Cotton Merino vest for hubby
Base: Berroco's Peter Easy
The yarn is beautifully variegated so just stockinette might actually be cleanest and simple pretty enough.
Blue Aarni Mens pullover + outfit
Swatch! Swatch! Swatch!
notiva knits Aarni with sirdar cashmere merino silk
I choose the 4th size:338 stchs in round, makes 169 per front back. Sounds about right????
U.S. 8 (5 mm) x CO 338
made it denser than if maybe had to be
Sirdar cashmere merino silk blend in china blue. I bought 20 balls. I ended up having to buy one or two more to finish the scarf.
Series of hats for hubby
Hat #1
Followed this build your own guide. Added an extra chevron single purl and columns.
This is a 120 stch hat.
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Hat #2
Generic measurements
I'm going to cast CO 100, rib 6 rows, then inc to 120 stch, stockinette for 3.3 inch, then dec with this previous dec.
This is a 120 stch hat.
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Hat #3
This is a 100 stch hat.
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Hat#4
There's so many strange old fashioned barely more than html old AF knitting pattern sites.
This simple hat pattern is apparenly an archived version of a tropicalyarns website which may have existed in the stone age. Don't get me wrong it's written like (very) old fashioned knitting articles in newspapers and magazines.
This is a 96 stch hat.
OUR Christmas Tree 2022
Finished!
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Cute little stormtrooper head
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Decided to go with evergreen PWN snow capped pine tree look
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Always the ugliest part. Early assembly.
Leaves way too concentrated but I just need to see square inches that I'd done so far. Going to probably tear apart and resew with plain panels later.
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You may or may not notice, but I have left the top of the top piece with a hole so that over the holidays we can choose to either change toppers or what not. I will have to make a super long panel (like over a foot and a half long) and make a base spine winding-y and then graft in the little branches I made. This is just going to be too packed/crowded.
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I guess I forgot to take pictures but the spine/wrap panel did end up bein almost 2 ft long. You can sort of see it now, how much it extended the height of the tree and made it less SQUASHED because I didn't have to sew the panels to each other. A main tree that I sewed panels onto instead.
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Apparently I also didn't take pictures of the stuffing. After stuffing, I had to "plug" the bottom. Stuffed it, then sewed the bottom flat avoiding the tree feet.
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After the tree itself was packed and good to go, I cut and sewed a circular panel (poked holes through and sewed ring/spacers around the feet holes) and then tuck the edges in.
Star! (Hubby's Job)
We went with a taeguk design!
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Little presents! With bows!
Sofi Nordic sweater for me
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New yarn bowl delivered!
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Observe my failure to k1 round in between pattern rounds.....%&!@
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Dec 17 at the same time I realized I had to convert the argyle sweater into a vest, I decided the pink work had sat for too long and the line probably settled/stretched out so it was the wrong gauge anyway and decided to do it over.
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Most of the way through 50g ball # 2 out of 16
Impromptu row marker
Remember to edit your charts with good ol microsoft paint kids
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Picked sofi nordic sweater and sirdar yarn for this year's sweater for me.
Argyle Sweater (Now Vest)
It shrank in the wash :(((((
But then it stretched out with proper treatment
But the arms are too skinny :(((((
I guess I have enough to try again.
I have 9 balls left and about a third of a hat completed and the first attempt completed.
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Little multicolor canoe. The finger ladders seem a little too intense for this kind of slim intarsia.
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Feed with spools! More long term wooden canoe in progress
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It was all for nothing. Realized my original CO was for a swester, not a vest. Had to start from ground up with separate front and back ugh. Using the gable vest stch measurements.
Cannibalized much of the old one but since it had full stockinette sides until armholes ran out of main color slack faster and had to stop canibalizing that one for now.
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Trial: decided to print an argyle template. Was tired of scribbles in my knitting notebook.
Especially with this kind of thing I like to fill out boxes rather than read a written pattern.
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Grey tails fed through to the bottom. It's kind of what I was thinking anyway but the work wasn't tall enough to really work.
Mis-decided on the gauge. I just went by number of stitches and that was not the right thing to do. 121 sts front and back, three large diamonds of 41 (19 per side). Probably should have narrowed the argyle panel but didn't want it to get weirdly skinny.
I am on maybe fourth juniper moon DK ball, maybe 2/3 of tan, and 1/3 of contrast sage green.
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Almost done with first row of diamonds
Hubby helped me cut a cardboard feeding panel/ladder. It was really hard to figure out a set up.
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I really had to think about shoulder construction. A set in sleeve would required decreasing over the pattern. A raglan would disrupt where the front and back meet. So then I realized I could do a pattern within the margins of the shoulder construction. It would make the argyle skinnier but solve the problem. Also depending on how you do it it looks MUCH less like a power ranger LOL
So I decided to go with a narrower than full body argyle with classic set in sleeve construction or whatever the hell
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I actually know how many balls I bought this time. I bought 16 DK Juniper Moon Findley. The first 50g ball was just exactly enough for the three inches of bottom rib.
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I measured and calculated for generic vest and then compared to Peter Easy and copied the google image as best as I cared to.
Hulk Trash
Update Dec 17 in the midst of christmas knitting/crochet, this is the best little bucket I have ever made. Do it. You won't regret it.
To collect the scraps that pile up like rats on my side table as I work
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"That's my secret....."
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"I'M ALWAYS ANGRY"
V-Neck Vest for Dad
Done!
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Cable V-Neck Pullover Pattern pattern from freevintageknitting.com.
Beginning in the round mistakes are so, so easy to correct and yes, the sooner the better. Don't get mad. Get glad.
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Tip#1 When you didn't cast on enough
I was short stitches. So I reknit the missing stitches (9 or something) with a different length, stuck them next to each other, and sew!
After a while, if you carefully examine the way the "ribs" of knitting cross horizontally, I sort of wedge the tail I am sewing to imitate the natural horizontal ribbing.
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Tip#2 They're wrong. Don't join the loop right away
Using the above method, nowadays, I rarely close the loop before moving on. Basically I never join first for anything I'm doing with a circular larger than 16" or on DPN that's got a really awkward amount (like hella small. Like 12 or 6). I knit as a flat piece, then to close the loop, I stick them next to each other and sewed those ends together, too!
When you DO join, just make sure all the stitches are either pointing out of the circle or towards the circle. It doesn't matter which way. They just have to not cross over each other. You can see in the picture below my preference of having the work pointing inwards, so the needle faces you and the work faces away.
After: Ends sewn together. Will weave in tails.
Before: Ends placed next to each other, long tails for sewing
Tip #3 Do not hesitate to rewrite patterns so that you can understand them.
This is the pattern as is, an absolute nightmare.
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This is the pattern as I rewrote it. Might still be a nightmare for anyone not me.
I could not imagine working this pattern while reading the original chart. Nobody does that. Nobody. At least not me.
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That Must Be Merino in Hobby Lobby's proprietary Yarn Bee line is actually pretty ok. Lighter, can't debate the wool-ness. Really will not felt well at all, but eh whatever. They usually have the 30% off on yarn.
I got the 7 skeins that were on the shelf. I somehow always time it to NOT get the 30% off.
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