One day hat

October 23, 2010 / shellssells / 1 Comment

I decided with all those 7 hats coming in for me, I should probably make Bug a hat too. I had some malabrigo chunky sitting in my stash begging to be used, so I decided to find a pattern to fit it. I found a lovely twisted stitch hat for children and knit the hat in a 24 hour period. I don’t love knitting hats, but this one was rather satisfying. I have some more chunky yarn in my stash and I think this would be a great pattern for knitting charity hats for the Hats off to Gaza group. The pattern is Chunky Dean Street Hat.

ALL THE HATS

October 22, 2010 / shellssells / 1 Comment

Those of you who have me on facebook know that I’ve been on a mad chase for beret style hats this year. But I don’t actually like to knit hats. I jokingly posted on facebook that I needed to find myself someone to trade knitting with, because I wanted to own “ALL THE HATS.” It was a joke. Seriously. I never imagined it would produce 40 comments and 3 wonderful trades. And a total of 7 hats. Amazing!

The first of “ALL THE HATS” has arrived. This one was knit by my friend Minnie, or dragonknitter. She will be receiving 2 pairs of socks in return for 4 hats. Isn’t that awesome? I could keep going, but I don’t want to exhaust the poor gal.

The first hat is “Brambles” from knitty.com. It was knit in cascade 220 in a light pink color that I used for Bug’s log cabin blanket. I had a lot left over. I will be kettle dyeing the other two skeins so that I don’t end up with 3 light pink hats, because that would just be a little insane.

Isn’t that some pretty knitting?

The year of handspun scarves

October 18, 2010 / shellssells / 2 Comments

It seems all I want to do lately is knit small shawlettes. And out of handspun. I happened upon the traveling woman pattern, and decided to bring out some handspun for it. I used a 3 ply almost sportweight yarn that Carin from Round the Twist spun for me for a trade. I was a bit worried about the yarn amounts, but I had plenty left over!

Now that this is done, I keep wanting to cast on an adult sized citron in handspun!

Completion

October 14, 2010 / shellssells / Leave a comment

This week I completed something that I finish only once every two years. Another successful conference has drawn to a close and I am absolutely exhausted. During the conference this year I knit a pair of socks. I know, you should be surprised! I’ve been uninspired about socks for quite some time, but these will be in trade for some hats. And if there is one thing I am less inspired to knit than socks, it would indeed be hats. Plus, knitting socks gives me something that is about as mindless as it can be while running a conference.

I really have nothing else to say for now, my exhaustion is absolutely overwhelming. I am sure I’ll find something new and more interesting to knit soon!

All used up…

October 5, 2010 / shellssells / Leave a comment

Miss Bug got her first sunburst coat last year. She wore it and wore it and wore it right out. It is too small in a very big way, has all sorts of snags and rips, and is just generally well used looking. Yet she insists on wearing that coat to school every single day.

So I thought that it would be perhaps wise to make her a new one, and another size up. Unfortunately, I’ve knit the sunburst pattern stitch enough this year to know I wasn’t willing to do it again yet. So instead I decided to substitute the gull lace pattern for the body of the sweater. I used a yarn which I had left over, though I did have to purchase additional skeins. I only had about 25 yards left so that worked out well.

The old coat: