what to knit… Maybe socks? March 19, 2004
I am getting a little tired of the baby stuff. I have decided that it is
silly to make all baby things in pastel colors. I think that a pair of baby
booties might look even cuter on a baby if they were red. I started a second pair of booties from my knitting for baby book, and i will get those
tiny things done this weekend for sure.
I would like to start working on the squares for the baby blanket, but alas, the yarn is not due to arrive until monday. Also in the same shipment is the wool for my ultra-hot leg warmers. That will be my first real adventure in cables. I still have that sock yarn that i got at the knitting convention, so maybe I will try and make my first sock. The tentative plan is to charge ahead with the free toe-up sock pattern that i found on elann.com. My foot is small and skinny, so i like the idea of being able to try it on to see how it is coming along. ultimately, I think wooly hiking/ski socks will be the kind of socks that I would enjoy making the most, since those are the kind i enjoy wearing. Does anyone know any simple (single color) ski sock patterns that work well?
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bad booties March 17, 2004
I hope sarah doest mind that i am including her in this category, but it
needs to be done.
A few weeks ago, Sarah started knitting a pair of baby booties from the Knitting for baby book. Here she is then, happily working away
I also have been working on a pair of booties from the same book, but mine were the “stay on booties” and was very proud that i managed to finish them. During knitting circle i decided to start making another pair. I noticed right away that the yarn was not knitting up to the same gauge as my previous yarn, so i was going to have to not knit as many stitches. Both were 100% cotton baby yarn, and looked the same, but the “Cottontots” was much fatter. We noticed that was what sarah was using also, and might be the reason her bootie was looking a little on the big size.
Long story short: I left out too many stitches and my bootie came out too small - as in too small for a teddy bear. sarah’s bootie came out much too large - as in a slipper for a
schoolchild.
Here is a picture of them with the correctly sized
booties and a dpn for scale.
We had
to come up with what to do with the booties that we had since neither of us
wanted to knit a mate for our horrible creations. Here are a few ideas for what
to do with the large one:
- A slipper for a small child
- Baby’s first christmas stocking
- A bag to hold all of the other booties
- a bag to hold knitting notions
My favorite idea is to use
the two of them together as matching purse + changepurse pair.
Here
is a picture of the big one holding the normal sized booties and the little one
holding knitting notions
Any
ideas?
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Diagonal Scarf March 15, 2004
This is one of the first things I ever made. I bought a kit to make this
scarf at the Stitches West knitting convention in 2003. It is made from Noro
Silk Garden. The scarf is knit on the diagonal - every row you decrease a few
at the beginning, and add a few at the end. It was the first time I had seen any
of the Noro yarn, and I am still totally in love with it.
(you can see a better picture in the Finished Projects Gallery)
I am
hoping to use some Noro Kureyon soon to make a Booga Bag. i am thinking of using color
#58…
What do you think?
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Domino Knitting March 11, 2004
While I was at Stitches West, I saw some sample pieces with a really cool
pattern of concentric squares. Most of them were knit in hand-dyed variegated
yarn which really made the pattern look even better. I asked the ladies at the
booth if they had any patterns available, but i was told that I could only get
the pattern if i bought i bought a kit to make this totally second-grade-teacher
style vest. So i left defeated.
Then browsing around Barnes and
Noble last week I came across a book on Domino Knitting that was exactly what I was
looking for. That very evening, I knit up these:
It’s a pretty cool technique. you start working the outer edge (first purple row, for example) and continue in garter stitch. In every other row, there is a double decrease in the center stitches which make the piece gradually pinch up into a
square. Fun, fun!! I tried the orange/purple swatch to get the hang of changing colors, and also to try attaching the two pieces together. instead of casting on for the second square, you just pick up stitches on the edge of first
square.
I would like to make a scarf sometime that is from pieced
together squares made in a nice variegated wool.
Update: I just made a free pattern using this technique.
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