Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Girlie Blanket for Gramma Marilee

Yarn: Bernat Baby Boucle
Needle:
CO 66 stitches, work in garter stitches for 12 rows.

Row 13: Knit 6 stitches, (YO, K2tog) til -6 stitches, knit 6
Row 14: Knit row
Repeat lines 13 and 14 two more times

Knit 6 stitches, (YO, K2tog) three times, work to -12 stitches, (YO, K2tog) three times. knit 6 stitches
Next row, knit
Repeat til blanket measures -6 inches

Knit rows 13 and 14 three times

Knit 12 rows

Jesse and Mini hats

When I heard that Jesse was about to become a father, I knew I wanted to do something. I had yarn left over from when I frogged Ryan's Ralphie Hat and made it shorter, so I started a baby beanie in the yarn (which was self striping because the yarn was tied together when I frogged it). The colors actually reminded me of Jesse, so it was cool. When I finished, I scraped around and found leftover balls of the same color and made one for Jesse.

CO stitches (mini) and stitches (Jesse)

Work in 2 x 2 rib.

Work for 5 inches/ 7 inches, bind off

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Dragon witch scarf

I joined the Dragonwitch club that sends bi-monthly patterns and handspun yarn. It is from the Knitwitch website. When the first order arrived, it was a lovely light grey sockweight yarn along with a string of dark grey glass beads and a pattern for an interesting looking scarf.

When I began the pattern, I had a really hard time figuring out what it was supposed to be. When I finally got the trellis idea down, I liked it so much I made a baby blanket and plan to make a scarf using the pattern vertically rather than horizontally.

The second part of the scarf I simply didn't like. I ripped it out and made up my own pattern which incorporated the beads. When I ran out of beads, I stopped. The result is lovely, and headed directly to the gift basket.