{"id":752,"date":"2006-01-06T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2006-01-06T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T11:47:00","slug":"knitting-list-so-far-for-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Knitting list so far for 2006."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more Tvini's List o' Pending Knit Stuff.--><\/p>\n<p><b>* 33 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearwithstyle.com\/hat5.html\">Jayne hats.<\/a><\/b>  &#8216;Nuff said.  I&#8217;m also packaging up four Jayne knitting kits today, but that&#8217;s not knitting, so it doesn&#8217;t really count in the list.<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 matching Jayne scarf<\/b>  (she picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/scarfthoughts2.jpg\">one of the two patterns on the left<\/a> and said &#8220;surprise me.&#8221;)  She&#8217;s getting #2, because a) I think it&#8217;s a little more visually interesting, and b) I use less red on the Jayne hats than any other color, so I&#8217;ve got more of that in stock.  I figure I&#8217;ll do it double-knit instead of in the round.  That&#8217;s *K1, bring yarn to front and sl1 purlwise, bring yarn to back; repeat from * across.  It makes stockinette on both sides.  You&#8217;re effectively knitting a tube on straight needles.  I&#8217;ve just got the one set of 10 1\/2 addis, and I&#8217;d like to be able to continue knitting hats whlie I work on this scarf.  The wearer is six feet tall, and she wants it long, so this one may take a while.<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 Harry Potter scarf.<\/b>  I hear these take freakin&#8217; forever.  I&#8217;m glad to do it, but this may be another that gets worked on between projects.  It&#8217;s in line, I&#8217;ll start it when the number comes up.  I&#8217;ve learned that gift knitting is more likely to get done if I put it in line like it&#8217;s a paid order.  Which, actually, it is.  It&#8217;s one of these where I&#8217;m cutting them a little deal.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 purse for my sister-in-law,<\/b> who loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booboomonkey.com\/tvini\/Briannabag2.jpg\">the one I made for my niece.<\/a>  Extra-bonus-gratification for me because apparently, while it was a gift from mid-year last year, my niece still carries it everywhere.  My sister-in-law is paying, although I&#8217;m not charging her what I would charge a stranger.  She says she wants it just like that one (but I&#8217;m assuming without the &#8220;Brianna&#8221;, but in blue, although I&#8217;d still like to make a few modifications to it.  I&#8217;d rather not knit the same piece twice.  I do see the irony, considering I&#8217;m knitting hundreds of identical hats.  She&#8217;s in line with the Jayne hats, so this can wait until her number comes up.<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 purse for my kid&#8217;s kindergarten teacher.<\/b>  Note that my kid is now in first grade.  I&#8230; uh&#8230; kind of promised to do this last Spring, so I&#8217;d like to get it done soon.  She picked pink, felted, with a wide strip of novelty yarn on it.  I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;ll put purple behind the novelty yarn to give it a little more visual interest, and I think I&#8217;ll also put a pocket on the side for cell phone, and maybe one inside for license or credit card.  Also, maybe a little purple piping at the edges, and a more square shape.  At least I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/pinkswatchfelted.jpg\">swatched for it<\/a> already, and I did cast on the other day.<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 scarf for my father&#8217;s roommate<\/b>.  She likes blue and green, and is looking to add a little flash to her wardrobe.  I&#8217;m thinking about using some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/loopyhanddyed.jpg\">this hand dyed big loopy mohair<\/a> that I got off of eBay a while ago.  Or possibly re-selling it.  It&#8217;s very pretty, but I have no clue what I thought I&#8217;d do with it when I bought it.  Damn you, eBay!<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 hat for my father<\/b>.  I have NO CLUE what type to make, and I&#8217;m fretting about it.  He wears <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natashascafe.com\/html\/sailorcap.html\">Greek Fisherman Caps<\/a> so something in that style, but what?  I just can&#8217;t see him in a toboggan.<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 scarf for <lj user=houseofdanie><\/b>, who bought me yarn in 2004 and asked me to make her something with it.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Danietrendsetter.jpg\">Trendsetter Charming in purple and olive and Trendsetter Metal in black<\/a>. Ignore the camoflaugey fuzzy bit.  I thought I&#8217;d try it with a little mohair for body.  It was an utter failure, from a color perspective.  Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarn.com\/yarns-knitting\/kidMohair.html\">colorway 606, also known as &#8220;swamp.&#8221;<\/a>  I guess I can strand them together for a straight garter-stitch scarf, but this person tends to pick more purpley things.  But then, she did pick the yarn, so I guess I should just do it and see how it turns out, eh?  She also reads this journal.  (Hi, <lj user=houseofdanie>!)<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 baby thing for a co-worker<\/b> who, obviously, had a baby.  I had already bought yarn, thinking she was going to have a boy.  But nooooo, she had to go and have a girl.  And a little early, to boot!  I totally lost on the baby pool, lemme tell ya.  I picked up some more yarn last night, and am now trying to decide whether to make a larger garment, or two smaller ones.  Since the baby&#8217;s already here, I may even just go with hat.  Her other son did seem to appreciate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/dinohat1a.jpg\">his dinosaur hat.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/dinohat3a.jpg\">Side view.<\/a>  He apparently immediately started terrorizing the dogs, pretending to be a monster.  Oddly enough, this has been the <i>exact same<\/i> response from everyone who has gotten one of these hats, from toddler to teen.  Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionfalls.com\/WoolFrame.html\">Mission Falls 1824 wool<\/a> is coming back, I think I&#8217;m going to rework the hat to use that yarn, since it&#8217;s machine washable.  Might even make the pattern available, if I get time.<\/p>\n<p><b>* 1 scarf for <lj user=Tyrathia>.<\/b>  This one&#8217;s actually about 2\/3 done.  I posted last week about my klutziness in spilling milk on her scarf.  I mentioned that rinsing it to get the crustiness out had given a hint of what the pattern would look like blocked.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Tyrathiascarfpattern.jpg\">Here&#8217;s a closeup of it after its rinse.<\/a>  Nice and soft, with a good drape, too.  Excellent yardage, to boot.  I&#8217;d definitely work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnmarket.com\/yarn\/South_West_Trading_Company_Yarn-Bamboo_Yarn-1246.html\">South West Trading Company bamboo yarn<\/a> again.  Also, based on a sample I saw at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteyarn.com\/\">Charlotte Yarn<\/a>, Southwest Trading Company&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getknitted.com\/acatalog\/South_Western_Trading_Company.html\">Karaoke,<\/a> 50% soy, 50% wool, felts fantastically.  I want to try that, too.<\/p>\n<p>Holy moly, that&#8217;s a hella long bunch of text.  I need a way to post thumbnails and do formatting, so it&#8217;s not so&#8230; droning.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m leaving projects out, but it&#8217;s just not coming to me at the moment.  I&#8217;m knitting like a fiend to get caught up, though, and so far I&#8217;m slightly ahead on the hats.  That&#8217;ll give me a little leeway to do lengthier projects, like that 6 foot scarf.  No rest for the wicked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}