In which we speak of knitting.....
Posted by knittymom at 5/28/2008 12:59 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
OK, I've had a bit of startitis. Usually, I'm pretty good at keeping the number of knitting projects to a minimum so I get a reasonable rate of finished projects. Currently, I have quite a few things on the needles....for me. I know there are knitters who have many, many more projects on the go and although I enjoy the process of knitting (obviously) I do like a finished project. So here are a few of the cast-on members of my own knitting play....
Here is another entry in the cute category:
(I never really saw myself knitting toys but after the decided success of the knit squid, why not?)
The mascot of my daughter Erin's kindergarten class is a hedgehog named (Can you guess?), Hedgie from a series of books by Jan Brett. And, with a faith in me that I find totally uplifting, she said "Mommy, would you make me a hedgehog?" Notice, it wasn't "Mommy can you make me a hedgehog?" She has no doubt that I can do it... wow. I strive to live up to her expectations of me -- high standards have been set. I found a pattern for a hedgehog on Ravelry -- it's by Blue's Creatures who has a series of creative creature patterns. (I can't wait to try the zombie bear or the turtangle.) This little guy (gal?) is made with yarn from my stash and I basically followed the directions given. Sometimes I knit like I cook -- which is to say I like to use the directions as my guidelines but I feel perfectly free to add my own take on things. Most of the time this technique works out fine but can lead to some truly spectacular failures. (The pumpkin bread turned pudding debacle of '98 comes to mind. Blech.)
Next we have a couple of quilt squares:
There is a group on Ravelry who asked for donated 4'' by 4'' squares made from leftover sock yarn. They are going to assemble the squares and auction the quilt on ebay with the money going to Doctors Without Borders. (If you've never heard of Doctors Without Borders, check out their web site. They won the Noble Peace prize a few years ago and are the good guys.) Both these squares are knit with leftover Opal yarn.
Here are a couple of the washcloths I made with the organic cotton yarn I talked about a while ago:
I just picked a couple of designs I liked from various stitch dictionaries and plowed ahead. The green one is a pea pod design from Super Stitches Knitting by Karen Hemmingway and the brown one is a fern pattern from A Treasure of Knitting Stitches by Barbara Walker
Are you still with me???
Here's the last for now:
I'm trying my hand at lace knitting. Now from what I have read, I need to hold off on judging my final product until it has been washed and severely blocked. I can tell you the project, as it stands now, is extremely stretchy and looks, well, distinctly not lace-like. More like crumpled up mesh bag. Not what I'm going for. So we'll see. Lace is currently all the rage in knitting. (If you don't have your finger on the pulse of the knitting world, you may be surprised to find that there are definitely "rages" in the knit-o-sphere. We are a passionate bunch! Really. Try to get your hands on some coveted sock yarn at any sheep and wool fest and you'll be lucky to come away with all your needles intact. If you get my drift. Wink. Wink. Nod. Nod. Say no more. *)
*Do I get extra points for ending a post with a Monty Python reference?
Here is another entry in the cute category:
(I never really saw myself knitting toys but after the decided success of the knit squid, why not?)
The mascot of my daughter Erin's kindergarten class is a hedgehog named (Can you guess?), Hedgie from a series of books by Jan Brett. And, with a faith in me that I find totally uplifting, she said "Mommy, would you make me a hedgehog?" Notice, it wasn't "Mommy can you make me a hedgehog?" She has no doubt that I can do it... wow. I strive to live up to her expectations of me -- high standards have been set. I found a pattern for a hedgehog on Ravelry -- it's by Blue's Creatures who has a series of creative creature patterns. (I can't wait to try the zombie bear or the turtangle.) This little guy (gal?) is made with yarn from my stash and I basically followed the directions given. Sometimes I knit like I cook -- which is to say I like to use the directions as my guidelines but I feel perfectly free to add my own take on things. Most of the time this technique works out fine but can lead to some truly spectacular failures. (The pumpkin bread turned pudding debacle of '98 comes to mind. Blech.)
Next we have a couple of quilt squares:
There is a group on Ravelry who asked for donated 4'' by 4'' squares made from leftover sock yarn. They are going to assemble the squares and auction the quilt on ebay with the money going to Doctors Without Borders. (If you've never heard of Doctors Without Borders, check out their web site. They won the Noble Peace prize a few years ago and are the good guys.) Both these squares are knit with leftover Opal yarn.
Here are a couple of the washcloths I made with the organic cotton yarn I talked about a while ago:
I just picked a couple of designs I liked from various stitch dictionaries and plowed ahead. The green one is a pea pod design from Super Stitches Knitting by Karen Hemmingway and the brown one is a fern pattern from A Treasure of Knitting Stitches by Barbara Walker
Are you still with me???
Here's the last for now:
I'm trying my hand at lace knitting. Now from what I have read, I need to hold off on judging my final product until it has been washed and severely blocked. I can tell you the project, as it stands now, is extremely stretchy and looks, well, distinctly not lace-like. More like crumpled up mesh bag. Not what I'm going for. So we'll see. Lace is currently all the rage in knitting. (If you don't have your finger on the pulse of the knitting world, you may be surprised to find that there are definitely "rages" in the knit-o-sphere. We are a passionate bunch! Really. Try to get your hands on some coveted sock yarn at any sheep and wool fest and you'll be lucky to come away with all your needles intact. If you get my drift. Wink. Wink. Nod. Nod. Say no more. *)
*Do I get extra points for ending a post with a Monty Python reference?
I'm glad that Doctors Without Borders won the Noble Prize. It's a much more suitable gift than that damned Nobel Prize--named after some dynamite-inventing adulterer.
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May ya colpa. May ya colpa. May ya maxyima colpa.
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