Category: knitting

  • FP (finished pattern): Clara Tank

    Here’s a little something I’ve been working up in lettuce knit’s own line of hand-dyed yarns – dyed by me! This one uses a light cotton tape that comes in huge skeins.

    Clara Tank

    Clara Tank
    This easy and fast-knitting tank is knit entirely in the round with no seams whatsoever! A fun lace edging lends impact to the simple and flattering shape, and frames the neck along front and back edges.

    FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
    Bust: 30 [32, 34, 36, 38, 42, 46, 50] inches

    MATERIALS
    lettuce knit hand-dyed cotton tape [100% cotton, 475 yards/225 g]
    1 [1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2] skeins
    (approx. 370 [405, 470, 505, 575, 695, 760, 890] yards of heavy worsted weight yarn)
    6.5 mm 24” or 36” circular needle
    Spare needle for binding off
    Stitch markers

    GAUGE
    16 sts and 21 rows = 4” square in stockinette stitch

    Pattern available from lettuce knit via email to info@lettuceknit.com for $7 CDN (plus $3 shipping to the US and $2 to Canada), or give us a call at 416-203-9970 between 11-6 EDT.

    Here’s a couple photos of the currently available colours.

    Cotton Tape Colours

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    Terracotta, blush, mango, fuschia (same colour as sample)

    Cotton Tape colours

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    slate grey, purple, light olive

    Each skein is 225 grams and 475 yards, and is $34 CDN.

    It was a really fun knit, fast, and very satisfying. The upper body (ie. straps) is not really shaped, instead the straps are knit almost straight up to the shoulder, which gives a v-neck and a slight cap sleeve.

  • FO: Roundabout tank

    roundabout tank

    Roundabout Leaf Tank
    Pattern: Roundabout Leaf Tank from Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan
    Yarn: Nashua Ecologie Cotton, 6 skeins
    Needles: Denise US 7

    I knit pretty much this entire tank on my trip to Texas and the cruise in May, but held off just on sewing the straps down until just now! I had to do one of them twice, actually, because I’d knit one strap just slightly (about 3 rows?) longer than the other and it was noticable to me when it was all done. So I had to detach that strap, rip back a few rows, bind off again, and sew it back on.

    The yarn is really nice stuff, naturally dyed and makes a fabulous fabric. A bit splitty, as with most multi-ply cottons, but nothing overly annoying. The slight variation in the colour really works with this design.

    The pattern was really great fun. Easy to remember (although some of my leaves may be slightly larger than the pattern called for due to my inability to count rows), easy to just pick up and put down whenever. I knit quite a bit of it on the plane from Detroit to Houston, and a lot on the cruise, in the evenings in the room.

    roundabout tank bust

    I did have some futzing to do with the decreases around the bust – I think I may have joined a little earlier than the pattern called for, and my row gauge was probably off (yes, I am being vague) so I ended up needing to do a lot more of the “work even” part once the decreases were actually done, to have it end in the right place. And even then, I don’t think it really did….but it all worked out.

    Also, in the back, my straps don’t meet in the middle like is called for in the pattern. I’m not actually quite sure what happened there, but it looks fine.

    Now the big question of course, why aren’t I modelling it myself? Well, firstly I wanted to take it to the store as a sample for the yarn, and didn’t have a chance to do the modelling thing at home before I did. And well, I’m not super thrilled with it – I really, really love the way it looks on the hanger, but I’m not that hot on how it looks on me.

    I think the shorter portion of the body is a bit too short, so it shows a bit of belly which I’m not hot on. And I don’t know that I actually wear knit tanks, even with all my knitting of them! Maybe I’ll like it as more of a vest over another shirt, or something. Or maybe I just need to give it a little time to grow on me (also literally, perhaps it will lengthen slightly with hanging).

    I’m just bursting with things to blog about! More soon!

  • a little bit blue

    vintage blue cardigan, done

    Finally, an FO photo of this one.

    Vintage “Pink” Cardigan
    Pattern: Interweave Knits, Spring 2005, by Norah Gaughan
    Yarn: Rowan Wool Cotton, 9 skeins
    Vintage mother of pearl buttons from ebay

    A loooong time coming. The buttons kept popping out of the holes so I decided to just sew them in, starting at the top – once I got a little ways in, I decided that I since I usually wear cardigans at least partly open, I’d leave the rest. I kinda like how it looks buttoned only at the top! I split the yarn and used two plies to sew the buttons on with.

    I really love the front edging, but the cabled edge does roll a bit. Needs another blocking, maybe. The buttons are vintage, from some ebay seller that Alexandra told me about – I love them, but they’re a bit too small and thin for this particular sweater; hence, the popping out of the buttonholes.

    vintage blue cardigan

    I really, really like this yarn. It’s awesome – light and comfortable, stretchy, lots of yardage. I’d definitely use it again. I think I got this bag from Jeanette on ebay for a good price.

    Thanks for all the condolences on the loss of my bike. I did file a police report but of course, I don’t expect to get my bike back or anything. It turns out that the guy actually abandoned his own bike in front of my house! The good part of the police actually coming to the house (rather than over the phone) was that they could take that away. It was probably stolen, anyway.

    Here’s a photo of me and my bike (and my turtleneck shrug) from last year.

    my bike

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