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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thanks to the nor'easter, no outside photos today. But, still able to get some inside shots. Yarn is @lolabeanyarnco.com Wax Bean in Yacht Rock and Vintage Vinyl. #knitting #lolabeanyarnco #waxbean #textillianstudios #satisfyingstripesshawl

Triangular garter stitch shawl in stripes of cream and aqua.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes I think of how different my Friday nights were about 30 years ago. Were they fun? Yes. Do I want to go back? Nah. #knitting #blocking #lolabeanyarnco #waxbean #textillianstudios

An asymmetrical triangular shawl that is mostly cream with aqua stripes being blocked.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Attempted to get some photos this past weekend. The yarn is @knitterkim.bsky.social Napoleon Sock in Granite and Spring Gradient Set. #knitting

Man wearing a triangular shawl wrapped around his neck. The shawl has taupe as its main color and speckled pastels as stripes.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So should which should be the main color to go with the blue for another Satisfying Stripes shawl? #knitting

Two skeins of Lolabean Yarn Co Wax Bean in OOAK Orange and Yacht Rock, with a small ball of light blue sitting on top of them.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One more time through the colors, and I will be about done. I am weighing the minis after each stripe, so I have that information for the pattern. #knitting #kimdyesyarn #napoleonsock #satisfyingstripesshawl #textillianstudios

Garter stitch stripes in multi-colored pastels against a grayish tan.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Slowly making my way through the spinning. I have an ounce left of this braid and another 4 ounce braid still to spin. Need to decide if I am going to use them for the same project, or save the other braid for something different. #spinning #merino #silk #bamboo #lendrumsaxony

Red and brown thin single ply yarn on a spinning wheel bobbin.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I have learned that I really can't effectively sample for a new design while writing up other designs. It is too much context switching for me. So instead, I started another Satisfying Stripes shawl, this time using @knitterkim.bsky.social Napoleon Sock. #knitting

Start of an asymmetrical triangular shawl in garter stitch.

Main yarn in top left-hand corner and the mini fade set going diagonally from that.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Transparency post: Between Ravelry and Payhip, I sold 50 copies of My Ever Changing Moods Shawl. 50 x $3.50 = $175. Add in processing fees, and $186.48 was donated to Cure Alzheimer's Fund. Thank you for your support! #knitting #transparencypost #curealzheimersfund

Man wearing tuck stitch shawl against a green forest background.

Image showing 46 sales of shawl on Ravelry.

Image showing 4 sales of shawl pattern on Payhip.

Image showing donation of $186.48 to the Cure Alzheimer's Fund.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

$3.50 from every sale of My Ever Changing Moods Shawl goes to Cure Alzheimer's Fund until Friday. Links are in bio. #knitting

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

While writing up other patterns, I am playing around with new yarn to see how the colors play together. The yarn is @knitterkim.bsky.social 's Cronut Sport in the colorways Pink Oyster and Plum. I have a bunch of different stitches to try out. #knitting #kimdyesyarn #cronutsport

Brioche knitting sample with a light multi-colored yarn in the foreground and a deep plum in the background.

Brioche knitting sample with a deep plum in the foreground and a light multi-colored yarn in the background.

Two center pull balls of yarn. One is a light multi-colored and the other is a deep plum.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Most of our date nights, for the more than 20 years that we have been together, have been dinner followed by going to the bookstore for a coffee and browsing and buying. In that time, I have seen the craft section get smaller and smaller.

Two stacks of bookshelves for crafts and hobbies books at my local Barnes and Noble.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

And while I wait for the hat to dry, it's time to start writing up the pattern and figure out a name that a bunch of other patterns don't already have. #knitting #magpiefibers #quartetfingering #textillianstudios #briocheknitting

Brioche hat in light and dark blue drying on a blocking board.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Now you may be thinking to yourself, "Hmm. I thought he might be further along on that hat." And you would be right. I took this to knit night the other week and pulled it out to work on it without paying attention to where each yarn was. That was a mistake.

A brioche hat in progress with a light blue foreground color and a dark blue background color.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So the hat dried just in time for me to give it to my husband as part of his birthday gift. As for the bind off, I am okay with it. I probably won't do it that way again, but I am not going to rip it out and try a different method. #knitting

Front view of brioche hat on glass head. The foreground color is camel and the background color is a dark olive.

Top view of brioche hat on glass head. The foreground color is camel and the background color is a dark olive.

Side view of brioche hat on glass head. The foreground color is camel and the background color is a dark olive.

Brioche hat lying on carpet. The foreground color is camel and the background color is a dark olive.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's the tail end of the discount for the My Ever Changing Moods Shawl. 🧶 www.textillian.com

Man holding tail end of shawl that is wrapped around his neck.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My Ever Changing Moods Shawl is partly based on how I am tend to transition from one mood to another and how those moods blend into one another. You might say I am kind of a slow boil. This shawl is the embodiment of that idea (and a few others). #knitting #intothewhirled

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My Ever Changing Moods Shawl is live! This shawl began life at Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. I saw all of the new colorways that Into the Whirled had created, and I wanted to design something that would blend some of them together. #knitting

Man holding triangular shawl that transitions from green to blue to brown to orange, then back again.

Man holding triangular shawl in one hand with other end of the shawl laying on his shoulder.

Man wearing triangular shawl while holding out the long point of the shawl.

Close up of stitch pattern used in the shawl

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The top down version of the hat came off the needles on Monday. I used Jeny's stretchy bind off, and I am not sure how I feel about it. I see how I like it after giving it a soak. #knitting #magpiefibers #quartetfingering

Two-color brioche hat with green as the background color and a camel color as the foreground.

The start of a two-color brioche hat with the brim and background color being dark blue and the foreground color being light blue.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is what the other side of the stitch pattern looks like. (Note: this is a different hat in the same stitch pattern.)

Reverse side of stitch pattern from original post. Brown was the background color of the brioche and light green was the foreground color for this particular hat.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The hat sat still for a couple days while I decided whether to make it a bit longer than the original before going into the ribbing. I decided to go a half of a repeat more because I know the person that I am making this for likes his ears completely covered. 🧶

Brioche hat on knitting needles. Foreground color is a camel color and the background is green.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Look at me! Spinning again! I decided that I should get back to spinning. I always found spinning a good way to relax (at least when everything is working correctly.) #spinning #lendrumsaxony

Spinning bobbin starting to fill up with singles of yarn.

A hair elastic being used for tensioning on the spinning wheel.

Shims placed in the hole to keep things in place.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Decided to reknit the brioche hat that I did over a year ago, making some changes to it so I can more easily get a range of sizes. Also, I am trying it from the top down. (I started it on dpns.) Would you go for a top down hat pattern? Or are you strictly brim up? (Or are you Musselburgh?)🧶

Start of a top down brioche hat in light brown and dark green.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This project came together rather quickly. I used a skein of Fiber Optic Yarns' Kashmir in the colorway Peace and leftovers from my June 2024 release of the Wavelength Wrap (second photo), which uses the Over the Rainbow Infinity Fade. 🧶 #fiberopticyarns #satisfyingstripesshawl #wavelengthwrap

Selfie of man wearing a blue shawl with multi-colored stripes.

A slip stitch wrap draped around a dressform. The wrap has all of the colors of the rainbow in it.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I usually don't block shawls on a weeknight because I am usually not sure how long it will take. But this is the second of this shawl and it only took about 20 minutes to pin out. #knitting #fiberopticyarns #kashmir #textillianstudios #satisfyingstripesshawl

A blue, triangular shawl with multi-colored stripes towards the wider end is pinned out on a blocking mat.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Decided to block with the right side facing the mat so that I could adjust the woven in ends before it dries. We shall see if that was the right decision. #knitting #woolandvinyl #classicrocksock #textillianstudios #satisfyingstripesshawl

An asymmetrical triangular shawl being blocked. The shawl is garter stitch with the main color being red-violet and stripes towards the end of the shawl in highlighter yellow, green, and blue.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

New project, same as the old project. I am doing the same simple, striped shawl that just came off the needles; but this time using Fiber Optic Yarns' Kashmir in Peace and remnants of the Over the Rainbow Infinity Fade as the stripes. #knitting

Start off a triangular shawl in variegated blue with bag full of small balls of yarn in rainbow colors.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Starting to get the photos together. Not the photos that I thought that I was going to get, but photos nonetheless. #knitting #intothewhirled #pakokkusock #textillianstudios #myeverchangingmoodsshawl

Close up of a shawl in garter stitch and tuck stitch. Green and blue-violet portion laying over the brown and orange portion.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thank you, Artemis II, for giving me a new appreciation of my own work. Pattern is Sleeping Satellite by yours truly. Yarn is @lolabeanyarnco.com Wax Bean in Moonshine. #knitting #lolabeanyarnco #waxbean #textillianstudios #sleepingsatelliteshawl

Gray brioche lace shawl with multi-colored spots that is inspired by the moon.

The Edge of Darkness
(April 6, 2026) - As the Artemis II crew flew over the terminator, the astronauts described this boundary between day and night as "anything but a straight line." Crater rims along the terminator stand out as "islands" in the night. Giant chains of craters emanating from the 3.7-billion-year-old Orientale basin can be seen scouring the surface, stretching almost to the terminator. This tells a geologic story: these crater chains produced by the Orientale impact event mar the surface of the relatively flat Hertzsprung Basin (center of this image), which means that Hertzsprung Basin must be even older than Orientale!

Image Credit: NASA

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Transparency post: I sold 81 copies of Sleeping Satellite through Ravelry and 5 copies through Payhip. 86 times $3.50 is $301. I bumped it up to $325 and paid the process fees for the donation to Mission Blue Skies. Thank you all for your support. #missionblueskies #lolabeanyarnco

Man holding red brioche lace shawl, with fall foliage in the background.

Receipt of 81 sales of Sleeping Satellite on Ravelry

Receipt for 5 sales of Sleeping Satellite on Payhip

Receipt for donation of $325 plus process fees to Mission Blue Skies

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

To celebrate my Valentines birthday, from now until Valentines day, all of my patterns are 14% off with coupon code VDBD14 on both Ravelry and Payhip. #knitting #textillianstudios #vdbdsale

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Unfortunately, I have another update to correct an error in the pattern. #knitting #sleepingsatelliteshawl #textillianstudios

Brioche lace shawl on the needles in a silvery gray with multi-colored speckles.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Sleeping Satellite shawl is a crescent-shaped, brioche lace shawl in @lolabeanyarnco.com Wax Bean. The small version uses one mega-skein in the colorway Moonshine. The large version uses two mega-skeins in the colorway Burgundy Beam. A photo tutorial of the lace is included with the download.🧶

Brioche lace shawl wrapped around a dressform. The yarn for the shawl is gray with multi-colored speckles.

Man holding a brioche lace shawl before a background of fall foliage. The yarn for the shawl is a tonal of burgundies.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Back in March of last year, @lolabeanyarnco.com messaged me, asking if I could "work my magic" with her new colorway, Moonshine? I said yes, because I am not a fool, at least not in this case. The results of that message, Sleeping Satellite, will be released on Tuesday. Stay tuned. 🧶

Close up of a gray brioche lace shawl with multi-colored speckles. A burgundy shawl in the same stitch is in the background.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Still working through ideas for future designs. Not quite there yet with this one. #knitting #fiberopticyarns #kashmir #swatch #briocheknitting

Small swatch of brioche knitting in the shape of a triangle. Foreground color is a tonal brown and the background color is a medium green.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Finally using my homemade niddy noddy to get the kinks out of a sock blank. Using the pvc pipe means that I can get it wet without concern. #knitting #lolabeanyarnco #sockblank #waxbean #niddynoddy

Yarn in colors red, green, blue, and purple wrapped around a PVC niddy noddy.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Looking back on some of the good from 2025, I did release three patterns this year. Descriptions in the alt text. Thank you all for your support! There's more to come in 2026. #knitting

First was Don't Ewe Want Me in LolaBean Yarn Co Dream Bean.

Next was the Trajectory Shawl in Fiber Optic Yarns Kashmir.

And finally, I released the Drift Cowl in 29 Bridges Studio Non-Superwash Sock and Suri Silk.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Here is another finished hat. The pattern is the Milk Punch hat by @theacolman.bsky.social , and the yarn is @magpiefibers.bsky.social Quartet Worsted in the colorway Smoke and Mirrors. #knitting #theacolman #milkpunchhat #magpiefibers #quartetworsted

Knitted hat on a light blue glass head. The hat is in a knit purl pattern. The yarn for the hat is gray with specks of green and teal blue.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Another hat using the free Purl Soho pattern. This time in Viking Fiber Co's Normir DK in the colorway Plost. #knitting

Simple single-ribbed hat with brim. Color is a camel color.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The hat came off the needles last night. The yarn is Shirsty Cat Designs BFL DK in the colorway Smoke. The hat pattern is free from Purl Soho . I made the adult medium and had 28g left. Happy Thanksgiving! #knitting #shirstycatdesigns #purlsoho #hat

Ribbed knit hat in a medium-dark tonal gray.

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Patrick Donohue @textillianstudios.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This week's prompt for #showmeyourknits is indie dyers and designers. Well, I am an indie designer designing with indie dyer yarns! Pictured are some of my designs, using Fiber Optic Yarns, Into the Whirled, @lolabeanyarnco.com , and @29bridgesstudio.bsky.social . Available on Ravelry and Payhip. 🧶

Man wearing My Path Wrap, a two-color brioche wrap of gray and rainbow yarn, against a fall background.

Man holding Square Biz shawl, a mosaic knitting, triangular shawl.

Dressform wearing Don't Ewe Want Me Shawl, a crescent shaped shawl of marled knitting.

Man holding the Drift Cowl, a two-color brioche cowl, knit in two bases of the same colorway for a tone on tone effect.

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