Montag, 17. September 2012

Waveform

Finally an idea that I managed to put into a finished form ... the prototype for a pattern that I'm going to call "Waveform Fingerless Gloves".
The pattern will be published soon.

Samstag, 18. August 2012

Ten-Stitch Bath Rug

I knitted a rug for my new bathroom out of t-shirt yarn. I love how it feels under my feet. The pattern is called "Ten Stitch Blanket" by Frankie Brown.
  


Dienstag, 15. Mai 2012

Japanese Pattern Books

... seen in Paris - quite appropriate ;-)

Sonntag, 29. April 2012

Tarn Scrunchy

If there's anything I should have lying around, it's scrunchies. Unfortunately, I seem to "distribute" them all over the place, so that I usually don't find any of them. That's why I buy more and more of them - only to discover later that there were some in the pocket of a winter coat or in a bag that I hadn't used for ages.
By chance I found on ravelry a pattern for one ... before, it had never occured to me that this could be a knitting or crochet project.

So, this weekend I went to the supermarket and bought cheap hair rubber bands.

First I tried with thin cotton yarn - and it looked just fine. Then I thought that this might be something to use my tarn for. (How to make tarn: here.)

It took me several times, to get it right. Since tarn is quite thick, it was necessary to use it in a way that the scrunchy wouldn't get to heavy. For example, loops of chain stitches were just to thick and unelastic.




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Here's how I did it ...

Material:
  • less then 1 t-shirt's worth of tarn
  • one elastic hair band
  • 5mm crochet hook
Instructions:
  1. to start do a slip stitch and fix yarn to hair band with another slip stitch
  2. wrap yarn twice around your index finger, insert hook into these loops, yarn over and pull through, but leave the loops on your finger (you have now 2 loops on your hook)
  3. again wrap yarn twice around your index finger insert hook into these loops, yarn over and pull through, but leave the loops on your finger (you have now 3 loops on your hook)
  4. yarn over and pull yarn through all three loops on your hook
  5. slip stitch around the elastic hair band and remove the loops from your index finger
  6. repeat steps 2 to 5 round
  7. join with slip stitch and weave in ends

Sonntag, 15. April 2012

Yoga Socks, Yoga Socks and Yoga Socks

Yoga socks variations, free knitting patternMy current favorite kind of project: yoga socks - this is a really simple pattern, or rather a quick "how to".



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Materials
  • about 25-30 grams of fingering weight yarn
  • two 4mm needles (for cast on)
  • 3mm dpns
  • tapestry needle (to bind off and to weave in ends)

Special Techniques




Instructions
    Yoga socks, free knitting pattern
  • CO60 with 4mm needles and join in round
  • change to 3mm needles (using bigger needles for CO will make the cast-on stretchier)
  • knit 34 rounds of "p1 k3 p1"-ribbing (this is basically "p2 k3"-ribbing, but by starting with p1 k3, the opening will start end end in the middle of a purl channel)
  • in 35th round: BO30 and finish round in ribbing-pattern
  • in 36th round: CO30 (knitted cast-on) and finish round in ribbing pattern
  • knit 33 more rows of "p1 k3 p1"-ribbing
  • BO using sewn bind off technique - also very stretchy
    (list of BO techniques: http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/FEATsum06TT.html)
 
Variations - also in fingering weight sock yarn
  • CO64 with 3.5mm needles and then change to 2.5mm needles and knit "p2 k2"-ribbing

    and/or

  • Knit 36 rounds for the ankle part - and only 25 rounds for the foot part



Waves

Ever since I saw some "swing knitting" projects on ravelry, I wanted to make something like that myself. I managed to start something similar yesterday. It's basically constructed of short rows ...
Though I am pleased with the result, it doesn't look quite as "organical" as I would have liked it. Furthermore, I made a few mistakes so that the pattern is not really regular. But for a prototype (and something I have figured out without a written pattern), it's OK.



Links to swing knitting or related techniques:

Donnerstag, 12. April 2012

Step-by-Step Photo Tutorial - Flowers for the Falling Blossoms Scarf

At the beginning of a row use the crochet hook to take the first stitch from your knitting needle and start to crochet the flowers:



ch 7, sl st in 4th chain to form a small loop (the first flower will be crocheted around this loop)

to form the first petal ch 3, dc 2 in loop, ch 3 and sl st in loop,

ch 3, dc 2 in loop (this starts the second petal of the first flower)
ch 7, sl st in 4th chain to form a small loop (the second flower will be crocheted around this loop)

ch 3, dc 2 in loop, ch 3, sl st in loop (first petal)
ch 3, dc 2 in loop, ch 3, sl st in loop (second petal)
ch 3, dc 2 in loop, ch 3, sl st in loop (third petal)
ch 3, dc 2 in loop, sl st in the top of the last dc of the second petal of the first flower

ch 3, sl st in loop of first flower (the second petal of the first flower is now finished)
ch 3, dc 2 in loop, ch 3, sl st in loop (third petal)
ch 3, dc 2 in loop, sl st in the first chain

put stitch back on knitting needle and continue