Finished Zombie Slippers
Braaaaains! I can finally unveil the zombie slippers to the world because Christmas has come and gone and I no longer need to keep them a secret from the lucky recipient. This isn’t my first foray into slipper making, although it is definitely my most successful. As is the case with just about every project I undertake, there is no such thing as an overnight success. It took a lot of trial and error to achieve the “look and feel” (ha!) I was working towards. Continue reading 'Zombie Slippers'»
On the train and working on a scarf for Miss Fish’s Christmas gift. Listening to “Singing in the Rain” and enjoying the scenery going by.
Started it in plain stockinette, but frogged it around 5:30am since I didn’t like how it looked. Trying out a “diagonal stripe” texture now.
A sweater that should have taken me 3 – 4 months dragged out to 7+. It was designed for Lola, who sleeps nightly with a Pirate Johnny Depp pillowcase. I also made her a beaded knitted pirate skull wristlet.
This was my first attempt at intarsia. It was knitted in the round, which added an additional level of complexity to the project. The pattern is the bastard child of a number of other patterns I’ve happened upon, and I adapted the intarsia patch myself. My calculations were a bit off on the collar, and after three attempts (and subsequent unravellings) I gave up and just knitted it with enough elastic strung along to whip the collar into shape.
Wouldn’t mind making another one of these for myself if I could only find the time.
Little scarf pattern I whipped up as a Christmas gift for my mom. I am teaching myself cable knitting, but do not have the attention span for another sweater just yet.
Need to get the pattern written down because I’ve had a few people ask for the pattern.
