Panda's Knitt Knacks

Hey its been a while! We are moving and have been in a transition faze and staying with family while looking at securing housing. I'm casting on a hat for a dear friend this week and thought I would share my favorite CO method for hats with a ribbed brim.

Amanda Santee on Instagram: "Hey its been a while! We are moving and have been in a transition faze and staying with family while looking at securing housing. I'm casting on a hat for a dear friend this week and thought I would share my favorite...

Finally was a sunny day! The color really pops in the sunshine. Can't wait to send it to probably the sweetest human I have ever met.

Lost track of time today! Current project I want to feature for is this top down circular shawl.

Things I'm discovering with this project:

Don't use pen when working out stitches or for anything really unless you want to use a lot of paper.

I am a crazy perfectionist who just needs to trust the process and stop over analyzing. I don't have a time limit to meet so I can relax and take this as fast or as slow as I want. No need to pressure myself.

Happy everyone! I am so excited to have officially finished the Nautile Shawl!

When I was casting off this project I was really glad I had planned to block it because it became clear pretty quickly that it would need it to drape how I wanted it to.

It truly is amazing the difference makes. So glad I remembered to take a before picture. I made use of my wires to really get a smooth round edge that I was looking for.

I had quite a journey with this project and I have some yarn left over and I'm thinking of surprising the person with a matching hat if I have enough left!

Hoping for sunshine and clear sky's tomorrow so I can got out and get pictures of this beautiful shawl in natural light!

Yarn : pearlescent worsted in color red velvet rose by

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On the mats! Hours later and I'm so happy with it. It's going to be sooooo hard to wait to take it off.

Getting ready to spool my last skein of so that I can finish off the last bit of my Nautile Shawl. This project has had its ups and downs and I am so ready to finish this beauty and get it on the blocking mats.

One day I hope to have a designated space where I can work so I don't have to use the dining chair and sit on the floor. A nice quiet place just for knitting where I can work and sprawl as needed without fear of children hands all over.

I have a few pattern ideas in the works right now that are all mine and I can't wait to see where the creative process takes me. Definitely gonna take a break after this project though, it's been a doozy.

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I had a major setback with this project by way of toddlers climbing up where they shouldn't be and completely tearing up not only the project but the yarn itself. But I got through it with no major break downs. As upset as I was it has worked out. Luckily I was in a spot where I could order a replacement skein of yarn and start from the beginning.

I am 80 rows in and counting. This is a great project to do in little sports of time. I have about 14 ish hours of work in on this beauty now and am loving how it's turning out.

Lesson learned: don't leave projects out where kiddos roam. Even if you put it up where you think they can't get it: they will find a way.

Happy ! I'm about 34 rows into this beautiful Nautile pattern from designed by Monica Westley.

I really like that it is an easy to follow and memorize 4 row repeat. I'm also a big fan of patterns that are reverable. Pictured is the right side of the shawl. The wrong side is equally as beautiful.

I enjoy working in unusual shapes (not squares). Looking into investing in some workshops to expand my knowledge constructing unusual shapes so that one day I can design a project that is in line with my favorite kind of work.

Did some work on this on the drive home from the beach this morning. I found it was a great fit for car knitting.

All the shawls were a joy to work on. For this one I used the same 100% acrylic yarn bee soft secret as the blue that I made for the girls mom.

Definitely not as much stretch and not as easy to manipulate as the other in the sister set but it still turned out great!

Pulled a discontinued color out from my stash for this one.

Absolutely in love with how this turned out! This yarn is a 60/40 blend of acrylic and polyester. I really enjoyed working with it and it had lots of stretch to it.

Hope the little girl it's going to loves it.

Yarn: yarn bee glowing color purple multi

My phone just can't do justice to how truly pretty this red velvet rose yarn is!

May or may not have had a fight with my needles slipping out of the loops. I swear I spent an hour just trying to do the building rows of the pattern.

Here's the purple sister shawl! So excited to get both off the and ready to go to their new homes.

Finished the last step for my set of sister shawls today! This is the rainbow laid out on my .

Also pictured is a close up of the pattern of the knit and it's time dipped in a bath before . Also hit it with my steamer for extra sanitization.

Can't wait to pull it off in a few days.

It's been a long and rough week but I wanted to get this up for Almost done with this beauty then I'll be pulling out the blocking mats!

The little one it's going to said "it looks like a unicorns tail!!" when she saw a progres picture of it.

Really digging how this yarn is looking knit in a project!

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Making a daughter set to go with the blue that I made last week. Unicorns are this little girl's favorite and I am so in love with how this is turning out! I have a purple one ready to hit the blocking mats this weekend for her other little one.

It's been a stressful week and I love being able to stretch my creative muscles. Had to share the love before heading off to bed.

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