Overdue Finished Objects Post
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knittingIt's a nice bright day here, so I took the opportunity to get a picture of my latest knitting project and thought, well its high time I made a post about my holiday knitting. But one of my bits of holiday knitting was finished months and months ago and I couldn't remember if I'd posted about it. So I went looking back throught the posts to see if I'd posted about it...and then kept going further back in search of a post by me and discovered that I'd not posted here since this time last year when I made my last 'holiday knitting' post... *headdesk* so this is a larger than expected FO post because I have all of last year to cover...
A snood I knitted for my mum for Mother's Day, she picked the colour-way to go with her winter coat. I did feel a bit foolish giving her it in March but then we had a cold snap so I felt less silly.
Then in April I did a Learn to Fair Isle Knit class and made this wee bag, I really enjoyed the class and decided I wanted to make a scarf in this pattern, so I bought some lovely wool, but kept putting off knitting it. At first due to my epic ongoing cardigan and after that was finished because I've lost my short 4mm circulars and I just know they'll turn up as soon as I buy new ones...
This was my major knitting project of last year, it took my 7 months and I was thoroughly sick of the sight of it by the time I was done. It's actually a little big for me, but I was able to adjust the front to mostly compensate for that. I used to be a very tight knitter but I seem to have relaxed somewhat and also a couple of years of roller derby mean that my build has changed so I always seem to make jumpers/cardigans that are that bit too big. Better that than too small, but the next one I make I'm going to try making it the size smaller than I think I should be and see if that fits better.
Wooly hat, made with the wool I had left over from making the snood.
Scarf I made for my girlfriend's birthday. I picked the colour because it was literally the last Stitch Nation wool my LYS had and well, they were for a while the only place in Europe importing the stuff and they've now stopped and I had a pattern book of their patterns. On the plus side she loves pink! The pattern was supposed to have bobbles, but they were really awkward and messy somehow so I just did them on the first and last repeats of the pattern. I've since learned a better way to make bobbles but with all the cables going on I had enough think about when knitting it.
Last but not least (and technically finished in 2013, but shhh...) I made a teacosy for my teapot.
A snood I knitted for my mum for Mother's Day, she picked the colour-way to go with her winter coat. I did feel a bit foolish giving her it in March but then we had a cold snap so I felt less silly.
Then in April I did a Learn to Fair Isle Knit class and made this wee bag, I really enjoyed the class and decided I wanted to make a scarf in this pattern, so I bought some lovely wool, but kept putting off knitting it. At first due to my epic ongoing cardigan and after that was finished because I've lost my short 4mm circulars and I just know they'll turn up as soon as I buy new ones...
This was my major knitting project of last year, it took my 7 months and I was thoroughly sick of the sight of it by the time I was done. It's actually a little big for me, but I was able to adjust the front to mostly compensate for that. I used to be a very tight knitter but I seem to have relaxed somewhat and also a couple of years of roller derby mean that my build has changed so I always seem to make jumpers/cardigans that are that bit too big. Better that than too small, but the next one I make I'm going to try making it the size smaller than I think I should be and see if that fits better.
Wooly hat, made with the wool I had left over from making the snood.
Scarf I made for my girlfriend's birthday. I picked the colour because it was literally the last Stitch Nation wool my LYS had and well, they were for a while the only place in Europe importing the stuff and they've now stopped and I had a pattern book of their patterns. On the plus side she loves pink! The pattern was supposed to have bobbles, but they were really awkward and messy somehow so I just did them on the first and last repeats of the pattern. I've since learned a better way to make bobbles but with all the cables going on I had enough think about when knitting it.
Last but not least (and technically finished in 2013, but shhh...) I made a teacosy for my teapot.
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Date: 2013-01-26 12:02 pm (UTC)Is Fair Isle hard?
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Date: 2013-01-26 12:42 pm (UTC)Fair Isle is relatively straight forward, so long as you have good instructions and someone who knows what they're doing on hand the first time you do it, I think. It's not knitting for doing while watching tele/talking to someone else certainly, you need to be concentrating on it alone I suspect.
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Date: 2013-01-27 11:06 pm (UTC)(right there with you on the "used to be a tight knitter but my tension has lightened up" thing)
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Date: 2013-01-28 11:40 pm (UTC)Roller derby? That cracked me up because you wrote it just like it's something we all do every day.