Despite the very hot and muggy weekend I've knitted. Not a lot though, this heat makes me listless.
First of all, the Sheep Yoke baby cardigan. I've done qutie a lot! I MUCH prefer knitting it bottom up rather than top down. All the boring stuff is done first, and my decreases are a lot better than my increases. I had a bit of a set-back with the garter stitch sheep, but my problem, did a knit sheep when it ought to have been a purl sheep and didn't realise until the next row when I turned the work to the rhs.
This pattern has no underarm stitches. Knitting top down you put the sleeve stitches on a holder, and work them flat after completing the body. So it was very awkward to knit the first half an inch of the yoke. I didn't want to disturb the yoke pattern by losing 16-24 stitches for the underarm. It is possible to use some of the yoke stitches as underarm stitches though; the yoke would be smaller but the patter is easily adjsutable, just remove some fo the green background to the sheep. I have some pink yarn to do this for a girl, so I may give it a go, maybe just 16 sts, abut 3". I must check out the projects on ravelry, see if the yoke looks too big! The recipient is a dainty 1yo!
And my second baby project, just started. It's Maja's blanket, easy garter stitch log cabin squares sewn together. Two reasons why I decided on this pattern. The recipient is a work colleague and she won't notice me knitting on squares, and secondly, she's called Maja!
I may have to change the colours around though. the pattern uses six colours, grouped int threes. One group is a peach/light green/plive combination, and the other is pink/teal/cram. I would far rather mix all of the colours up, so there aren't two disticnt colour schemes. I know I'd find it very difficult to sew them up in a ramdon manner! So I'll be mixing the colours allup. I was briefly tempted to buy more, but I have stash!
what a productive weekend, well done!!!! From seeing the above pic, I don't think the yoke is too big.
The beauty of log cabin squares is their flexibility in colour choices. And if Maja asks about the squares the reply could be '' oh, I am testing how the various olours fit.''
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Posted by: Enid Mary Shaw | August 21, 2012 at 04:14 AM