I finished this little one last night. I almost did not get it finished b/c my youngest decided he wanted to make some things out of clay. I will have to take some pictures of his creations. It is so...
This is the first sweater I ever attempted to knit. The pattern came from Debbie Bliss’ Baby Knits for Beginners. I decided to knit a baby sweater because I wanted to learn the basic construction of a sweater and not start off with an adult size.
This was so easy to knit and took about three [...]
Pale green knitted jacket. Jacket has 3/4 length wide sleeves, belted detail at the back of the waist and two side pockets which fasten with a button. Jacket fastens at the front with three buttons....
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You’ve got to admit, kids get some awesome stuff. From toys to fashion it’s hard not to fall in love with the cute things that are available to kids. Take these knitted cotton backpacks from Blabla in Atlanta, Georgia for example. Not only are they hideously cute, but their fun and fashionable too!
These backpacks are [...]
I was so taken by this knitted kitty from Knitting Daily (you'll have to subscribe to their newsletter to get the free pattern), I decided to knit one for Adam. We used some King Tut Egyptian cotton yarn in Lilac, and Adam picked the Lion Brand Microspun in Lime, his favorite color.The cat's body is much smaller than I had imagined, the head and body section looked like a small sock before stuffing it. I had a tough time seaming the body together neatly with the cotton yarn so I changed to knitting most of the limbs in the round (don't forget to reduce one stitch). Of course I got rid of some more of Dova's hair ties while stuffing it. And the simple instruction to embroider the face was not so simple at all! I had to snake the embroidery yarn in from the back, through the tight neck, out onto the face and then back down through the neck and out the back again. For the ears, I used long vertical stitches and then weaved the yarn horizontally through them. For the eyes, I had
A while back I posted a picture of Dova and Mr. Stegs for the Photo Hunters Plastic theme, but did not elaborate on it. The pattern is from Xtreme-Knitting and the acrylic yarn is from late cousin Ruth. The only modifications to the pattern were to knit the spines and pads for his feet in a contrasting color and to leave out the four spikes on his tail (this dino doesn't need to thrash his prey for dinner). This was my first knitted animal and I had a fun time stuffing it. At first I used some loose fiberfill, but then I realized that all sorts of other (free) things would work as well. I unraveled a bunch of gauge swatches which became nice and fluffy from the yarn being all kinked up. Then I utilized some fluffy hair ties that Dova no longer wears. I didn't bother to find something sentimental to put inside, as it is sentimental enough being a toy that I knitted with love (Doug says I'm the least sentimental woman he knows). After this, I made a knitted kitty for Adam so th
Another Christmas project, these slippers were knitted from a Fiber Trends pattern. Knitted and fulled projects are by far my preferred knitted projects. (How's that for redundancy?) I am not one to sit, nightly, knitting the same project for a year. -- I am all about instant gratification, with an element of surprise added. Fulling provides both, since I knit double-strand with large
22 years old art student Lauren Porter knitted a life-size Ferrari. Mainly modelled on an F355, it took her 10 months and 12 miles of yarn to put the Ferrari together.Lauren got friends and family to help knit approximately 240 red woollen squares that she then assembled and strapped over a metal frame in the shape of the car.She hasn't been able to find a buyer yet but managed to get the attention of gallery owner Sarah Myerscough who promptly agreed to show the Ferrari at her gallery.Lauren may want to take a break from knitting, but has already been commissioned to knit a Christmas Tree complete with presents and fireplace.More related: Ferrari - Vandenbrink 599 GTO Video Is RevealedFerrari - Ferrari 430 Scuderia Promotional VideoAmazing Hammer SkillsCheering Team Shows Their Human LCDBaby Genius Know World MapLamborghini - Lamborghini Reventon Frankfurt VideoLamborghini Spiga ConceptMiniature Knit OutfitsMini CakesLaundry Detergent PaintingsMercedes Pen Art CarGumball Hummer
Welcome to the third week of the Winter Bazaar. If you've missed the last two weeks there are great holiday ideas in the first and second week's editions that you can still visit and enjoy. And don't forget that each time you leave a link between October 3rd and October 24th you'll be entered to win one of two children's Halloween costumes: either a stinkbug or a green tyrannosaurus rex, size 6 approximately. Don't forget to link back to this page here at Scribbit so that people know where to find the other blogs' ideas.***Even if you're not a big knitter, these little guys are so cute, so fun and go together so quickly you can't help but give it a try!Here's the pattern I came up with:Using black worsted-weight acrylic yarn and U.S. size 6 double pointed needles, cast on 12 stitches. Knit the first row while spreading the 12 stitches out across three needles, 4 on each needle. Knit each row in the round until you have a tube that's approximately 3 inches long.Pull out t
The oddly named Spyderbaby has posted a great pattern for a knitted soft toy monkey to the craftster forum pages. The monkey toy has a rag-doll style to it and I have a feeling that this would be the soft toy that the children would prefer over all of the expensive ones that you might buy for them!
Monkey
This project is ideal if you have some old knitware that you do not want to part with but you are finding to be too plain to wear. Why not liven it up with some knitted roses? Maize Hutton has provided the pattern and instructions to create these lovely little flowers that can be attached to clothes or made into accessories such as brooches.
The author of the pattern states that this is the
This is my second attempt at using that wavy exponential knitting and again I tried to do it in the round. Started as 24 stitches on dpns, and then it got big enough to put on a circular needle (see Doug). This time I crocheted the fun fur on while it was on the circular needle which was much easier. Did 3 rows of increases and cast off purl wise, which stopped it from curling in on itself, but made the edge too thick. It was still way to hard to knit in the round and the initial stitches got stretched WAAAY out (bracelet was meant for one hand not two!). Next time, I will knit it straight and join later if I want something round.
The holiday season is here and all the excitement that comes with it: The parties! The shopping! The buffets! It's all over so quickly, but there's one thing I can count on to be with me even after the season has ended, something that will remind me of the holidays long after the tree has been unceremoniously thrown to the curb and the last piece of gingerbread has been inhaled.I'm talking of course, about all those bad Christmas gifts.It's not that I'm ungrateful - I'm definitely from the 'It's The Thought That Counts' camp when it comes to gifts. It's just that I can't help but feel bad for the tree that had to die in order to make those wooden boxes adorned with cat portraits that I got one year, or the underage Thai children that worked at a knitting machine for hours to turn out that beaded, sequined, mauve vest a friend gave me.So I thought as a service to anyone in the midst of their shopping this year I would put together a gift guide, something to help you figure
