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Tania (she/her)

@taniapendy.bsky.social

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Avid knitter, voracious reader, calligrapher, bookbinder, amateur gardener. Lover of colour. Lover of beautiful words (aka great quotes). Doing my best to find joy in this all too mad world. 🧶📚🖋️📓🌱🇨🇦

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hi, I’m Tania 😊 A little intro 🦋 I’m an avid knitter (love colourwork, cables, texture, learning new techniques), voracious reader, & lover of great quotes. Spent many years as a calligrapher. Enjoy bookbinding too. Love puttering in my flower and veggie garden in summer. 🧶📚🌱🖋️ Say hi in the thread 👋🏻

I’m pictured here taking a selfie in a mirror. I’m wearing a colourwork vest that I knit. It’s a pattern called the Flagship Vest by Espace Tricot. Colours include cherry red, ice blue, olive green, mustard, and navy. The background colour is a heathered colour they call Sweatshirt.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you 🥰

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Goodness, thank you 😊

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Thanks so much 🥰

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6h

#ShowMeYourKnits : KNITTING HORROR STORIES 👻 In 2009 I knit a wool blanket while expecting my 2nd child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after his birth. Felted in the dryer. Only photo is from the hospital 😕 I saved it all these years. Last Xmas my MIL made it into mitts for me ❤️🧶 #knitsky

My felted wool blanket from 2009 was sewn into mitts for me by my mother-in-law in 2024. I knit it while on bedrest while expecting my second child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after he was born. It was felted in the dryer. The only photographic proof of its existence is from the hospital right after he was born 🙃

Right mitten.

My felted wool blanket from 2009 was sewn into mitts for me by my mother-in-law in 2024. I knit it while on bedrest while expecting my second child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after he was born. It was felted in the dryer. The only photographic proof of its existence is from the hospital right after he was born 🙃

Mitten palm 😊

My felted wool blanket from 2009 was sewn into mitts for me by my mother-in-law in 2024. I knit it while on bedrest while expecting my second child. It didn’t survive our sleep deprivation after he was born. It was felted in the dryer. The only photographic proof of its existence is from the hospital right after he was born 🙃

The only proof that the mitts were once a baby blanket 🙃

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 7h

I’ll aim to do that soon 😊

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks so much Liv 🥰

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you 🥰

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 13h

Oh have I got one of those!! Will share once I’m home again. It’s fibre festival time here on PEI 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 13h

Finished my Melby Yoke cardigan just in time for the fibre festival 😊 Goodness I love knitting Fair Isle!
Off to take in the last day of the festival 😊
#knitsky 🧶

Modeling my Melby Yoke cardigan (and my dirty mirror 🙃). Pattern by Gudrun Johnston. Yarn was all Jamieson’s Spindrift.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 1d

Had a wonderful 2 days of learning at the PEI Fibre Fest in Charlottetown. Thoroughly enjoyed the marketplace and picked up special items to add to my tools and stash. Learned about how to work better with hand painted yarn, took an intro to intarsia, and learned to make Dorset buttons. #knitsky 🧶

A good friend of mine, Laura, was vending at the market 😊 She creates her own ‘art batts’, handspun yarn, stitch markers, has great yarny merch (tees and sweatshirts), and more. Her business is called Louis and Jane.

Here we are modeling the vests we knit 😊 Mine is the Sea Faerdy vest.

A little view of Laura’s art batts, fun yarny sweatshirt, stitch markers and more.

Another friend was also vending her amazing handspun yarn and beautiful batts. This is her bubble yarn and it is so joyful! Her name is Sue Smith and her business is Paisley Defender.

These are the three Dorset buttons that I learned to make during one of my classes. We started with the dark blue one (wool), then the light blue (#5 cotton thread), and then the fun one with the sheep (yes, that’s a sheep 🙃).

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you 🥰

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Excited to attend our local fibre festival this week! Have 3 interesting classes and a great festival marketplace to enjoy. Cast on my 2nd Musselburgh hat to have a portable knit to take with me. Still need to knit the button bands on my cardigan, and am working on a cable knit for my son 🧶
#knitsky

My Melby Yoke cardigan is almost done! Just need to knit the button bands and add buttons. Pattern is by Gudrun Johnston and yarn is Jamieson’s Spindrift. I’ve cut the steek, so I’m ready to get started as soon as I carve out some time.

I cast on my second ever Musselburgh hat in order to have a portable knit to take with me to out local fibre festival. The yarn is a lovely self striping yarn from Mud Punch in a colourway with the best name: ‘Dagmar goes to Shetland’. I love its greens, peach, red and burgundy.

Almost done knitting the first sleeve on the Menton 2 pullover for my son. I don’t knit cables as much anymore and had forgotten how long they take 🙃 At least I’ve learned to knit without a cable knit. That’s saving me tons of time!

A close up of the cables on the Menton 2 sleeve. The colour of the yarn doesn’t accurately show in this photo unfortunately.

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Sewing is another amazing superpower 🙌🏻🙌🏻

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

My favourite pop is that gorgeous blue 😍

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much Loretta 😊 I’m grateful that my Nan taught me to knit 😊

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

The navy blue sweater with the yoke is a store bought one 🙃 That was before I knew how to knit colourwork. I did knit the sweaters in the first two photos though 😊

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Enjoy!! There are so many fun things to learn 😊

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much Liv 🥰 In creating this post I realized that I’ve had a lot of fun with hats!

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much 🥰 Yes, the floral one is most definitely bright 😊 Good for the depths of winter for sure 😊

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

No, that one is from LL Bean. Had it well before I could knit colourwork.

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 6d

Ouch indeed!

Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 7d

Though I did definitely question my sanity on the cabled one! 2x2 rib in a US 1 needle for a holdover brim took an eternity 🙄

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Tania (she/her) @taniapendy.bsky.social · 7d

Hats make great small projects 😊 I’m not a fan of sock knitting, so hats, mitts and shawls are my go-to projects between sweaters 😊