Category: finished object

  • I was so excited to show you – please excuse the mess in the background and the bit o’ belly!

    The waistband was surprisingly painless – I roughly pinned the top edge leaving enough space for the elastic, then slip stitched it using Koigu. Then I shoved the elastic in using a safety pin (middle school family studies, you taught me well), sewed the ends together, and closed up the hole. There’s a bit of wonkiness in some of the hexagons – needs to be slightly reblocked.

    Yayyyy!!! Better pictures soon, I promise!

    ETA:
    Pattern: Modular Skirt from Fall ’05 Vogue Knitting – designed by Maie Landra of Koigu
    Yarn: Koigu KPPPM, colour P6082, purchased from the KW Knitter’s Fair, 6 skeins and Knitpicks Palette for the in-between bits
    Needles: Clover 3.25 mm dpn and circular
    Finished: December 6, 2005

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  • two down

    Cabled Gauntlets
    Pattern: based on this free one from Crystal Palace
    Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece, 1 skein
    Needles: Brittany US 5 dpn
    Finished: December 3, 2005

    Pattern notes: I started with 48 stitches and made below-the-elbow armwarmers – the decreasing and increasing still worked out just right. I also did a different thumb gusset. Fun, fast. Still need to be blocked but I figure I’m probably going to be doing a mass-blocking in a little while, so until then, they’re in the FO pile. I’m almost done my sister’s HP scarf, as there’s a scant 2.5 blocks to do – about 10″. Between reading and Dead Like Me tonight, I should be able to finish it. I’ve even cut the fringe already.

    In the meanwhile, I got a big order from Knitpicks:

    In my defense, not all of it is for me; the pile under the colour-your-own on the left is for Megan H. at the store; we’re both going to make the Nordic Memories pullover from an old IK. There’s also yarn for presents – clogs and toys. But let’s face it, the full bags of yarn in the front are for sweaters for me!

    Oh – check out this Koigu (and Palette) massacre…

    – it can only mean the end is imminent!

    P.S. For those that asked – the Urban Aran is from the Patons “Street Smart booklet”.

  • a long-awaited FO

    Vera Knee Socks
    Pattern: my own – for my huge calves!
    Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in “Vera”, 2 skeins and a bit
    Needles: US 0 Clover dpns
    Finished: November 24, 2005

    I’ve got a good feeling about these staying up – I put a bunch of elastic in (more than in the photo):

    On a completely unrelated note, I picked up these patterns for the cutest animals ever!

    I was thinking of using my handspun – although white, that’d felt for sure!