I completed another potato chip scarf (free pattern from Knitpicks.com). I was going to do 2 different colours of the Paton's Carmen yarn but the colours didn't really go well (steel blue and red...) so I picked up another yarn - Louisa Harding to finish it off. I am thrilled with the result. And to solve my problem of struggling with the Kfb rows, I normally knit English (right-hand) but I knit Continental (left hand) and I was able to knit more loosely. It worked! This knit up quickly.
I started to make a hat for my uncle. The pattern is out of my"Holiday Knits" book and calls for a strip. I'm not sure my uncle would like a strip. But I was worried I wouldn't have enough yarn so I started with a lighter green that I had left over from a pair of cable booties. At some point I abandon the idea of a hat and it ended up being another neck gaiter. I'm actually quite pleased with the result. I have some other green yarn that I'm going to knit into a hat for my uncle. This will be for my other uncle.
I had gotten some sock yarn during a sale at Knitpicks.com but then realized it all required hand washing. I have a hard time justifying socks that require hand washing. I just don't know anyone who I can be sure would appreciate them. So I decided to think about lacy scarves. I was also stumped as to what to knit my grandmother that she would use and that would impress her. She is an extremely experienced knitter. So I settled on a lacy scarf. I'm going to knit this patter (from knitty.com)
with this yarn. It's a blue green (called rainforest heather in Palette from knitpicks.com) and will look nice with my grandmother's Navy blue coat.
Off to knit!
I started to make a hat for my uncle. The pattern is out of my"Holiday Knits" book and calls for a strip. I'm not sure my uncle would like a strip. But I was worried I wouldn't have enough yarn so I started with a lighter green that I had left over from a pair of cable booties. At some point I abandon the idea of a hat and it ended up being another neck gaiter. I'm actually quite pleased with the result. I have some other green yarn that I'm going to knit into a hat for my uncle. This will be for my other uncle.
I had gotten some sock yarn during a sale at Knitpicks.com but then realized it all required hand washing. I have a hard time justifying socks that require hand washing. I just don't know anyone who I can be sure would appreciate them. So I decided to think about lacy scarves. I was also stumped as to what to knit my grandmother that she would use and that would impress her. She is an extremely experienced knitter. So I settled on a lacy scarf. I'm going to knit this patter (from knitty.com)
with this yarn. It's a blue green (called rainforest heather in Palette from knitpicks.com) and will look nice with my grandmother's Navy blue coat. 
Off to knit!
2 comments:
Love that scarf! And it feels even better than it looks!
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
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