Shutting down

Now that the new Blogger has enabled categories, I have decided to shut down this blog and only post on Fiber Cafe, my everyday blog. As I have finished projects, I've written about them there, and then basically written the same post on this blog. With categories, I can label a post about a finished object "FO" and then have the capability of finding all my FOs under one category, thus eliminating the need for a separate blog simply for FOs. So thank you for looking at this blog, and I'll see you at Fiber Cafe.

Thanks,

Kim

Cozy

Cozy from Knitty.com, made of Reynolds Mandalay. Color: White Sands.


Started August 2006, finished March 2007.

Mason-Dixon dishrags

These were a nice diversion from Cozy for a couple of evenings. Don't they look nice in our kitchen?

Pattern: traditional, reprinted in Mason-Dixon Knitting.

Yarn: Lily Sugar n' Cream cotton, using most of two balls.

Brown Basketweave Blanket

This is the blanket I knit for Rachel's second-born.
It's a basketweave pattern I found in the 365 Knitting Stitches a Year Perpetual Calendar. It's on September 3, if you own a copy.





I love the way the basketweave looks so three-dimensional.
Rachel told me she wanted green or brown. I had just finished the Green Ribbed Raglan and couldn't bear the thought of more green. So brown it was!












It worked up to be a pretty good size: 40" long by 35" wide. I used 12 balls of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran, which is buttery soft (but also prone to pill). I can tell the cast-on edge from the cast-off edge just by the shape the yarn is in. Grr.

Well, that's why I gave Rachel a sweater stone for Hanukkah. :P





Started: November 2006
Finished: March 6, 2007

Fingerless Mitts

As an antedote to working on two baby blankets at once, I had to have a little change of pace and make these little wristwarmers from Weekend Knitting.


I used leftover Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport from my Ravenclaw scarf. I had a little less than one full ball of blue, and still had several yards left when the mitts were done.

These are so toasty warm. They're just what my wrists wanted this cold, windy February. Now I have no more gap between the cuff of my sleeve and the cuff of my glove.

Started February 20, finished February 22, 2007.

Log Cabin Blanket

This blanket, from Mason-Dixon Knitting, was the first project I ever knit that used so many different colors. I used a ten colors in a cotton yarn called "Butterfly." I started out with #5 Addi Turbo 16" circulars, but the stitches started to get too crowded as the blanket grew, so I switched to #5 Options. Then I found I was getting a significantly looser gauge on the Options. Luckily, going down to #4s did the trick. I finished it with a purple border in half double crochet.

This blanket will be for the soon-to-be arriving baby girl of Andy's cousin Aaron and his wife Mandy.

I started this in August of 2006 and finished it on February 20, 2007.