Thursday, June 16, 2011

More knitting!

I have been busy knitting a couple of smaller things since I finished working on the baby blanket. I will post pictures of that once I have given it to it's recipient.

The first photo is a little knitted hat with a knitted rose for my friend's daughter for her third birthday. I had the joy of giving it to her this morning and she seemed excited, though maybe a little reluctant to wear it for any length of time. I know it's not really toque season, but I am sure it'll fit her for a while. When I first started it, I thought it would be miles to big, but it actually fit her quite well!


I just wanted to experiment when I found a pattern for how to make a knitted rose.  It turned out really well and I am sure I will try it again.  The only complaint I had was that the knitting for the rose got really tight toward the end, so it was a little bit challenging to finish it.  But I think it had a nice finished result!  I sewed the rose onto a hair clip so that it could be removable from the hat and that worked quite well!


I also decided after finding a cute pattern for puppy slippers that I wanted to make them for my friend's son.  I did some modifications because the pattern I found was supposed to be made with fuzzy/furry yarn and I find it difficult to work with.  I decided to make a gray and black dog, but in the end I think it looks something more like a cross between a puppy and a mouse.  Oh well, I still think they turned out fairly well, and they fit!



I decided to use the leftover grey and black yarn to make my dad a pair of slippers for father's day.  Not puppy/mouse slippers, just a simple pattern for knit slippers that reminds me a little of ones that my grandma may have made years ago.  I finished one slipper and have the second one about half done.  I think I am going to run out of gray...d'oh!  Maybe I will buy another ball of grey yarn and make another pair of puppy slippers for someone.  I also was thinking of making a baby hat with the leftover yarn from the baby blanket to go with the blanket.  We'll see how I am feeling after all this.  My arms are feeling a little stiff/sore after so much knitting in the last week or two!

2 comments:

Jason said...

Hokie Dina! You went and got talented at that! Might have to enlist you to make some baby stuff (for us, but also for when I do baby shoots and they don't have cute little hats, etc. We'll talk about it later (prices, etc.) Great job.

Angie said...

Thanks! I still feel like I am a rather amateur knitter, just always on the lookout for cute/easy patterns.

The plus side to making baby/kid stuff is that it is small and it doesn't usually take as long as stuff for grown ups. The slippers only took me a day and a half or so of intermittent work. That hat on the other hand, probably took me the better part of a week.

I would love to make stuff for your baby or photos. Just need time. I would at some point like to try making stuffed animals, but I think they are easier to crochet, which I have yet to learn.