David was in this weekend and showed us some great iPhone apps for knitting. I love the Gaugify, and the apps for spacing both buttonholes and increases and decreases evenly are wonderful – this is still a challenging math exercise after all these years. So don’t miss the post David did, just before this one!
Last week was a super-busy one, so I didn’t get a lot of pictures. However, Mary Ann Posey brought in this cute baby sailor sweater that she whipped up in a few days:
It’s done in two colors of Jeannee, with an i-cord border joining the collar to the body. Here’s a look at the sailor collar from the back:
Pretty cute! It was a free pattern from Crystal Palace, written orginally for their Bunny Hop yarn.
Ann Thornton has been making more felted pet beds. Geordie had a hopeful eye on this one:
and it’s big enough for him, but alas, it’s for Ann’s own dog. She made this smaller version for a friend’s cat to curl up in:
Isn’t it great, with the bows just begging to be toyed with while the cat lounges in luxury?
I got a few things done this week – sort of!
This scarf turned out well, a ripple scarf in another color of Liberty Wool. (I hope this isn’t a repeat photo.)
Three balls of Liberty Wool and a free pattern – also great in any self-striping yarn.
I did this summer shawl sort of on a whim, from a free Ravelry pattern called Summer Flies:
It’s a nice sized shawl when done in Ty-Dy cotton and size 9 or 10 needles. It was fun because the stitch pattern changes every so often. The pattern is good if you like things spelled out row by row. I found no errors in it and there were plenty of stitch counts so you can check yourself often. Took 2 balls, but I had to cut down on the bottom edge by about 4 rows – I don’t think it suffered much.
And this is the amber cardigan I wrote about last week, done in O-Wool Balance, an organic cotton & wool blend, the only blend I’ve found of these two fibers that I really like:
It also was fun to do, except for the 3″ ribbed border, but by then you’re on the home stretch and going to get it done no matter what! However, I didn’t know until I started to block it that I made a mistake in the lace on the left front – damn and blast! The trap of not thoroughly looking over your work before you start finishing is a beginner’s error – and I fell into it with complete abandon, like a lemming off a cliff! There’s no way to fix it properly without taking it apart and I mean all apart. That’s not going to happen, so I’m going to make one tiny cut in the row I messed up and see if I can undo it and redo with a sewing needle.
But first I’m going to take a nap – then it’s a deep breath and…SNIP!
See you soon!
Trish
