It’s snowing again, the shop was not warm yet and I have this skein of wool/cotton yarn in ‘natural’ that needed knitting. It seemed perfect for a small Aran sweater so…
Cables
The skirt is handspun, might be mine ior it might be Rosy’s. The socks are the same yarn as the sweater in a faux cable, easy to knit.
And to save some wear and tear on Samantha’s bountiful hair the sweater buttons up the back. I hope to get a pattern written up.
Finished weaving my curtain but… The top looks okay.
Top side
But on the bottom there are many skips, one rather long and rythmatic, which I’m guessing means I made a treadling mistake but most are just random. I did not notice any of these while I was weaving .
Skips
Our power went out about 11 am yesterday and stayed out until just after 6 pm. No shop work. I wove up the rest of my bobbins but am not going to wind more by hand so spent the rest of the day reading and knitting. Himself reading and pacing and grumping! 😀 It’s at it again today so better get those fingers x-ed for us! Or for the PUD, anyway!
But we’re up to nearly 3″ of the white stuff so far.
It's not raining...
Supposed to do this all day. It’s wet, too. Power was out twice already for minutes. Would not be surprised to have it fail for hours. But I’m off to the shop to put nails in the new Multi Triangles until it does. Then I may be able to weave on my curtain project if I can see by the window light. But… maybe we won’t lose power and I’ll be posting here again today. 😀
Since the last time I posted a photo of my girls a new member has joined my little family. We are now complete and will not be adopting more (no matter what dh hints at! lol). In case you did not guess… it’s Molly! (2nd from left) We all got dressed up for the occasion. Aren’t we pretty?! 🙂
After a few dances things warm up and off it comes.
I’ve been invited to lead a knit-along for a group who want to knit an evening gown from a free pattern on Ravelry. You may have guess already that the gown is to fit the American Girls, not us knitters. I had decided yesterday that I was not going to start any more doll clothes but was going to finish my cardigan and measure the warp for my curtain project. But…what the heck, doll clothes are small so it shouldn’t take more than week to finish, and that’s working at it evenings so I ought to have plenty of time for the other projects, too.
Anyway, I did cast on and knit the ruffle so’s to have something to show as leader. 😉
A start....
I wanted to see if I could work a pattern in the three main forms of yarn needle craft for doll clothes. No sewing here but I made this leotard in weaving – Lexi, knitting- Addy, and crochet-Kirsten. Check the patterns link to the right.
I knitted the first one as that seemed to me to be the easiest to get the shape I wanted as the bottom part is pretty much based on the Fancy Pantie pattern. That turned out well. I can crochet but an not a Crocheter, if you get what I mean. This one has some…er…unusual stitches. I do not know how to crochet short rows properly
so the butt of her leo has a strange looking “eye” pattern but worked out pretty good all in all, I think. The woven one went a lot easier than I had been fearing and is made with two QW squares and a Tiny Weaver tri & square. It took the least amount of yarn to make, of course. I may remove the shoulder ribbons and put buttons on it, too. Now… I hope I can write up decent patterns from my copious notes… pages of which are scratched out as I changed horses midstream! lol
Himself brought Grandmother’s Christmas Cactus over from the studio today. It was not thriving over there and I thought it might like it here where there is a bit more heat and light. What you are seeing is a very large and very old plant that has sat outside each summer for as long as I’ve been acquainted with it. It was this big when I first saw it in 1979 so I have not a guess at how old it might be. But this summer the deer decided, one day when we were gone, that it was eatable . I think it’s going to survive but we were really bummed to see this damage. Since old Jack died the deer know no bounds. They come right up to the house and are not easily chased off. They are not a bit afraid of Cori the Corgi who can terrify a grey squirrel.
Well I guess we won’t be putting the plant outside this year and have our fingers crossed that it likes it in here with us.
An alternate view
I’ve been asked about cotton for the doll pantie pattern so I tried it with some Paton’s Glace. It works up a tince large so I added a row of eyelets under the ribbing and threaded a bit of ribbon just to keep them safe! 🙂 Click on the link to the right to see all the patterns, knit and weave. Not all are for dolls, believe it or not!
Hazel Rose 