Dear readers and knitters,
it is high time that I blog about rows 3 and 4 of the laughing carrots pattern. A few of you have written to me, because they encountered a problem on row 4, i. e. they didn't have enough stitches. While I have answered all those inquiries immediately via e-mail, I regard it now as a good idea to post about the solution.
Here is what solved the problem so far:
On row 3 you'll make a double yarn over. It is important that you work three stitches into this double yarn over on row 4. Here is my suggestion as to how to: knit 1, purl 1, knit 1 through back of loop into the double yarn over and row 4 should be fine.
Please, let me know if you encounter further problems with this pattern. I promise to blog about it sooner next time.
However, this problem had its positive effects! (Maybe I should include a problem in all my patterns ;-)) Rhoda sent me these beautiful pictures of her laughing carrots hats!!!
And of laughing beets. They are so cute, don't you think? I enjoy receiving pics of what knitters make out of my patterns. This is what I thoroughly appreciate about e-mail, blogging and the internet, that we can all combine and share our creative force. Thank you Rhoda for giving me permission to show your hats.
Over on Ravelry you'll find more variations on this pattern, e. g. a sweater in variegated yarn - which probably is more likely to be worn by children than a cardigan. I love cardigans and very often knit cardis even for my kids, who really prefer to wear sweaters. I 'll try to keep this in mind.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Friday Eye Candy - Free Form Crochet
I saw a few free form crochet/knitting items on ravelry, which I found very intriguing and wanted to know more about it. Here are some of the interesting sites I found:
Free Form Crochet - handouts
Prudence Mapstone
Book Review - Mapstone's book
Gallery of free form items
Free Form Crochet - handouts
Prudence Mapstone
Book Review - Mapstone's book
Gallery of free form items
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Tea cozy
Remember the tea cozy kit I bought at Ally Pally? It was my last FO in 2007, finished a few minutes prior to midnight! It was a quick knit, although I added the first pattern after the main pattern to make the cozy longer. There was also more than enough yarn in the kit.
I love the pattern, and the color and how it greets me every morning.
Bye the way, this is a very good Fair Isle beginner's project.
Erinnert Ihr euch noch an die Strickpackung für einen Teekannenwärmer, den ich mir in London gekauft habe? Nun kurz vor Sylvester habe ich endlich damit begonnen und den "cozy" wenige Minuten vor Mitternacht fertig gestellt.
Die Packung enthielt mehr als genug Wolle, obwohl ich den ersten Musterrapport nochmal nach dem Hauptmuster hinzugefügt habe, da meine Kanne höher ist, als die in der Anleitung angegebene.
Die Farben gefallen mir sehr gut und nun bereitet das Tee trinken noch mehr Vergnügen.
So ein "tea cozy" ist ein exzellentes Projekt für Anfänger des Fair Isles strickens.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Persian Tiles
The Persian Tiles stole from A Collector's Item by Jade Starmore is one of my favourite patterns (yes, the one I knit for myself can be seen as background to this blog's headline) and when it came to decide what to knit for my Secret Pal Cristiana, both yarn and pattern cried out to me to make a Persian Tiles for her.
So here it is. An autumnal brown-orange-red Persian Tiles knit on the machine. It is very different from my own not only because of the color, but also because of the length and thickness - or rather thinness, as I made it thinner then mine. My own is a bit too short for its own heaviness, but one learns with each and every piece, doesn't one?
Die Persian Tiles Stola aus A Collector's Item von Jade Starmore ist eines meiner Lieblingsmuster (wie man an der Kopfzeile dieses blogs sieht) und als ich nach einem Muster für Cristianas Secret Pal Geschenk suchte, da verlangte die Wolle, dass ich sie in einen Persian Tiles verarbeite.
In diesem braun-rot-orange ist es ein ganz herbstliche Stola geworden, die sich von meiner eigenen nicht nur durch die Farben wesentlich unterscheidet, sondern auch in der Länge und Dicke des Gestricks. Meine eigene ist für ihre Dicke etwas zu kurz geraten und fällt daher nicht so gut. Man lernt mit jedem Stück, gell? Ach ja, diese Stola ist zur Abwechslung mal auf der Strickmaschine entstanden.
Nachtrag:
Vielen Dank für all die lieben Kommentare.
Winni hat gefragt, ob das gute Stück auch gefüttert ist. Leider nein, da ich derzeit über keine wirklich funktionstüchtige Nähmaschine verfüge. Was das für Wolle ist, kann ich schwer sagen. Es handelt sich um Konenwolle, ein einheitliches braun, vermutlich Schurwolle, da nicht so weich wie Merino. Das Rot-orange ist eine Mischung (meine eigene Designerwolle;-)) aus rotem Merino und orangfarbenem Mohair, ebenfalls von der Kone. Leider steht auf den Konen nie drauf, aus was sich das Garn zusammensetzt...
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fair isle,
machine knitting,
secret pal
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