Patrick Donohue
@textillianstudios
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It's the tail end of the discount for the My Ever Changing Moods Shawl. 🧶 www.textillian.com
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
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
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
This is what the other side of the stitch pattern looks like. (Note: this is a different hat in the same stitch pattern.)
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. 🧶
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
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?)🧶
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
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
Not in public, but I am knitting (in the AC!) #knitting #fiberopticyarns #kashmir #textillianstudios #satisfyingstripesshawl
Off the blocking board! #knitting #woolandvinyl #classicrocksock #textillianstudios #satisfyingstripesshawl #showmeyourknits
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
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
Look at what came off the needles last night! Should I write it up? #knitting #woolandvinyl #classicrocksock #garterstitch #textillianstudios
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
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
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
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
Unfortunately, I have another update to correct an error in the pattern. #knitting #sleepingsatelliteshawl #textillianstudios
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.🧶
Tomorrow is the release date! I am so excited to get this out to you! 🧶 #lolabeanyarnco #waxbean #textillianstudios #sleepingsatelliteshawl
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. 🧶
Still working through ideas for future designs. Not quite there yet with this one. #knitting #fiberopticyarns #kashmir #swatch #briocheknitting
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
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
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
Another hat using the free Purl Soho pattern. This time in Viking Fiber Co's Normir DK in the colorway Plost. #knitting