Rebel with a Cause kit

Got this pretty kit and started knitting right away, earlier this year before getting sidetracked. In my quest to clear out some space from my WIP basket and find all of my knitting needles, I got this one finished.

Project Info:

Pattern: Holly by Nancy Ricci

Yarn: Lady Dye Yarns Superwash Sock in Women's Suffragette

Started: Sometime in March 2021

Finished: June 13 2021

I'm making this up as I go along

I recently learned how to make a crocodile stitch. Then, because I hate to do anything the way that I've been taught, I adapted it to work in the round to make several pairs of mittens:

For my next project, I wanted to do a cowl, but I had in my head the idea of making the crocodile stitches taller, to resemble feathers. I had this yarn that I had bought with the intention of making a shawl, though what pattern I had in mind has escaped me.

I still liked how the colors looked together though, so I went back to the drawing board to figure out how to make the stitches look the way I pictures. After a few tries, I got the first two rows of my feather stitch completed. It was suggested at this point that maybe I was making a Kermit the Frog costume.

But I forged ahead anyway, confident that eventually it would start to look the way I envisioned.

This project took about 2 weeks (the feather/crocodile stitches take a long time and use a LOT of yarn), but it is finally finished. Yay!