Monthly Archives: February 2016

Kitty Ear Headband – RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

Kitty Ear Headband - RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

A less wintery version of cat ears for my RedditGifts Colors 2016 match, in her favorite color (yellow).

I started this in the round on my new KISS SG loom, but frogged it after finding purling too tedious for the garter stitch. I cast the yarn on straight needles instead and it’s working up much faster.

I cast on 20 stitches of light weight/3 yarn, which ended up being almost 4” across. I intend to seam it into a tube so I can insert a 1” elastic after adding ears.

Kitty Hat – RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

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Kitty Hat - RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

I started this project without swatching, and ended up with a hat that was WAY too wide. So, using that mistake as my swatch, I started over with a much better fitting hat.

The goal is to make a square shaped hat and stitch triangles in the corners for “ears”, so when the hat is worn it looks like kitty ears.

They are meant to match my Kitty Paws project.

Kitty Paws – RedditGifts Colors 2016 (loom knitting)

Kitty Paws - RedditGifts Colors 2016 (loom knitting)

A pair of kitten (fingerless) mittens for my RedditGifts Colors 2016 match! They indicated their favorite color was yellow and that they were eyeballing some cat ears on etsy, so I decided to make them a set of yellow tabby fingerless gloves.

I googled a chart for a pawprint that would fit on half of the pegs of my 36-peg 3/8” fine gauge CinDWood glove loom that I just received this week.

About midway through the pawprint pattern, I stopped working in the round and started working a flat panel to create a thumb hole. Because I was working fingers-down on the project, I was able to insert my hand into the project to test and see if the thumb hole was large enough before I closed the project back up and worked in the round again.

The cuff is 10 rows of k1p1 rib using true knits, and the body is 5 rows of yellow in u-wrap followed by 5 rows of white in u-wrap.

02-19-2016

Added a single crochet border with white fur yarn and it feels fantastic.

I attempted to double stitch the paw pattern to make it have more contrast, but unfortunately I didn’t like it and when cutting yarn to remove it, snipped part of the glove. I did my best to repair the hole and it seems to look fine, if a bit bulky where I repaired it.

Double Knit Camo Blanket (loom knitting)

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Double Knit Camo Blanket (loom knitting)

My first double knit loom item – a camo blanket on the 1/2” gauge CinDWood 60” Universal S-Loom.

I did try to make it at first with a single strand of worsted weight, but it had absolutely no structure and was quite holey, so I frogged it and started over with two strands of worsted weight yarn held together as one.

My CinDWood order has arrived!

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My February CinDWood Order

The moment I woke up I’ve been on edge waiting for the  mailman to arrive with my CinDWood loom order… and finally, it showed up: I was so excited to open the package that I managed to cut myself with my scissors. >.< Oops. I ordered my looms on Feb 10th, and they shipped out very quickly on Feb 12th. However,… Read more »

Camo Color Change Hat (loom knitting)

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Camo Color Change Hat (loom knitting)

I wanted to make a hat with some color to practice loom knitted color changes. I asked my husband what he wanted, and he chose the camo colors and wanted a fold-over brim. I used all 64 pegs on the 1/2” Universal Hat & Scarf Loom to make this hat.

I did a k2 p2 rib brim before starting on my camo stitch pattern. All of my knit stitches used the u-wrap stitch, and the stitch pattern included slip stitches.

Valentine’s Day Loom Splurge

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I’m treating myself to looms for Valentine’s day. Yes, myself. I am my own admirer. 😉 Because I love to knit socks, I went with the FG1 76 peg loom and 7-peg end pairs. I almost went with the EFG0, but it’s so similar to my KB EFG that I didn’t think that it was worth the investment (yet). And for the more… Read more »

Ribbed Ankle Socks (loom knitting)

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Ribbed Ankle Socks (loom knitting)

I’m starting a project both to try out my new CinDWood Knitted Knocker looms. I was going to do these toe-up, but decided I needed more practice with the kitchener stitch, so they’re cuff-down.

I’m using the Ribbed Sock pattern from Isela Phelps’ Loom Knitting socks, and modifying it to ankle socks because Jeremy prefers ankle-length. I’m using Patons Kroy Socks (fingering) yarn in Grey Brown Marl and I didn’t want a stitch pattern that was too fancy hidden by the multicolored yarn. The ribbing will keep the ankle socks up while still showing off the colors.

02-10-2016

I finished the heel and laughed — the socks look just like sock monkey faces! All they need are eyes. 😀

Multicolored yarn makes my day.