Sprung
Posted by Lanea on Monday, March 12th, 2007
Kayo would like to remind you all to take the time to stop and taste the croci.
Ours apparently taste pretty good.
Spring has sprung, and projects are progressing along nicely. Including these new fingerless mitts.
The pattern is from a Meilenweit sock yarn pattern booklet, and the yarn is Knit Picks Sock Memories in Cape Cod. They fit very well, are toasty warm and very soft, and drove me to try two circs. I may be a convert. As much as I love DPNs, I had terrible trouble with ladders at the beginning of the first mitt, and switching to two circs fixed everything, and made markers much less important.
I started making a holder for circular needles ages ago, and then turned against it because I’d put some goofy machine embroidery on it. But the lovely weather drove me back into the studio, and the need for a useful tool overcame my distaste for the machined stitches. I keep wavering between viewing it as a prototype and viewing it as good enough. It’s made from linen scraps backed with twill scraps for stability, both leftover from Crazy Lanea’s. Those are some recycled glass beads there dangling at either end of the dowel I scavenged from somewhere. The cable ends and toolie-bits from the interchangeable needles are in that little bag hanging at the top. The holder itself is made in three levels, which allows the central strip to hold short circs and needle tips, while the back section holds longer circs.
The numbers are hand-embroidered.
And I coincidentally made the central bit just wide enough for the Knitpicks Options tips, which was pretty lucky, since I started this little thing before they introduced their needles.
I also finally hung the corkboard I made a while back. I can’t bear to put much stuff on it, but a few inspirational artists’ cards from last year’s American Craft Council show found new homes.
It made me a bit less morose about being ice-bound for the 2007 show. And reminded me how much stuff I have clanking around in my skull that needs making.
Filed in knitting,sewing | 5 responses so far
megon 13 Mar 2007 at 12:55 am 1what a sweet wee beastie!
Janeon 13 Mar 2007 at 6:23 am 2I love the needle holder — it’s beautiful, unlike the one you see in catalogs. I can’t believe it’s crocus time already. Next thing you know you’ll be showing us the cherry blossoms!
rachelon 13 Mar 2007 at 10:59 am 3Kayo! Kayo! Woot! See, all you need are a few doggie pictures, and you make my day. (Doh–I just clicked for a big Kayo. Doggie! Doggie! Yay!)
It’s ridiculously nice today. It’s apparently going to be a few degrees warmer here than in DC (yet we still have piles of blackened ice melting). But no worries, it will be in the 40s again by Thursday, and all will be right in the balance of the world again.
I love the mitts, and the needle holder is awesome. Go you and your many crafty talents.
Bonne Marieon 13 Mar 2007 at 7:55 pm 4OOOOOoooh! I am so jealous of those crocus!
It got up to 74 degrees here in Chicago today, but, alas, no little green shoots even poking through the ground yet.
I could swear I smelled fresh grass for about 10 seconds around 2pm ;p
The Fiddlin' Foolon 20 Mar 2007 at 8:22 am 5Croci… I think it’s great that someone else out there calls the plural of that flower by that name.
Not quite as fitting is my plural of Starbucks… Starbices.