Roxanne Richardson
@roxmpls.bsky.social
Master Hand Knitter. Knitting Communicator. Fledgling spinner, flailing dyer.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RoxanneRichardson
Technical knitting articles published in various Interweave mags
Ravelry group: Rox Rocks
Rav ID: Rox
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RoxanneRichardson
Technical knitting articles published in various Interweave mags
Ravelry group: Rox Rocks
Rav ID: Rox
For this week's #showmeyourknits theme of yellow, I had to go back to July 2006 to find a sock I had knit for my mother (whose favorite color was yellow). I took this photo before I wove in the yarn tail at the toe. Pretty Petals sock pattern by Jeannie Townsend. Yarn is Koigu KPPPM #knitting 🧶
June 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
For this week's #showmeyourknits theme of yellow, I had to go back to July 2006 to find a sock I had knit for my mother (whose favorite color was yellow). I took this photo before I wove in the yarn tail at the toe. Pretty Petals sock pattern by Jeannie Townsend. Yarn is Koigu KPPPM #knitting 🧶
Cardigan almost complete. Just need to knit the zipper facing and sew in the zipper. Will probably take an inch off of the neck to end with the right total length for the zipper I ordered. Yarn is from a lamb fleece I chose from @getbentzfarm.bsky.social farm last fall. #knitting 🧶
June 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Cardigan almost complete. Just need to knit the zipper facing and sew in the zipper. Will probably take an inch off of the neck to end with the right total length for the zipper I ordered. Yarn is from a lamb fleece I chose from @getbentzfarm.bsky.social farm last fall. #knitting 🧶
#showmeyourknits #knitting This blanket was a baby gift for Max the dog trainer. Max recognized Herbie the first time we went to the dog park. He had prevented the dog rescue from euthanizing Herbie for aggression. Herbie wasn't aggressive, just misunderstood. They adored each other. 🧶
May 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#showmeyourknits #knitting This blanket was a baby gift for Max the dog trainer. Max recognized Herbie the first time we went to the dog park. He had prevented the dog rescue from euthanizing Herbie for aggression. Herbie wasn't aggressive, just misunderstood. They adored each other. 🧶
Finally finished my first handspun sweater (I dyed the gradient, too). I knit it a year ago, but the shoulders were too wide, so I reknit from shoulders to underarms, removed the bands and collar, cut it apart and grafted it together again (then reknit the bands and collar). #handspun #knitting 🧶
April 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I'm a fiber volunteer at Gale Woods Farm. A few of their Finn ewes decided to have their babies now, instead of the predicted next week or two. I'm in love with the little peanut on the right. Two sets of twins, one set of triplets, and a set of quads so far! #handspinning #knitting #lambingseason 🧶
April 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm a fiber volunteer at Gale Woods Farm. A few of their Finn ewes decided to have their babies now, instead of the predicted next week or two. I'm in love with the little peanut on the right. Two sets of twins, one set of triplets, and a set of quads so far! #handspinning #knitting #lambingseason 🧶
#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Knits for babies!
Over-the-knee stockings with built in Mary Jane shoes for my grandniece. From a vintage 1940s pattern
Over-the-knee stockings with built in Mary Jane shoes for my grandniece. From a vintage 1940s pattern
March 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Knits for babies!
Over-the-knee stockings with built in Mary Jane shoes for my grandniece. From a vintage 1940s pattern
Over-the-knee stockings with built in Mary Jane shoes for my grandniece. From a vintage 1940s pattern
#showmeyourknits Colorwork 🧶
I don't do much colorwork, because I prefer texture. When I do, it's often intarsia. The pattern is Harlequin, from Stitchcraft issue 184, April 1949. It was part of my long term project to knit a sweater from each decade from 1890s-1990s.
I don't do much colorwork, because I prefer texture. When I do, it's often intarsia. The pattern is Harlequin, from Stitchcraft issue 184, April 1949. It was part of my long term project to knit a sweater from each decade from 1890s-1990s.
March 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
#showmeyourknits Colorwork 🧶
I don't do much colorwork, because I prefer texture. When I do, it's often intarsia. The pattern is Harlequin, from Stitchcraft issue 184, April 1949. It was part of my long term project to knit a sweater from each decade from 1890s-1990s.
I don't do much colorwork, because I prefer texture. When I do, it's often intarsia. The pattern is Harlequin, from Stitchcraft issue 184, April 1949. It was part of my long term project to knit a sweater from each decade from 1890s-1990s.
#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Green!
Christmas stocking I knit for my daughter's fiance. I've made these for my nieces and nephews, their spouses and kids. I used motifs I picked up from several stocking patterns as well as stitch dictionaries. Lined with wool felt to keep it from stretching.
Christmas stocking I knit for my daughter's fiance. I've made these for my nieces and nephews, their spouses and kids. I used motifs I picked up from several stocking patterns as well as stitch dictionaries. Lined with wool felt to keep it from stretching.
March 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶 Green!
Christmas stocking I knit for my daughter's fiance. I've made these for my nieces and nephews, their spouses and kids. I used motifs I picked up from several stocking patterns as well as stitch dictionaries. Lined with wool felt to keep it from stretching.
Christmas stocking I knit for my daughter's fiance. I've made these for my nieces and nephews, their spouses and kids. I used motifs I picked up from several stocking patterns as well as stitch dictionaries. Lined with wool felt to keep it from stretching.
I had the great pleasure of completing this shawl for @thelooseendsproject on behalf of a knitter whose health made it difficult to finish something this complex. The knitter turned out to be a neighbor who lived just two blocks from me! She is full of creativity, and her surroundings reflect that.
March 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I had the great pleasure of completing this shawl for @thelooseendsproject on behalf of a knitter whose health made it difficult to finish something this complex. The knitter turned out to be a neighbor who lived just two blocks from me! She is full of creativity, and her surroundings reflect that.
#showmeyourknits 🧶 I won this yarn (BT Quarry) at a retreat last year. Color was Pumice (light gray). I have so many gray sweaters, so I dyed it Berry Crush. I can be SEEN in this sweater. Woolen spun yarn weighs nothing. Pattern is Bellows and buttons are vintage coat buttons, all different. ❤️ it.
March 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#showmeyourknits 🧶 I won this yarn (BT Quarry) at a retreat last year. Color was Pumice (light gray). I have so many gray sweaters, so I dyed it Berry Crush. I can be SEEN in this sweater. Woolen spun yarn weighs nothing. Pattern is Bellows and buttons are vintage coat buttons, all different. ❤️ it.
Got this braid of 100% Falkland from @knittinglizard.bsky.social Sunday at Crafters Gotta Craft. I wondered if the OOAK in OOAK BLUE reflected the way Minnesotans say "oak," until a friend told me that it means "one of a kind." Ha! Started spinning it this afternoon, till tragedy struck.
March 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Got this braid of 100% Falkland from @knittinglizard.bsky.social Sunday at Crafters Gotta Craft. I wondered if the OOAK in OOAK BLUE reflected the way Minnesotans say "oak," until a friend told me that it means "one of a kind." Ha! Started spinning it this afternoon, till tragedy struck.
#showmeyourknits Socks. These are my most recently completed socks, the first project I've knit that started with raw fleece and went through processing, spinning, design to finished project. The dark color makes it hard to see the spiraling design. #knitting 🧶
March 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#showmeyourknits Socks. These are my most recently completed socks, the first project I've knit that started with raw fleece and went through processing, spinning, design to finished project. The dark color makes it hard to see the spiraling design. #knitting 🧶
Thank god for @jrabb4.bsky.social's obsession (and instructions) for grafting, or I would be going insane trying to graft this sweater back together in pattern. I can now graft a st off the needle as a purl, while simultaneously turning the grafting thread into a knit. I feel like a magician.🧶 #knit
February 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thank god for @jrabb4.bsky.social's obsession (and instructions) for grafting, or I would be going insane trying to graft this sweater back together in pattern. I can now graft a st off the needle as a purl, while simultaneously turning the grafting thread into a knit. I feel like a magician.🧶 #knit
Just finished this gem a month or so ago. Beagle had been in my queue for over a decade, and then I discovered Drift was the cardiganized, feminine version of it, and that was all it took to get it out of the queue and onto the needles!
February 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Just finished this gem a month or so ago. Beagle had been in my queue for over a decade, and then I discovered Drift was the cardiganized, feminine version of it, and that was all it took to get it out of the queue and onto the needles!
Jackson's book was published in 1845. The final book was published in 1918 here in the US. It's called Knitting and Sewing: How to Make Seventy Useful Articles for Men in the Army and Navy, by Maud Churchill Nicoll.
February 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Jackson's book was published in 1845. The final book was published in 1918 here in the US. It's called Knitting and Sewing: How to Make Seventy Useful Articles for Men in the Army and Navy, by Maud Churchill Nicoll.
Gaugain bks are Vols I, II, & III of The Lady's Assistant in Knitting, Netting, & Crochet Work, publ in 1842, 1843, and 1857, respectively. Next we have another small volume, The Practical Companion to the Work-Table, Containing Directions for Knitting, Netting, and Crochet, by Elizabeth Jackson
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Gaugain bks are Vols I, II, & III of The Lady's Assistant in Knitting, Netting, & Crochet Work, publ in 1842, 1843, and 1857, respectively. Next we have another small volume, The Practical Companion to the Work-Table, Containing Directions for Knitting, Netting, and Crochet, by Elizabeth Jackson
One of my YT viewers went to her local Friends of the Library sale and came across five books that she instinctively knew I would love. She bought them (for the shockingly low price of $1 apiece) and shipped them to me! I could not be more thrilled. There are three -- THREE -- Jane Gaugain books!
February 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of my YT viewers went to her local Friends of the Library sale and came across five books that she instinctively knew I would love. She bought them (for the shockingly low price of $1 apiece) and shipped them to me! I could not be more thrilled. There are three -- THREE -- Jane Gaugain books!
Not *quite* as creepy if you switch which foot you wear the sock on, so that the wedges bend outward
February 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not *quite* as creepy if you switch which foot you wear the sock on, so that the wedges bend outward
For this week's stripes prompt, I have a pair of toe-up socks knit in self-striping yarn, with short rows forming the wedge toe. The effect is both really cool, and kinda creepy. Pattern is Tipsey Toes by Sybil R #showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶
February 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For this week's stripes prompt, I have a pair of toe-up socks knit in self-striping yarn, with short rows forming the wedge toe. The effect is both really cool, and kinda creepy. Pattern is Tipsey Toes by Sybil R #showmeyourknits #knitting 🧶
Cabled items I knit in 2024. The Tarbat hat by Lucy Hague takes traveling cables to the next level. The sweater is Royale by Glenna C, which has traveling twisted stitch patterns. Had been in my queue for more than a decade. #showmeyourknits #cables 🧶
January 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cabled items I knit in 2024. The Tarbat hat by Lucy Hague takes traveling cables to the next level. The sweater is Royale by Glenna C, which has traveling twisted stitch patterns. Had been in my queue for more than a decade. #showmeyourknits #cables 🧶
Early start on Finish it (or Fix it) February so that I don't start a new project. Almost finished reknitting the first sleeve of my traditional Danish Night Sweater. Originally knit the sleeves using a skein in a different dye lot . Keeping the cuff dark because I don't have enough of the MC.
January 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Early start on Finish it (or Fix it) February so that I don't start a new project. Almost finished reknitting the first sleeve of my traditional Danish Night Sweater. Originally knit the sleeves using a skein in a different dye lot . Keeping the cuff dark because I don't have enough of the MC.