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March 9, 2012 at 9:24 am | Posted in knitting, Ladybug, patterns, Pigeon, WIP | 1 Comment
Tags: German baby, moderne baby blanket, Sahara

I have decided that the hem will have to be ripped out. I only had to knit 3 rows of the neckline to figure that out.

I have decided that I really dislike purl 3 together through the back leg. But I’m an adult and it doesn’t do any good to complain. It may slow down my progress, though.

I have decided that I know who is getting the Moderne Baby Blanket I knit way back in 2008-2009. One of my best friends from college is having her first baby (a boy, due in July)! So any stalkers out there now know why I’m searching through the baby patterns on Ravelry and picking up 5 baby pattern books at the library. Right now my top to-knit choices are the Duck Feet and the Modernist Stripe Sleep Sacque (and awesomely, I picked up the book this pattern is in for $7 at Tuesday Morning one time). And I’m trying to choose a toy to knit, as well. I’m thinking one of the stuffed balls or stars that are out there. I own Zoe Mellor’s Knitted Toys, and I picked up Rebecca Danger’s Big Book of Knitted Monsters at the library, so I may go a little overboard for this baby. Too bad baby is going to be born in Germany! Ayyyy!, the shipping.

Why so overboard? Remember this?

And this?

Yup. She’s a knitter, too.

Things that are not socks

August 15, 2007 at 1:43 pm | Posted in knitting, patterns | 1 Comment

I like to think big. I like to think about what I am going to do next, when clearly I still have weeks until I’ll be able to start the next thing. In the intervening weeks, of course, new patterns become available and get my attention.

But right now, I have 3 sweaters’ worth of yarn. I want to think about that. (Let’s not think about the cough20+cough future socks I have stashed away. I am thinking sweaters right now.) (Also, I am sorry that I surprised you with more yarn. I hit that sale again. I am weak.)

I am thinking top-down raglan, because I do not like seams. They are scary.

Right now I am thinking Sahara, Wicked, or the Simple Knitted Bodice. All worsted weight, because that’s what I have. All long-sleeved, because I do not think short sleeves and wool (Cascade 220) go well together in my climate and living environment.

I am not a skinny girl, but I have curves in the right spots and a waist separating them. I need something that does not make me look like a sack of potatoes.

I also want something that is mainly stockinette, but has some interest to it as well. I don’t mind paying for a pattern, but I’d rather not buy a whole book for just one pattern. I could check it out at the library, though.

I’m also not afraid of a little math. If there’s a great pattern out there that just needs a little tweaking to be right for me, I can do it.

Whaddya think? I’m open to suggestions, opinions, verdicts, voting, scorn etc.