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.

Fun Fur Muff

My husband and I belong to a Victorian Carolling group, and we sing in costume several times during the season, usually out in the cold. I had the idea to make myself an old-fashioned muff out of Fun Fur and Paton's Merino after seeing this pattern from Knitty.com. I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

It was also a very quick knit, taking less than two days to finish. It kept my hands toasty warm all night, and I was asked to make three more for other members of our carolling group!

Ready for carolling!

Started Nov. 16, 2006

Finished Nov. 17, 2006

Green Ribbed Raglan

Here is my GRR, the first sweater I knit for myself. It was inspired by the sweater (below) from Knitter's Stash. The inspiration sweater was made from a cotton yarn of slightly finer gauge than the Paton's Merino I used. The pattern in the book only went up to a 36" finished bust whereas my (unfinished) bust is an inch or two more than that. Yes, I know ribbing stretches, but that was not the effect I was going for. I also used a 4x4 rib rather than the 4x2 in the inspiration sweater.

Ann Budd's Handy Guide to Sweater Patterns was the perfect tool to create the sweater I wanted in the size I wanted in the gauge I wanted. I love how this sweater turned out, and I want to wear it every day.

Started late August 2006, finished November 7, 2006.