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Ok, needed an FO fast to feel occupied productive, so here is my version of Crabby Cabbie’s scarf.
Close-up of stitch pattern:
To recap:
Yarn: Local acrylic yarn in green, bought in Begum Bazaar in Hyderabad in September/October
Hook: Pony aluminium 6/5.00mm
Pattern: Crabby Cabbie’s scarf
Time: About 4-5 hours
Size: 6’8″ by 4.5″ (without fringe)
Extra: Chained 240 instead of 160 in pattern, was afraid of curving in the middle, but it worked out fine.
Yay for scarves!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I made this Rolled Edge CD Basket using Donna‘s pattern for a friend who saw mine and wanted one too. Used…hmmm a 5 mm hook, I think. Left out the beads suggested in the pattern. The yarn is GUM.
Here is how it looks with bottles and things in it (it’s for the dressing table).
Some of you may remember I made a scrubbie with the said GUM. I am sad to report, it is highly useless. The thing absorbs a lot of water, but has little or no grease-cutting properties, and leaves streaks when I try to use it to wipe my stainless steel stove.
#2 Also, maybe someone might be able to tell me, how the dang do I use those scrubbies with the nylon scrubber in the middle (sort of like eggs sunny side up)? How do I hold the thingy? I can’t figure it out.
#3 Also, at what point in their lives do cotton yarn dishcloths stop leaving streaks on my stainless steel surfaces?
Okay, so the Windmist brushed acrylic yarn Fiona sent me was calling out to be a bag, so I moped around the net and hassled Cordelia all day a bit, before rediscovering the Spike stitch bag at Crochet Me. Here is my version:
which looks absolutely nothing like the designer‘s. That’s why she is a designer and I am a copycat.
As I hate seaming, I decided to crochet in rounds, with a Crystalite size G/6 4.00 mm hook. I also turned the finished tube upside down to fix the bottom.
And here is another photo with my foot for scale.
Please don’t mention the clashing colours of the bag, I give a very good impression of being colour-blind even when I’m not.
The thing still needs handles, more of which in my next post.
Weird fact #1. The fuzz is mostly concentrated on the “wrong side” of the bag, why?
Update: Or what makes a scientific mind! Noricum gave me the answer to my weird fact question:
The fuzz is probably mostly on the inside because when you pull the yarn from back to front, the fuzz gets left behind.
Now why couldn’t I think of that?
ETA 23.06.2010: Discovered this wasn’t in my Rav notebook (imagine that!) and just entered it, and created the pattern entry in the database as well. Hopefully the designer can fill in the blanks, as several of the links in this post are now dead.
Finished the spike bag last night. Yay! Did the handles on the French Knitter. The bag will need a lining, obviously, and I’m still pondering what sort of closure to put in…..
From a distance:
Close-up:
Handles:
To recap:
Yarn: Windmist Brushed acrylic (100%) in Ocean Blue (50 gm) and Hollyberry (50 gm) and some scrap yarn for the handles
Hook: Susan Bates Crystalites size G/6 4.00mm
Pattern: All in my head, derived from Crochet Me‘s Spike Stitch challenge
Time: About 4-5 hours
Size: 9″ by 10″ by 2.5″
Extra: Used knitting knobby for cords for handles
Update: Thanks everyone for your nice comments! Yes, Sheila, I will be keeping this one for myself. If I can just get off my butt and line it… And Sue, Sara and Jomo, it’s good to know you like my work :D! Darn, I wish Blogger would do smilies….
Here is what I am using to make the cord for the bag handles:
It is a Pony French Knitter also called knitty knobby, knitting nancy, spool knitter…. The instructions that came with the thingummy weren’t too clear, but I found this excellent site with pictures and stuff.
Here is what the cord looks like. Magic, isn’t it?
Best of all, this toy is Made in India and for a change, it is actually available here. *clap vigorously* I got it for Rs 42 on my last trip to Hyderabad. (And yes, I do have rather a lot of lines on my palms.)
Yes, I do! Although this my first knit show-and-tell since starting this blog, there was a time when I knit more than I crocheted….
Anyway, I had Cordelia’s DAOK Yarn Bee Wild Child Eyelash in Fiesta calling out to me and it looked like it would dazzle in knit rather than crochet, so I dusted off my needles (Gasp, I even had the recommended size 7/4.5mm!!!!).
While carrying on a conversation with Cordelia, I cast on 20 sts and stitched away in garter stitch to produce this creature:
Isn’t it beautiful? I keep expecting it to mew at me. I wish it would, too. (Weird colours for a feline, but who cares?!)
Later in the evening I had an epiphany and decided to make it a “keyhole” pattern. Therefore without much ado, I frogged back a few rows,, knit 8 st, BO (Bind off, silly) 4 st, knit 8 st for one row, then knit 8 st, CO (Cast on) 4 st, knit 8 st the next row. Voila! I now had a “hole”. Garter st the rest of the way….
At the end of the ball, I had 24 inches of furry pleasure…the only question is, who will it fit?! Round my neck, for example, it looks like this:
I cropped off the photo so you can’t see my tongue sticking out (just kidding!). Not to mention the hole seems to be rather unfortunately located, so the entire arrangment is lopsided. *sigh*
Can someone tell me what I could do?
1. Frog and store
2. Hats with fringe
3. Find a small funky child in desperate need of neck warmer
4. Any other suggestions you might give me
I love the yarn!!!!
Update: The keyhole has now been moved to a more comfortable place and now I can even breathe while wearing it. Only thing is, I’m still not funky enough for it. Maybe I will be when I grow up…
Noricum: How wide should a skinny scarf be? This one is 4 inches
Sheila: Yes I used the entire skein, not a cm left to talk about…I’d forgotten what colours the Cheshire cat was. Maybe I will keep this…
Haven’t blogged much recently, have I? Pressures of work…or whatever!
Anyway, I tested Cordelia‘s Ruffled Eyelet Scarf pattern a while ago, and here it is!
I used RH Super Saver in Amethyst, and a I/5.5 mm hook (Boye, I think).
This shows the colour more closely…For some reason my camera thinks it should be blue.
It was first-ever vertically (lengthwise) worked scarf, and also my first-ever intentionally ruffled anything!
Thanks for letting me test the pattern, Cordelia!
Did I already blog this? I don’t remember. Anyway, the pattern is from Etaria’s Crochet Garden, and I’ve made it several times already. It’s super simple to do, and getting the cable effect in crochet is a great idea! Yarn is local, but I’m not too sure of which hook I used…
My nephew is modelling it for me here:
And here is a closeup of the pattern:
I got the pattern from Craftown, but in googling for it today, I also ran across a similar pattern on the Lionbrand website. So which is it? The one I made is the Craftown one, because that is what I referenced in my post on it way back in June when I first started this one *blush*. The post has a closer view of the pattern.
Here is my cousin for whom I made it.
It is sort of a batwing pattern, in that the shawl shapes itself so that it drapes on the shoulders and you don’t have to clutch it all the time. Much better than my experience with the Serafina Shawl..*shudder*
I used a gray yarn with silver running through it that I got in Delhi last November, with a 5.00mm Pony hook. The pattern is so easy that I finished the shawl without having to refer to the printout once.
I forgot to brag blog about these FOs that I made to give on our recent road trip. I made both of them in Hyderabad. So here they are:
This is another skinny scarf, made with some novelty yarn that I bought in Delhi last year. It was an unfinished bolero in its previous life. I made it for my niece. Just ch to the desired width, and then dc (American) in each stitch across. The beauty (!) of the scarf lies in the yarn itself.
I made two caps for my cousin and nephew. One of them I forgot to take a photo of, but it was made from this pattern at Crochet Garden here in an ugly green yarn that was one of the only colours I was able to buy in Hyderabad. Why our people like to make(buy) yarn in ugly primary colours is beyond me. I changed the brim a bit to make it fit my *sense* of symmetry.
UPDATED: For Mimi, look at this post for a picture of the hat I made from the same pattern but in a different colour. The brim here follows the original pattern, though.
Anyway, this other cap I made from this pattern, (I can’t find the link online….!!!) in my famous patchwork yarn from Delhi, very soft to touch. I like this pattern very much, it works up very nicely, and the ribbed brim is cool!
Sorry for the blurry quality of the pics!
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