This weekend I've been alternating between the sweater and some potential Christmas gifts, which are on size 13s. After knitting on size 4s for hours, it's amazing to spend an hour with the 13s and have a finished product. This sweater is going to be the end of my knitting career; so exasperating. I mean, I am pleased with what I'm turning out, and I'm happy to knit something Dan will find actually wearable (I hope), but seriously, so frustrating! I knit up 100 yards of yarn, and it's, like, three inches. Anyway. I'm hoping I can finish it by Christmas.
I dragged the boy down to the yarn shop this afternoon, where I purchased ten skeins of Cascade Pastaza in color 004. I bought them to make myself a cabled sweater (eventually), but now after a trip to the mall turned up nothing, I'm thinking it might be a nice yarn for this skirt. Just solid, no stripes - whose crazy idea was it to put horizontal stripes across a girl's hips? That's something I DON'T need. But in a nice buttery sort of brown, with a ribbon at the waist or something? That would be nice, and warm. It's hard finding nice winter skirts.
I also finally uploaded some pictures. This is the first knitting project I actually finished, a tank top based loosely on a pattern from Teen Knitting Club.
One night, bored, I made this knitted kitty for my cat, from a pattern I don't have the link to right now.
And, most recently, I finished My So-Called Scarf. I love the finished product, and plan to make a matching hat out of my leftover skein of Manos. In the process, I've fallen totally in love with Manos, in particular this color (Wildflowers, #113). My favorite knit shop carries it, and every time I am in there I have to talk myself out of buying more because it is so so so pretty. And soft. And delightful.
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Hey Short Girl! Do you have any good hat patterns? I am thinking about trying to make a hat as my next project, but I'm not sure if that's too advanced for me right now. But I'm willing to give it a go (I guess you learn these things as you go along). But last year after the tragic loss of my favorite hat (still don't know what happened to it) I decided I should simply make one for myself since nothing else seems to be what I want. Oh, and did I mention that I paid way more than I should have to purchase a hat from some nice old knitting lady? And I really like the hat, it's super cute, but it must be wool or some wool blend because it totally makes my head itch, meh. I am thinking about also just sewing something in around the inside of the base of the hat to make it soft against my forehead so I can still wear it and it will not itch, but I still want to make another hat since I have to take my hair down to wear this one, and I want to make a big/stretchy maybe border-line beret type hat so I can just stuff my pony tail inside if I need to (much more convenient if you're just wearing the hat briefly). I guess I will try and search on knitty--do you recommend any other sites?
P.S. I might just be dumb, but have you set up and RSS feed for this blog?
Posted by: Sal | November 7, 2005 10:23 AM
I know there are a couple of hats on Knitty, and there is a newsboy cap in Stitch 'n Bitch (the book) that might work. I was briefly considering just creating a hole for a ponytail in a regular hat pattern (like they do for keyhole scarves) but I'm not sure if it would look stupid. If you want to try it, you can just follow a generic hat pattern and slip two stitches where you want the opening to be.
Posted by: Erin | November 7, 2005 11:33 AM
Hahahah, what's funny is that I didn't even read this comment until NOW and just happened to run into that hat by searching for hat patterns--how funny is that?
Posted by: Sally | November 13, 2005 11:47 AM