Eva’s stocking (and contents)

Posted on 12/28/2009 by Barb | Comments (1)
Filed under : Felting, Finished Objects, Gifts & Holidays, Knitting

Here's the stocking, and the projects alluded to earlier as getting finished up like crazy.

Felted stocking for Eva, with Harry Bear (pattern free from Berroco) and earflap cap with matching mittens (photos of both below).

First the stocking. Felted, a little fair isle, a little intarsia, nothing too ambitious but I’m pleased with the result.

I knitted the stocking using Cascade 220 (single strand) and size 11 needles, using just a basic sock pattern for proportions.

(A note about the intarsia section: When I came to the tree section, I put the stitches involved in the intarsia on a straight needle, leaving the rest on a circular. I worked the tree rows, left them on a holder, worked back and forth on the stitches on the circular needle until I had the same length as the tree panel, then put all the stitches back on the circular needle and continued in the round. When I was all done, I just stitched the panel in place and the seams disappear completely in the felting.)

(Oh, and just for the sake of documentation in case I ever want to make another, I did an afterthought heel.)

I took some photos along the way because the shrinkage during felting always seems like such a guessing game. So I wanted to record just exactly what happened.

Measurements before felting: 28" long x 10" wide at ankle
Measurements after felting: 20" long x 7.25" wide at ankle

And stuffed inside a fluffy white Harry Bear, about 7 inches or so long,

and snowflake cap and mittens set.

Whew! Best Christmas ever!

Finished: Lace Panel Gloves

Posted on 12/11/2009 by Barb | Comments (0)
Filed under : Finished Objects, Knitting

I have been finishing up projects like crazy but not getting much blogging done! Here are my Lace Panel Gloves, designed by Lisa Hoffman and published in the Fall 2009 issue of Vogue Knitting. This issue has lots and lots of pages with little yellow sticky-notes marking patterns I would l-o-v-e to make!

I used Wollmeise. I had never used this yarn before but it is very beautiful and so easy to work with, and I think the gloves have a very nice fluid drape to them, which you really can't see in the photo of course. I'm so very pleased with myself ... this is the first pair of gloves I've made. Thank you, Deb, for introducing me to this yarn.