Showing posts with label Son of Stitch n Bitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Son of Stitch n Bitch. Show all posts

Friday, August 27, 2010

knitting is driving me to drink

Ages ago, I decided to buy someone's Lion Brand Suede that they had listed in their 'destash' pile on ravelry - despite it not being a natural fiber, I like the texture of it and thought it would be fun to make something with it. So, said person happen to have a lot in their stash - a lot of one ball of several colours, and to cut my cost of postage a bit, I bought the whole lot from her.

As it turns out, and I didn't find this out until after I had received the yarn, that she originally made granny squares out of this yarn, which meant that she crocheted one row, cut the yarn, used anothe colour for the next row etc, and the skeins she sent me was in fact frogged granny squares. The yarn had been cut to peices, and despite my best efforts to try to get my money back, I had no luck.

I've had this bag of pretty much shredded yarn for a while, and not sure what to make with it, and I hate to have to throw it away. I finally figured a good use for some of it: I knit this whiskey bottle from Son of Stitch & Bitch - Projects to Knit and Crochet which I plan to pass on to my brother for his birthday.

The embroidery was a bit of a pain but overall it looks alright. The white parts are knit with Paton's Shetland Chunky that I had left over from the vest I knit my dad a while back

Monday, March 31, 2008

1st attempt at Double Knitting

Over the weekend I started knitting the Uncle Argyle scarf from Debbie Stoller's Son of Stitch n Bitch book. I'm using 4 skeins of Bernat Wool Blend - 2 in 'Wood' (brown) and 2 in 'Slate' (grey).

This double knitting thing is quite tricky - I've had to frog and restart this project 3 times just to get this far! But, as of today, it's 1/14 done. I've also made a few mistakes along the way - I think I've figured out how to correct them with a crochet hook rather than having to refrog it.

It's awesome - I think - having both sides of a scarf turn out with two 'nice sides' instead of one knit and one purled side. Although it's tedious having to carry both strands back and forth to knit every stitch. But, the end result looks great! And, at this rate, I've got a few ideas for double-knit argyle-esque future patterns.

Once I get my hand good at it, I can hopefully make a few by the end of the year to hand out as December-holiday gifts.