Pickles - Pickles. Guest Tutorial: Reading/Knitting Pillow from my BFF Bonnie!! Hello!
Happy Tuesday! Did you want to leave a link on Manic Monday Linky Party? You still can! And would you like to enter our fabulous Fat Quarter Bundle giveaway sponsored by JAQS Fabrics? There’s 12 FQs to win! Without further ado, please let me introduce my awesome friend Bonnie of Wonderfully Awkward. Here she is: My dear friend Jenna has recently learned to knit, and is totally on fire and kicking ass already! Admit it. If I’m at home, I practically live in my bed.
Saturday, I was too lazy to leave the house and go buy one (plus, store bought? My sister (also a knitter and crochet-er) immediately said “I WANT ONE!!!” For a non-directional print fabric (doesn’t matter which way you flip the fabric) – 1 yard For a horizontal directional print – 1.5 yards For the arms – about 3/4 yd or piece-together fat quarters Enough fabric to make a 6″x104″ strip 5 lbs of stuffing 5 lbs of stuffings?!
Let’s get started. (1/2″ Seam Allowance or 1cm works fine too!) Now for the back Sweet! Verena Knitting Magazine – Top European Knitting Fashion. Celebrate BABY—the knitted chevron blanket. Done! Remember that knitted blanket I started forever ago?
2 weeks before Clara was born, I finished it! ….and fell in love with knitting all over again….and decided to actually add something to my ravelry notebook HERE. The funny thing is, I could have knitted the whole thing in a couple weeks (rather than 4 months). It’s a pretty small blanket. But a knitting project feels like a good book. Plus, what else can you do at night when you’re 9 months pregnant? Here’s how it came together…. And I love the yarn colors she chose. I bought my yarn at a cute shop on South Congress in Austin called Hill Country Weavers. With my yarns selected, my size 11 needles and I got busy (more info on my ravelry post). and busy.
The blanket went with me on the plane a couple times, to the park, the doctor’s office, and yes the couch. Here’s the finished product: Molly’s blanket (left) and mine on the right. The blanket is knitted with double strands of yarn so the finished product is chunky and a good weight. Standard Yarn Weight System. Leigh Radford - AlterKNITS. Thimbleanna's Knitting Projects. Helping hands .:. The Wool Shack Knitting Store of Australia.
Techniques - Impeccable Knits. Techniques Cabling Without a Cable Needle Below are directions for working both a 2/2 Left Cross Cable (C4F) and a 2/2 Right Cross Cable (C4B) without a cable needle.
This works best with grabby yarns like wool but, with practice, will work with any yarn and up to 6-stitch cables without too much difficulty. The main thing to remember is to secure the "floating stitches" by pinching them securely at their base between your thumb and index finger. 2/2 Left Cross Cable Crochet Cast On (c)2013 Impeccable Knits A stretchy cast on that forms a chain under the needle. Repeat Steps 4 through 6 until there are 1 less than the required number of cast on stitches. Provisional Crochet Cast On This provisional cast on (PCO) is worked with a crochet hook over a knitting needle using a piece of smooth waste yarn; the waste yarn is removed later by unravelling the crochet chain produced during the PCO. Attach Working YarnUsing working yarn, knit one row. Picking Up the Provisionally Cast On Stitches. Whipped Blankets #123 - PDF Patterns. This pattern includes 3 different textures in 2 different weights – easy and challenging.
All of the textures and weights make this a beautiful piece of fabric, which is what makes a beautiful blanket. Finished Measurements: approx 36" x 30", blocked Yarn: Brown sheep burley spun (100% wool; 8 oz = 132 yds): 4 hanks #bs03 grey heather Brown sheep lamb's pride bulky (85% wool, 15% mohair; 100 gr = 125 yds): approx 60 yards # bs181 prarie fire Note: when working the whipped edging, you may use any yarn of contrasting color of the same or lesser weight, or several colors and weights combined to form 1 strand.
Needles: Burley spun: size us 13 (9mm), or size needed to obtain gauge Lamb's pride bulky: size us 11 (8mm), or size needed to obtain gauge Gauges: Blanket #1: 12 1/2 sts and 14 rows = 4” in pattern st, using burley spun and size us 13 (9mm) needles; 15 sts and 16 rows = 4" in pattern st, using lamb's pride bulky and size us 11 (8mm) needles.