9 posts tagged “craft”
I made this for a friend’s graduation with silver wire and freshwater pearls, randomly placed in the knit cuff.
Okay. This is dangerously fun to make.
There is instant gratification, there is the adventure of something knew and unexplored, there is pretty when it’s all said and done. I really don’t want something like this to hook me, but I’ve already looked up how to make viking knit cord and I think I might try to make it but if I start can I stop or will I be just as obsessed and what good will come of this if I do start since I don’t wear much jewelry anyway?
Oh dear. I think I will blame my neighbor. She just *had* to give me a spare pair of jewelry pliers, didn’t she?!
I'm convinced my sister can take a much, much better photo of this thing. Jojo wasn't the best model for this.
"Don't say that, you'll hurt his feelings!" Karen said.
"It's ok, he can't read," I replied.
It's done, however! And it does happen to look like a pea pod. Whoa! This time, I took notes at least halfway through the project. Good thing it's knit in the say way on both sides, yes?
I am contemplating adding a leaf and trying to insert a piece of chenille stem (fancy name for "pipe cleaner") at each end so that I can curl the tips. I'm not sure about the chenille because of the wire---after all, this is for a baby---and they might be sharp. The only thing keeping me from making the leaf is lack of yarn! Out of what I had, I have only 2 1/2 feet left and it's probably not enough.
Another one for Karen’s studio! I have such a good model. Jojo wouldn’t close her/his eyes, but did sit in it willingly for me.
This is knit in some Baby Bee eyelash yarn. My sister kept sending me yarn listings on Etsy with lots of color. During a trip to Hobby Lobby yesterday, I noticed a lot of their Yarn Bee stash was on a mega sale. It felt really soft and she wanted boy-ish colors so here we are!
Sorry for the blurry photo. I can’t remember why this was so hard to photograph. Oops.
This is the February Lady Sweater by Flintknits pattern. I had started working on this during our drive back from California this past January. It took a while, but NM helped me to find just the right buttons to compliment the sweater. So, no, it’s not using an extra double-pointed needle to keep it closed.
Where is it? It was a gift for my MIL. I wasn’t sure it would fit but she assured me, when she called last night, that it fit perfectly (that was a relief!). It was a birthday present, and she said her friends would like it, too, when she wore it for their night out. I knew she’s like the color, too, and the name “February Lady” is just perfect.
I can finally blog it. I’m hoping to make my own FLS at some point, we’ll see. The list of things I need to knit keeps changing–mostly in length!–but it’s all good.
Newborn size, hat for my sister to use for her photo studio.
Knit in Knit One, Crochet Two's Baby Boo yarn (45% bamboo, 55% nylon) which is so, so soft. I used size 6 needles and knit a bit tightly which is good. The yarn calls for size 5s but I guess it worked out anyway.
The pattern is the Berry Baby Hat by Michelle Sabatier.
Our model is Jojo, my little one's favorite stuffie and companion.
This is going to be my first attempt at printing something using the services of Spoonflower.com. Right now, they print a pattern on 100% Kona cotton for you. It's quilter's cotton so it's a decent fabric to work with. They do plan to add other fabrics to their offerings and I'm hoping they do either canvas or a 100% linen (I do so lurve linen).
The ink they use tends to be less saturated than monitor colors so I increased the saturation of my graphics by 50%. I do like my colors to be more earthy. Hopefully this works. If the fabric looks too white and clean, I'll wet it and wash it with days-old coffee. Then it'll smell good, too. Hehe.
What I plan to do is mount this on 3'x3' canvas stretcher frame and put it over the fireplace mantel which, whenever I look at it, cries out for something to grace it.
*Maybe* they'll let me print on the sample of canvas that they have. It might be big enough. I'll send it off to print as soon as I know what fabric they'll let me have then it'll take up to three weeks to get it back.
If it looks really good and the inks are relatively lightfast then this would be a great way to get artwork on a canvas even though I would still miss the oil paint smell.
Well...I finished this very quickly and it came together really easily.
But, Burda 8517 is not for me. I suspected that might be the case, but I made it anyway since this fabric was cheap. It was a huge, huge J Crew bandana (maybe a wrap?) that I got for 99 cents a long time ago during a thrift shop hunt for fabric.
I used the bandana's red border for the waist band and cord and that worked really nicely.
It fits just fine but it's just not flattering and confirms my need for a fitted bodice. So I'm on the hunt for a pattern to use with this since I have more fabric I want to use for a peasant top.
So you do the diligent thing and make a gauge swatch. All is good, right? Hrm… sure if you keep on the project consistently. Thing is, knitters may knit at one gauge one day and a different one another. Stress can affect gauge.
The back half was completed a while back and the second one I started around the time we began to pack for the trip. I had about 16 rows done just before we left and then about 4 inches into it, I thought I had better check it against the back. Good thing, too, because the difference of about an inch is really significant, I think.
This pattern is Interweave Knits Spring 07 issue, Slanted Neck Pullover.
I’m debating starting from scratch and trying to do this in the round, but I’m not quite confident enough to do that.Details: knit in the smallest size with the yarn and needle size the pattern calls for (Classic Elite Classic Silk, size 6 needles). The pattern is from Knitscene Spring 2006. I only changed the pattern when I added garter rows at the neckline in the back to better match the front.
The knitty gritty: I loved the yarn when it was wrapped in neat little balls. Knitting with it was ok but it's not very sproingy so my ribbing isn't as nice and neat as I'd like. Who cares though because the back, where it shows problems, is fine.
My only complaint: the single crochet along the neck line caused it to stretch. I have no idea how. It stretched so much that I couldn't wear it at all because it completely flopped open in the front and back. I fixed it by inserting a bit of yarn behind the single crochet stitches then pulling it taut and then making sure it stayed firmly fastened on the right and left. It worked fine for a while but the one in the back has broken on me twice. I will have to replace it because it's not wearable if it's not pulled tight in the back as well as the front.
I was wrong to worry about this being too small because the opposite is certainly true!
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