This is a great little project to use up leftover sock yarn. I finished it in just one evening. I blocked it over a small bottle of glue to shape the bottom of the bag. I think it really improved the overall shape of the pouch. These would be great to put little gifts in or good luck charms.

Details:

Pattern - Amulet Pouch by Maggie Luongo
Yarn - Knitpicks Sock Garden in Daffodil (discontinued)
Needles - US 1 Nickel plated DPNs from the Knitpicks sock DPNs set

A video and lots of pictures from The Butterfly Palace in Branson, MO.



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This was a really quick knit and uses very little yarn. I used some of the kool-aid dyed yarn I posted about before.

I like to wear my hair up, but I also have to be really good about keeping my ears covered because I get earaches in the wintertime. I have a fleece headband I wear a lot, but I thought this would be a fun pattern to try and a good use for the yarn I dyed.



Details:

Pattern - Calorimetry by Kathryn Schoendorf
Yarn - Knitpicks Wool of the Andes in "Cloud" overdyed with kool-aid
Needles - size 7 Knitpicks Options circular, used to knit flat

Notes:

I modified the pattern by casting on 108 stitches and doing 10 repeats of row 5. I read that a lot of people had this turn out rather large when knit exactly as written. I skipped doing a gauge swatch, but thankfully it turned out great!

I was digging around for a button and came across this clear hair barette and used it to snap the two ends together. It looks cute and I can skip sewing on a button.

Labels: calorimetry, dyeing, knitting, kool-aid

My first finished socks! I had issues with the first sock I began in a different pattern and different yarn (no fault to the pattern, though), so I ripped and started fresh with new yarn and a new pattern. In the process of knitting those 2 and a half socks, I have become thoroughly addicted to sock knitting.



I think variegated yarns are really fun since they create their own interesting patterns based on the gauge. The yarn pooled into wide spirals in this case, and I like it just fine since it came out similarly on both socks.

Details:

Pattern - "Not Pedestrian" Ped Pattern by Stitchnsnitch
Yarn - Knitpicks Sock Garden in "Daffodil" (discontinued)
Needles - size 2 bamboo needles, non-brand bought from ebay

Notes:

I rounded off the toes a teensy bit faster than the pattern said to (6 repeats of the 2 rows and then 5 more decrease rows instead of 4). There's a bit of a mistake on the heel of one...I came up with the wrong number of stitches after the heel turn and just knitted another two rows to decrease to the right number of stitches....I really didn't want to rip back and figure out what I'd done wrong, but the result is that one of the heels is a bit bunchy. I had some nice folks help me figure out what I did wrong when the same thing happened to the second sock.

Labels: FOs, knitting, socks