13 posts tagged “knit”
Three new scarves posted in my Etsy shop, more coming soon.
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
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My So Called Scarf (Heathcliff)
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
Cloud Around My Neck (Dark Denim Blue)
100% baby alpaca. sooooo soft...
READY
10: K1, *sl 1, K1, psso but before dropping slipped st K into back of it* K1.
20: *P2tog, do not sl sts off needle, P first st again, sl both sts off needle*
30: GOTO 10
RUN
see the start of the project and the stitch pattern detail here.
Awhile back I saw a sample scarf in a yarn store that was absolutely gorgeous, but it took me 15 minutes of internal debate to convince myself it was actually knit and not crochet. Even then I had no clue how to do it – was it knit horizontally? Vertically? The pattern was advertised as free with the purchase of a skein of yarn… and of course the yarn was what I consider crazy expensive ($32.95). So then I spent another 15 minutes debating whether to buy it or not…
I bought it.
Anyway, get to the paying part and ask about the free-pattern-with-yarn, thinking it is from the yarn manufacturer or was designed by someone in house or something. The gal turns to the computer, goes to a website, and prints the pattern. As in, I could have gotten it without buying a skein of yarn if I’d known where to look. The yarn I bought wasn’t even the yarn the pattern calls for – I’m using Lorna’s Laces ‘Lion and Lamb’ 50% silk 50% wool yarn with size 9 needles instead of what the pattern calls for. But OMG this yarn is GORGEOUS and SOFT.
Anyway, the pattern looks crazy complicated, but it is actually insanely easy. After doing the first 2 rows a couple times, I don't need to follow the pattern and I can work on it in autopilot without meticulously counting stitches on every row like my other work-in-progress, which I can't detail here because it is a Christmas gift for someone I know reads my blog. Anyway, I expect I’m going to make many more of these (using more than one skein of a less expensive yarn) and experiment with making them wider and longer (I like long scarves, and this is going to end up being a fairly short and narrow scarf when its done).
I got this done over a hair appt today.
Recently, the actress who played Saffron on Firefly auctioned a handknit scarf on ebay for charity. The winning bid was $255.00.
Some folks at work thought there was enough of a resemblance to suggest we could be sisters... not sure I agree with them, but still, it got me thinking. I'm not an actress but I do knit and there are lots of deserving charities out there. So here's the deal: donate $250 to either Children's Hospital or Climb for Kids and I'll knit you one of Jayne's Cunning Hats, or a Fibonacci Scarf in the two colors of your choice.
Elle sent me this link, and I had to make one... It whipped up pretty quickly. If you try it, the original blog the pattern was on has an error on line 25 (at least it did when I copied the pattern), it should be:MB4, K3, P5, K5, P1, K2, P3, K2, P1, K5, P5, K3, MB4.
this is right after I finished knitting it, once it is washed once it should lay nicely flat and not ripple at the sides... I think.
she would knit like this. what a silly headline. as if grandmas don't have game (not true) and as if non-grandmas don't knit (also not true). regardless, you should check out these awesome computer game inspired knit bits.
i'm tempted to make the katamari hat for one of my kids. it looks kind of cool.
Since their birth, my kids have been gifted with a wide variety of unusual critters from us and our friends. They've got stuffed monsters (probably a couple dozen), a number of dragons, and many random odd critters such as hedgehogs, a moose, a squirrel, a prairie dog, a phoenix... (think plush stuffed animals, not taxidermy. ew.)
So it is probably no surprise that on my list of Things I Want to Knit are stuffed cephelopods and octopus, both of which i first saw on Window's blog. The person selling the knit octopus pattern (on Etsy!) also sells patterns for squid, jellyfish, starfish... I think these would go nicely with the rest of my kids stuffed critters.
Yesterday at Ikea, we found what might be the holy grail of offbeat funky stuffed toys. I give you, the trilobite. Photo found online, as my daughter has hers is in bed with her right now and I didn't want to risk waking her up just to take an original picture. She spent all day today cuddling it on the couch or using it as a pillow while she was home sick with the flu. it currently has a little (approx the size of a medium-large apple) pink stuffed elephant hidden in its zipped shut mouth, with room to spare. in the bottom picture you can see someone's fingers in the lower left corner - that should give you an idea of the size of this thing.
best. stuffed animal. ever.
here it is, the shirt from the couch, where I am going to spend my day snuggled under a red slanket, eating jello, and surfing the web. maybe I'll watch a movie today.
I got this awesome shirt at Defcon from the Jinx booth, and it is finally making its long promised fsf debut. it would be nice if Jinx had this in a girl shirt instead of unisex, but s'ok. its still a very cool shirt.
