Scrunchies

The Goldy twins received scrunchies for Christmas that have been knitted.  They are very cute and I thought I might make a few.  They came from American Eagle....so it might be just as easy to purchase.  They are knitted as a tube with a hair rubber band inside and then seamed.  Actually I am thinking that the hair band needs to be inside from the very beginning....The gauge is 6 stitches to the inch knit loosely.  

You can see the seam if you look carefully at the white scrunchie.  The length is  and the tube is approximately 3 inches in diameter.  But that measurement would not be crucial.  Here is a photo that shows the seam better:

The tube measures 18 inches in length.  I had Kya stretch the scrunchie out as far as it would go and it measured 9 inches so the entire tube would be double that.

 

Knitting for Katie 1981

 While going through old albums looking for Christmas photos for the 2020 zoom Christmas parties, I found a couple of photos of Katie in her handknitted (by me) bunting.

And another with Katie in Jack's arms:

When Katie began walking I cut off the bottom and added ribbing so it was a sweater.  I still have the sweater in the playroom over the garage.

Jason and Mary's sweaters Dec 1976

I am working on photos for a slideshow for our zoom parties this Christmas.  And found this photo of Jason and Mar4y in the Matching sweaters that I made for them.  In December 1976 Jason would have been four and Mary would have been 2 and a half.  We were living on the farm in lavalette.  This property is now a part of Creekside golf course.  

Multiplicity by BarbAnn Pappas

So I gave up for now on the Allie Shawl....just too hard to get started for a Christmas knit.  Not only that I am not sure I don't want more contrast on my mosaic part...like black and white. So today I started Multiplicity by BarbAnn Pappas.  Inspire of the fact that the instructions look a bit hard, BarbAnn has gone to a lot of trouble to make everything very clear!  So I watched the Purl SoHo knitting version of how to do the double stitch and I am moving right along.

I am using the needle called for in the pattern:  size 8.  And the yarn is:

Three Irish Girls Binge Knit bought at Stevenbe in color Paddy's Pub which is an olive Green.  And uneek fingering by Urth in a variegated purple/blue/yellow hue. They look very good together and the green mohair makes the variegated yarn pop or the other way round?  So far I like it a lot!

The big needles make it go very fast.  

Allie Shawl by Jennifer Wood

 I am still working on my oink cowl, but it always makes me kind of nervous to not have any other project in the works.  What if I finish?  What if I get to a place where there is a mistake and I have to think?  The oink is fairly mindless this stage....but you just never know how long it will take to get something else started.  And indeed this project has been a bit slow to get going.  I have ripped out and restarted all week and still have only about 4 rows done.  I have also changed colors....and changed needles.  The yarn is a bit splitty and I changed to some sharper points. 

The pattern begins with a mosaic section and I decided that the white variegated yarn I had chosen to be color A was not a clear enough contrast to the other color in the mosaic...so I am doing the mosaic in the blue and the purple.  I am not sure how that will affect the rest of the pattern.

The yarn is Hedgehog fibers sock yarn in colors Bali, Deja Vu and Spell

And I am knitting on size 3 needles.  It is moving slow at the beginning.  Hopefully I'll report that it moves better when I finish the mosaic section.

Ok I give up ....I have started over too many times.  I need to start this sometime that is NOT December!  I first used the blue and white for the mosaic.  Then I switched because the white has flecks in it that match the purple and the blue too well.  So the Mosaic was not crisp enough to suit me.  Then I switched to the purple and blue for the mosaic, but I believe that I would prefer something a bit more crisp suchas the below:

  And I am having a terrible time with finding that when I pick the knitting back up, I can't make the next row work.  Perhaps I'll change colors?  Here is another color way that I like:

Scrap projects

 At the November Vogue Knitting live, one of the vendors showed a very pretty scarf/cowl that she made out of small amounts of colors.  I can not remember which vendor nor can I remember if I took a photo.  I'll try to update this blog post later.  But I didn't want to loose the thought.  

The Vendor actually sells bags of yarn that are random and many colored.  And she suggests that one purchase a neutral color of yarn that goes well with the bag of yarns.  Her version used grey as the neutral color.  

One knits with a color and counts the rows....then one knits with the grey the same number of rows.  It was very pretty.  I think perhaps she did a tube?

Halloween Cowl in Oink

I had bought yarn at Rebelle in Lexington on my way back from a genealogy conference in Frankfort....not sure when I bought it.  But it was serendipity that the woman who dyes Oink yarns was having a trunk show when I arrived at the shop.  And I chose this particular yarn and asked her if she had ideas for it.  She not only had ideas, but she had made a cowl from exactly this yarn and I had admired the cowl on my way in.  So it was meant to be....of course, I had to buy the yarn!

The pattern I am using is Citroen by Helena Bristow.  It is a fun knit and I like the way that it is turning out....however, it is not surprising that Halloween has come and gone and I have not yet finished it!  I have filed the pattern in the kitchen file in cowls and scarfs.

I finished the project winter 2021.