Roxanne Richardson
Master Hand Knitter. Knitting Communicator. Fledgling spinner, flailing dyer.
Youtube: youtube.com/@RoxanneRichardson
Technical knitting articles published in various Interweave mags
Ravelry group: Rox Rocks
Rav ID: Rox
- Cool to see knitting discussed on SciShow today! youtu.be/iTLvD6-X8WQ?...
- I'm planning an Ask Me Anything video soon on my YouTube channel. What knitting questions would you like to see answered? #knitting 🧶
- 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 🧶
- #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. 🧶
- This week's Technique Tuesday features the double pick up. A beautiful finish for button bands and neckbands (especially nice around a steeked edge). Looks beautiful on the RS and WS! #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/F9uMiVDkuiA
- Really irritated with a paid pattern from a designer who has been publishing since 2014 and has over 200 patterns in his Ravelry store. The design is lovely, but the pattern reads like a first draft from someone who has never written a pattern before.
- 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 🧶
- 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
- #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.
- This week's Technique Tuesday video: the easiest cast on for top down hats or center-out circular projects. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/zR6Ot6rwEw0
- #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.
- I start TWO new top down seamless sweaters with set-in sleeves that use two different construction methods, and I discuss why designers might get something wrong in their patterns, but if you follow their instructions, you'll end up with the right result. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/xQYZhs5089s
- 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.
- This special episode of the Casual Friday podcast is a video montage of all the items finished or fixed by viewers who posted photos in my Ravelry group. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/dpSbivEB_0A
- This week's Technique Tuesday video demonstrates the method of cabling without a cable needle that I find most efficient when knitting traveling twisted stitch patterns. youtu.be/ouQ6eLtVvSA #knitting 🧶
- 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 🧶
- Well, I finished *something* for Finish it February. That, plus tidbits and other things in this week's Casual Friday podcast. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/TqJ_43RXKfk
- This week's Technique Tuesday video explains how determine the direction of knitting in complex fabrics made with cables, color work, or lace. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/dOyQ6-PMnZs
- This week's Casual Friday podcast includes progress on Finish it February projects (along with a new project), some new-to-me vintage sock booklets, and a spinning update. #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/eNLui2q0XSU
- 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
