These are all of my knitting accomplishments from the last several weeks.
The baby hat is a version of a free drops pattern I found on ravelry. I'm just happy that it fits him, considering I did just about everything differently than how they said to do it. The pattern also calls for a crocheted border to be added on at the very end. But, since I don't know how to crochet and also because a friend who does informed me that it would be slightly scallopy, I decided to leave it off in hopes of having it seem more boyish.
In the background you'll see two pairs of I-corded mittens, one for each of the older boys. I love having the mittens on that cord! They were so smart in the olden days. The mittens do not get lost, but there also isn't any hunting for each child's mitts before we can go anywhere or having to help with getting the right one on the right hand, etc. I love it.
There are a couple of things I didn't expect to happen with the mitten project, though. One, is that the I-cords really stretch a lot. I thought they probably would a little bit and pulled on it as I was making and measuring them, but they still stretched even more than that. So in the future I will knock a few inches off the wrist-to-wrist measurement.
The other unexpected occurrence with these mittens is that because I didn't use a superwash and they're 100% wool, with the boys wearing them out in the snow and back in the house, they're felting themselves! I'm quite pleased with this, though, because in the beginning I was worried that they wouldn't be as warm or as airtight as some store-bought counterpart and now I think they are. (Although I think a little bit of the length on each of the mittens was sacrificed to the felting. Something to keep in mind for next time.)
I now have on the needles (for the second time--had to start over last night) a matching blue stocking hat for Honeybun, as his brother has his green mitten and hat set (you know how these things go).
Sadly, I don't have any books to rave about today. I'm waiting on a couple from the library that I have pretty high hopes for and I just returned a bunch of planting and recipe books last night. So hopefully by next time I'll have more interesting book news for you!
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The mittens are great as is the hat! Mittens never seem to have long enough cuffs anyway ... They really need to have enough so when the child out-grows his jacket sleeve, the mitt still protects!
ReplyDeleteWow, I love how the hat turned out! Is that face a sad one because he's brother's are already outside? What a cutie pie. I was just thinking what a combination our two babies would be if they were left alone in a room for five minutes together...they are the cutest and craziest of our kids so far!
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