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I finished some mittens, to go with the hat.
There are more pictures, and details, on my blog. I’ve had so much fun with this, my first, knitalong. Thanks so much everyone!!
First of all, many thanks to everyone who commented about whether or not I should keep the “Shiver Me Timbers” phrase on this hat. Some people were hesitant about it, and I wasn’t sure about it myself, so it was frogged. Gone. I’m going to save the phrase for mittens instead! Anyway, here is the finished article:
There are a couple more photos on my blog .
I’ll post here again whenever I get started on the mittens. Meanwhile, “Long May Your Big Jib Draw”! Sorry, I can’t help myself. It’s the Maritimer in me.
“Shiver Me Timbers” is a phrase from Long John Silver. Should I keep it or frog it? It’s no problem to rip out 6 rows, I just need to decide now. It didn’t quite turn out like I envisioned it, so I don’t know. It’s for a 4 year old child. Thanks for any help!
Here is an update on my hat in progress. Work has been slow because I came down with a cold. Anyway, here it is:
I forgot to mention that I was doing this using the intarsia method, hence the blobs of yarn hanging down the back. More details are on my blog.
I’ve enjoyed reading about everyone’s finished projects. This has been a lot of fun so far. I may have to do mittens too!
There have been so many wonderful FOs so far, and I’m still playing with the colours. See?
Please go to my blog, if you want to know what the heck I’m doing the details. Wow, I’m having a hard time learning how to write these posts, especially linking photos!
Hi everyone! This is my first KAL signup, and I’m just getting the hang of it. When I registered with WordPress, I became a bit distracted by the words “your free blog is only clicks away”. I have always been a blogless person, but this seemed so easy. Besides, I had an “Eye Candy Friday” picture that I wanted to post. Well, I started to create my own blog on Friday, by Monday I had something resembling a blog. Eye Candy Friday was long over. (look I did italics, this is so exciting!) Oh, well, I’ll just have to hang on to the photo until this Friday.
Meanwhile, knitting was put aside. Blogland took over. However, I have finally started my KAL project. My nephews are big fans of anything to do with pirates. That gave me the idea to do a child’s hat. I’ll be using a Zoë Mellor pattern, with the We Call Them Pirates motif. The Zoë Mellor pattern uses cotton *gasp*, and I actually like the softness of cotton for a child. So, I’ll be using Rowan Handknit DK cotton. I’ve been playing around with colours and this is what I have so far; these are going to be the ear flaps:
My daughter thinks that this motif is way too scary. She says, “Can you make unicorns instead Mommy?” Uh, oh.
By the way, am I allowed to alter the pirate chart a bit? Do you see the diamond shape between the skulls? I was thinking of adding another one. So, two diamond shapes between the skulls. It’s something I’m mulling over. My new blog is here: http://loopyknitter.wordpress.com/ .
