Pictures

So, If I ever figure out how to integrate this blog with my flickr account... it keeps asking for my user name and password and then telling me that the info I typed in is wrong. uh? So, maybe this will work:

Close-up of Devlin's blanket:



If you compare the blues you'll see why I changed them. This blue, Cobalt, is much more subtle and flows better with the brightness of the greens and the tones in Corinthian - the multi-colour with the Candy Apple Red.

Needle size: 13
Pattern: Mitre squares, Cast on 57 stitches
Finished squares: 13 inches square
Yarn used: 1 skein each Lionbrand Homespun

Candy Apple Red
Corinthian
Cobalt
Delft Blue
Grape
Fiesta
Spring Green
Florida Keys Green

Not entirely sure how long it took me to complete. 2 months? I did it in between other projects. The nice thing is, I can add to it when he gets bigger or if I just feel like it. 'Twould be interesting to add orange and yellow to it.

it be thursday

Thanks everyone, I just read your comments!

I prefer my mobius scarf to hats, 'cos I can wrap that around my head and then my neck. That keeps me warmer.

My darling hubby gave me a hair cut. It's vaguely Scully-ish, from about season 7 of the X Files, but my hair is much more unruly. A woman in walmart today exclaimed that I "have gorgeous hair" so, yay Goldwell! :)

I'm still working on pulling in all the ends on Dev's blanket. Will finish it tonight whilst watching telly. Ugly Betty has been a fun new show. It's nothing fabulous, but it's at least not some Law and Order spinoff or CSI Boise. I do wish Boston Legal would come back with new eps soon.

I tried coffee dyeing some wool. The effect is... not as good as I'd anticipated. I much prefer tea. So I'll prolly re-dye these skeins. I also have a new purse design floating in my brain, so that's the next project.

I do have some pictures to upload. Probably tomorrow. of the "Tea Bag" pre-felted and felted and Dev's blanket.

updating the blanket update

So glad that I decided to switch over to Cobalt, it flows so much better. I had comparison photos, but the batteries in the camera up and died whilst attached by the USB cable, so it wiped the whole card. feh.

All the blocks are sewn together into their colour strips - now sewing the strips together.

My eejit husband gave me his damn cold. yay. And I still have this stupid broken blood vessel in my right eye. It's not going away, although I googled for info and found that it can be upwards of three weeks before it goes away. joy. I just feel so attractive!

It's a lovely sunny day - quite warn for January. Weird weather we've been having.

We didn't win a damn thing, lottery-wise. smeg. I was rather hoping that the raffle thingy would hit.

Blanket update and yet another hat

So I made a hat for Chip. I hope it's not too big. I tried it on Stave last night and it was huge on him, but Chip does have a bigger head and fluffier hair... too lazy to link to the pattern properly, it's Tychus, a knitty pattern. I must have been doing something wrong, I ended up with holes and stretched stitches when I did the second half and connected all the lines. I tweaked it a bit, twisted some stitches and made one just to slip it over another stitch. So, other than being big I guess it looks OK. I doubt he'll like it, he never seems to like stuff I make.

I'm also worried that my friend won't like the Tea Bag. I'm still debating whether it should have a closure of some sort.

I also have to make Dev's fleece scarf and mittens and hat. I bought Cars fleece on ebay. It wasn't entirely what I expected, the images are larger than I assumed they would be. But it's still doable. However, he keeps yammering on about getting The King and, well... we didn't. And I can't find those blasted things ANYWHERE!

I should call Kathy and ask her to look at stores out there. I can send her a picture of the packaging.

Oh yes, and the blanket update: I decided that I don't like the darker blue and I prefer Devlin's original choice - Cobalt. Which means that I will most likely rip out the blues and re-do them. Yes, I really am that anal! :) Oh and I bought a sort of heathered red and I want to trade that in on the candy apple red.

Devlin's blanket

Or rather, what will be his blanket. It will be 5 squares by 4 rows of different coloured squares. The next set of colours will be red and something. Maybe something that also has yellow/gold and blue in it, so it will then tie in with the blue squares. The greens tie in with the fiesta colours in the purple squares and the red ties in with that, too, but the blues seem rather lost, don't they?

Hats Off part two.

Since I didn't really like the grey hat much I made one out of some yarn that I do like. :) But this is a crappy picture and doesn't show it off very well.

I used this pattern I found online at Knitting pattern central and Caron's Simply Soft yarn for the grey, Lionbrand Homespun for the one posted above.


This is a Clapotis Hat made from some leftover yarn from Melissa's shawl. I really like that pattern. I really wish I looked better in hats. Hell, while I'm wishing, could I please win the lottery?

Clapotis Hat pattern found online here
I used Paton's Brilliant, less than 1 skein.

Hats off!

The grey hat on Bill the Cat!

OK, so it's not exactly properly presented, but... I just don't much like this hat! The brim rolls and it shouldn't - that's a fault in my knitting, always has been my problem, and I'm not a big fan of grey. But it's not for me - it's for a friend's Mom and I hope she likes it! I wanted to make it in brown, but can't find a decent brown anywhere...


I finished up with the Violent Violet mitre squares for Devlin's new blanket - now working with the Ghastly Greens! If I had my way it'd all be in blues, but I decided to let him pick out his own colours! Yes, there will be pictures sometime soon!