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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 a baby sweater I finished two nights ago. It was washed yesterday. The yarn is a local acrylic that I bought in unlabelled hanks in Hyderabad. The pattern I adapted from Auntie M’s site, the Abigail sweater Link changed to Web Archive (so, it’s a girl’s name and my friend’s baby is a boy…so what? Stop asking me that question!!!!)
I used a Pony brand 4.00mm hook in aluminium. I added a pattern repeat for the yoke since it was coming out way too small, and a couple of repeats for the body. Also, the sleeves as well.
Please tell me it isn’t too girly….
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!
This was a rush job, as I was leaving that afternoon, so both I and my nephew were blurry-eyed and half-awake…
I used a girl’s pattern from Freepatterns.com for the boy’s vest (gender-bender, that’s me!) and used up almost all of the 7 oz Red Heart Super Saver skein in Soft Navy that Christal sent me for the September CAT PAC. This PAC arrived providentially while my sister was visiting, so I was able to take the yarn (she chose the colour) with me when I went with them to Hyderabad.
As usual (dunno why I bother writing this at all) I ran out of skein, so I made do with some local yarn in a very dark navy blue. I used a K 6.50mm hook. I started off with Red Heart Crystalites, but found it wasn’t sliding through smoothly, so I shifted to a Boye K 6.50mm instead. Much better!
The original pattern calls for chenille.
Several things are wrong in these photos:
1. Both of us were unwilling to wake up
2. The color didn’t come out properly, so I fiddled with the pics in an editor.
3. His pajamas are too dark to show off the vest/pattern properly
4….
You get the picture.
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:
What do you do when you have a skein of Red Heart Baby Sport Pompadour freshly minted in Hushabye, chilly weather in Hyderabad and a smallish niece in need of a sweater? You crochet a sweater…..(dumb question, silly answer).
I turned the net upside down (you mean you didn’t notice?) looking for a nice cardigan pattern for a 7 year old girl which wasn’t too dense (thick, heavy) but didn’t find any. So I turned to a baby pattern instead, from Serendipity Crochet. (This site seems to be defunct now, but I’ve given the web archive link here).
ETA December 16 2007: The site seems to be up and running again, so here’s the link to the pattern there.
So here it is:
Isn’t the colourway (or whatever you call it) adorable? I’d love to see how it turns out knitted. Here is a closeup of the pattern stitches, which is a simple one using crossed dc (skip 1 st, dc in next st, dc in skipped st across).
As usual I was too lazy to go out and buy buttons, so I made flowers for closure instead. Here’s a closeup:
And here it is all buttoned up:
I used a size J hook 6.00mm (Boye). I bought some very soft white local yarn to do the edges in. Worked out ok, I think.
Thank you so much for the Red Heart yarn Cordelia!!!
Alack and alas, the cardigan looks just right, so it might be too small for next year…A good excuse to make another next year!
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!
With Peaches n Creme yarn that I got from Kat for the August CAT PAC.
My dishcloth #2, the pattern on the wrapper is just rows of hdc, and I used size I hook, one size higher than recommended, Crystalites. The hook was also part of the same CAT PAC.
I love the colour repeat! Guess what desktop wallpaper I have on my PC right now 😀
Poncho for my friend’s daughter who is about 6 years old, and I’m afraid it might be too small for her…but it looks beautiful anyway, even if I do say so myself! Local (Santi) brand yarn and a size 4.00 mm (that Chrissie from England sent me in memory of her CAT friend Sue Renfrow). The pattern is here.
This is my first FO with the Solomon’s knot, Lover’s knot…instructions can be found here, here and here, amongst other places.
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