Knitting Update
Apr. 15th, 2008 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cdaveI finished both of my first projects last week.
First up here's a case for a Card Game I like.
It changes from stocking stitch to garter stitch halfway through when I figured out what I was doing wrong with purling. It's just about the right size though :)
Lessons learned. Vertical button holes are not easily doable.
Gerkin Pencil Case
This one started out as just a swatch to practice on the small circular needles I'd bought so I could knit on the underground without poking people. Also airport security confiscated the straight ones I'd try to take with me. Next flight I go on, I'm knitting on pencils.
Then I thought I might as well try something more complicated, and started trying a braid. When it was about 6 rows long I realised it was the right width to make a pencil case for my doodle pens.
Finally here's a doodle of what I think the back of the Cthulhu hat and scarf will look like once it's done.
I tried about three or four time to start the Cthulhu hat at the weekend, from the top down. But despite a rather useful video on small diameter circular knitting (Thanks Nikki) I couldn't get the hang of it.
I think I'm going to have to start with a larger tube just to practice. I've got no idea what to make though. I suppose I could just make a little pouch to keep the random foreign currency I've got on my desk in. Hmm.
First up here's a case for a Card Game I like.
It changes from stocking stitch to garter stitch halfway through when I figured out what I was doing wrong with purling. It's just about the right size though :)
Lessons learned. Vertical button holes are not easily doable.
Gerkin Pencil Case
This one started out as just a swatch to practice on the small circular needles I'd bought so I could knit on the underground without poking people. Also airport security confiscated the straight ones I'd try to take with me. Next flight I go on, I'm knitting on pencils.
Then I thought I might as well try something more complicated, and started trying a braid. When it was about 6 rows long I realised it was the right width to make a pencil case for my doodle pens.
Finally here's a doodle of what I think the back of the Cthulhu hat and scarf will look like once it's done.
I tried about three or four time to start the Cthulhu hat at the weekend, from the top down. But despite a rather useful video on small diameter circular knitting (Thanks Nikki) I couldn't get the hang of it.
I think I'm going to have to start with a larger tube just to practice. I've got no idea what to make though. I suppose I could just make a little pouch to keep the random foreign currency I've got on my desk in. Hmm.
