Author: denisemor

Wee Bits and Pieces

denisemor 0 January 8, 2017

For some odd reason I am still not ready to get back to Autumn’s End.

For a while it was hats, then a just-for-the -heck-of-it cowl

My current distraction is this sweet little sheep

It’s an interesting pattern. In looking at the picture I would never have guessed how it is constructed.
I’m making one in the likeness of Edgar- here are the pieces so far

Body and head

Three out of four legs

So I’ve still got one leg, ears and horn band to knit. And a sweater too, I guess.
Then comes the sewing up.

But I think it’s going to be super cute.

I might need to make a whole wee flock!

And I have gotten a little spinning done lately as well- blended batts left over from the holiday market have become sweet little skeins

Long live the stash!

Last Hat of 2016

denisemor 0 December 31, 2016

It was going to be a quick one.
But felting with a variety of handspun yarns can be kind of a crapshoot.

It knit up fast, but then didn’t felt down quite the way I’d hoped.
The ribbed edge actually grew by about 3 inches. Maybe more.
Crazy.

So I had to take a step back and redesign on the fly.

Thankfully (?) the section just above the ribbing didn’t really felt very well, so I was able to carefully snip and pull out a row to remove the ribbing and leave felted but live stitches above to work with.

Picked up the stitches, and knit down corrugated ribbing on smaller needles. Finished off with Elizabeth Zimmerman’s sewn “Better Bindoff” so it has a little give at the edge.