Finished Objects - warning - pic spam!
So this was a weekend of finished objects. Thanks to the 15 hours I spent Thursday in either airports or airplanes, either in the air or just sitting on the tarmac or the floor of Love Field waiting to be re-routed thanks to the weather in Houston, I managed to get quite alot of knitting done. Yesterday I bound off and wove in the ends of
Baby Bib of Love
Baby Genius Burp Cloth
Both patterns from Mason Dixon Knitting, very simple, and I thought the bib would be a good introduction to shaping since I want to tackle a sweater this fall. Both knit in 100% cotton, I love the slip stiitch rib on the burp cloth, but my favorite part of this whole project was the flower button. What? I like cute buttons!? The theory behind these is that babies' brains are stimulated by the bright colors and the interesting texture of the burp cloth. I got a 400g skein of this sugar n' cream yarn on sale at Michaels for 5 bucks. I think maybe it's half gone after making these two items, so lets say the yarn cost $2.50 and the button about 75 cents cause it came in a package of 2 for about $1.50... not bad. I've never met this baby, but her granpa has worked with me for nearly 9 years, so when she gets her scholarship to harvard he can thank me and my burp cloth. *smirk*
Then I also bound off on this Saturday and wore it all Saturday afternoon.
Ravenclaw wristwarmer? wristband? um, thingy?
So this was just me experimenting with some yarn I bought strictly because I liked the colors. It's lion brand acrylic in their new (gag me) "vanna's choice" but it's the closest of any of their yarns I've seen to a nearly perfect book ravenclaw. The rust came out really orange in the photo, but it's really much more brown in person. The official color names are colonial blue and rust., but wow it looks like carrot orange in this photo. Anyway, I liked the colors and decided to knit a swatch to see how it looked. I actually really like it. And it's very soft, I could actually see making a blanket or even a sweater vest out of this stuff. Would be a great yarn for charity knitting where they request the acrylic yarns, because it's soft, it's like 2 bucks per ball, and they have some really nice home decor colors. Anyway, this wasn't a pattern I was following, I was really just knitting a circular swatch on new US 8 bamboo dpns I bought to see if I liked bamboo, which I do. I co 36 stitches and divided evenly across 4 dpns, then just knit in a simple k1p1 rib. I thought the stripes looked wonky, and after finishing the second and going back into the blue I read a post about how if you are knitting in a rib when you knit the stripes you should switch to stockinette a round before the stripe and stay in stockinette until the second round back into the main color to avoid the dreaded "wonky rib stripe". After I bound off I decided that I would try it on and lo and behold it fit perfectly! yay! So now I can make another just like it whenever I get around to it, although, it might not be anytime soon, because my knitpicks order was shipped Friday with my chramed knits book, my sensational knitted socks book (which I had checked out from the library and fell in looooove with it!), another set of bamboo dpns, a size 0 circ for some magic loop knitting (bookscarves anyone?) and some various balls of yarn I decided I wanted to try out before I order a larger amount. And yes, I bought sock yarn, two balls of their new felici self-striping superwash wool in firehouse colorway (red, black, grey).
And yes, I'm babbling. I really need to win that 10 million from Publisher's Clearing house so I can do nothing but hang out in my craft room or watch movies and knit all day long on my private island with no neighbors.
Baby Bib of Love
Baby Genius Burp Cloth
Both patterns from Mason Dixon Knitting, very simple, and I thought the bib would be a good introduction to shaping since I want to tackle a sweater this fall. Both knit in 100% cotton, I love the slip stiitch rib on the burp cloth, but my favorite part of this whole project was the flower button. What? I like cute buttons!? The theory behind these is that babies' brains are stimulated by the bright colors and the interesting texture of the burp cloth. I got a 400g skein of this sugar n' cream yarn on sale at Michaels for 5 bucks. I think maybe it's half gone after making these two items, so lets say the yarn cost $2.50 and the button about 75 cents cause it came in a package of 2 for about $1.50... not bad. I've never met this baby, but her granpa has worked with me for nearly 9 years, so when she gets her scholarship to harvard he can thank me and my burp cloth. *smirk*
Then I also bound off on this Saturday and wore it all Saturday afternoon.
Ravenclaw wristwarmer? wristband? um, thingy?
So this was just me experimenting with some yarn I bought strictly because I liked the colors. It's lion brand acrylic in their new (gag me) "vanna's choice" but it's the closest of any of their yarns I've seen to a nearly perfect book ravenclaw. The rust came out really orange in the photo, but it's really much more brown in person. The official color names are colonial blue and rust., but wow it looks like carrot orange in this photo. Anyway, I liked the colors and decided to knit a swatch to see how it looked. I actually really like it. And it's very soft, I could actually see making a blanket or even a sweater vest out of this stuff. Would be a great yarn for charity knitting where they request the acrylic yarns, because it's soft, it's like 2 bucks per ball, and they have some really nice home decor colors. Anyway, this wasn't a pattern I was following, I was really just knitting a circular swatch on new US 8 bamboo dpns I bought to see if I liked bamboo, which I do. I co 36 stitches and divided evenly across 4 dpns, then just knit in a simple k1p1 rib. I thought the stripes looked wonky, and after finishing the second and going back into the blue I read a post about how if you are knitting in a rib when you knit the stripes you should switch to stockinette a round before the stripe and stay in stockinette until the second round back into the main color to avoid the dreaded "wonky rib stripe". After I bound off I decided that I would try it on and lo and behold it fit perfectly! yay! So now I can make another just like it whenever I get around to it, although, it might not be anytime soon, because my knitpicks order was shipped Friday with my chramed knits book, my sensational knitted socks book (which I had checked out from the library and fell in looooove with it!), another set of bamboo dpns, a size 0 circ for some magic loop knitting (bookscarves anyone?) and some various balls of yarn I decided I wanted to try out before I order a larger amount. And yes, I bought sock yarn, two balls of their new felici self-striping superwash wool in firehouse colorway (red, black, grey).
And yes, I'm babbling. I really need to win that 10 million from Publisher's Clearing house so I can do nothing but hang out in my craft room or watch movies and knit all day long on my private island with no neighbors.