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Green Diaper Cover / Soaker, NB (knitting)

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Green Diaper Cover / Soaker, NB (knitting)

Used a 100g ball of Knit Picks WoTA almost EXACTLY. I was really pushing it with the leg cuffs, but I just barely made it. Next time I will use a complementary color on the waistband and leg cuffs – which also means I can get longer legs too.

04-18-2016

It has been lanolized, and repels water (even with what looked like it was a too-loose weave with the pattern gauge)!

Now to sew on a button for the umbilical snap-down >.<

04-19-2016

Button has been sewn, and it’s officially done!

Baby Flax (knitting)

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This newborn sweater surprised me by just BARELY working up using just a single 100g ball of Knit Picks Mighty Stitch.

Took me a while to finish because I had to wait for my US6 and US8 DPNs to arrive.

Stitchionary – Stockinette Stitch 3 ways (loom knitting)

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Stitchionary - Stockinette Stitch 3 ways (loom knitting)

Stockinette stitch done using 3 different knit methods: true knit, u-wrap, and flat stitch.

Please see my note below the pattern to understand why the e-wrap does not produce the knit stitch – it works just fine as a pattern modification, but makes a different stitch called the twisted knit stitch.

See all my loom-knit Stitchionary swatch projects here.

Loom Knitting Pattern:

This pattern works for both flat panels and round circular tubes

Knit methods: true knit, u-wrap, or flat stitch

  • Cast on desired number of pegs
  • Row 1: knit every peg using chosen method
  • Repeat Row 1 until desired length reached
  • Bind off

Please note: The e-wrap does NOT make the knit stitch, it produces a different stitch called the twisted knit stitch!

While there is nothing wrong with using the e-wrap to replace knit stitches in your work with twisted knit stitches, your end result will look different than an actual knit stitch – it will produce a twisted stockinette stitch pattern instead.

Due to ease-of-use, many loom knitters prefer using the twisted knit stitch / e-wrap as their default knit stitch. This is fine to do, but the problem is they often write patterns calling this stitch a “knit stitch” when it’s actually a different stitch. Please check your patterns carefully and look for the twist in the finished product image to determine whether they intend to mean “twisted knit”/”e-wrap” when they call for “knit” stitches.

True knit, u-wrap, and flat stitch all produce the actual “knit” stitch – they just use different methods that often produce different tensions. This is much like people who needle knit continental style vs english style – they use two different ways to produce the same stitch, but one knitter might prefer one or the other due to comfort, convenience, or more consistent tension.

Because these methods produce the same knitting stitch, you can not tell who used continental needle knitting, english needle knitting, portuguese needle knitting, true knit loom knitting, u-wrap loom knitting, or flat stitch loom knitting — because the end product is always the same stitch. Not true with the e-wrap/twisted knit, because it produces a new stitch that looks different than the actual knit stitch.

Stitchionary – Twisted Stockinette Stitch (loom knitting)

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Stitchionary - Twisted Stockinette Stitch (loom knitting)

See all my loom-knit Stitchionary swatch projects here.

Loom Knitting Pattern:

This pattern works for both flat panels and round circular tubes

  • Cast on desired number of pegs
  • Row 1: ewrap every peg
  • Repeat Row 1 until desired length reached
  • Bind off

Please note: The e-wrap does NOT make the knit stitch, it produces a different stitch called the twisted knit stitch!

While there is nothing wrong with using the e-wrap to replace knit stitches in your work with twisted knit stitches, your end result will look different than an actual knit stockinette stitch.

Due to ease-of-use, many loom knitters prefer using the twisted knit stitch / ewrap as their default knit stitch. This is fine to do, but the problem is they often write patterns calling this stitch a “knit stitch” when it’s actually a different stitch. Please check your patterns carefully and look for the twist in the finished product image to determine whether they intend to mean “twisted knit”/”ewrap” when they call for “knit” stitches.

True knit, u-wrap, and flat stitch all produce the actual “knit” stitch – they just use different methods that often produce different tensions. This is much like people who needle knit continental style vs english style – they use two different ways to produce the same stitch, but one knitter might prefer one or the other due to comfort, convenience, or more consistent tension.

Because these methods produce the same knitting stitch, you can not tell who used continental needle knitting, english needle knitting, portuguese needle knitting, true knit loom knitting, u-wrap loom knitting, or flat stitch loom knitting — because the end product is always the same stitch. Not true with the e-wrap/twisted knit, because it produces a new stitch that looks different than the actual knit stitch.

Stitchionary – Stockinette Stitch, ewrap (loom knitting)

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Swatch made on 24 pegs of the AKB 10” knitting board, which is a 3/8” peg spacing loom. You can do this project on any loom, on any number of pegs.

Pattern:

Worked as a flat panel. You will be knitting in opposite directions (left to right and right to left) on each row.

Use a ruler to measure the number of stitches per inch, using the center area of your knitting so you don’t have errors due to curling edges. You may need to pin or weigh down your knitting so it stays flat.

For better accuracy, measure 4 inches of stitches, then divide that number by 4 to get your stitches per inch.

CinDWood Preorder Kiddo Looms

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I had a few March preorders from CinDWood that arrived early on Friday! These were all Child and Baby looms – a baby hat, child hat, and infant-toddler sock looms in both 1/4″ and 3/8″ gauges. This rounds up my CinDWood fine gauge looms to sizes for Adult Hats, Adult Small Hats, Child Hats, and Baby Hats – along with… Read more »

Kitty Ear Headband – RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

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Kitty Ear Headband - RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

A less wintery version of cat ears for my RedditGifts Colors 2016 match, in her favorite color (yellow).

I started this in the round on my new KISS SG loom, but frogged it after finding purling too tedious for the garter stitch. I cast the yarn on straight needles instead and it’s working up much faster.

I cast on 20 stitches of light weight/3 yarn, which ended up being almost 4” across. I intend to seam it into a tube so I can insert a 1” elastic after adding ears.

Showered with KISSes!

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The KISSes are here! Yes, it took a while longer than the CinDWood looms (I ordered my KISS looms on Feb 10th, and received them on Feb 25th), but the delay is largely due to the KISS sale that was running for Valentine’s day. Let’s take a look at the looms: Fine Gauge 1 / FG1: Of course, I “needed”… Read more »

Kitty Hat – RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

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Kitty Hat - RedditGifts Colors 2016 (knitting)

I started this project without swatching, and ended up with a hat that was WAY too wide. So, using that mistake as my swatch, I started over with a much better fitting hat.

The goal is to make a square shaped hat and stitch triangles in the corners for “ears”, so when the hat is worn it looks like kitty ears.

They are meant to match my Kitty Paws project.

Kitty Paws – RedditGifts Colors 2016 (loom knitting)

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Kitty Paws - RedditGifts Colors 2016 (loom knitting)

A pair of kitten (fingerless) mittens for my RedditGifts Colors 2016 match! They indicated their favorite color was yellow and that they were eyeballing some cat ears on etsy, so I decided to make them a set of yellow tabby fingerless gloves.

I googled a chart for a pawprint that would fit on half of the pegs of my 36-peg 3/8” fine gauge CinDWood glove loom that I just received this week.

About midway through the pawprint pattern, I stopped working in the round and started working a flat panel to create a thumb hole. Because I was working fingers-down on the project, I was able to insert my hand into the project to test and see if the thumb hole was large enough before I closed the project back up and worked in the round again.

The cuff is 10 rows of k1p1 rib using true knits, and the body is 5 rows of yellow in u-wrap followed by 5 rows of white in u-wrap.

02-19-2016

Added a single crochet border with white fur yarn and it feels fantastic.

I attempted to double stitch the paw pattern to make it have more contrast, but unfortunately I didn’t like it and when cutting yarn to remove it, snipped part of the glove. I did my best to repair the hole and it seems to look fine, if a bit bulky where I repaired it.