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purleweI am sure many of you are wishing I would get back to the knit content. I feel bad b'c I just have not been home enough to actually post pics of the things I have been working on. But here is a little re-cap.
I did a felted hat for my aunt before I left for thanksgiving. I felted it in her machine. She loves it. It was black cascade 220 and some of the alchemy novelty that I have. This novelty yarn will last me forever. If it wasn't so damn expensive I would trade it with someone. But I love the color and I see putting it in a few more projects before I get tired of it.
I made a hat for my cousin Chris. I made the exact same hat for someone else for the holiday. I currently have them sitting on my living room floor. Every time I walk past them I think I am seeing double. It was my own pattern and I will give it to you here.
yarn: bulky weight
CO 65 sts in the round. Be careful when you join and knit in seed st for 2 inches. knit for 2 rounds (gives the cuff a nice fold) then knit 3 purl 2 until you think you are at a good length, (I knit until I had 8 inches from bottom) first decrease round: *k3, p2tog* next round knit. 2nd decrease round: *k1, k2tog, p* next round knit. 3rd decrease round: *k2tog, p* 4th decrease round: k2tog Continue until you have 6-8 sts left. beak yarn and pull through loops. Voila! hat.
I have been working on Alan's scarf, but I am not working to hard at it.
I got the gloves up to the first finger and had my cousin try them on over thanksgiving. They were WAY, WAY too large. So I used red thread and basted them on his hand. This gave me an idea for how many sts to use, etc. Over the weekend I re-cast on and yesterday I finished the first finger. It looks like "we're number 1!" I just had a co-worker with larger hands try them on. He says they are pretty nifty. I am 1/2 way up the second finger. I hope to get at least the fingers done by friday.
Operation santa's workshop: My quilting is going pretty well. I have quilted the top portion this way: I have made straight lines marking off all of the block in the quilt. Now I need to go in and do each individual sq. It tires me out just to think about it. I almost want to do it by hand.. b'c the machine at this point is combersome and bulky for the sqs. straight line sewing it is all push/pull.. indiv. sqs it will be finicky. But I will try to get some done tonite. Sue says I can brnig it up and work on it christmas eve. Since she knows what it is, I don't think I'll mind working on it in front of her. I really love it though. I can't wait until its done.
And with that I am exhausted. Isn't it time to go home yet?
I did a felted hat for my aunt before I left for thanksgiving. I felted it in her machine. She loves it. It was black cascade 220 and some of the alchemy novelty that I have. This novelty yarn will last me forever. If it wasn't so damn expensive I would trade it with someone. But I love the color and I see putting it in a few more projects before I get tired of it.
I made a hat for my cousin Chris. I made the exact same hat for someone else for the holiday. I currently have them sitting on my living room floor. Every time I walk past them I think I am seeing double. It was my own pattern and I will give it to you here.
yarn: bulky weight
CO 65 sts in the round. Be careful when you join and knit in seed st for 2 inches. knit for 2 rounds (gives the cuff a nice fold) then knit 3 purl 2 until you think you are at a good length, (I knit until I had 8 inches from bottom) first decrease round: *k3, p2tog* next round knit. 2nd decrease round: *k1, k2tog, p* next round knit. 3rd decrease round: *k2tog, p* 4th decrease round: k2tog Continue until you have 6-8 sts left. beak yarn and pull through loops. Voila! hat.
I have been working on Alan's scarf, but I am not working to hard at it.
I got the gloves up to the first finger and had my cousin try them on over thanksgiving. They were WAY, WAY too large. So I used red thread and basted them on his hand. This gave me an idea for how many sts to use, etc. Over the weekend I re-cast on and yesterday I finished the first finger. It looks like "we're number 1!" I just had a co-worker with larger hands try them on. He says they are pretty nifty. I am 1/2 way up the second finger. I hope to get at least the fingers done by friday.
Operation santa's workshop: My quilting is going pretty well. I have quilted the top portion this way: I have made straight lines marking off all of the block in the quilt. Now I need to go in and do each individual sq. It tires me out just to think about it. I almost want to do it by hand.. b'c the machine at this point is combersome and bulky for the sqs. straight line sewing it is all push/pull.. indiv. sqs it will be finicky. But I will try to get some done tonite. Sue says I can brnig it up and work on it christmas eve. Since she knows what it is, I don't think I'll mind working on it in front of her. I really love it though. I can't wait until its done.
And with that I am exhausted. Isn't it time to go home yet?
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Date: 2004-12-09 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-09 09:41 pm (UTC)hat pattern
Date: 2004-12-11 07:48 pm (UTC)At first I thought the pattern was for the felt hat. Can you tell me your gauge or needle size used?
I always like to have a hat pattern or 2 or 4 or 6 around!!
Laura (Secret Pal)
Quilt top.
Date: 2004-12-13 09:57 pm (UTC)(Love the cat in the hat pic.)
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Date: 2004-12-16 02:59 pm (UTC)Rachael
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