I made a set of potholders for my mother-in-law for just a nice gift for letting us come and stay at their house for a week.
| Began | July 12, 2007 |
| Finished | January 1, 2007 |
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| Edited | July 12, 2007 |
| Pattern URL | Pot Holder / Hot Pad (knit) by 4601 |
| Made for | Lorna |
I didn’t have a recipient in mind, I just needed something to do while on a trip. And I wanted to see how Stripes worked out in this pattern. Pretty cool actually, a pleasing color scheme and a nice knit. I did the picking up a little nicer this time around; by going into more…
JMCO 12st 2 at a time, on longer bent circs; after increases, switched to 9” circs to zoom zoom concurrently. gauge is a bit tighter on these needles, ~10/in. increased to 38. increase mid foot and before heel to 42. knit to 7.25” before FLKH. 1-13-14-13-1 these ended up too long, gifted to Karen.
Gauge swatch on size 8. Went down to size 7 for the blanket. Gauge swatch had several steeks cut into it for testing. Best was when the steek was around 2 single stitches instead of further apart. Used Crochet method to secure stitches, tacked down on the back and did a row of shell stitch…
Knit with handspun Sun Valley and their DK base to go with. Planned to continue handspun as far as needed instead of just in the yoke. Did not decrease in the underbust, but added more increases. Underarm patterning section is continued all the way down through handspun. I loved spinning this fiber and I loved…
for Lorna. get Purlescent colorway (not currently in stock to order) 8/31: cast on 9/1: knit with girls at River Maiden for a few hours, got through garter border. Knit at park with E for another 2 rows. Then knit through MI:III for a total of 5 sk2p rows. zoomzoomzoom! 9/2: knit at Guardian game…
started for knitting during my 20th HS reunion. set aside for other obligation knitting during May. Submitting for the Whatcha Swatchin podcast Oldest Anything KAL because it was my oldest Socks that Rock in my stash from my very first visit to OFFF. Submitting along with my other Zombie Knitpocalypse entries since the heel is…
