Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, cascade eco wool, hats, scarves&shawls, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: cables, crafty, handmade, harry potter, harry potter scarf, hat, hogwarts, knitting, lucky 7 hat, poa scarf | No Comments »
I’m slowly knitting away at the work I’m doing for P-, and getting close to being done!
This is off the needles, although all the finishing – sewing down the ends and adding fringe – is still on the go, but I’m very excited about it. I’ve also started on the second piece I need to get done, and it is flying off the needles like nothing.
I started this yesterday (it’s a hat – the Lucky 7 Hat, to be exact) and I’m already close to the crown. I think there’s something about cables that just makes me knit faster.
Song of the Entry: Jenny Owen Young – Hot in Herre
Posted: January 28th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: baby things, dale baby ull, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: babies, baby, baby clothes, baby hat, cables, dale baby ull, gift knitting, green, handknit, knits, knitting, tiny hats | 1 Comment »
I knit this teeny cabled hat (the coffee mug is for scale, and that is a big mug) in exactly six lectures, for my cousin who is expecting her first child. . .soonish. It’s the first piece of baby clothing I’ve ever knit, and I still can’t get over how quickly it knit up. Six lectures seems like a long time, but it was probably only about three or four hours of knitting time, which seems absolutely ridiculous for an entire hat. (But then again, when you’re knitting for teeny tiny people, I guess you get to make smaller stuff. Who knew?)
I’m not going to lie, the colour is pretty much just as close to electric green as it looks in the photos, but I’m okay with that, and I feel like the parents are too – I was trying to keep it gender neutral without descending into ridiculous pastels, and this was the best I could do with what I had.
The yarn is Dale Baby Ull, in eye-searing green on 3.25 mm needles, and the pattern is Cabled Baby Hats (the ten-cable version, knit with 4 purl stitches between each cable to allow for my smaller gauge) from Hey Julie, via Ravelry.
Song of the Entry: Wild Light – Call Home
Posted: December 4th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, projects: saddle-shoulder aran cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: aran sweaters, cables, cascade 220, elizabeth zimmerman, knits in progress, learning experiences, saddle-shoulder aran cardigan | No Comments »
So the sweater, shockingly, is finished. It’s off the blocking board, and the buttons are sewn on and look adorable, which is most pleasing. However, there won’t be any photos of me wearing it for while yet, as I have discovered some neckline issues. Well, really, it’s just the one neckline issue:
It is massive. Like, Flashdance massive – which is fine for a big, baggy Flashdance sweater, but not a sober, Britishy, cabley labour of love. This is entirely my own fault – the way I knit things, I need to understand spatially what my stitches are doing so that I can correct mistakes, and I didn’t really understand what was going on with the directions for the saddle. Instead, I trusted the advice of the internet, which was to “trust EZ,” which. . .look. Elizabeth Zimmerman was a brilliant knitter, but clearly the better option here would have been to knit the neckline off pattern after understanding what I was doing to my fabric. Alas, this sweater has become a learning experience.
For now, though, I am looking into shawl collars. Or possibly a hood. Those forgive most sins, and I love this sweater too much to not wear it.
Song of the Entry: Taylor Swift – Forever & Always
