Category Archives: Knit

Cute Little Boy in his Sweater

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Wow. I don’t usually leave the blog completely unattended for a week! I hope I still have some readers left after my long vacation! I will be sharing more pictures throughout the week, but I wanted to show you this little cutie, who belongs to my bestie Autumn, wearing the hoodie I made for him before he was born.

Now, it’s still a little big for him, but that’s ok, so it’ll fit him all the way through the fall and the winter.

Isn’t he just the cutest EVER? I just want to squeeze him and eat him up! And he’s a happy little thing, too. Oh, I can’t wait to have my own little boy to dress up in handknits! Six more weeks!

In Which I Have Trouble Going Back and Forth.

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So I’m in the middle of working on two separate projects, and the gauge difference is kind of hard to overcome. I’ve never worked on two things simultaneously that have been so difficult to switch back and forth. I think I just need to finish one and then pick the other one back up.

And in case you’re wondering- the top (blue) project is a knitted tie. I know, I know. It’s a commissioned project, but I think it’s really going to turn out really awesome. It’s knit on size 1 needles (SIZE ONE, PEOPLE! That’s TINY!) on lace weight yarn, making it the smallest yarn and needles I’ve ever worked with before.  The bottom project (green) is a baby-bag that I am making for Togglebuttons. It’s sort of a swaddling blanket. Who knows if it’ll be the right size for him, but I’ve got a ton of this green yarn to use up so I am gunna make one. It’s knit on size 10.5’s with super bulky yarn (In other words, it took me about 1 hour to knit a square that’s about 16x16inches.) It’s really hard to adjust my hands between the two projects, so I think when we leave town tonight I am just going to leave one of them behind!

Well, we’ll be at our Family Reunion for the next week, so posting might be light (or non-existent, we’ll see!) Hope you all have a grand weekend!

Monkey!

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Definitely still on a toy-making kick. I’ve got all these ideas floating around my head for more animal friends that I want to make, now.


I gave this little monkey a t-shirt because I didn’t quite have enough brown yarn to finish him off.


But I think the shirt turned out kinda cute.


Anybody got any name suggestions for this little guy? (I am going with Cornelius for the Elephant, thanks Rik!)


Oh man, I just LOVE making things for my OWN baby. It’s so exciting. I mean, I love making things to give away to people as well, and I love making commissioned items, but there is something so great about making something for your own little baby. Now just 7 1/2 (Give or take a few weeks) more weeks until we get to meet.

Elephant!

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I made an elephant this weekend. And I really-really-really like this one.

And this one I am keeping for my own baby.


I based it on the Jessikin’s Elephant Pattern, but made a few big changes. Mostly I just wanted him to be bigger, and I didn’t like her skinny little legs, so I made some more substantial ones.

I am pretty pleased with him.

And now I am on a toy making kick. I’ve already cast on for another fun little friend for my Togglebuttons.

What should I name the elephant? I couldn’t come up with a good name- so you should all help out and suggest cute names for this little boy elephant.

Bear Hat

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So I made a little hat for Togglebuttons. It’s a bear hat. I think it’s pretty cute.

Paul suggested that I add cream or light pink on the inside of the ears to make it a little more ‘bear’ like. What do you think? Add that or leave it as-is?

And, as always, my canister does a great job modeling the hat! (Goodness, I can’t wait until I have a real baby to model these things on!)

Togglebuttons Cabled Jacket: Finito!

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Ok, so that’s a bit of a lie. I haven’t sewn on buttons yet, because I need some input from you guys on that. BUT! Without further ado, here it is!

Turned out alright, yeah?

See my favoritest part? Where the cable goes ALL around the hood? I LOVE that part.

The back! I almost wish I had done the two middle cables going up the back of the hood, but it’s too late for that and I am definitely not taking it back out again.

Closeup of the back cables.

Ok- so where is where I need your help! What kind of buttons would you guys put on this? I am thinking wooden ones, since I think it might be hard to match the orangy/rusty color of the sweater. OR, would you go for a contrasting color? If so, what color? I think the only thing I KNOW I don’t want is black, that would make it sort of Halloween-y, which I definitely want to avoid. What do you think?

Togglebuttons Cabled Jacket

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I’ve finished the two front panels and the back of Togglebuttons Cabled Jacket. I really have got to come up with a better name than that, though.

Don’t mind all of the ends that need to be woven in…

All I need to do now is make the hood and the sleeves and it’ll be completed! It’ll look better once it’s blocked, cables have a way of looking kind of wonky until they’re blocked.

The whole thing turned out tinier than I thought it would, so I guess it’s more of a 0-3 month size, so I am hoping that my baby doesn’t come out completely huge and not fit this at all, because then I would be very sad, and I think I am too attached to this one to give it away!

Update: Oh MAN! As soon as I posted these pictures I noticed a big oopsie in my cabling! I had to rip it out and now I’m in the process of reknitting that part. Luckily it was near the top!

that circled cable there should be an UNDER not an OVER. But at least I caught it before I added the hood, it would have been a LOT harder to fix afterwards!

Baby Boy Blue Hat

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I had little scraps of leftover yarn from the baby blanket I was making for Togglebuttons and decided to make a little striped hat for him.

I just hope my kid doesn’t have a huge head, because this hat isn’t that large.

I’d like it to be his ‘coming-home-from-the-hospital’ hat.

That whole hospital thing is starting to get pretty close… and I’m starting to get a little nervous. I know it doesn’t do me any good to be nervous, I’ve been through tougher things than childbirth, but even so, I’d definitely be lying if I said I wasn’t a little scared. Also it probably doesn’t help that I’ve read some scary birth stories lately.. I should probably just stay off the internet until the baby is born… I’d probably get a lot more knitting done that way!

Cabled Baby Jacket for Togglebuttons

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Since I finished my Butternut Aidez I’ve been wanting another somewhat challenging project. I know now that I am not going to be satisfied by just making plain knits- oh, no- now it’s going to be all about the fancy stitches and cables. So naturally I went looking for another ridiculous and challenging project. Remember my Birthday Yarn post? Well, I had three skeins of the Cascade 220 Sport in Pumpkin and I thought this would just be a perfect use for it.

I am making this jacket (Picture property of Ravelry.com)

Buuut, of course I am making my own changes and things to it. First off I am knitting it in the round, because you all know seaming is my least favorite thing in the whole wide world.

So, you wanna see what I have done so far?

It’s a lovely pattern called so beautifully “B17-2.” Yeah, whoever works at Drops really isn’t so creative with the title of the names.


Despite their creative abilities at naming, they are still a great pattern writers and it’s coming along nicely.


Here is the pattern link if anyone wants it!

Blue Booties!

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So, I went to a baby shower last night, and I whipped up some little blue baby booties and a hat for the little dude.

This was a super confusing pattern. OH my word.

But I eventually figured it out, with enough time to whip up a matching hat, to boot!

And in other good news, my car is fixed(ish)! The door latch is still broken, and has been for 2 years, (You can only open it from the inside, and only when the window is rolled down, yes, it’s a pain in the rear, but no one in Moscow carries parts to my car and it would be several hundred dollars just for the parts and we’ve put up with it for so long anyway that it doesn’t really bother us that much anymore) but we now have a functioning window! The poor guy at the window replacement place told me it would only take a hour… so I waited for an hour. Then another hour, then another hour… then I went back in there to see what was going on and it was obvious that the guy was having a rough time with my door. Apparently my silly German car makes even simple little things extremely complicated. But the guy was nice and didn’t charge anything extra for two extra hours of labor, even though it took him 3x longer than he had told us. But huzzah, we have a window!

So, I probably won’t be checking in on the ol’ blog much this weekend because we have our second anniversary on Sunday! So we will be out celebrating!