Knit Kit

Every so often, despite knowing that I have a project just waiting for me to hurry the frell on & get it started…….I pick up an entirely different project & start that instead.

This was that interloping project.

 

"Roberta" by Susie Johns

 

The knitting part of this project is done and dusted.  It now awaits curtain tape [75mm wide by 70cm long] and fabric with which to line it.

It’s easier to knit up than it looks. Honest! ……Well, apart from knitting the ‘N’ from behind. That was fiddly.

In order to ease things I scanned and enlarged the chart & ticked off what I knit as I went which made things much easier.

 

 

This was a nice stash busting project sourced from one of my many knitting magazines.

I don’t know any other type of magazine that I’m as likely to re-read apart from the National Geographic.

 

Let's Knit Issue 31 June 2010 Page 52

 

 

 

These are the yarns from the stash that were busted.

 

 

Verily there be progress

I adore the fact that I can try these on as I go.

Due to changing needle size and yarn weight (it’s me, I’m irrepressibly innovative) I shall also need to reduce the number of stitches along the body of the mitt. Tis a tad too roomy for my hand size. I’ve reduced the number of stitches towards the ribbing section to 44. I’ll see if this’ll do when I cast off.

Then my levels of persnickity may or may not call for me to frog it back a bit in order to introduce the decreases more smoothly.

We’ll see.

Anothers Exams Day Worth of Knitterly Progress

 A quick update:

I’ve cast the mitt off and it is decidedly too roomy. I shall have to frog it back and being the decreases earlier. 44 stitches is a good number to end up with.

Just a tad too roomy

It’s amazing the difference between the two mittens pictured below, even though they’re based on the same pattern. Oh the adventure that is knitting. McPhee* has it right knitting is “a cosmic crapshoot of possibility”

What a difference a little gauge makes!

 

*Stephanie Pearl-McPhee a.k.a. The YarnHarlot – quote taken from her book “Free-Range Knitter”

 

Progress & Mindless Knitting

I needed some respite from the ego bashing that studying for my accounting exam induced so I cast on to ‘play’ with the Mirasol Hacho yarn. It’s purdy. Then I decided that a pair of mittens would be cool.

I cast on 56 stitches on 3.75mm DPN’s.

These are based on the same Jane Burns pattern (Bones) as ‘Megs Mittens’ and ‘My Mittens’. While based on her pattern, they will look nothing like hers

Megs Mittens

 Both of these mitten pairs were made with Wendy Happy 4 ply in different colourways.

My Mittens

 

I cast on with the 307 colourway first and then changed to the 303 colourway after about 5cm (ish)

Mittens in the making

For anyone who happens to have a stack of Let’s Knit magazines and wants to find the pattern which inspired these mittens, you’ll find them in Issue 21 August 2009 on page 50.

Combining Mirasol Hacho 303 with Mirasol Hacho 307

 

While giving my poor noodle a break from statistics I managed to finish and cast off both sleeves for Megs Hoodie. It’s shaping up nicely. Methinks I shall have to redo the shoulder seams (I’m pernickity about having them neat) and I think I’ll leave picking up the stitches for the hood section until after my exams are done.

2010.05.11 Hoodie Progress