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I love booties. Have I said that before? Anyway, these are my first ones from the pattern booklet that B sent me (the first pair on the third row):
Yarn: Local acrylic, unknown brand
Hook: Boye F/5/3.75mm aluminium
Pattern: Sherbet booties from Precious Baby Booties by Carolyn Christmas
Time: Maybe 3 hours?
Size: Sole is about 3" (pattern size says 3.5"-4")
Extra: #1 I actually had the colours (love them) used in the pattern!!!! (not the transparent ribbon, though)
#2 The pattern uses "leave a long loop" instead of cutting and rejoining yarn for the colour changes. While of course I appreciate not having to weave in a thousand ends on such small items, I cannot really say the long loops help much…(and the inner side is obviously marred by the drawn-up loops, but maybe I did the drawing up wrong?!)
#3 While googling for Carolyn Christmas, I discovered she's also the author of another book I'm drooling over:
I will get my hands on this and the hooks for it. Although of course the Afghan/Tunisian stitch does create a very thick fabric, it's a technique I want to try. I have two slender afghan hooks but the swatches I create with them always curl. Someone said this settles down after a bit, but I've never gone beyond the first few rows, you know.
Meanwhile, I wish the price of the book on Amazon would fall so I could actually buy it with my $10 gift certificate (shipping is $4.95 or so!!!). Miracles can always happen 😀
After falling down badly on two of her assignments, I actually finished testing a new pattern for Kathy. It doesn't have a name yet. As usual, the pattern is unusual and interesting. You can see Kathy's version here.
Thread: Madura Coats Red Heart in size 20, white and yellow
Hook: Steel "Jyothy 5"
Pattern: From Kathy
Time: Over 3 days (yesterday was particularly busy with editing work)
Size: 24" across from point to point
Extra: #1 More or less my first time changing colours quite so brazenly
#2 Redeemed myself in my own eyes after failing Kathy twice in the past couple of months
# First doily in ages!!!
Some Peaches n' Creme left over from Kat's CAT PAC with the help of # 7 knitting needles (don't ask me for mm please!) turned into this dishcloth for my first CLBFX partner: She actually wanted Sugar n Cream yarn, which I can't find here, so I sent her some local yarn (Vardhman, acrylic, what else), but decided to turn this bit of cotton into something she might use.
I know, I know, it looks hideously misshapen…Now you know why I crochet more than I knit…This was my first-ever knitted dishcloth and I didn't have enough of the yarn to make it square or to add a proper edging. Bah. Should I have blocked the thing for aesthetics? It'll only get wet again, anyway….
Also perhaps the stitch pattern wasn't the best choice for a variegated yarn:
And do you know, Sugar n Cream is thicker than Peaches n Creme? They are both 4-ply cotton yarns, mind!
Now to wait 15 days till she receives the packages (yes, after all that fuss, I forgot to pack the dishcloth into the package, so I sent it separately….)
Also does it sound nicer to say knitted or knit? Anyone?
Knit
Yarn: Peaches 'n Creme in ombre
Needles: Aluminium 7/4.50mm
Pattern: On the back of the yarn wrapper
Time: Don't remember
Size: Did not measure (was too discouraged by the shape)
Extra: #1 Ombre does not look nice with a textured stitch in knit
#2 I need to finish my knit items better
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….
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…
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!
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