Category Archives: Knit

Blackberry Slouch

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This is another order for a cabled Slouchy hat.

Sorry, you don’t get any pictures of me modeling it.

It’s too late at night to try to take pictures of myself…. maybe tomorrow.

Today Paul made us a delicious breakfast, then we ran errands all afternoon, I picked up some fabric for a very fun project (well, two projects) Paul wants me to make him an shirt like the one Jimmy Stewart wears in It’s A Wonderful Life, a highschool jersey.

So, who knows how it’ll turn out. I am not the best seamstress…. but I will be sure to post my progress on it.

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! Stay warm out there!

Blue Ruffles

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I whipped up another Ruffled Hat.

Modeled, of course, by my coffee canister.

I’m pretty fond of these little flowery, ruffled hats.

Intarsia

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My latest project.

Trying my hand at intarsia knitting. Not as hard as I thought, but it is taking a lot of time. It’s going to be the most labor intensive scarf I’ll ever make, I bet. This is the chart I am working off of.

It’s that OBEY stuff you see around. I dunno. I only vaguely knew about it before I was commissioned to make this piece. I had to look it up on Wikipedia to get the back story on it. But the face is of Andre the Giant, and, well, we all know that I love The Princess Bride, so I was only too happy to oblige.

Heather Grey Slouch

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I finished my Grey Slouch.

It’s a custom order for a friend I used to work with back in Tacoma.

Uh, don’t mind the messy couch….

Also, be sure to check back as I’ll be posting a new page (Up at the top, where it says Pattern links and stuff like that for a Prices Page, and I’ll be posting all of my prices for my orders so you won’t have to email me if you just want to know a price!

Persimmon Slouch

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I made this Persimmon Slouch for my Aunt Diana

I really wanted to keep it. I was super impressed with how this one turned out.

The color is fantastic! I used Cascade 220 in color Persimmon. I just love using Cascade Yarns. They’re pretty much my favorite!


Let me know if you want one. Email me at lexikaye@gmail.com or leave a comment and I will write you back and let you know about prices and shipping and all that good stuff.

Ruffled Pink Hat

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Ok. So while here I was complaining that the pink ruffled hat was hard, turns out it was easy. Also turns out I knit the whole thing, start to finish in under 2 hours (that’s including making the little flowers for the side.) So yeah. I’ll be making more of these.

Once again, my lovely canister making it’s appearance as a baby-head model.

I’m not a huge fan of the sort-of pointy top, however. I think next time I’ll do more rapid decreases than the pattern called for, to make it a bit more rounded. But other than that, it was a nice pattern. I enjoyed learning how to make a ruffled edge!

Also, I’ll probably make it in a smaller gauge next time, I’m not a huge fan of really big stitches, I prefer them smaller and tighter, but, the smaller the stitch the longer it takes to knit it, so, well, there you have it.

My house smells like cookies… I’m not complaining.

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Ahh, my house is clean. Seriously, is there anything better than a clean house? (Except maybe a clean house with lots of fresh baked cookies?)


Made another (huge) batch of cookies for Paul to take to work, cleaned the house, finished Christmas shopping, all of the presents are wrapped, I am (mostly) packed, the dishes are done, now I’m just trying to decide which knitting projects to take with me on the trip. (This is difficult. Last time I traveled I took no less than 8 projects with me, and had time to work on ONE. Waste of precious suitcase space) but I am planning on a lot of downtime on this trip, so maybe 3 projects and a book? I can always go to the yarn store and buy more yarn if I am dying for a project.

Also, trying to learn how to knit ruffles… I am not impressed so far, seems like ruffles would be easier. Also, I love ruffles, why has it taken me so long to try them? Anyhow, this will be a ruffled baby hat, and I need to learn to knit a flower to go on the side. Why have I never knit a flower before? Huh.

Blogging might be light during the trip, due to the fact that it’s Christmas, and who blogs during Christmas anyway? I am hoping to keep up with my December Photo Project, I am pretty proud of myself that I haven’t missed a day yet! And we’re already on day 22, so I can do another 3, right? Or! I could take 3 more pictures today and then set to Auto-Post and just call it good. Is that cheating?

Well, off to make dinner and pack away all of the Christmas presents.

Merry Christmas!

Diagonali!

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So we have a winner, it’s now named Diagonali. My Aunt Cynthia came up with the name, so I’ll get a little present to her.

This is my father-in-law wearing his new Diagonali Scarf!

So here is the Diagonali Scarf  pattern:
Two skeins Cascade 220 color Slate
Size 6 knitting needles

Cast on 20 stitches
Row 1: *K2,P2* Rep to end of row
Row 2: *P2, K2* Rep to end of row
Every 4 rows move your stitches over 1 stitch,
So at the beginning of the 5th row P1, K2, P2, and repeating until the end of the row.
Repeating this until your scarf is as long as you want it (Mine was about 6 ft long) and bind off!