calorimetry, dad’s hat, and cabled scarf

i knit myself a calorimetry today! it’s snowing and my car doesn’t have heat, and my beanies (or toques) are missing. i decided i needed an ear covering for my drive to work tomorrow. here it is! i used size 7 needles, and lion brand landscapes in spring desert. i CO 68 stitches and didn’t do nearly 15 repeats.

next up is my dad’s hat, which was a christmas present. i just finished putting on the earflaps he requested after wearing it awhile. this was knit in yellow and black wintuk, which i’m not that impressed with. it’s barely a month after christmas and there’re all sorts of pills already.

also, as promised, i have WIP photos of my cabled scarf. it’s about two and a half feet at this point:

post-christmas knitting death

i’m just now recovering from the slew of easy (but neverending) gifts i knit for christmas. all told, i made… 4 hats, 4 pairs of slippers, 3 dishcloths, and 2 scarves… wow, that actually doesn’t sound like much, but it took forever. and true to form, i didn’t take a single picture.

currently i’m working on a cabled scarf for a swap, WIP pics of which are forthcoming.

my next project is going to be a calorimetry for another swap… and then most likely another one for myself, because they are so. damn. cute.

p.s. i just put myself on the waiting list to get into ravelry. yaaaaaay!

p.p.s  still haven’t had the heart to re-start the MST3K blanket.  just thought i’d let you know.

i hate my life.

i was making very good progress on the mst3k blanket, until i got to the intarsia/fair isle part.

i guess i should have known there was going to be more to it, but i just don’t understand.  i’ve been looking at tutorials and i know now that i should have just kept the “other color” yarn connected – i get that part – but do i start the thing with the other yarn present?  wait until i get to that row and start with the new color wrapped in at the beginning of it?  just add it in the first time i need it?

the problem was that i was snipping and adding in the new color (and then the main color) each time, which made for a LOT of loose ends…  which then came loose.  and made huge gaping holes that i could not fix.  so this entire night of knitting and three or four others goes into the toilet.  i had to frog the entire thing.

i’m depressed.  i’m not even sure i want to start over.

project to-do list

• mst3k blanket
• socks
• steering wheel covers [like this] for chris and me

martha stewart ring pillow – july 2007

in the first stages of wedding planning, i bought a ton of wedding magazines – the most fabulous of which was martha stewart weddings. we weren’t planning on having a ring bearer, but when i saw this, i had to knit one. and then find a kid to be the ring bearer. martha stewart’s version:

it seemed easy enough to make, so after much searching, i found some chunky lion brand wool-ease in white and got to work. it didn’t take me long to knit a rectangle in stockinette stitch on fairly big needles – they were thirteens, i think. once the rectangle was bound off, i made and stuffed a little white felt pillow. i folded the rectangle over it and sewed up two sides. then, i flipped the cover right side out and top stitched the rest of it closed. after that i added some ribbon in the near-center, tied some fake rings on, and voila:

must-knit #245

Amanda’s Squatty Sidekick from Knitting Daily

 Easy felted bag, super cute.  I want one.

(this one belongs to Craftster’s tygra)

hot water bottle cover – june 2007

[quick side note: since i can't find my knitting journal, which has the exact yarn information and needle sizes (as well as rather abstract instructions), i'll include pictures and whatever i can remember for now.]

so this is my hot water bottle cover. inspired by… the hot water bottle, which we were having problems with (i.e. the towels we wrapped around it for usage always got rumpled, and sometimes it leaked from cat-claw punctures) that i figured would be resolved if a cover existed for it. i hunted online for a cozy or cover, but they were either funny looking or really expensive. …and then i decided to make one.

originally, i had thought about sewing a cover, but knitting seemed easier and i had some nice fuzzy Lion Brand Boucle yarn in Rose that would feel nice against anything swollen or sore. so i started out knitting a rectangle. i knit in regular old knit stitch for as long as i could – using the entire skein. after folding the rectangle in half, i used some pink scrap yarn to sew up the edges, leaving room for the spout and the tab on the bottom (i’m guessing to hang it up for draining). then i turned it right side out, slipped it over the bottle, and it was good to go. here it is:

in the beginning…

recently, i started a (paper) knitting journal.  ….then i lost it. 

 after that, i decided that since i like to type more than i like to write, i like to discuss projects, and since all of my photos are already in digital format, i’d be totally original and start up a knitting blog.

 and so it was done.