Category: knitting (Page 5 of 5)

I finished my version of the Klee scarf, with my hand-dyed cashmere. It’s super long, super soft, vibrant and oh-so-warm! Something I didn’t think I’d be wearing until fall, but since it’s been extremely chilly (we lost all the tomato plants, btw), I wore it yesterday.

As you can see, I’ve started a new hairdo that doesn’t involve bangs!

The Lost Points Stole that I started & knitted constantly on our 2-day business road trip got finished last week, and here are a couple pictures of it….. railroad yarn? Not so fun to knit with. It’s nice and light and airy, though, so it will be a nice spring/summer wrap that won’t be bulky or overly warm. It was fun to bind off & watch the points appear; you knit the center panel and then pick up stitches all around it, increasing at marked intervals.

What’s next? Well, some solid socks with some interesting patternwork, and a bucket hat for summer time. I started the hat last night & it’s already looking too big, so I’m going to have to fiddle with the pattern to adapt my yarn & gauge…. my favorite thing to do! I’m also teaching the Lizard Ridge class on Thursday at The Studio, it’s been some time since I taught a class & it will be fun!

So a while back I mentioned that I’d knit a little something for Bekah and Mark’s new bambino, Sammy. (Stop! Sammy Time!) In its flat, uninhabited state, I took a picture of the completed booties, sweater & hat. However, Bekah is an awesome photographer, and the photos of Sammy IN her new duds and accessories are way more impressive. With all credits to her, here is Miss Samantha Marie in her Mason-Dixon Kimono sweater, hand-knit booties and the Baby Beret hat. The yarn was “YarnBee” from Hobby Lobby, for it’s washability; it was very soft & thus the hat was rather floppy. I used bright pink buttons on the sweater, and a matching button at the top of the beret. Bekah reports that she can not only work the beret with a provincial French flair, but alternately looks like a chef, and even a rastafarian baby. I’d love to say the clothes make the baby, but Sammy is cute no matter what she’s sporting….

So, last week, I was sick sick sick still, waiting for my horse-pill sized antibiotics to start scrubbing the badness out of my lungs, and I even stayed home from Knit Night, in hopes of speeding my recovery along. While I was home on Thursday night, I started a pair of gloves – something I’d always thought about making but hadn’t gotten around to actually doing! I’ve made fingerless gloves, which were fine and all, but not really GLOVES. And boy, they’re fun. Just like with sock knitting, I knit the wrist & palms at the same time (on two circs), and then went to individual knitting when it was time to do the fingers & thumbs. I finished them on Saturday! Here’s a photo:

I knit them out of Koigu Kersti, a merino crepe wool, absolutely lurvely, purchased at the Studio a while back, and just perfect for gloves. I didn’t use all of the yarn from each skein, and was glad I still had some leftover when I decided one thumb was too short & I ripped it out and re-knit it. I adapted the pattern found on Knitty – which left two fingers open for smokin’ a cigar, and of course, I wanted full-finger-coverage, so I basically just kept on going and followed the directions for the fingers that were knit in full, not the knuckle-only-bind-off part. (This may read quite confusing-ly. Sorry.) I knit the gloves on size 2 circs, and used 1.5 DPNs for the fingers. (Cause I’m a loose knitter.) They were great for the snow & cold wind – aaaaand now it’s 60-degrees. But I have fabulous, custom-fit gloves that, when I put the first one on, I marveled and said without thinking, “Why look at that! They fit like ….. a glove.” (Groan!)