the weekender sweater

I've been on an Andrea Mowry kick! After my What the Fade Shawl, I've now cast-off my Weekender Sweater as well as a Harlow Hat (post on that coming soon), and I'm sort of making some plans for a So Faded sweater... But back to my Weekender. I *love* this sweater. The Weekender features a…

my first fade

I am so over the moon about my first fade project, and my new favorite knit item: Andrea Mowry's What the Fade?! shawl (which you've been seeing all over my blog and instagram for weeks now). I purchased the yarn for this shawl locally during the Triangle Yarn Crawl and knit it in record time…

big digger sweater

My nephew is turning 2 next month, and I wanted to make him something special for his birthday. After my recent trip to Europe with my mom -- during which she took a picture of every 'digger' she could find for her grandson -- I knew I'd found my subject! After looking around in ravelry,…

yarn love challenge

I've been having so much fun participating in the February #yarnlovechallenge on instagram! Since the challenge is now half done, I thought I'd share a roundup of my posts here. To see the rest, tune in to my instagram over at @theclosestknit! day 1: intro/oops Day 1 of #yarnlovechallenge! I'm Kristen, an avid knitter, runner, and…