March 2007 – Knitting Box

Up to no good

Thank you for the lovely comments on the scarf! 🙂 My brother in law seems to like it too. (He’d better like it! 🙂 )

Here’s something else I’ve been up to…

The inspiration for this basket came from the cover of this issue of Cotton Time (the cute basket at bottom left corner, only I made mine bigger) and this fabric basket from the Crafter’s Companion book. I’m so very happy with this, it’s like a combination of my favourite fabrics of the moment.

Dimensions: 11 inches tall, 10 inches diameter. It’s big enough to carry all my knitting WIPs (well, the ones in active rotation anyway), so that they’re not all over the living room. Hubby is also pleased with this basket, he’s particularly enthusiastic about being able to find a place to sit again 😉

Sides and bottom fortified by Timtex. No more floppy sides this time!

It has a drawstring top…

… and lots of pockets on the inside. For needles, notions, etc.

28 March 2007

Old MacDonald had a scarf

Ee i ee i Ooooo!

And on that scarf he had some cables, ee i ee i oooooo…

With a cable here, and a cable there. Here a cable, there a cable, everywhere a cable.

Old MacDonald had a scarf, ee i ee i ooooooo!

Pattern: Here and there cables scarf by Norah Gaughan, from Scarf Style
Yarn: Filatura Di Crosa Zara in off white, 4 balls
Needles: 4mm straights

Modification: Made to be a bit narrower on recipient’s (hubby’s brother) request. So only three repeats per row instead of four.

Phew, that was a LOT of cables. I think I’ll take a break from cabling after this. Perhaps some lace? That would be nice I think. I do love the look of these cables, though. Really ingenious. I wouldn’t even know how to begin thinking up cables as intricate as this. I love how, from certain angles, the cables look like a flowing stream of water. Really befitting Norah Gaughan, I thought, what with her book Knitting Nature where knitting patterns take inspiration from nature.

26 March 2007

Goodies

Last Friday Belinda, Corrie, and I had a little get-together. We talked about knitting, fabrics, and blogs — topics dear to my heart. Corrie gifted me a lovely Hello Kitty fabric, and Belinda gave me this adorable pouch that she made.

How cute is that! She said this pouch is one of her “seconds” as it is a bit “flawed”. I don’t know what she’s talking about, as this is gorgeous. I looove the fabric (close-ups here and here), I have been admiring this fabric ever since I saw it at Superbuzzy. It’s very well made too. If this is the quality of her “seconds”, imagine how good the pouches that she puts in her shop. Go there and check her out, she will be adding more pouches in the next few weeks.

This is one roomy pouch. It can fit two skeins of sock yarn comfortably, and even my Here And There Cables scarf in progress (almost done, just one more ball to go), complete with the 30cm long straight needles that I’m knitting it with.

Thank you very much for the pouch, Belinda! I love it. Even just looking at it makes me happy 🙂

7 March 2007