What an insanely cold day! -20C (much colder with the windchill). On days like these I'm glad I get to stay home and stay cozy with my baby S :D
The cold is definitely a great time to wear knits :) Which is why from now until Thursday (tomorrow) I'm offering 10% off my Etsy store :D
Use coupon code MINUS20.
Stay warm, and enjoy! :D
January 23, 2013
January 11, 2013
My New Winter Hat
It's been getting cold up here, and I figure why not knit myself a new hat?
I had bought myself some Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick from Michaels during their Boxing Day sale, mainly to make a Pixiebell Pixie hat for my sister for her birthday - she LOVED it :) I would post photos of it but it's a photo of me wearing it and I don't do it justice at all. It looks so much better on my sis :) I've been eying that pattern for a while and finally had the time to buy and knit it. I digress...
So back to my hat. I found this cute hat pattern on Ravelry that looked super easy and super quick to knit. It was all of the above :) I love quick knits! I had to modify the pattern because of my small head, and I wasn't using the right needles for the yarn I chose. The suggested needle size was 9US, I had 6.5US and I wasn't about to go out and buy new needles :P
The pattern called for tassels to be put on the back and on the sides of the hat, but I'm not a huge fan of tassels. Plus I ran out of yarn :S I chose to forgo the tassel on the back, and put braids on the sides. To make the braids thicker (because I ran out of yarn), I raided my yarn "odds-and-ends" stash and found this black and white merino yarn I used to make my friend mitts a few years ago.
I think the contrasting yarn colour in the braids looks fun :)
Ironically after I knit this hat, it hasn't been cold enough for me to wear it. It's going to be 11C here on the weekend. Huh?
I had bought myself some Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick from Michaels during their Boxing Day sale, mainly to make a Pixiebell Pixie hat for my sister for her birthday - she LOVED it :) I would post photos of it but it's a photo of me wearing it and I don't do it justice at all. It looks so much better on my sis :) I've been eying that pattern for a while and finally had the time to buy and knit it. I digress...
So back to my hat. I found this cute hat pattern on Ravelry that looked super easy and super quick to knit. It was all of the above :) I love quick knits! I had to modify the pattern because of my small head, and I wasn't using the right needles for the yarn I chose. The suggested needle size was 9US, I had 6.5US and I wasn't about to go out and buy new needles :P
The pattern called for tassels to be put on the back and on the sides of the hat, but I'm not a huge fan of tassels. Plus I ran out of yarn :S I chose to forgo the tassel on the back, and put braids on the sides. To make the braids thicker (because I ran out of yarn), I raided my yarn "odds-and-ends" stash and found this black and white merino yarn I used to make my friend mitts a few years ago.
I think the contrasting yarn colour in the braids looks fun :)
Ironically after I knit this hat, it hasn't been cold enough for me to wear it. It's going to be 11C here on the weekend. Huh?
January 2, 2013
Keeping the iPad cozy
Happy New Year! :D
This is a MUCH delayed posting about my cable knit iPad case, but I figure with S sleeping and the hubby still at work I might as well get caught up blogging :) I'm behind on blogging about a few projects :S
Last year I received an email from a lady that had received one of my cable knit iPhone cases as a gift, and she was asking if I could knit her a matching case for her iPad. I was thinking about doing another side by side cable knit pattern similar to my iPhone case, but I felt it would look a little too simple for such a large surface area. I could have done just straight 4 columns of cables, but that didn't seem too interesting to me.
I'm a type of person that appreciates symmetry (sometimes a little too much. One freakish fact about me - when I chew my food I always have to make sure there are equal amounts of food on each side of my mouth. It just has to be symmetrical! LoL). I started to come up with an idea of having the two inner cable columns larger, with the outer cable columns smaller. And this is what I came up with:
Pattern is available to purchase by clicking the "buy now" button below (sold through Ravelry and is a direct file download)
This is a MUCH delayed posting about my cable knit iPad case, but I figure with S sleeping and the hubby still at work I might as well get caught up blogging :) I'm behind on blogging about a few projects :S
Last year I received an email from a lady that had received one of my cable knit iPhone cases as a gift, and she was asking if I could knit her a matching case for her iPad. I was thinking about doing another side by side cable knit pattern similar to my iPhone case, but I felt it would look a little too simple for such a large surface area. I could have done just straight 4 columns of cables, but that didn't seem too interesting to me.
I'm a type of person that appreciates symmetry (sometimes a little too much. One freakish fact about me - when I chew my food I always have to make sure there are equal amounts of food on each side of my mouth. It just has to be symmetrical! LoL). I started to come up with an idea of having the two inner cable columns larger, with the outer cable columns smaller. And this is what I came up with:
Pattern is available to purchase by clicking the "buy now" button below (sold through Ravelry and is a direct file download)
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