September WIPs

Hi!  I currently have two projects on the needles.  And both are new!  I went shopping during my vacations at the end of August and went for two very different type of blues.

 

First, I'm knitting the Pine Forest Baby Blanket in Malabrigo Yarn Rios, colorway Azules.  While I was looking for a unisex color, the skeins seemed in a lighter shade to me.  Now it looks a little dark to me for a baby accessory.  I will have to pick a brighter color for the next baby blanket I will knit!  Here is a glance at it.  I have almost knit the first skein.  Two left.  I will have a lot of knitting time tomorrow and next Friday so I bet it will be almost done in no time!

 

 

Second, I'm knitting the very popular Puerperium Cardigan.  This is also a quick little knit!  What you see is the back.  Very bright color.  At first, I sort of regreted buying such a bright color.  Seems like I like to go to the extremes!  Now that the little Cardigan is coming along, I'm really loving it!  The yarn is Julie Asselin Milis, colorway Electric Avenue!  This is a new yarn and the colorways are absolutely amazing.  You should definitely take a look!

Next, I will most likely start another blanket, a Little Oak and maybe a Stockholm Scarf.  I'm also thinking of ways to use up more of my leftovers with small projects! 

Any suggestions for a simple baby blanket (mindless knitting)?

Did you start knitting something new for the fall?

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

FO: Baby Chalice Blanket

Last Wednesday, I've given the gift I have been knitting and kept secret on this blog since the end of April.  I finished it one month ahead of time which really happens seldom in my case for baby gifts!  Usually, it is blocking at the last minute, the day before the baby shower.  I'm sure it happened to a few of you ;-)  I must say that my vacations helped and My Sister's Knitter KAL was a great incensitive!

This is a lovely free pattern that many knitters made with a variety of yarns.  In my case, the Illîmani Yarn Baby Llama was a nice discovery!  It is so soft and the natural colorways are beautiful.

I originally bought 4 skeins but in the end I used exactly 3.  I cast on 133 sts compared to 83 in the pattern and made the same number of repeats as instructed (that is 9) and realized it was already a square.  The pattern says the final measurements should be 24 x 32 inches.  In my case, it ended up 37 x 37 inches which is better in my own opinion:

 



After blocking, the stitch pattern is really pretty I think.  I love "leafy" stitch patterns:

The picture I took outside is really the one that shows the color as close as it is:

Finally, the only bad thing about this project is that the yarn is not superwash...  I'm really a bad girl to give such a gift to a friend :(  I will have to learn better...

See my project page on Ravelry.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

FO: Hunca Munca

I never thought I could knit a pair of socks in 3 days, hé hé... ;-)

Here they are, the Hunca Munca baby socks in plain stockinette:

They look so cute to me!  And this used up the 15g (almost exactly!) of the yarn from my own Spring Forward.  I think baby knits are the best to use up leftover yarn!

See my project page on Ravelry.

Sigh... my vacations are almost over... after this long weekend!  Happy knitting to you all!

FO: Tiny Pants

Hello all!

Yes, vacations are truly awesome to finish projects!  I have two finished projects almost on the same day!  This is good for motivation! I'll post about the other one (the gift!) shortly as it was given last night to the very pregnant mother ;-)

Back to the Tiny Pants, I guess this picture shows it all:

Pattern:  Tiny Pants by Megan Goodacre.

Yarn: City Tweek DK by Knit Picks.

Needles: US 7 - 4.50 mm and US 8 - 5.00 mm.

Color: Orca and Tahitian Pearl  

Start to finish: July 2013 - August 2013.

Modifications: I added the stripes as I saw them on a

project on Ravelry and thought it was super cute!

 

The "jogs" are not really apparent in the end since they are on the side.

 

I used leftover yarn from the Baby Tweed Blanket.  I am really committed to using or giving my leftover yarn!  It is quite amazing what you can do and how amazing it is to re-use past project yarns once you have found the perfect project!  If you'd like, see my Trade or Sell page on Ravelry (I'm anyonecanknit).  Take whatever you would like.  Just send me a message on Ravelry and I will send it your way in exchange for a pattern to cover the mailing charges!  I've kept a few leftovers in my Stash page as I think I know what I will re-use them for!

 

Are you back to school this week?  If so, I wish you a very good school year!

In the next two weeks...

It's the first time that I take my vacations so late in the summer.  It was tough to wait until now but it has finally arrived!  I hope I can rest a lot and also get some stuff done in the house, see friends, etc.

Of course, I also hope for a lot of knitting!  My gift is going well.  I hope to finish it in the next two weeks and get to show it to you a little while later.

Then, the Tiny Pants are going well too.  They are going to be "with jogs" but that's alright!



The yarn is tweedy and the stripes are cute enough to catch the attention, hopefully ;-)



Then, I think I will cast on 3 new projects!  See what late vacations make to me!  Seriously, I'm going yarn shopping this week at Espace Tricot and Mouliné.  And the next three project will be colorful and I will be able to show my progress!  This is going to make this blog a little bit more interesting!

So, I'm going to go back to my knitting.  I joined my Sister's Knitter KAL and I must not neglect the two current WIPs while I start new projects! 

Oh, and I frogged the Guernsey Triangle.  It was just a few inches and I'm going to use the yarn for a Sunnyside instead!  No worries, this is one of the 3 projects ;-)

This afternoon, I'm visiting good friends - there's going to be a lot of talking and they have a little 6 months old girl who is so cute - actually, she was the little girl I knitted the Maile Sweater for. Nice, nice, nice!

Happy knitting everyone!



Jogless stripes

Hello!

This is going to be a very short post.  I need advices. 

I'm knitting some Tiny Pants.  So cute ;-)

I have to experiment with methods for jogless stripes in the round.  My stripes are only 2 rows.  I tried one method that consist in knitting the first stitch of the previous row along with the first stitch of the row I start when I knit the second row in the same color.  It does not look good at all.

Any suggestion?  What method do you use?

I hope you are having a great summer so far!  Happy knitting!

FO: Sproutlette

Hi everyone - if you are still there,

The year started with many posts and then suddently, almost three months passed until today...  A few have asked if I was okay and if I was still knitting.  The answer to both questions is yes.  Many thanks for asking!

It is true though that I have been knitting less lately.  I could say it's because of spring and summer but quite frankly, we did not have much of a spring or summer until late June.  Now that summer has started though, it is very sunny and hot.  Wonderful!

Speaking of wonderful, I finished a project last week and it arrived to destination this week.  I will not spoil the surprise in case some of you read both our blogs and it is so recent that she did not make the announcement yet!

The FO is Sproutlette by Tanis Lavallée.  When I saw this little dress, I was immediately charmed!

 

Pattern:  Sproutlette by Tanis Lavallée.

Yarn: Coton Fifty at Bergère de France.

Needles:  US 3 - 3.25 mm.

Color: 20112

Start to finish: April 2013 - June 2013.

For: Little baby girl.

Notes: I modified the leaves at the bottom and the edge of the sleeves
since I was running out of yarn.  For the edge of the dress, I skipped

rows 18-19 and 22-23.  For the sleeves, I (k1, p1, k1) in the double

yo. With these modifications, I was left with only a few inches of yarn!

 

A few more pictures:

 I thought a lady bug button would make a nice touch for a baby dress!

All in all, the pattern is well written!  I did not enjoy the scalloped eyelet cast off I must say... :(  I guess I still knit too tight for this kind of technique!

Finally, I wish a lot of happiness to this little girl and her family!  A cute little girl like her will bring a lot of joy all around her I'm sure!  And she may be a future knitter as well :-)

Have a great summer everyone - but I hope to be back before it ends!