Saturday, February 28, 2009

 

Dollies

Pattern : Halloween Witch Doll by Whitney Van Nes
Needle US 3 / 3.25 mm
Completed February 28 2009
I used assorted left over yarn.
Since in Israel we do not celebrate Haloween. I took this pattern and used it for a basic doll pattern.

Whilst I was on maternity leave a colleague of mine adopted her 2nd daughter and I wanted to give both her daughters a gift. (a few years ago I knitted somethng for the 1st daugther)

I thought matching dollies would be a good idea, and the hair I'll make to match her daughters.

The Dolly is fairly simple. One part of the pattern of both Dolly and Dolly's dress is mine boggling, but I followed it none the less.

I also personalized each doll by embroidering the childs name.

Friday, February 27, 2009

 

Umbilical Cord Hat: Craft4aCause KAL for Ayla.


Pattern: Umbilical Cord hat from Stitch 'N Bitch, The knitters hand book.
Yarn: left over of
Blue Sky Alpacas Organic Cotton
Rowan Calmer
Needle: US 6 / 4.0 mm ADDI turbo

Since I don't have this book, I guessed pattern, it's pretty basic, I’ve made a similar hat before.

I made this hat for Ayla's KAL, I read about it on Ravelry.

I'm not sure if you can view this link: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/over-the-fence/496870/1-25
[paste] Ayla is three and has Polymicrgyria. Every item sold by her Rainbow Foundation helps to fund Ayla’s therapy and helps her to attend a Steiner school where she is accepted and embraced. She needs full assistance with mobility and communicates with her eyes and her smile. The foundation will help pay for her education and medical expenses as well as help other families living with Polymicrgyria.
The idea is to do beanies first so that we can stock the etsy store with hats just right for the US and UK winter weather. We’ll do a KAL of the matching snail brimmed hats for warmer markets later.
So grab together your left overs or dye up some kiddy bright yarn and get ready for the Feb 1 launch date. Remember that there are some people allergic to wool so some 100% acrylic hats are fine as well.
The patterns are incredibly easy to change around to suit different tensions and head sizes and the snail is based on the age old pinwheel design, simple, quick and so easy to do and upsize.

Saturday, February 07, 2009

 

Crown Hat

Needles: US 4 / 3.5 mm
Yarn: Phildar Phil'Ruban
Colorway: BLUSH

Pattern: Free online, http://villapallonneuleohjeet.blogspot.com/2008/10/crown-hat.html


I’m burning up my stash. Decided to make this hat after I made the Strawberry hat too big and seeing the cute hat Alison from the Blue Blog made, I figured it would be a good way to use what I had left of my Phil’Ruban yarn.
I knit 8 points instead of 9 as that was enough to surrond my daughters head. After doing 1 and a half repeats of the lace pattern I realized it was taking too much time and barely noticeable with this yarn, so I just continued with plain stockinette.
I also knit the crown points in to place by picking up the stitches and knitting together (similar to 3 needle bind off)
Hat fits and is stretchy but I didn’t like the finished out come. Yarn isn’t showing up the crown so well.
I would recommend using contrast colors next time.
I ended up frogging the hat.



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