Baby sweaters, made of remnants I found cleaning out a closet.
Up first,
Yarn: Lion Brand Homespun in colorway Modern
Needles: US 10 (6mm)
Pattern: Lion Brand's Baby Bear Hooded Jacket
Mods: turned the pattern upside down to knit it from the collar down, knit the sleeves in the round, knit the body in one piece after the sleeve divide, picked up the collar stitches and knit the hood, finishing with a 3-needle bind-off. I will go WAY out of my way to avoid sewing seams on Homespun.
I learned: that if you have the weight of a full skein in small remnant balls, you really can knit something that calls for a single skein. You just have to be willing to tuck in a lot of ends.
I knit a 2-inch 2-stitch I-cord that I will machine stitch to one side, just as soon as I find the 1-inch blue button I've seen around here somewhere.
Up next,
Yarn: Red Heart Baby Fingering in Pink (discontinued), 35 g of a 50 g skein
Needles: US 4 (3.5mm), US 6 (4mm)
Pattern: bébé tricote's mon petit bébé
Mods: none. I had fun translating the pattern from French.
I learned: a brand-new cast-on and bind-off! Also that pressing wet acrylic in the folds of a towel with a heavy object totally works on edge curl - no heat involved.
I may or may not have 3 pink buttons around the right size. Oh, and I had enough pink yet (and plenty of white, stay tuned) for matching baby bootees in my go-to bootee pattern (which is getting old on the Internet Archive, so I have squirreled away my own copy of it).
I wanted a soft cast-on against the baby's neck, since I was starting with ancient acrylic. I discovered the Chinese Waitress Cast-on, and after trying the instructions found on 3 different websites, this one clicked for me: Chinese waitress cast-on. Then it turns out someone went to the trouble to work out the matching bind-off. Really truly matching, you can't tell them apart unless I tell you. Completely reversible (I turned the cast-on on the needle so you can see both sides), stretchy, and pretty as all get out. They're my new favorites, can you tell? Also a complete brain work out, there's no denying. Each stitch of the cast-on is three distinct steps, and I count them every time.
2 comments:
You need to find something in the internet, you say?
Like a button store?
That lets you buy by the button? http://www.lotsofbuttons.com/en/
Or has a superior filter function? https://shop.buttons.com/Default.asp
Huh. I wonder if you know anyone who can find things on the internet...
Funny how I can't tell if the comment was your son, your husband, or your brother. Scratch that, not snarky enough for our brother, and he signs his work. ;-)
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