Okay, I totally can’t remember this girl’s name, but she was so cute and was so nice to pose for me I just had to post it. This is the scarf I knit mainly during the keynote speech at Simucon (I was listening! I swear!) and some during the evening afterward. I was so glad she got it, because a) it was the cheapest thing on the table, b) she snapped it up when several had been mulling it over, and c) it just looks so right on her!
You go with your fashion-diva self, girl!
On a side note, Iocanthe. Hee! Faaaabulous, darling!
I have a niece with a birthday on Saturday, and she asked for a blue felted bag. I showed her some patterns, and she picked the one with pockets. So I made the small version of the bag.
It didn’t go well.
When I got to the top of the body of the bag, I realized I’d picked up a stitch somewhere. There was an extra stitch on one side of the bag. This is a result of trying to knit while doing other things, and having to put it down every five minutes, thus losing track of what I’m doing. But I figured, well, it won’t show when I felt it, right? Right?
Wrong.
This is the size before felting. This is the size after felting.(Note also lopsidedness still showing.) Why is this a problem? Because I made one for her sister that is this size. There’s no book for scale, but suffice it to say that big sister’s took two and a half times as much yarn to make, and I think it would hit the top of the Olivia book. As anyone with siblings knows, you CAN’T give two similar gifts, one twice as big as the other, to kids and expect it not to make waves.
I can’t give this to her. Maybe my daughter will want it for playing dress-up. Now I gotta make another one, and I just flatly do not have time to do that and ship it to another city by Saturday. Well, it’ll have to be late. Hopefully she’ll understand. Because kids always understand when their birthday presents are late, right? Right?
Sigh.
