This past week (?) has been a pretty productive one, knits wise. It helps that I've had a little more time than usual to just sit and do my thing, which I'm going to run out of as soon as I find another job, which saddens me a bit, but like, bills gots ta get paid, so...
First up is a little trio of dishcloths I made from some stash cotton:
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| This first, using a stitch called "banded basket weave" |
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| The second, in "diagonal scallops" |
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| The third, in "openwork mullion" |
All three are made from Lilly Sugar and Cream, which I know from having used these specific colorways before, but since neither of these balls came with the band, I don't know what the colorways are called. These dishcloths were part of an experiment I wanted to try where I just used stitches that I felt were unlikely to curl and see if I could make cloths without a garter border, because I find it really distracting to the overall design sometimes to have that little "frame" around "the real thing," if you understand what I'm trying to say. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Two out of three use slipped stitches and I wasn't completely certain until I'd swatched it whether the slipped stitches would help counteract curl or whether they'd encourage it, but it seems pretty clear that they work to beat the curl, so I was pretty pleased. I'm thinking about writing up my little experiment and posting it on my blog and maybe doing another sample cloth to take in-progress pictures with for the sake of a new PDF to download? I'll see what kind of time I have going forward.
I've also been working on some little toy foods for my daughter. I assumed we'd probably buy her something this year, since that's what we did last year, but I didn't count on still being out of work, so I dug in the stash and looked through my queue and found some things I'd actually wanted to work on while I was pregnant that fell to the side. First, I made her some strawberries:
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| In three sizes, for educational purposes |
And yeah, I know, they kind of look like peppers. I'm thinking of embroidering on some "seeds" and see if that improves it, but if I run out of time, I'm sure it'll be fine. When I was making them, she picked up the smallest one and said "berry," so I'm pretty sure she can tell what it's supposed to be.
And now I'm working on this:
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| It's a sugar cone |
I'm making her a series of ice cream cones, using the pattern Scooped by Marcie Nishioka. I've had it queued for years and never really had justification for toy ice cream before, but the brilliant thing about kids is that if you have them, or work with them, nobody questions why you have/make toys. "It's for the kids, of course!" Oh, *cough* yes. Of course. *weak laughter* But this really is actually part of her Christmas gifts this year. She has a little toy kitchen her cousins gave her earlier this year and she's got toy bowls and spoons to cook with, but no food. So I'm going to try and make as many toy foods as I can before Christmas, wrap it up, and give it to her. The nice thing about having a toddler is I can make it in front of her and it doesn't ruin the surprise, partly because she doesn't really look at what I'm making except for occasionally, and partially because of *course* it was always going to be for her. Everything always is, isn't it?
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