2 posts tagged “knit”

I finally get to post the BIG project that kept me busy during April/May:
Ahhh, so nice to have them done! The more I completed the parts the easier it was to read the japanese patterns. I was also able to 'decode' some of the text, too! I learned as well - that I super suck at embroidery and when you are one stitch extra it really shows. The frog was the very very first one I crocheted. I'm afraid his eyes don't match...neither do his arms. (which are put on a little crooked...ssshh!)
The zebra was the hardest of all, the mane took a while as well. Tried to do a black and white zebra in the beginning but soon learned that black yarn is pretty hard to see. The lion is my absolute fave and being the last one I made he is the most refined. Good to know my technique is getting better!
Oh...that mushroom hiding in the back? Erm...as I said I'm no good at embroidery so he looks a little cracked out.
I used Red Heart worsted for all the amigurumi except the little red bear which is made from Patons merino wool. I used Yarn Bee Elf in Mocha for the lion's mane using surface crochet. I think I like using wool the best, as the slight fuzziness hides the sc2togs really well.
After six failed attempts knitting My So Called Scarf I gave a go at Danica. I never thought I would get this far! I'm still astounded at my progress. Would you believe it took three tries for me to get entrelac? Patons SWS is easy, at least for me, to work with. I haven't had ANY problems with it being splitty. Once this is done I'm going to do one with SWTC's Karaoke. I've got 7 balls of this gorgeous stuff! I had a little problem with two of the skeins. I first ordered the yarn from www.kpixie.com and threw it into the stash for the day I was ready for entrelac. When I pulled it out, after two months, I noticed that two of them were short - by a lot. I weighed them and they were short 5 and 6 grams! I contacted SWTC and they replaced two of them, with two extra ones cause they sort of forget about me during TNNA!  I wonder if anyone else had any problems like this with kpixie.com...