4 posts tagged “knitting”
The Bug told me this morning Mommy, the mailman
will come and he will say "you're such a good knitter'"and he will like
this.
Please note that The Bug was making knitting motions with his hands as he said this.
Please note that The Bug was making knitting motions with his hands as he said this.
Interesting, I said. The mailman doesn't usually talk much, just delivers the mail and leaves.
No Mommy, you're such a great knitter and the mailman will say... And on and on, with his most charming smile.
So I thanked the boy for the compliment and asked him if he wanted me to knit him something. I've been trying to get him to choose something from New Knits on the Block, like maybe the felted firefighter's hat, or the superhero cape. Hell, I'd offer to make him the mermaid outfit if I wasn't so lazy. I just know I'd never have time to finish it.
But no. My child wants none of those things. He says Make a skirt.
This is not unprecedented. He has asked for a skirt before. He has "made" himself skirts from blankets and sheets and the knotted wad of yarn that is wrapped around the knitting needles in his toy box.
Really? A skirt?
Nooo, he says, thinking, revising. A... tutu.
What will you wear a tutu for?
To dance!
To dance!
A knitted tutu? The short man certainly has his own sense of style...
I'm not so much using a pattern - I found this great tutorial. Although I didn't use either of the recommended cast ons. Because I'm lazy and didn't want to pick up stitches, I went with the figure eight cast on. The top of the foot is a 2x2 rib pattern that I'll continue up the leg.
Also because I'm lazy, I love that toe ups don't require swatching for gauge. You just cast on and start increasing, and when it fits your toes snugly, you start on the foot.
Also because I'm lazy, I love that toe ups don't require swatching for gauge. You just cast on and start increasing, and when it fits your toes snugly, you start on the foot.
This is my contribution to the meathead knitalong.
(flickr pool here)
This will be going to my new neice, Larkyn Noelle, who is eight days old today. (The background is the girly new outfit that will be going with the hat.)
I admit, I didn't use the recommended yarn, or the right needle size. The yarn is Rowan cotton, one strand of green and two strands of yellow held together, and if I'm remembering right, I used size 11 dpns. It came out in a perfect newborn size.
The leaves were sort of what I could do with the leftover yarn, since this was a stashbuster project, and there was no yellow left at all. I like 'em.
(flickr pool here)
This will be going to my new neice, Larkyn Noelle, who is eight days old today. (The background is the girly new outfit that will be going with the hat.)
I admit, I didn't use the recommended yarn, or the right needle size. The yarn is Rowan cotton, one strand of green and two strands of yellow held together, and if I'm remembering right, I used size 11 dpns. It came out in a perfect newborn size.
The leaves were sort of what I could do with the leftover yarn, since this was a stashbuster project, and there was no yellow left at all. I like 'em.
This is the hat I made for my new niece. What good is a girly, pink hat if you can't make your son model it? He looks so coy...
