Knitting and Quilting
I finished the green socks, and am using the leftover yarn to make myself a pair of mittens for our forecasted colder-than-usual winter.
I'm experimenting with fair isle, which I like, so far. So much easier than intarsia. These mittens will be a coordinating pair - I didn't have enough of the green left to make a matching pair.
These are socks for my older son (the younger one won't wear my handknit socks - he says they are too loose). It's Regia sock yarn, but an irregular skein. The colour pattern (refer to the completed sock) is supposed to be: 2 blue, 2 green, 2 red, 2 yellow stripes. I ended with the 2 green stripes, so the mate should've started with 2 red stripes. Instead, the second sock has 1 green stripe (meaning that the last set of green was actually 3 stripes), 1 red, 3 yellow, 0 blue, 2 green, and it looks like red is next. Weird, given that these skeins are dyed by machine.
I've been on the lookout for a fabric advent calendar for my 6 month-old niece for about a year. Her brother has one which looks like a Christmas tree. There are 24 numbered pockets below it with 24 fabric ornaments, for attaching to the buttons on the tree. Believe it or leave it, it's really hard to find this type of calendar in stores, online or otherwise, so I decided to just make one. Here are the fabrics I'll be using, which I got on sale this week.
The trees are for the pockets, the starry night sky is for the background, and the green fabric is for the tree itself. I'll knit up the ornaments later; there are many cute ones in one of my Jean Greenhowe pattern books.
But first, to get some quilting practice, I made this zippered, lined hot water bottle holder out of the boys' old receiving blankets. It's done in a traditional log cabin design.
I'm experimenting with fair isle, which I like, so far. So much easier than intarsia. These mittens will be a coordinating pair - I didn't have enough of the green left to make a matching pair.
These are socks for my older son (the younger one won't wear my handknit socks - he says they are too loose). It's Regia sock yarn, but an irregular skein. The colour pattern (refer to the completed sock) is supposed to be: 2 blue, 2 green, 2 red, 2 yellow stripes. I ended with the 2 green stripes, so the mate should've started with 2 red stripes. Instead, the second sock has 1 green stripe (meaning that the last set of green was actually 3 stripes), 1 red, 3 yellow, 0 blue, 2 green, and it looks like red is next. Weird, given that these skeins are dyed by machine.
I've been on the lookout for a fabric advent calendar for my 6 month-old niece for about a year. Her brother has one which looks like a Christmas tree. There are 24 numbered pockets below it with 24 fabric ornaments, for attaching to the buttons on the tree. Believe it or leave it, it's really hard to find this type of calendar in stores, online or otherwise, so I decided to just make one. Here are the fabrics I'll be using, which I got on sale this week.
The trees are for the pockets, the starry night sky is for the background, and the green fabric is for the tree itself. I'll knit up the ornaments later; there are many cute ones in one of my Jean Greenhowe pattern books.
But first, to get some quilting practice, I made this zippered, lined hot water bottle holder out of the boys' old receiving blankets. It's done in a traditional log cabin design.
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