Mittens!
I've knitted a pair of red and pink mittens with squirrels on them! Under the cut is a long, in-depth account with a photograph of the final product.
Here are the bare bones of the project:
Needles Used: 1.25 mm DPRN
Yarn: 1ball of pink patons four-ply I picked up from a local store and one pall of red patons four-ply I picked up at the same time because I liked the colour compliments.
After my knitting needles gathered dust for about three years, I dusted them off again last December around exam season (per usual) and made my boyfriend a hat with moose on it from a very simple graph pattern I'd come across online. When I say simple, I mean the knitting required was fairly simple, but the instructions where a bit vague, meaning I ended up knitting the image upside down. Luckily I was able to still put it together properly, only I'm not too happy with how the fold over ended up attached to the rest of the hat. I keep meaning to ask for it back so I can fix that.
This gave me the taste for knitting again, and caused me to search out the University of Edinburgh Knitting Society. The meetings are once a week and are in the form of a social knitting circle with biscuits and discussion while you knit. While I was going regularly I found I was not only knitting there, which is how I thought it would keep me knitting, but I was also knitting in my room between meetings since it kept the project interesting. Which is the major problem I have with knitting projects, I tend not to finish them if I don't finish within two days or so.
One fairly annoying thing was casting the stitches that were taken off for the thumb on again, and then using stitches from the cast on edge to complete the thumb. So really, the thumb was just a bitch. The pattern is a bit busy looking, but still very fun. Maybe not the most serious of mittens, but outside of mountain climbing I doubt there is such a thing as serious mittens.
My first project since joining the society was a pair of mittens I found on Ravelry by Elli Stubenrauch . The finished product can be seen bellow. Yay for squirrels!
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Eventually I sent them to my cousin for her birthday, and since it's snowing where she is at the moment she says she's getting a lot of use out of them.
Here are the bare bones of the project:
Needles Used: 1.25 mm DPRN
Yarn: 1ball of pink patons four-ply I picked up from a local store and one pall of red patons four-ply I picked up at the same time because I liked the colour compliments.
After my knitting needles gathered dust for about three years, I dusted them off again last December around exam season (per usual) and made my boyfriend a hat with moose on it from a very simple graph pattern I'd come across online. When I say simple, I mean the knitting required was fairly simple, but the instructions where a bit vague, meaning I ended up knitting the image upside down. Luckily I was able to still put it together properly, only I'm not too happy with how the fold over ended up attached to the rest of the hat. I keep meaning to ask for it back so I can fix that.
This gave me the taste for knitting again, and caused me to search out the University of Edinburgh Knitting Society. The meetings are once a week and are in the form of a social knitting circle with biscuits and discussion while you knit. While I was going regularly I found I was not only knitting there, which is how I thought it would keep me knitting, but I was also knitting in my room between meetings since it kept the project interesting. Which is the major problem I have with knitting projects, I tend not to finish them if I don't finish within two days or so.
One fairly annoying thing was casting the stitches that were taken off for the thumb on again, and then using stitches from the cast on edge to complete the thumb. So really, the thumb was just a bitch. The pattern is a bit busy looking, but still very fun. Maybe not the most serious of mittens, but outside of mountain climbing I doubt there is such a thing as serious mittens.
My first project since joining the society was a pair of mittens I found on Ravelry by Elli Stubenrauch . The finished product can be seen bellow. Yay for squirrels!
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Eventually I sent them to my cousin for her birthday, and since it's snowing where she is at the moment she says she's getting a lot of use out of them.