Sometimes I wish that designing knitting patterns took more knitting and less, well, everything else.
You see that chart up there? I’m irrationally proud of it because I’ve spent the last three days working on it. Making this chart involved teaching myself a new software program (Inkscape, which if you’re not familiar, is a freeware version of vector programs like Illustrator) and then staring at my monitor while copying each little square, referring back to my hand-drawn chart and the actual knitted mitten the whole time. [continue reading …]
So back at Rhinebeck, I bought to skeins of this incredible Transitions yarn from Gypsy Girl Creations and have been working on plain stockinette socks with it over the last few days, as a “palette cleanser” project. I am completely mesmerized by the changing color on this yarn, and wish I knew how the artist created it! So unusual.
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Last night I finished knitting this second Eldridge hat and washed it, leaving it to block dry overnight. This morning, it was all ready for its debut!
For this second hat, I used Malabrigo Worsted instead of the Madelinetosh, and the result is a squishier, drapier hat. The Vintage has more body and therefore flops down a bit less than the Malabrigo, but the difference doesn’t matter much for the design.
The color I used is Rattan (color number 504), which is a really pretty straw yellow with almost no color variation. I wanted to see the hat in an almost-solid color so that the lace would really shine through, which I think it really does in this one!
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I was in Knitty City recently and fell in love with a skein of Madelinetosh ToshVintage in the color Celadon. It told me immediately that it wanted to be a slouchy lace hat (what? don’t tell me that yarn doesn’t talk to you this way!) and before I knew it, I had sketched, swatched, and finished this design!
I’ve decided to name it Eldridge, after one of the streets in my neighborhood here in NYC, and today I’m releasing it into the wild. I hope you like it!
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by Ivete Tecedor on January 11, 2012
in knitting
I think I’d known Dave for about a month when he first asked me to knit him a sweater. He has a thing for silly sweaters and as we talked about what kind of sweater he wanted, we came up with the idea to knit all our pets into it. How’s that for silly? In fact, he floated the idea that he get a sweater covered in dachshunds and that Arnold should get one covered in Daves. I may still knit that sweater for Arnold actually . . .
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