochet.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits An improvised garter-stitch crib #blanket I made for a colleague. I was going for “log cabin knit blanket, but symmetric” with a minimalist palette. Plus some vaguely math-y proportions as described in the alt text. 😉 🧶 #knitsky

A rectangular garter-stitch modular-knit blanket in light and dark green. I knitted it in one piece, working from the center out in five stages. Each time, I knitted congruent rectangles onto opposite sides of the previous block, always at right angles to the previous knitting direction. At the end of each stage, the rectangle had proportions in the ratio of consecutive Virahanka (a.k.a. Fibonacci) numbers.

The center is a garter stitch square in light green. Above and below are rectangles striped in light and dark green, making a block in 2 to 1 proportions. On either side are dark green rectangles that build out to a 3 to 2 block. Above and below are light green rectangles that build out to a 5 to 3 block. Finally, the left and right sides of the blanket are striped light and dark green rectangles, and the whole blanket has 8 to 5 proportions.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I didn’t post for #ShowMeYourKnits #WIP week because unusually, I hadn’t started one. But then I realized I do sort of have a (mostly) knit WIP; I looked back at my second Mandalay Medallions and realized that it’s actually pretty wearable—if I weave in a zillion slippery ends. 😬 🧶 #knitsky

A multicolored knit pullover with crocheted yoke, cuffs, and hem. My local yarn shop had a sale on this cotton/cashmere yarn, and if I combined four colors, I could scrape together enough for a nice spring sweater. I wanted to try a redesign on Norah Gaughan’s Mandalay Medallions sweater that would give a deeper floral yoke, so I decided to make this more multicolored than the purple version I posted last week. The flowers have coral centers and two rounds of pastel purple petals, one more than in the original pattern. At the lower edge of the yoke, the decorative triangles between the flowers are pale blue, and collar and body of the pullover are light green. At the cuffs and hem, there are three rounds of shell stitch (two more than in the pattern) in blue, then purple, then coral.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...

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Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits It seems the Jemma Pullover by Elsebeth Lavold isn’t popular: only two projects—with no photos—on Ravelry. I’m not sure why, as it’s a lovely spring sweater and an intermediate knit. Here’s mine in a pale #purple cotton/rayon yarn. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My Jemma pullover, laid out flat on a wooden deck. The body of the sweater is in stockinette with a garter stitch hem, and the set-in 3/4 sleeves and a V-neck cutout feature a simple diamond lace. The pale purple yarn is SMC Select Reflect, which has matte strands and high gloss strands plied together.

The front of the pastel purple Jemma pullover before I sewed the sweater pieces together. In the pattern, the lace V at the neck is a separate piece that is sewn in later, but I decided to knit it together with the front.

A diamond-lace sleeve of the Jemma pullover before assembly. I shortened the sleeves from full length to 3/4 length, which seemed more practical. It’s hard to see in the photos, but the composition of the yarn gives it a mottled look, with glints from the shiny rayon.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits I made Flower Child in pink yarn, but wasn’t 100% happy with it. The central flower had a fixed chart, so on plus sizes it looked too small. After recharting and drafting and tweaking, I had this lavender #purple, more fitted sweater. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My lavender Flower Child pullover, design by Norah Gaughan, laid flat on a wooden deck. The sweater is displayed front up, with the 3/4 sleeves outstretched. The biggest modification I made to the original pattern was to rechart the bobble and cable five-petal flower takes up more of the front, making this sweater more closely resemble the small size shown in the pattern. I also lengthened the sleeves and replaced the ribbing at the cuffs and hem with a fold-over picot edging. In the original pattern, you knit the front as five separate wedges and sew them together, but I followed the lead of many other Ravelers by knitting the front from the center out as one piece.

The lavender Flower Child pullover, back side up, on the blocking board. I also knit the back as one piece instead of five separate wedges. To avoid any gauge discrepancy with the front, I also knit the back flat, with a single seam running from the center to the back of the neck. Because of the sweater’s radial construction, I actually needed to bust out a bit of trigonometry to tweak the body shaping and sleeve length properly, and even then I ended up ripping a bunch of it out and reknitting it.

My chart for the bigger flower in the center of my second Flower Child pullover. The chart shows one petal, which is repeated five times. I drafted this in Adobe Illustrator. Overkill, I know, but it works.

The file with my notes on all the modifications, adjustments, dead ends, and so forth is EIGHT PAGES LONG.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits Early in my knitting career, I got this #purple and green Manos del Uruguay yarn at @purlsoho.bsky.social. The Prismatic Scarf pattern lets variegated yarns like this shine. The link explains the mods I borrowed from a fellow raveler. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/projects/sgo...

A purple and grass-colored Prismatic Scarf, rolled into an S scroll laid on its side. This arrangement gives a clear view of the i-cord edging at the top of the rolled scarf, and exposes the front and back sides of the knitting. I used the modified version of Huan-Hua Chye’s pattern (the original modifier is linked in my Ravelry post) where you replace the purls with slipped stitches, making the front and back nearly identical.

Two Prismatic scarves side by side, folded in half to show both sides of each scarf. On the right is the purple scarf. While it is almost undetectably reversible, the length of the horizontal floats over the slipped stitches is shorter on the back side (left) than on the front side (right). The scarf on the left was a gift for a friend knitted in an variegated orange yarn with pinks and greens. I added an extra modification (accessible through the linked Ravelry page) that makes the front and back look nearly identical.

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