FOs: Belt and Hat
Go me, I've been not only starting but finishing things lately!
The belt is made from Tilli Thomas Pure & Simple (100% spun silk) in Glazed Ginger (less than 1 skein), on size 5 and size 13 needles.
The hat is Handmaiden Fine Yarns Grande Godiva (50/50 silk/merino) in Rose Garden (one and a bit skeins), on size 10 1/2 Addi Turbo 16" circs and then size 10 1/2 bamboo DPNs once it got too small for the circs.
The body of the belt, stretched out on the box for my swift to show the stitches. Please disregard the Quality Control Inspector, he has a thing for silk yarn.
One end of the belt.
I did not enjoy knitting with silk as much as I thought I would; while the yarn is lovely to touch it also has a tendency to be splitty and oddly sticky on plastic needles.
Vague instructions: On size 5 needles, cast on 14 stitches. Knit in st st until you feel the tab is long enough. Switch to size 13 needles and garter stitch, knit one or two rows, then do one row *k1, yo* to end (end on k1). Knit 11 rows. For 12th row, *k2tog, yo* to end. Repeat this 12 row sequence until your belt is long enough, ending on a row with yo's. Next row, k2tog. Switch back to size 5 needles, knit st st until tab is same length as other tab. Bind off. Congratulate self on belt.
Things I would do differently next time: maybe add some gold beads.
Finished hat!
This is OMGyummy yarn. Seriously, it's wonderful, wonderful stuff. It's also expensive stuff ($30 for a 100g skein at my LYS) but it's SO lovely to touch. If you can't afford to buy it, you should at least go pet a skein. Seriously.
The hat was made using the basic hat recipe from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's Knitting Rules.
Things I would do differently next time: alternate skeins each row, to avoid the shift in striping pattern that happened when I switched skeins.
More pictures and full story of why I was using expensive yarn over at my journal.
The belt is made from Tilli Thomas Pure & Simple (100% spun silk) in Glazed Ginger (less than 1 skein), on size 5 and size 13 needles.
The hat is Handmaiden Fine Yarns Grande Godiva (50/50 silk/merino) in Rose Garden (one and a bit skeins), on size 10 1/2 Addi Turbo 16" circs and then size 10 1/2 bamboo DPNs once it got too small for the circs.
The body of the belt, stretched out on the box for my swift to show the stitches. Please disregard the Quality Control Inspector, he has a thing for silk yarn.
One end of the belt.
I did not enjoy knitting with silk as much as I thought I would; while the yarn is lovely to touch it also has a tendency to be splitty and oddly sticky on plastic needles.
Vague instructions: On size 5 needles, cast on 14 stitches. Knit in st st until you feel the tab is long enough. Switch to size 13 needles and garter stitch, knit one or two rows, then do one row *k1, yo* to end (end on k1). Knit 11 rows. For 12th row, *k2tog, yo* to end. Repeat this 12 row sequence until your belt is long enough, ending on a row with yo's. Next row, k2tog. Switch back to size 5 needles, knit st st until tab is same length as other tab. Bind off. Congratulate self on belt.
Things I would do differently next time: maybe add some gold beads.
Finished hat!
This is OMGyummy yarn. Seriously, it's wonderful, wonderful stuff. It's also expensive stuff ($30 for a 100g skein at my LYS) but it's SO lovely to touch. If you can't afford to buy it, you should at least go pet a skein. Seriously.
The hat was made using the basic hat recipe from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's Knitting Rules.
Things I would do differently next time: alternate skeins each row, to avoid the shift in striping pattern that happened when I switched skeins.
More pictures and full story of why I was using expensive yarn over at my journal.