It's all about the girl
My needlework these days is all about the girl - my little girl, to be precise.
When I was working on a pair of socks for myself recently she commented that I "never make her any socks", which, to be fair, is completely true. So together we picked out a pattern (child's lacy socks from "Socks, Socks, Socks) and found some leftober Dale Baby Ull in pink in a drawer - voila, pink lacey socks for the girl.
Take 1:
Following the pattern's instructions, I cast on and knit the rib on size 2 needles, then switched to size 3 needles for the body. After two pattern repeats I slipped them on Punkin - way too big on size 3s. Ripped back to end of ribbing.
Take 2:
This time I got through three pattern repeats and then tried it on the girl. It fit well, but I realized that it didn't look like the pattern. I looked at the pattern more closely and realized my mistake: I had made a photocopy of the pattern and the shading that indicated the purl stitches on every other row had faded out. So I was knitting every other row plain knitting when it should have been a combination of knits and purls. Since I liked the way the pattern was supposed to look, I ripped back to the ribbing again. (Although I might consider making another pair of these socks knitting the pattern "wrong" this way, it also looks nice).
Take 3:
At the point, I have just finished turning the heel on the first sock. Punkin is very excited about the progress and thrilled about having lacy pink socks.
The other project I'm working on these days is this:
This is not something I would normally choose as a project, but this project chose me.
I never win anything. Raffles, door prizes, contests of any kind, I never win them.
Except for Stitches. I won a door prize at last year's Stitches, and I won this bag kit at Stitches this year.
I must have good knitting prize karma.
I showed this to Punkin when i got home and she was really excited by it, so I'm making this for her as a birthday present (she'll be 5 years old in a couple of weeks).
I'm still working on the Koigu socks, but the projects for Punkin have taken priority.
I tried on the Shapely Tank after washing and it is definitely too big. I'm debating what to do with it next. I'm not sure what my next big project will be and I haven't had the brain power to think much about it lately.
When I was working on a pair of socks for myself recently she commented that I "never make her any socks", which, to be fair, is completely true. So together we picked out a pattern (child's lacy socks from "Socks, Socks, Socks) and found some leftober Dale Baby Ull in pink in a drawer - voila, pink lacey socks for the girl.
Take 1:
Following the pattern's instructions, I cast on and knit the rib on size 2 needles, then switched to size 3 needles for the body. After two pattern repeats I slipped them on Punkin - way too big on size 3s. Ripped back to end of ribbing.
Take 2:
This time I got through three pattern repeats and then tried it on the girl. It fit well, but I realized that it didn't look like the pattern. I looked at the pattern more closely and realized my mistake: I had made a photocopy of the pattern and the shading that indicated the purl stitches on every other row had faded out. So I was knitting every other row plain knitting when it should have been a combination of knits and purls. Since I liked the way the pattern was supposed to look, I ripped back to the ribbing again. (Although I might consider making another pair of these socks knitting the pattern "wrong" this way, it also looks nice).
Take 3:
At the point, I have just finished turning the heel on the first sock. Punkin is very excited about the progress and thrilled about having lacy pink socks.
The other project I'm working on these days is this:
This is not something I would normally choose as a project, but this project chose me.
I never win anything. Raffles, door prizes, contests of any kind, I never win them.
Except for Stitches. I won a door prize at last year's Stitches, and I won this bag kit at Stitches this year.
I must have good knitting prize karma.
I showed this to Punkin when i got home and she was really excited by it, so I'm making this for her as a birthday present (she'll be 5 years old in a couple of weeks).
I'm still working on the Koigu socks, but the projects for Punkin have taken priority.
I tried on the Shapely Tank after washing and it is definitely too big. I'm debating what to do with it next. I'm not sure what my next big project will be and I haven't had the brain power to think much about it lately.
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