Things for a baby that I haven’t met yet
Pre-emptive knitting!
Pre-emptive knitting!
I recently developed an inexplicable but undeniable urge to knit a red hat. It had to have ear flaps and it had to be Malabrigo. Do you ever get these fixations? And the immense, trivial, satisfaction when you find all of these things condensed into one item? This was taken a few days. It’s since…
I love learning new things. Of course, part of this is making a lot of mistakes, getting stuck and having to figure it out. Fitting. Lots of fitting. Basting and re-basting. Discovering that my hand-stitching does not hold up under the weight of the fabric. I could probably persist but I think some plain old…
The FO! A quick garter stitch hat using a basic $2 pattern I found on Ravelry for worsted weight. I used up old cashmerino aran leftovers (grey) and some essentials soft merino (orange). I had about 10 cm of grey at the end so that’s a win. Still have 2.5 balls of the orange though….
It’s been unseasonably cool here recently. There’s nothing better to kick-start one’s knitting. Mittens for Alb. New hat for Alb. Wool for a new jumper…for Alb. Someone’s been putting on the squeeze. Wool for the above projects was leftovers from his last jumper, knit from Drops Karisma. It’s a superwash and I can testify that…