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Jasmine Johnson-Kennedy 9/6/25 Jasmine Johnson-Kennedy 9/6/25

I finished my SWEATER!

And it only took a year and a half! I’m legit super proud of that timeline! Cast on in March 2024 and cast off in August 2025.

I’m going to wear it obnoxiously frequently all this winter. OMG I love it so much!

The pattern yarn is from Ritual Dyes in their Capricorn colorway on Maiden fingering (I’m a capricorn!), and the body Urth Yarns naturally dyed with Thyme on their Harvest fingering. The pattern is the Blackthorn Sweater by Wishbone Yarn.

I’ve fallen deeply in love with colorwork. It is so fun and so satisfying. Colorwork yoke sweaters though, mean that after the fun part there is still the slog of stockinette through the body and sleeves. I have my eye on all-over colorwork sweaters for my next projects!

I also learned so much about cables. I think I’d maybe never cabled before? I did the entirety of the hem using an extra circular needle as my cabling needle and it was fine. But then partway through the first sleeve, I found a pair of cable needles that I got from the studio cleanout after my weaving mentor died. And wow! Using a purpose-meant cable needle is so much nicer!

My next cast-on will actually be an all-over cabled sweater for my eldest, so that will be fun!

I’m on Ravelry @14milefarm if you hang out over there.

Jasmine Johnson-Kennedy 7/6/24 Jasmine Johnson-Kennedy 7/6/24

Prophecy: from skein to shawl

This shawl took a few years to complete. It would have anyway, I’ve no doubt, but along the way I realized that working with high percentage silk fibers gives me a headache. One of the three yarns in this shawl was a 50/50 blend of yak and silk : decandently luxurious and soft, but sadly headache inducing. I was determined to finish it though, and I did!
It has since found a home with someone who is not as sensitive to silk as I am, where I am sure it is well loved.

The three skeins that went into this piece were spun separately: a merino/tussah/flax blend, a yak/silk blend, and a merino/tencel blend. They paired beautifully.

The pattern used was the Prophecy Shawl by Tyne Swedish (@clevereststich)

Jasmine Johnson-Kennedy 10/14/21 Jasmine Johnson-Kennedy 10/14/21

Halloween Roundup!

Some year, I will find myself approaching the night when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest and I will be pulling scarves and bags off of my loom in colorways dedicated to the three witches in Macbeth or to the legendary medieval flying salves as a celebration of this particularly witchy time of year.

Alas, that year is not this year. The studio is deep in the midst of transition and my timing in seasonal projects is as abjectly off kilter as it ever was.

However, I do have a seasonal thing or three floating around the shop so if seasonal crafting is your happy place, click through and take a look.