Winter Knitting 09/10 – Scarf Frenzy! – Update

Now that my present for my Loli mentor has safely arrived in her hands, here’s what she got!!

2 scarves, both in the weird sky blue/mint/lavender mixed color of Red Heart Baby Clouds:

This one is a standard rectangular scarf, with fringe on the ends.

This one is in the same style as the ruffle scarves in my previous post.

Additionally, I made her a little broach with dangly felt strawberries (because strawberries are one of her favorite motifs!). Unfortunately, I apparently managed to delete them from my camera before actually downloading them to my computer T_T *le sigh* The only picture I have is one she took when she opened my package… so it doesn’t properly illustrate the danglyness of the strawberries… But at least it’s something XD

Anyways, I’m glad she got the package safely, and that she likes it!

Upcoming project: Double-knit mittens!! I’ve actually started them, what, nearing 10 times now, and messed up every time and had to unravel everything. Let’s just say converting a cable twist pattern to double-knitting is kind of hard. I’ve defaulted back to just a flat mitten, and I’ll just knit a bow or something separately to sew to it for embellishment ❤

<3,
Kyttyee

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Winter Knitting 09/10 – Scarf Frenzy!

Given the fantastically frightful winds here in Chicago, I’ve been on a scarf hunt lately. But I figured, rather than buying simple scarves that I could make myself, why not go ahead and make them? So here’s four scarves, two of which are for myself, and two of which are for my lovely Lolita mentor.

I’ve been trying to incorporate more pastels into my winter wardrobe, so I made two long ruffly scarves for myself in pink and baby blue:

Of course the two scarves for my Loli mentor are going to be presents, so I won’t post them here until after she’s gotten them ^.^

All of the scarves were made with one skein of Red Heart Baby Clouds yarn. The pink skein was 2 ounces larger than the blue skein, so the scarf came out super long, but I love it!

Hope you enjoy!

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Winter Knitting 08/09 – Part 2.2: Hat Lined with Fleece!

Well… It’s really not winter 08/09 anymore… In fact, it’s already pretty much winter 09/10, but life got in the way of actually lining that hat. However, in order to make it truly functional for my boyfriend, I have finally finished putting in a fleece lining for it!

(See part one here).

Not only does the lining make the hat longer by about 1 inch, it also makes it that much warmer now that there are two layers between his skull and the elements.

Onto the one picture I remembered to take before he carted it off to Boston with him!

So, the tiny ribbed portion of the original hat got eaten in the seams, but overall the hat is definitely longer, and now double-layered. Apparently I miscalculated and the hat was a bit tight and the seam for the bottom band fell right on the ears, but my boyfriend says the hat’s now loosened up from wearing, and it’s all good now, so yay!!

So there ya go!!

❤

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Winter Knitting 08/09 – Part 2: Herringbone Scarf Done!

I finally finished that scarf!! (And yes, I know it’s not winter anymore).  I actually finished sometime in March, but didn’t have time to write up a post about it.  I had just enough yarn left afterwards to knit a matching hat.  However, the hat’s just the tiniest bit shorter than I think it really should be for a normal-sized adult head.  And it’s only single-layered, so I have doubts about it’s warmth-keeping properties.  I’m thinking I’ll get some matching charcoal fleece and make a lining for it (as well as make it just a bit longer for better ear coverage ^o^)

But pictures!!

The whole scarf

Edge detail (moss stitch border, herringbone main body)

Matching hat! It has some ribbing at the very edge, the rest is just straight stockinette stitch)

So yeah, the hat may or may not reappear again with fleece lining ^.^ I’m pretty pleased with how this turned out, considering both the scarf and the hat were done without a pattern (the hat was very much improvised :-P)

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Winter Knitting 08/09 – Part 1: Herringbone Scarf!

This is one of the two knitting projects I’ve been working on this winter. Originally I wanted to do the “Henry” scarf from knitty.com, but I really suck at knitting scarves sideways because I just lose count of all the stitches way too easily. Not to mention the tubular edge thing didn’t work out to great when I did a test swatch…

So instead I decided, well I’ve never done a herringbone texture before, so why not! And my attempt to keep it from curling quite as much involved putting a seed-stitch edge on it, but that doesn’t seem to be working as well as I thought. I think I’ll just have to try to block the living daylights out of this guy when I’m done…

It’s also the first time I’ve done a scarf using sock yarn… It takes much longer than any other scarf I’ve done T.T

But enough talk! here’s some pictures!

All crumpled up…

Seed stitch border…

The herringbone texture…

It’s not visible from the pictures, but the herringbone isn’t very even, mainly because it took me awhile to get a hang of the whole knitting through the back loops thing… But I think it’ll turn out decent ^.^

YAY!! Yeah, this one is the one I worked on all winter break (3 weeks) and it’s not even halfway done yet. I reminds me of the anime “Maria-sama ga Miteru” though because I watched the whole first season of it while knitting this.

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Mad Hatter

Here’s some more creations! This time… hats!!! Winter hats, to be exact…

The first hat is a red hood I knitted up. It’s made with Lionbrand’s Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in Cranberry, so it was a really fast knit!

It’s really warm and I absolutely love it! Plus it matches a new coat I just got 🙂

So without further ado…

The front view: please excuse my awful facial expression, I’m bad at pictures 😛

The side view: you can see more detail on the braided edge.

The back view: you can see the seam 🙂

And the second hat is a pink tam, which I love wearing, but it’s not nearly as warm as the hood. This one is knit with Lionbrand Wool-Ease in Blush Heather, an absolutely beautiful color. I made the edge band a little small for the amount of hair I have, but it still works 🙂

The front view: can’t really see much of the hat itself, but that’s how it looks from the front.

A side view: you can see how it sits, slightly slouchy at the bottom, which I like a lot.

A different side view: gives a better idea of the back, plus the pompom actually shows up!

An actual back view: You can really see the segments on the hat, and the pompom!

And that’s me being happy because I really like this hat 🙂

That’s all for today, folks, but I’m in the process of knitting my boyfriend a 6-foot long scarf, which I’ll be sure to post when it’s finished!

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