swan intarsia swatch

it's been months since i've made anything and i was craving a challenge! also i've been seeing some lovely alpha patterns/color charts on pinterest lately and really wanted to make something with one of them. i was actually considering crocheting it but i have a love/hate relationship with how crochet stitches look so i decided to knit instead and learn a new technique in the process ^^ if you guys aren't familiar with knitting intarsia is basically just a method to create patterns and switch colours in your work.
also Um me being me i love swans (duh your site is called cygnet... shocker really... fork found in kitchen...) so i chose a swan pattern! i love love love how it turned out omg it's so gorgeous and i kind of learned that intarsia or at least intarsia on stockinette stitch isn't really good with curves - hence the "spiky" looking stitches at some parts. i'm just nitpicking though i still love it

cabled knit bag

my first proper knit project :) fun fact i actually learned knitting quite a few years back but it never really stuck? so i never finished a project prior to this one (or at least none that i remember) oops... but one day i randomly decided that i wanted to get back into knitting so i scrolled through a couple of tutorials on youtube and found this one which i was immediately drawn to. it's gorgeous really and tbh i had some nerve choosing a cabled project as my first project??! luckily it was pretty easy to pick up and minimal mistakes were made :thumbsup: wait im kinda embarrassed i was too lazy to weave in my ends after i finished making the bag like i just wanted to take a pic and post it so i just wrapped the loose strands around the middle of the strap HELPPP thats kinda funny guys i promised ive tidied it up since then Okay