Monthly Archives: November 2010

Lemon Curd Slouch

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This is the Lemon Curd Slouch Hat!

I pulled it out a bit in the back so you can see all the cable detailing. Cabling while decreasing is more complicated than it seems it would be.

Big thanks to Paul for being a good photographer. It’s so hard to take pictures of a hat on yourself.

I’ll  write down the pattern I made up for this hat. For some reason with every pattern I tried on this hat I couldn’t get it to be quite right, but I’m happy with this one!

Pattern:

1 skein Knit Picks, City Tweed HW in Lemon Curd

6.0mm DPN’s

Cast on 80 stitches

Row 1: K1 P1* rep to end
Rows 2-9: same as row 1
Row 10: Knit all the way around, while evenly increasing to 117 stitches (I did K2 M1 until the last 6 stitches and just knit the last 6 of this row)
Row 11-16: Knit 6, purl 3 *rep to end
Row 17: Pull 3 stitches onto cable needle then pull to front, knit 3, then knit the stitches on cable needle, purl 3*rep to end
Repeat rows 11-17 five times
Decrease Row 1: K6, P2T, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 2: K6, P2T,* rep to end
Decrease row 3: K2T, K4,P1 *Rep to end
Decrease row 4: K3, K2T, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 5: K2T, K 2, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 6: K1, K2T, P1 *Rep to end
Cut yarn, leaving a long tail (several inches long), pull tail through all remaining stitches, pull tight, weave in ends.

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P.S. All of you who are wondering where the pattern from the mittens came from, THIS IS THE LINK TO THE MITTENS, unfortunately it’s not my pattern (I only say unfortunately because it’s a gorgeous pattern and I think the writer did a phenomenal job on these mittens, they’re absolutely beautiful!) and also I get asked about once a day where this pattern came from, so CLICK ON THIS LINK and it’ll take you to Subliminal Rabbit’s blog where she has graciously offered the pattern for free!

Apple Pie Pops

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I made some apple pie pops! They were insanely delicious.

(butter, lots of butter)

(lots of apples)

(Cinnamon deliciousness)

(halfway done)

(just before baking)

(Paul did the little pie-pop display)

The perfect 2 bite dessert.

(Apple Pie Pops, finished)

A few things…

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First! It was such a beautiful day here in Moscow.


(taken from my front porch about 7:30 this morning)

Second! My cactus is in full bloom! I am so excited about this, guys.

Third! I am attempting to redo that fail of a hat I made yesterday. Hm. Well, I’ll let ya’ll know how this one turns out.

 

White Lemon Grass

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Made another Lemon Grass hat for a Christmas order. The yarn I picked up was slightly bulkier than the green one, but I just did it on smaller needles and it turned out the right size.

It’s pretty slouchy!

Ok. Off to work! (less than a week and a half left! Oh my goodness!!)

Sometimes I fail.

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Major fail today in the knitting department. Good gravy, people, this is why you gauge! I am the queen of not gauging and hoping it all turns out well (Ok, so it’s worked on 3 sweaters for me so far, so I thought I had a good eye.. guess again.)

So, this is supposed to be a slouchy beret. But no. It turned into a skin tight beanie. An ugly one at that.

And lest you think it’s remotely slouchy in the back, I show you this.

Le sigh. Arg. So, I MAY have learned my lesson about gauge. But probably not. I rarely learn my lesson from failed knitting projects. I’ve already frogged the whole thing and cast on for another, hopefully, slouchy hat.