AngiPants Design

My sister is currently in Woodstock, IL. She wrote me recently begging for another hat like the red one I had knit for her last winter. She wants white. Since Habitat by Jared Flood worked out so well for her last time, I decided to do that one up again. Meet Hibernate. Done with 1 skein of Cascade Yarns Venezia Worsted it is soft and cozy and yummy.

Sweater for Sara, Knitty Summer 09 - Annette.
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Double knit in the round.

Reverse side.
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Sweater for Quickyn. Done and on it's way to hopefully arrive in time for her party tomorrow.

  

Sold my first pattern on Ravelry today. I am officially a designer! Whoot-whoot! *Does happy chair dance*
Check it: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/princess-sara-mitts

whoot-whoot!

Finally jumped on the Butterfly band-wagon. My Uncle's wedding was on October 19th, so October 1st I decided I wanted to wear Butterfly. I ordered Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud in Stream, some Knit Pick interchangeable needles (love how pointy the tips are) and navy blue beads. I got a size 10 bead, and ended up having to make my own bead hook out of 26 gauge wire. I choose to slip the bead on where I wanted it instead of stringing them on to begin with. As I am to OCD to allow the beads to 'randomly' appear on the dress, I instead opted to add a bead to the center of each 'diamond'. I also added a bead to each knit stitch in the top hem ruffle. It added quite a bit of weight to the dress, which is what I wanted.



I also bought a slip pattern and fabric a shade lighter than the yarn to wear underneath. I was going to have the two separate, but once again OCD kicked in and I didn't like the difference in necklines. I ended up whip stitching Butterfly to the slip's neckline. This also enabled me to use the slip's straps and saved me from knitting straps only hours before the wedding. (I finished at 11:30 the night before the wedding!)



I knitted in the round instead of seaming the sides. I did make some cap sleeves for it, but was told it made the dress look too granny instead of old-fashion. I knit 10 inches of the hem and added a short-row cap to the top to rest on the edge of my shoulder. I may still put the sleeves back on. I will have to think on this longer.

I finally finished Thermal from Knitty.



Yarn: Knit Picks Gloss in Cocoa; 70% Merino Wool, 30% Silk.
Needles: 3mm Double Point and 3mm Circular (both Knit Picks)
Notes: I love this sweater!! I love the yarn as it is warm minus the itch. Some mods I did was to add some short-row shaping the the sleeve cap as I have point shoulders. I also added a button to the collar band instead of only the two the pattern called for. I love my buttons!

Instead of knitting the button band and then stitching the sides to the sweater, I slipped a stitch from the button band through the edge of the sweater as I knit up. I hate seaming, so if I can attach while knitting with not much extra work, I will.

Still knitting away on that big blue sweater. It takes about 8 minutes a row, and each row adds about 1/8" in length. So, it is going to take a while. I would like to focus exclusively on this project, but the repetitiveness of it takes it's toll.

As a break, I continue to work on the Blue Crochet Motif top. I have completed 18 of the 30 motifs needed, if I decide to do the sleeveless version. If I want sleeves, I figure another 16 to 20.

I also started on making some gloves for a son of a friend. Pictures to come of that.

I also got back into chainmaile. I spent all day Sunday hunched over my 1/4" and 3/8" dowels wrapping 14g galvanized steel wire. After I have wrapped 8" (or until my blisters become to painful to continue wrapping), I then get out my Dremel and start cutting apart all the individual rings. I decided to do a Byzantine Weave with 3 center links. Similar to this picture:

I now have about 14" woven or knitted. I am planning on making a 24" wallet chain to attach to a leather wallet I got for free from the Love Ride I went on back in November.

As word of my crafty-ness has spread around work, I get more and more co-workers asking for fixes or "mimics" as I call them. They will see something they like somewhere and ask me to make it for them (or something like it for them) as they assume it will be a lot less.

I do enjoy this as I never quite know what project I will get when I agree to make something for them. I love the research going into the construction, the stitch type, the guage, what media will I be using... love it!

So I had a co-worker email me these pictures and request this item the beginning of December, you know, right before busy last-minute gift-crafting time.


So I finally have some free time to investigate. The hat is from Free People, I believe their Winter catalog. My co-worker said it retails for around something like $160** (Don't quote me on this, I don't get the catalog so I can't verify this).

So I begin my research.


**Thanks to someone in the Yahoo Knit group, she pointed me to the Free People website and to the hat. Price is $168.00