A video podcast about knitting
Just popping in here to share with you to share my very first knitting podcast (click here) with you guys. I talk about yarn, my works in progress and my finished objects. It was equally terrifying and fun to make and I hope you'll enjoy it - and if you have an idea for a name for it, please let me know ;)
Notes from the show
Works in progress:
Baby sweater - my own design
Bellows Cardigan by Michele Wang
Vertices Unite by Stephen West
Finished Objects:
Baby Top - own design
Nurmilintu Shawl by Heidi Alander
Swedish Spring Shawl by Maria Montzka
Yarn:
Madelinetosh Sock in the Aura colorway
Malabrigo Lace in the Neutral colorway
100% Alpaka from g-uld dyed with heathers and indigo.
EngleUld from Tusindfryd in colorway 32/35518
Vest for Little Girls
A simple vest for little girls. The body is
knitted in garter stitch while the ruffle is knitted in seed stitch.
Sizes:
3
months (6 months) 12 months (18 months) and 24 months.
Materials:
181
– 543 yards/ 166 – 483 meters of Quince and Co in Chickadee.
Photographed
in Lupine.
Gauge:
16 stitches = 4”/10 cm in garter stitch
with two strands of yarn held together.
22 stitches = 4”/10 cm in seed stitch with one strand of yarn
Needles:
Size
US 8 circular needles (or needle
size to obtain correct gauge)
2
buttons
An
extra needle for the three-needle bind off.
Finished
dimensions/circumference at chest:
3
months: 15”/38 cm (6 months: 16”/41 cm) 12 months: 17”/43,5 cm (18 months:
18”/46 cm) 24 months: 19”/48,5 cm.
Stitch
patterns:
Seed
stitch knitted in the round:
*Knit
1, Purl 1* continue until piece measures appropriate length.
Note:
In seed stitch you knit the purl stitches and purl the knit stitches as they
appear.
Garter
stitch knitted in the round:
Row
1: purl to marker.
Row
2; knit to marker
Repeat
rows 1-2 for pattern.
Garter
stitch knitted flat:
Knit
every row.
Construction
notes:
The
ruffle is knitted with one strand of yarn, join second strand of yarn when
switching to garter stitch pattern.
Button
holes are made using the crochet loop button hole method. Tutorial found here:
http://newstitchaday.com/how-to-crochet-the-loop-button-hole/
Pattern:
CO
120 (132) 140 (148) 156 stitches and join in the round.
Knit
4 (4) 4,5 (4,5) 5 cm/ 1,5 (1,5) 1,7 (1,7) 2” in seed stitch pattern.
Next
round: *purl 2tog” continue until end of round.
60
(66) 70 (74) 78 st remains on needles.
Next
round: knit garter stitch pattern in the round until piece measures 5,5 (6,5) 7,5 (8) 8,5 cm/2,2 (2,5) 3
(3,1) 3,3” from the beginning of garter st pattern.
Divide
for armholes.
Next
round: bind off 3 stitches, knit 27 (30) 32 (34) 36 st, leave stitches on scrap
yarn (this is the front of the vest), bind off 3 st, knit 27 (30) 32 (34) 36 st
til end of round (this is the back of the vest).
Back:
Knit
flat garter stitch pattern for 2,5 (2,5) 3 (3,5) 3,5 cm/ 1 (1) 1,2 (1,3) 1,3”
making sure to slip the first stitch at the beginning of each row.
Divide
back:
Next
RS row: knit 12 (12) 14 (15) 16 st, bind off 3 (4) 4 (4) 4 st,
knit
12 (12) 14 (15) 16 st.
Place
12 (12) 14 (15) 16 st on scrap yarn.
You
have now divided back into to Back No. 1 (still on needle) and Back No. 2. (on
scrap yarn)
Back
No 1.: continue in garter st until piece measures 10 (11) 12 (12) 13 cm/ 4 (4,3) 4,7 (4,7) 5” from beginning of
armhole. End with a WS row. Remember to slip the first stitch at the beginning
of each row.
Next
RS row: Bind off st until 5 (5) 6 (6) 7 st remain, knit 5 (5) 6 (6) 7 stiches
and slip st to scrap yarn.
Back
no.2: Slip remaining 12 (12) 14 (15) 16 st from back onto needle and knit as
for Back No. 1 until piece measures 10 (11) 12 (12) 13 cm/ 4 (4,3) 4,7 (4,7)
5” ending with a WS row.
Next
row: knit 5 (5) 6 (6) 7 st, bind off until end of round. Slip st to scrap yarn.
Front:
Knit
in flat garter st pattern until piece measures 10 (11) 12 (12) 13 cm/ 4 (4,3) 4,7 (4,7) 5” from beginning of
armhole, slipping the first stitch at the beginning of each row. End with a WS
row.
Next
row: Knit 5 (5) 6 (6) 7 st, bind off until 5 (5) 6 (6) 7 st remain, knit
remaining stitches.
Finishing:
Join
shoulders by using the three-needles bind off. Tutorial found here: http://www.stitchdiva.com/tutorials/knitting/three-needle-bind-off
Button
holes: Use the crochet loop button method. Sew on buttons.
New and old
I'm doing things that a respectable blogger would never do; I'm changing my blogname too often and without any warnings; in my blogging 'career' I've gone from 'idathue.blogspot' to 'farwestlogbook' to 'farwestlogbook.blogspot' to now 'fareastlogbook'. On top of that I'm an inconsistent blogger with far and few between blogpost.
I don't really care though, this blogging thing is a picture diary for those interested in following along but mostly, it's for me.
So, fareastlogbook it is. It seemed appropriate since I'm now living in the eastern part of Danmark.
On another note, the knitting goodness on the second picture is calling me, it's Hawser from the new BTFall14 collection, it's gorgeous and a real pleasure to knit.
August 30 2014
I got a message this Spring from one of my old friends from Elementary School. She asked if it'd be interested in taking pictures for her wedding later in the summer. I said yes and then spent the better part of the coming months getting goose bump, a healthy mix of excitement and fear, just thinking about.
As it turned out; it went fine and was really enjoyable. I brought my mom and her camera along as a 'if-everything-goes-wrong-and-my-camera-dies-or-deletes-everything-on-my-memorycard'- precaution - and also because she's pretty awesome at taking pictures.
Also, this was the first wedding I've ever been too so being able to see the whole thing 'live' was so much fun.
Tillykke, Lise og Jonas!
Strawberry picking
June was internship, sunshine, exhaustion, exam, Tenerife, new Summer job, tons of ice cream and strawberry picking. My summer holiday started last week and it makes me want to jump for joy like that crazy guy in the top picture.
On my needles
I've been cleaning out my current project pile these last couple of months. Finishing up some knits, casting on for a couple of new ones and procrastinating on the rest. I'm probably going to rip a couple of them including Wellwood which have been in the making for more than a year and which I've completely lost interest in. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
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