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susanssk.bsky.social

@susanssk.bsky.social
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Knitter, spinner 🧶 retired medical librarian, devoted Nats fan ⚾️ bleeds blue 💙

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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Doing the all over pattern. I like it and it should hold gauge without changing needle size
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Celestia is not only on my needles I’m beginning to believe it’s going to be on my needles for some time to come. #showmeyourknits #knitsky 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Purple week on #showmeyourknits has me diving into my beaded lace weight period. This is Evelyn Clark’s swallowtail shawl. #knitsky 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#Showmeyourknits theme is color work. Here is a charming example of stranded sock knitting called Grampian Peaks 🧶 #knitsky
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#ShowMeYourKnits theme is gray. I love color, so most of my gray projects are socks and gloves. These gloves were made with 3 ply fingering, spindle plyed handspun 🧶 #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#showmeyourknits is hands this week. I love gloves and mittens but am often frustrated by how my hands never seem to match the patterns without a ton of mods. Love these though I did many reworks to each section 🧶 #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#showmeyourknits is hats this week. The perfect projects for testing out new techniques, yarns, or color combos. This is Arabesque by the great designer Xandy Peters featuring a fabulous mod to the left leaning brioche decrease. 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#ShowMeYourKnits lands on my go to project - socks 🧶 These are Cadence designed by verybusymonkey. #knitsky
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This ad has been running in Charlottesville VA for more than a week
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
#showmeyourknits is featuring an autumn theme. My favorite color palette. But of all my options, these socks are usually worn at Halloween gatherings 🧶 #knitsky
Rosebud socks by Wendy Johnson
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Brioche makes the coziest scarves 🧶and handspun plays nicely with brioche. For #showmeyourknits I have more examples than I want to admit to. Here’s one from Nancy Marchand
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
For WIPs week on #showmeyourknits I have the yoke of Alpine Bloom that I’ve blocked for gauge after 3 failed attempts 🧶 If it wasn’t so cute I’d have sacrificed it to the knitting gods by now #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I have been knitting socks for many years and my stash is filled with the remains that never seem adequate to other projects. So #showmeyourknits has hit on my never ending scrappy project, this mitered square blanket 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
#showmeyourknits has landed on a go to knit for me this week 🧶 This example, Language of Roses, is a charming shawl that is free on Ravelry.
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Happy birthday #showmeyourknits My knitters choice is Sivia Harding's Tibetan Clouds knit in 2010. I cherish this project but, as a large, beaded stole it rarely gets worn. 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Trousseau by Carol Feller. Made from my handspun is my contribution to this week’s #showmeyourknits blue theme 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Love VBM sock designs ❤️
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
#showmeyourknits calls for WIPs. Mine is a sport weight stranded sweater weighing approximately a metric ton. Perfect summer knitting 🧶 This is what obsession gets you
Dark academia by Sharon Hartley
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
On Ravelry it’s www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Butterfly Cowl pattern by MarinJaKnits
an “over the head” cowl pattern with a classic “V” shape…
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Garter stitch is not my go to, but #showmeyourknits theme sent me to my butterfly cowl 🧶 where the stitch plays to its strength
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is Grace by Sivia Harding for this week’s #showmeyourknits theme. Who could resist sunny yellow socks?
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I have found cowls to be the perfect canvas for my single skein handspun. 🧶 And Susan Ashcroft designs show them off beautifully. #showmeyourknits
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I have so been there
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This WIP is Dark Academia. It will probably be a WIP for some time if I keep adjusting the pattern. 🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Cardigans are the most practical of knits, but I am an impractical knitter 🧶 Recoleta by Joji Locatelli allows me to share in this week’s #ShowMeYourKnits
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#ShowMeYourKnits is DK weight that reminded me of this alpaca 2 color brioche cowl. Warm as toast 🧶 light as air
Brioche pattern from the book ‘knitting fresh brioche’
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A favorite LYS is Susan’s Yarn Stash in Fishersville VA - population under 10,000. A remarkably well curated collection staffed by wonderful people. I purchased this skein of fingering that was created by an Indie dyer for them 🧶 #showmeyourknits
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Honestly, I’m not trying to be snarky but as an experienced sock knitter I’d look at a few patterns. You should see that the gauge for fingering weight socks is very consistent
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
#showmeyourknits gives me the chance to share a favorite pair of socks designed by Wendy Johnson 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This week’s #showmeyourknits chased me down an ancient rabbit hole to a time in my life when I knit many of these sweet EZ’s February Baby Sweater 🧶 Ravelry shows almost 9500 projects. The baby who got a this is over 40
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#showmeyourknits gives me the opportunity to show off my flip top mittens that combines an image with a sanquhar pattern 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This week I’m spoiled for choice. #showmeyourknits landed on my favorite color. Here is my spring green version of Judy Marples Renewal Shawl 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
#ShowMeYourKnits is hitting my sweet spot. Socks are my go to default, usually toe-up, two at a time. These are Grampian Peaks (ravelry free). 🧶 #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Love Susan Pandorf’s lace patterns
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Sivia Harding’s Tibetan Clouds beaded shawl is my favorite lace project, and lace is my default knit. The least practical wearable, and I have drawers full. 🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
#ShowMeYourKnits is WIPs this week and for me that's usually my travel knitting, which is usually socks.🧶 which is usually toe-up, two at a time. I've named these the speckled band, cause really what choice did I have? #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I made this heavy cotton vest for my husband even though I much prefer knitting with wool. He rarely wears it because he treasures it. A love story. 🧶 #knitting #showmeyourknits
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#ShowMeYourKnits is cables this week 🧶 These are my cadence socks by verybusymonkey one of the very few designers I’ll work socks cuff down for
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It’s Crinoidea from Leela Frankcombe. She has lovely, occasionally complicated patterns
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
No, it’s 2 color typical brioche where you knit one color then the second before turning. My contrast color changes color so it may give the impression of a third color
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Just finished the shawl I started after the election to give me something complex enough to be a distraction. I love working with my handspun and the syncopated brioche pattern did demand my attention - so better than screaming into the void. #ShowMeYourKnits #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Re-posting because I messed up the tag. Ravelry tells me I’ve knit 28 shawls. Here are 2 in lace 🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Ravelry tells me I’ve knit 28 shawls. Here are 2 in lace. 🧶#ShowMeYourKnitting #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
There are fewer things that get me angrier than finding a knot in yarn 😡. Now I’m tinking back 2 color syncopated brioche until I can have enough for a tail to cut out the knot. #knitting
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
What a great use of jewel tone fingering yarn!
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Apparently the same amnesia that follows childbirth
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My favorite knit of the year is this butterfly cowl. It’s my favorite because I spun the yarn and that’s the best chain ply I’ve ever done #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶
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susanssk.bsky.social @susanssk.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I just successfully frogged a brioche br4st dec- a central 4 st dec involving 5 stitches. I’m thinking of applying for a MacArthur grant.
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