free tea cosy pattern

well a huge thank you to leigh for my beautiful naked personal tea pot i received for christmas this year. given your cold boston winter i decided it needed a something to keep it warm.



ok I did my best at free handing the project so this did take me a while to work it out. i have not knit a tea cosy before so i was not even sure what i was going to do but here you go~

download here: tiny tea cosy

the goods~
one skein shibui knits sock
1 skeins = 191.0 yards (174.7m)

us needle size: 

us 2 - 2.75 mm

happy knitting!

a post to make up for a huge lack of posts

obsessed with world news, work and sleep have kept me from achieving a decent blogger status. i am in danger now of neglecting it so long that i will be too embarrassed to continue.

i first of all want to share a present i have knit a dear friend of mine back in january.. for her birthday.... in january... which is still in my possession.  a bad friend who is unintentionally working to bankrupt the usps through postal neglect. yes bex, i will send you your scarf (from last year) and mer i will eventually hand you your present in person.... maybe you could come for a visit????

the details~
pattern~ bristol's cowl from the talented bristol ivy
yarn~ this fantastic quince puffin  (i could eat all their colors they are so tempting) one skein in birds egg
needle size us 13 & 11




some more notes for future making reference if i indeed make one for myself ;) ~

argh! got to row 9 of the chart (my first drop stitch) i looked it up and after you drop the stitch you make one in the ladder. after working round 10 i had too many stitches.... (again)

oh my i was not meant to knit the cowl.  i decided i should take it back to row 8 dropping the extra stitch i added for each drop stitch. …. bummer....pretty stupid.

(also) after row 8 i changed to my addi turbo size 11 (did not have size 13)… things started moving much quicker than the bamboo.

rip, rip, rip

i took the knitting back to row 8 and dropped the stitch as it should have been done :), now not much else can go wrong…. just repeating patterns???

it was easy moving from here on out. i did debate casting off after the fourth repeat thinking i might not have enough yarn to complete but i decided to motor on (what’s the worst that can happen… i have to buy more wool?!) :)

completed with a final tally of 13” cast on tail & 90” left over wool…

puffin

i recently became a fan of quince and co. they have beautiful yarns in beautiful colorways. i found a designer that i really liked and chose her pattern bristol's cowl. the pattern uses one (hopefully because that is what i ordered) or possibly 2 skeins quince puffin.

well i have learned that i can not read knit charts.

rip, rip, rip.

i am becoming as good at un-knitting as i am at knitting.

my confusion? (please note that if you own the pattern you may regard me as stupid)

i worked the first 3 attempts using 13 stitch repeats (with rows 1-8) thinking the m1l and m1r on the chart equaled m1l= m1l and knit the original stitch & the m1r= m1r and knit the original stitch. every row ended with one extra stitch (as 77 is not divisible by 13). i caught on and bit my lip so i would not cry and just now started working in the pattern as written.

(i am a written pattern girl now terrified of charts.)

i am planing on making 2 of these .... so i will learn.

miss scarlett's new party frock

the pattern is "party dress by judith swartz published in dogs in knits.

the goods: 2 skeins louisa harding kimono angora pure.
us needle 4 & 6

here goes the story... well i thought i was off to a good start. little miss scarlett is nothing more than a peanut and i thought i would need to modify the smallest size (even though she has a healthy appetite and keeps a nice belly).

so i started off only casting on 183 stitches. when i was done with the dinner bell ruffle i went ahead and put it on her and it “looked” way huge. so i decreased the first round of garter stitch at every ruffle by one leaving me with 57 stitches (not working in the round).


when i got to the front leg opening i realized it was going to be too tight and decided to add the chest stitches and begin knitting in the round.. what a mess.

ended up knitting the ruffle around the bottom and increasing the front leg pick up stitches to 32 around the leg opening.

she loves it.

(showing off her belly)

birthdays

happy belated birthday bex~ i know its a bit late~ i hope you like it!

the goods: 1 skein aysen by araucania (70% merino wool, 20% alpaca, 10% silk)
824 pink red
needle: us 10

pattern: elizabeth's wool- angora diagonal scarf from luxury yarn one skein wonders
its shorter than the pattern calls for because i did not have the necessary yardage but the length doesn’t seem to make much difference. i wish i could get a better photo of the colors in the yarn, its quite beautiful and warm & so soft.

get ready for the crawl...

woohoo. this is the week for the best little yarn crawl in texas. sadly it is the same weekend as ACL but i will endeavor.  :) lots of great shops in austin....
i bought my passport this past weekend from yarnivore. in addition to getting this bag i ended up buying some angora wool for a sweater for miss scarlett. the pattern came from the book i bought there~ dogs in knits by judith swartz. looking forward to a scarlett sweater soon!

green owl

my sister likes lime green (at least i hope she still does). this little pattern was written by another fellow knitting blogger ~ my knitting basket. her owl coffee cup cozie can be found on her blog for free here. she has a lot of very interesting free patterns but this one caught my eye (and the other 107 ravelers who also knit one.)

being the 107th logged knitter of this pattern has me thinking that i hope someday she runs into someone somewhere... and find that the one thing they have in common is a knit owl coffee cozie.

i changed the pattern up a bit to accommodate the lime green lambs pride bulky by using size 7 needles (for a tight fabric) and only knit 4 owl repeats to fit the mug i chose.

i hope she enjoys it.



happy birthday sarah!