{made} — recycled madeleine shawl. Love how this recycled cotton turned out (Knit One Crochet Too 2nd Time Cotton), this shawl is so soft yet has some sturdiness to it. Was trying to use up stash yarn but was running low on the main turquoise color so I threw in a grey stripe. I was debating for a while but now that it’s done I really love the stripe. The picot edging was simple to work while the piece was knitted and added a nice finishing touch. Pattern is from the book Vintage Modern Knits.

{made} — recycled madeleine shawl.

Love how this recycled cotton turned out (Knit One Crochet Too 2nd Time Cotton), this shawl is so soft yet has some sturdiness to it. Was trying to use up stash yarn but was running low on the main turquoise color so I threw in a grey stripe. I was debating for a while but now that it’s done I really love the stripe. The picot edging was simple to work while the piece was knitted and added a nice finishing touch.

Pattern is from the book Vintage Modern Knits.

10/05/2011 knitting fiber art shawl scarf recycled cotton
{made} — petal baby bibs. So many friends and family having little ones this year! I’ve been busy making lots of baby related things, here are two knitted petal bibs that I made in a light sky blue and grass green.  Learned a lot from this little bib pattern, was the first time I’ve done short rows with wrapping stitches, also making an I-cord. So, it was a great learning experience and it ended up turning out quite cute. I did pick up the tails of all the ends and knitted them in with the working yarn for a few stitches, even when joining the petals together, this made for hardly no ends to weave in which was wonderful. This is a great fast pattern when you don’t have a lot of time or if you have a lot of baby gifts to do…  The pattern is from the book: One Skein by Leigh Radford.   {photography: Jill Cannon} 

{made} — petal baby bibs.

So many friends and family having little ones this year! I’ve been busy making lots of baby related things, here are two knitted petal bibs that I made in a light sky blue and grass green. 

Learned a lot from this little bib pattern, was the first time I’ve done short rows with wrapping stitches, also making an I-cord. So, it was a great learning experience and it ended up turning out quite cute.

I did pick up the tails of all the ends and knitted them in with the working yarn for a few stitches, even when joining the petals together, this made for hardly no ends to weave in which was wonderful.

This is a great fast pattern when you don’t have a lot of time or if you have a lot of baby gifts to do… 

The pattern is from the book: One Skein by Leigh Radford.  

{photography: Jill Cannon} 

07/30/2010 knitting homemade baby bib petal bib cotton
made — vintage kitchen towels These three knitted kitchen towels were mother’s day presents this year. Usually the thought of knitting a kitchen towel sounds so boring and lame, but this pattern looked so fun and unique I had to give it a try. And, I love them! I see myself making a few more in the future because they are so quick and easy to do — It helps that every RS row is a decrease row, speeding up the project as you go along making it fly by! I used Debbie Bliss Pure Cotton yarn because it was so ridiculously soft and came in such beautiful colors, but I was pretty disappointed in the quality especially for the price. It had a lot of pilling while working with it and 5 out of the 7 balls of yarn I used for these towels had multiple joining knots in them — making it really difficult to hide because they always tend to pop-up in the most inconvenient places. One 50g ball of yarn was enough though for the bottom portion of the towel. Definitely get two balls of yarn for the top contrasting color, you will be able to get two towels out of them. This really simple and quick pattern is from Canadian Living, give it a try! {photography: Jill Cannon}

made — vintage kitchen towels

These three knitted kitchen towels were mother’s day presents this year. Usually the thought of knitting a kitchen towel sounds so boring and lame, but this pattern looked so fun and unique I had to give it a try. And, I love them! I see myself making a few more in the future because they are so quick and easy to do — It helps that every RS row is a decrease row, speeding up the project as you go along making it fly by!

I used Debbie Bliss Pure Cotton yarn because it was so ridiculously soft and came in such beautiful colors, but I was pretty disappointed in the quality especially for the price. It had a lot of pilling while working with it and 5 out of the 7 balls of yarn I used for these towels had multiple joining knots in them — making it really difficult to hide because they always tend to pop-up in the most inconvenient places. One 50g ball of yarn was enough though for the bottom portion of the towel. Definitely get two balls of yarn for the top contrasting color, you will be able to get two towels out of them.

This really simple and quick pattern is from Canadian Living, give it a try!

{photography: Jill Cannon}

05/24/2010 knitting, handmade towels kitchen home cotton mother's day