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 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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Nice cup of tea

I’m back with another update of projects I made for a Craftster swap. The theme was tea time. I found some really cute tea time related charms at the crafts store and decided to make matching earrings and ribbon bookmarks.

The earrings were really simple, just a colored bead and then the charm. I ended up making five pairs:

I made the matching bookmarks from ribbon, and attached the charms and beads with wire. The ribbon I liked only came in the wired variety, so I had to pull those out before making the bookmark. I made four bookmarks (with a closeup of corresponding charm at end):

I also made a recipe book full of recipes involving tea. On every page I put a picture of a different interesting-looking teapot that I found online. There were ones shaped like turkeys, frogs, Conestoga wagons, ladybugs, and tons of other interesting shapes.

I also made a small tea wallet. It’s basically a wallet with pockets the right size for teabags and sugar packets. There was even an elastic in the centerfold to hold stirrers!

And here’s what the inside looked like! The orange rectangles were actually Post-It notes with labels for what flavor of tea was in the pocket, since I sent it with teabags already in the wallet.

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Shiny!!!!

All of these are items I made for a Craftster geisha swap in January 2007.

The purse looked much better than I expected, especially after I closed up the gaps for the straps a little bit (by hand). It’s reversible, so I took pictures of both sides.

The red side:

The black side:

The fabrics were really beautiful; so much so that I had to take swatch pictures of them (these are without flash because that caused a weird glare).

And here’s 3 pairs of kanzashi hair clips made to go with the purse:

I also made these earrings as one of the small items:

My favorite of all the things I made is definitely this barrette. I might even make one for myself in colors I wear more often.

Closeups of the flowers and the trails:

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