The Witch Learns to Stitch

Well it is finished, I just need to get some buttons for it but I will get them on Thursday. You can tell which side I seamed first as the seam looks really bulky, but other then that I think I did pretty good for a first real garment hehehe. Doesn't Winnie look so smart in his cardigan and matching hat?

this is the bad seam on the left sleeve


and this the is good seam on the right sleeve



And if you were wondering the pattern for both the cardigan and the hat are from Baby Bloom by Erika Knight, I am now working on a cardigan for myself from the same book (I am so tempted to buy this book, I only have it on loan from the library).

And thankyou to AlyshaJane for the advice on the Rustica scarf, I still havn't gotten around to sewing in those ends though lol, atleast I have alot of time, wont be wearing it until April at the earliest, unless something goes totally coo coo and we get snow in Brisbane in Summer LMAO

Labels: hats, scarves, sweaters

Posted by Natasha at 11:22 am | Permalink | Comments

well I have nearly finished the hat (re: Pixie Hat), I need to do the pompom and am starting to think I might not do the icords to attatch to the ears as it will be for a newborn and may pose a strangulation thread and I am sure the lovely mummy to be would hate me for ever if that happened.

I have also started on the scarf that Shannon picked out the wool for, he actually did pretty good and chose a nice navy 100% wool yarn, this is after I had to talk him out of a pink mohair blend LMAO, he is such a boy isn't he? I am doing it in a 2x2 ribbing with some garter stitch at either end and a fringe, and I have to say I hate ribbing, but I am very proud of the fact that my stitches are so nice, normally when I knit I end up with tiny holes in the finished fabric but with this and the hat I can only see the holes if I hold it up to the light, YAY I am improoving, the yarn isn't shiny like in the picture, its 12am so had to use the flash, it is a dull navy (although I wouldn't mind something that looked like the photo LMAO...

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Posted by Natasha at 12:02 am | Permalink | Comments

The other week K-mart had a 15% off all yarns sale, so of course I couldn't resist, I got 2 balls of Patons Caressa 8 ply (I made some bed socks with that), and put 10 balls of Panda Rustica on layby and was planning to make a shawl out of it.

Anyway I got the layby on Friday and was so excited, I got home and after I had done what I needed to I was right into the yarn, ready to make a swatch. Only to discover that I thought it would make a horrible shawl! I really didn't like it at all. But I decided to try again, and started a scarf, didn't like it at first but as it got longer I liked it more and more. It sort of looks a bit like the brick work on buildings where they have randomly made some bricks larger or poking out more then others, and even though the whole thing is done in garter stitch, it looks like I have just randomly knitted and purled, its really crazy lol.

Anyway, 2 days later it is done, but I have a dilemma, to fringe or not to fringe? What do you think? Forgive the bad bathroom photo, it like 9pm and Garry is busy and I am impatient LMAO...

Labels: scarves

Posted by Natasha at 9:03 pm | Permalink | Comments