Finally, some progress!
I have no pictures, sadly, at the moment…but hope to get them up soon.
First off, I did finish my first project that required picking up stitches. I have shied away from those types of projects (we will pretend I don’t have a fully knitted Hey Teach that I haven’t seamed together yet!) where I have to pick up stitches or seam. This one I have to do both! I did pick up the stitches but have not seamed yet. The picking up of the stitches actually turned out way better than I expected it to…and the seaming is such a small portion of the project I don’t really see it giving me much grief.
My friend Marie had VERY premature twins and they are finally both home. I am making them matching Ribbed Baby Jackets. I did a lot of researching the forums on Ravelry and found a couple of posts about specifically picking up stitches for this project. I found a blog post today that does a really good job of figuring out how to calculate, and why, what your ratio of picked up stitches is. Of course it is knitting goddess Amy Swenson, and it is a post from last month but oh how I think I will refer back to it.
My brother also called me out of the blue over the weekend and asked if I could make a friend of his some gloves. Once again, a project that I have never delved into before, but I am going for it. I am using a heavily modified version of Deborah Newton’s Garter-Cuff Gloves and Mittens from Weekend Knitting. It’s a fun knit so far.
At least I have a little more focus now. I have to finish another of the Baby Jackets and finish the fingers on the gloves and get moving on glove 2. Let’s hope it works out the way I plan it to!
Tags : baby knits, Christmas, gloves