green garter baby throw

Here's to finishing a second baby throw! I knit the last two weekends straight to get this finished - unfortunately the photos aren't great but I'm hoping to get some better ones in the days to come. The throw is actually baby-mint-green and a gorgeous plum-purple colour for the third Feather & Fan repeat and bind-off.

The dimensions are the same: 36" x 38" in worsted weight acrylic on 8.00mm circular needles.

Now onto non-baby knitting ...

garter baby throw

Coming up at the beginning of June is a Baby Shower for two friends who are both due in June. One is having a boy, the other a girl. Back in December, I bought some 100% acrylic yard that were good baby colours to be eventually knit into baby throws for my two friends. I finished the first one while we were driving down to Anacortes, Washington, on Friday evening. Lets just say, I was/am stoked to have this finished since it has been a 5-month project.

I came home tonight to see the Tweed Baby Blanket that brooklyntweed created and it's beautiful - and I really love the effect of the garter stitch knit on the diagonal compared to the straight square like mine.

I'm actually really happy with my finished project but I was taken by surprise when I saw his because I had, like him, completely made it up as I went along! I was actually flipping through old Barbara Walker Treasury books before we drove out on Friday trying to decided how to finish it and stumbled on one of my favourite old lace patterns: Feather & Fan.

The finished dimensions of the project on 8.00mm circulars (for both the garter and lace) is 36' x 38' out of relatively cheap acrylic. I didn't want either Mom to be afraid of throwing this in the washer or dryer. Now to finish the other one ...

o w l s

It has been a while. I have found getting back into the swing of things these past two weeks has been difficult. I have been looking forward to the Spring because I was really hoping that life would start to slow down a little bit. It hasn't. If anything, I think we are busier now than we were in the Winter. And to think, I'm not balancing school right now on top of work! There has not been much creativity around here. I have managed to paint my wheel with the first coat of oak stain - but I forgot my camera at home (the wheel is currently living in Mom & Dad's garage) so I can't share what it looks like just yet. The oak stain, thus far, is warm - I'm very happy with it.

It has been a long time coming but I wanted to share a couple of finished project photos of o w l s by Kate Davies. I knit this very quickly and finished over two months ago. I have not worn it and plan to rip it out to re-knit it this summer.

The pattern is a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Kate did a great job and I would not shy away from knitting another Kate Davies pattern - I would probably rush right in again (just like I did this time). However, because I rushed in and didn't take into consideration that I don't have broad shoulders and don't need a lot of waist shaping ... well, it has ended up bagging out so much between my shoulder blades that it unwearable.

Ironically, when I turn the sweater around and wear it backwards, the "problem" is fixed. So, that is what I am going to do next time: knit two fronts by omitting the waist shaping. My favourite store bought pullover sweaters have no waist shaping so why meddle with a good thing?

I chose to knit this in Cascade Ecological Wool in colourway 8063 (brown). It's very gray, which I love and it was a good choice for this project. Gauge was slightly off though, so be forewarned to need to take that into consideration but I would definitely chose it again.

I suppose I should get back to work ... may everyone have a good Victoria Day long weekend!