CHRISTMAS KNITTING
’Tis the season to have foresight
OFFICIALLY STARTED. These are posevantar, according to my grandfather. (I think). They’re modelled after the inner liners of the leather work-mittens he used as a fisherman; kind of a sentimental choice more than anything. The pattern I used was in Swedish, which of course I don’t speak (and even though I understand a bit when they’re talking, I definitely don’t read it, and I definitely don’t know knitting terms. I also think it’s a bit loose of a pattern.) They’re a bit too big but I hope he will like them. Honestly, if I can get a laugh out of it, I won’t mind if he never wears them. (I’ll get him something else, too, I just really wanted to make these.)
COOL KNITTING:
Hi-tech handicraft
Here is my Modern Day Defarge, a knit QR code that points right to this here blawgh. I’m doing it in the round and will cut and weave in the long floats, then steek and cut the fabric to make a big ol’ patch which I’ll probably just stitch down to a tote bag. If it doesn’t read, if I end up needing to re-knit it, I will probably do it in wool, though-- I think better blocking capability would help. I might also make a (second?) smaller one to see if it will read with one-stitch pixels instead of four, just to sate my curiosity.
The overall feel of knitting cotton took some getting used to, but I’m coming to like it and the fabric it produces is pretty attractive.
QUICK KNITTING:
In fact, between that and the passionate defense of the art of the washcloth on the Yarn Harlot’s blawgh last week, I started down that rabbit hole too.
But, shit, it was 99 cents! Er, the yarn, I mean.
And there were big ol’ skeins of Bernat cotton on sale half price-- clearing the summer yarn, you know-- so I’m loosely planning to try and whip up a big stack for stocking-stuffers. First up is one seed-stitch with a garter border, though, which I will probably keep; and I’m considering making a second, smaller one in linen-and-garter because I feel like that would make a magnificent facecloth-- smooth as you like on one side, scrubby on the other with the clustered slipstitchy purl-bumps. I’m gonna have to go down a few needlesizes, though; most things I am seeing suggest 7s or 6s for washcloth knitting, but I feel like this is way too loose for my tastes!
EASY CHEEZY:
I kind of love how this yarn looks in the sun...
My coworker asked me to whip up something for an impending babby in the family, and since I can pretty much knit baby hats in my sleep I figured why not. Decided to add a pair of matching booties, tho without the random lace bits. (They’re calling the little Cheezy since they don’t know the sex yet. So I made a cheezy hat. The holes’re supposed to be the bubbles in the cheese, get it?)
This was fast. So fast that between the time I started writing this post and the time I posted it, I finished hat and booties alike. Bam. Pair of booties in just a smidge over a day, and a work-day at that.
And that’s a quick glance at all that! Whooo. Back to relative monogamy with the QR, for a while, until/unless I cast on the first Christmas s w e a t e r . Whew. Did it get panicky in here all of a sudden?
