Why, Yes, I Have Been Knitting...
...I just have no finished objects to show for it.
The socks are still ongoing. It's so disappointing to pick up a sock project you've temporarily abandoned, only to discover that it's just where you left it - that the socks haven't knit themselves while you were gone. Sigh.
I swatched a heart granny square pattern. I thought it'd make a cute candy heart motif. I wasn't thrilled with the finished square though. It was somewhat frilly and wouldn't lie flat.
But it won't go to waste. You can see it to the left - it's been integrated into a biggish project, which I'll reveal when it's completed (no, it's not a blanket).
The car for my nephew continues. In this latest iteration, I knitted a garter stitch rectangle for the bottom of the car. I picked up stitches along all the sides, and knitted in the round. When I was ready to do the side windows, I put the stitches on three sides on stitch holders, then knit back and forth on the remaining long side. I bound off stitches at the beginning of the first two rows to make the engine-hood and trunk shaping, and did intarsia windows.
You can see one finished flap. I'm leaving the stitches live, so they can be joined with the hood later.
The next step is to knit the same window flap on the other long side, again leaving the stitches live at the top. Then I plan to work on the flap that runs from the trunk, over the hood, and to the engine-hood, while joining every last stitch to a bound-off or live stitch. When I get to the end, I plan to graft the remaning live stitches together. If this works - and it should - I'll have a lovely seamless car! Really, the challenge in making this toy isn't in the actual making of the toy. It's taken me so long to work it out because I'm careful about construction. I depise sewing seams so much that I don't mind taking time to figure out how to alter a pattern - or in this case, design something myself - to make it seamless.
The socks are still ongoing. It's so disappointing to pick up a sock project you've temporarily abandoned, only to discover that it's just where you left it - that the socks haven't knit themselves while you were gone. Sigh.
I swatched a heart granny square pattern. I thought it'd make a cute candy heart motif. I wasn't thrilled with the finished square though. It was somewhat frilly and wouldn't lie flat.
But it won't go to waste. You can see it to the left - it's been integrated into a biggish project, which I'll reveal when it's completed (no, it's not a blanket).
The car for my nephew continues. In this latest iteration, I knitted a garter stitch rectangle for the bottom of the car. I picked up stitches along all the sides, and knitted in the round. When I was ready to do the side windows, I put the stitches on three sides on stitch holders, then knit back and forth on the remaining long side. I bound off stitches at the beginning of the first two rows to make the engine-hood and trunk shaping, and did intarsia windows.
You can see one finished flap. I'm leaving the stitches live, so they can be joined with the hood later.
The next step is to knit the same window flap on the other long side, again leaving the stitches live at the top. Then I plan to work on the flap that runs from the trunk, over the hood, and to the engine-hood, while joining every last stitch to a bound-off or live stitch. When I get to the end, I plan to graft the remaning live stitches together. If this works - and it should - I'll have a lovely seamless car! Really, the challenge in making this toy isn't in the actual making of the toy. It's taken me so long to work it out because I'm careful about construction. I depise sewing seams so much that I don't mind taking time to figure out how to alter a pattern - or in this case, design something myself - to make it seamless.
posted by ax174 at
1:07 PM
