Bunny Nugget
March 17, 2010
Just in time for Easter… I love this pattern (so fast! so simple!) and I finally found a use for this ridiculous hairy pink acrylic yarn. Finn named her new bunny Hoppity Hop.
Yarn
October 19, 2008
I like to support my local knitting store, but knitting can be an expensive habit. There are some beautiful yarns out there (although my preference is to see the pattern rather than the yarn) and I can’t afford any of them. I just bought 5 skeins of Brown Sheep’s Cotton Fleece on Little Knits at 40% off. Here’s the thing about Brown Sheep’s Cotton Fleece: it is the perfect yarn! It feels nice to knit with, it doesn’t pill, and as the woman in my local yarn store says, it has good stitch definition. And you can wash it. And it comes in lots of colors.
New Knitting Projects
October 5, 2008
Today it finally got cold (autumn! I love autumn!) so I made a list of my future knitting projects, but since I only have the yarn for two of these projects, those are the only ones I’ll describe here. In case I don’t actually get to the other projects, and plus it’s good to save something for a future blog.
The first is a cardigan for Finn, who needs a cardigan that she can wear to school. Which means it has to be washable.
And the other project is a scarf that was supposed to be for David, and the color of the yarn is so David, and it would be so wonderful to knit something for him… but I realized that there’s no way he can wear a wool scarf. So now it’ll be a scarf for me, and we’ll get some nice smushy cotton acrylic for David and then I can knit him a scarf out of that instead.
Just so you know, the yarn was $10 a skein, but I figured max. 3 skeins for Finn’s cardigan. So that’s not too bad. Still affordable. But I spent $2 a button! Ack! I had a credit at one of the local knitting stores. And, seriously, how cool are those buttons?
Finn’s Green Sweater
September 26, 2008
In April, I started knitting. My friend Paul has theorized that the proliferation of new knitters has to do with the bad economy, and he may be right. But knitting is not necessarily inexpensive. Particularly if you really love yarn, because nice yarn is not cheap! And I’m told that if you end up getting really into knitting, it’s because of the yarn.
The first things I knit (a scarf and a matching red hat) were knitted in icky feeling acrylic yarn that I got at a hobby store. The next thing, a top-down raglan sweater for Finn, was knitted with cotton fleece – ahhhhh, that is nice to knit with.
It took three months to knit that sweater, but I have produced an actual article of clothing that can be worn. And here’s the thing: it looks so much better than kids’ clothes that you can buy. For one thing, I wanted a wide neckline because Finn has kind of an enormous head for a three year old (and three year olds have enormous heads in general in proportion to their bodies), And I wanted a ribbed neckline and sleeves and hem. And it’s soft. And it’s a nice color. Not a pastel baby color or an overly-enthusiastic color that screams “I’m a kid!” And it’s not striped, and it doesn’t have Winnie-the-Pooh on it.
Now, I spent all of $27 on the yarn (and I even have some left over), but if you count my time (and I’m giving Finn a cut rate of $75/hour), this is a $6027 sweater.
