04.30.09
More Camera Clean Up
As I had mentioned in a couple posts down, my camera was getting stuffed with pictures. So here are a few more that were cluttering up my camera. These are the knitting stuff that I’ve been working on. The first pic is of Andrew’s gansey in progress.
Here it is completed with Andrew wearing it.
He actually liked it and wore it recently to my dad’s birthday dinner. The yarn I used was Paton’s wool classics and knitted on a size 7 US needles.
The next project I worked on was for my dad. He and my mom are scheduled to go on a trip provided both their health holds up. I know that plane rides can get pretty cold, plus he’s going to a somewhat cold place, I think–a river cruise along the Danube. So I decided to knit up a hat and cowl for him. Here is the hat in progress.
Here it is completed, and I’ve begun the cowl, which is my first attempt at a knitted moebius. I learned how to cast on using a circular needle from one of Cat Bordhi’s videos, Intro to moebius knitting.
The hat pattern I used is on Ravelry. It’s a free pattern that can be downloaded from Ravelry called Garmisch by Libby Grant. The first hat I made I used the large size, but decided that it was too large. So I ripped it out and started fresh using the medium size. Here’s Brian modeling the hat and cowl for me.
Heheh, isn’t he a sweetie. . . The yarn I used for this was Cascade 220 on 7 US circular needles.
The next project I worked on was for my mom. She asked me to make her some socks with a split toe so that she could wear socks with sandals. I figured I could make to socks similar to how gloves are constructed, but just go backwards, plus construct the outer edges just like I would do a normal toe-up sock. Here’s the result of my first attempt in progress. The first sock is complete, and the second is just begun.
I just picked out a lace pattern from Vogue Knitting Stitionary for the leg portion. Here’s what it looked like completed.
Heheheh, kinda looks funny, huh? Reminds me of camel toes, ha ha! But, apparently there are socks made like this for Japanese clogs, so I decided to try on a pair of sandals to get a better idea of what the socks would look like with shoes.
Hmm. Not bad, I guess. The first thing Brian said was, “Oh, those are cute!” Hee. So I think maybe I should make myself a pair. . . I have already given these to my mom. The yarn I used for this was Universal Yarn Inc’s Pace sized 2 US circular needles.
So moving along to my next project. . .
When I first saw this project a “year” ago, I just knew I wanted to try it. The pattern is by Hansigurumi, a “very” talented designer of knitted things. She recently put out her first book, but her other fun patterns can be purchased on Etsy. I just fell in love with her “peculiar” knits. Her site is called, Knitting the Peculiar. I think I’ve had this pattern for almost a year, but “finally” got to try it out. Here it is completed. . . Nessy!!!
Eeeee! I think it’s so cute. So I had to take another picture of it just before I gave it away. . .
I definitely will have to make more of these. But there are quite a few other animal patterns that I want to try. Hopefully it won’t take me another year to get to them, but who knows. . . Right now I have a pair of socks on the needles for Andrew. But no pictures of it yet. I think this pretty much brings me up to date on my knitting projects. I still have other pictures from another museum that I may post later on. Slowly but surely, I’ll have my camera cleaned up so that it won’t have all sorts of random pictures stored indefinitely.
Marlakins
