Be amazed.
oooh
ahhhh
Sweeties are now available on Ravelry. They will be in my Etsy Shop at a slightly higher price (the fees are higher) before the end of nap. As long as nap doesn’t end in ten minutes.
Many thanks to my hardworking Test Knitters: Marcia, Jenipurr, Alyssa and MJ.
PS Happy Birthday, Great Gran! We made you cupcakes!
A sweet nothing for Valentines’ Day.
Awww, they’re holding hands!
You can make Sweeties as individual dolls or link them together in a paper doll chain.
Style their hair all kinds of ways. They are easy-going like that.
Knit to gauge, Sweeties are 5.5″ from head to bobble foot.
Your only limitations are the colors of your worsted scraps.
Fiddly, fast and fun. Pattern available February 1, 2011.
I’m working on something.
It’s a little nothing something that is taking TOO MUCH TIME.
I’ll show you next week and I’ll need another test knitter. Don’t commit until you see the pictures – this is by far the fiddliest thing I’ve ever made.
I’m knitting something that isn’t a toy or a CounterPain Square.
Be still my heart.
Ellie needs some mittens. I’m doubling Rowan Wool Cotton on US 5s (discontinued color – I had to find more on Ebay to match her existing hat) and working from the Handy Book of Patterns by Ann Budd. Great book, by the way. I’ve mentioned it before.
For mittens you need a couple stitch markers. Well, you don’t NEED them need them, but if you want to not have to pay a lot of attention, stitch markers are helpful.
If wishes were fishes…
Between the mitten leftovers and unraveling her hat, I hope to have enough yarn for a larger hat. I should have just started over with new yarn on the set – but the hat fit when I committed to the mitten yarn.
One hundred and ten CounterPain squares made and assembled. Only thirty more to go.
And the border.
There is a teensy glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
After two Christmases of Good Intentions, Ellie’s Smitten garland is finally on her mantle.
I got the studio light out for this one – it’s DARK on the back of the house.
It’s hung on plain stocking holders (WalMart really came through for me this year) and is stuffed with 24 tiny wooden ornaments that I’ve had since she was on the inside (I’ve been planning this for a while). This morning, Ellie pulled out the first ornament and hung it on her tiny tree. Then she took it off and repositioned it half a dozen times.
heh
Happy Thanksgiving!
Ellie and I have fevers and stuffy noses. So it’s Turk’y Burgers and no travel for us. And mashed potatoes if I feel like it (baked potatoes if I don’t).
Have a great Thanksgiving if you celebrate and a happy Thursday if you don’t!
He’s cashmere.
I love it when people want toys made with really really nice yarn that I don’t get to work with often. This guy is my biggest pattern, made with two strands of bulky cashmere on US10 and stuffed with eco wool.
I’m working on a really big project.
Back in September, I dug out Ellie’s little cardigan from last year. It fit everywhere but the sleeves and hem. So I fixed them.
Chunky cuffs on the pier in October. Dish Rag Tag causes delayed posts.
I cut off the bottom band one row beneath where the body of the sweater started. Then I picked up all the live stitches along the body with a circular needle, unraveling the remaining band row as I went.
I picked up right across the side seams.
Now here’s the kind of hacky part. I couldn’t find my leftover yarn for that sweater. Anywhere. Happily, my own Doppelganger Cardigan was made in the same yarn and shade – but with worsted not sport. Not a problem. On the first row of the new band, I just decreased every three stitches to keep it all nice and even. Two inches of garter stitch made a new, longer band. Then I bound off and closed up any holes in the side seams.
I lengthened the cuffs the same way – except with double pointed needles instead of a circular.
I like to read while knitting.
The tricky bit with the cuffs is that a standard bind off is not at all stretchy. Not a problem for the band of a cardigan, but a biggish problem if you’d like to pull a cuff over a growing child’s hand. I needed the thing finished for that October beach trip, so I just used the standard bind off. But I am going back to try this stretchier finish instead.
And that is how Lazy Emily gets two years out of one project. There’s a lot of work in a sweater, you know.
The cuff can be unrolled for more length!