Tuesday, February 20, 2007

earbands galour!

i discovered the calorimetry pattern on knitty.com and got a little carried away...here are my variations on the pattern:

this one follows the original pattern in terms of ribbing...i have another striped one as well that's finished! woo hoo! don't you know everyone and their mother wants one!

here's a shot of mine in action...


these two have different stitch patterns...


here's a closer look...the orange one is seed stitch and the gray one is based on the panta pattern below...


so before doing the calorimetry i did a panta, but didn't like that you have to pull it over your head...so here's the panta i made...i really like the ridges, but i prefer the button in the back to not muss up my hair!

hat and scarf holiday presents

so i decided to knit a whole bunch of presents this holiday season and started early...go figure that not everything is done yet...i have finished a few hat and scarf sets tho...there's one missing from here, but it's waiting for the edges to be tucked in...my least favorite part of knitting...damn stripes! haha

this one was made of leftover random yarn...the hat is reversible...

of course i had to make a set for my friend's fiance also! :)


here's the reverse side of the hats

and a close up on the other side

this one is a personal favorite...it's an odessa hat with a matching scarf...had to figure out the whole knitting the round pattern flat thing, but it came out really well! (keep an eye out for an odessa patterned tank top from me!)

brimmed hat

my friend saw a hat like this on the dave chapelle show on common...so after pausing several times to get a closer look, i came up with this closer fitting design...

the yarn is a cotton blend that i got super cheap at the suss sale (common theme since i bought 2 shopping bags full of yarn! yes, it was that cheap!)...i doublestranded the yarn and knit the hat on size either 11 or 13 needles...it was a tight knit even with the larger size needles, which i think gave it some shape in the brim...the body of the hat is k1, p3...i can't remember how i reduced at the top, but as you can see the reductions were all during the purling so that the ribs went all the way to the top...the brim is based on the stitch and bitch brimmed hat without the plastic brim...i folded the brim over and stitched it up...

the moral of the story is if you're looking to make one of these, follow your favorite beanie pattern and then add a brim as outlined in stitch and bitch or elsewhere (involves picking up stitches on the edge and knitting in stockinette then picking up more stitches and knitting in stockinette, etc.)...


so here it is!
you can see that the edges haven't been tucked in yet...whoops! :)

it's a wrap!

this is one of those take forever to finish projects...i was really excited about making this wrap and knit up the pieces (basically a rectangle with arms holes and arms knit separately) then the pieces sat around for a while...and then i knit up the arms and the armholes were too large...so then it sat around some more until i sewed up the armholes a bit and then attached them...and then i was going to rinse it out since it was a bit fuzzy.......so i finally just wore the damn thing! haha

anyhoo...it's a suss design with 4 skeins of suss yarn that i got on sale in the nyc location...

laying on the bed

on me the first time it was worn

the sides are llllooonnnggg...so that they can tie in the back...