Let me start by saying that when my kids were young I didn’t let them have velcro shoes until they could tie their own laces, and they couldn’t have digital watches until they could tell time on an analog watch and calculators came AFTER they’d learned the basics of math. So it sorta makes sense that I was feeling a little…oh, I don’t know… not really like I was cheating, but somehow like I was missing the basics by skipping to magic loop and 2 circs and not learning DPNs. They frustrated me. My worked looked wonky… and I’m a bit of a perfectionist which I know is futile in knitting, but there you go…
Soooo I learned magic loop and 2 circs and was happily finishing hats that looked pretty nice for the most part until…~SCREECHING HALT~ I got my Addis. I ordered 16 inches in size 3 and 4 needles. All well and good, but I forgot about the top of the hat. :shock: I considered waiting to make something till I got another set or longer circs or something, but this soft pink baby yarn was calling my name. So I CO not really sure how I’d handle the top. I thought maybe I could use the 3 and 4 since they really aren’t that much different, but… the little perfectionist part of my brain said what if one side DOES look different… So lets move on to revelations…
I used DPNs. Size 4. And it didn’t kill me. In fact it went amazingly well! As I was , dare I say happily?, knitting away on them I noticed something. I was holding the needles the same way I hold them in magic loop, and I was using the working end of the needles in the same way I was doing it in magic loop. And it was so easy! Why didn’t I get this before? I don’t know. All I know is there is more than one way to learn something and one thing sort of helps and leads to another. So now I’ve learned this I almost feel a whole new world has opened up! So here’s the little preemie hat and proof that I used the DPNs!!
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your pictures are beautiful! i can’t get over the lovely flowers! i hope to move to so cal (if all the stars are aligned and miracles actually DO happen)… i hope to have flowers like yours someday!
I love your sweater! It makes me happy that you found it an easy pattern. I have both #993 and #244.
Your pictures are gorgeous! Marshmellow is a natural. Is she (he?) a ragdoll? My parents have a ragdoll but his markings aren’t as stunning as Marshmellow.
Where did you get that baby hat pattern from? I love it!
Congratulations on the DPNS!! :cheering: :cheering:
Oh! Both of those are nice, too! I like the shell/tank top and would get it, but I think the KAL is doing some sort of tank thing soon.
Your pictures are gorgeous! Marshmellow is a natural. Is she (he?) a ragdoll? My parents have a ragdoll but his markings aren’t as stunning as Marshmellow.
Thank you! Marshmallow is a ragdoll. She’s a seal point mitted and her markings have always been striking although she’s 14.5 now and she’s getting some gray. Some colors are more subdued. Aren’t ragdolls the sweetest!?
Where did you get that baby hat pattern from? I love it!
Congratulations on the DPNS!! :cheering: :cheering:
Thanks! I actually looked at a baby pattern to see how many to co and went from there on my own. This hat fits over a small naval orange.
Here’s how I did the hat:
CO 70 stitches on size 3 needles and knit about 1.5 inches or so then switched to size 4. I’m not sure that made any difference though.
Knit for about 4 inches measured from CO row. Switch to DPNs or whatever method you like for small diameter knitting.
Start decreasing : k8, k2tog
Knit 2 rows even
k7, k2tog
Knit 2 rows even
k6, k2tog
Knit 1 row even
k5, k2tog
Knit 1 row even
k4, k2tog
knit 1 row
Continue decrease rows in pattern now and when you are down to about 8 stitches cut yarn and pull through loops twice and weave in.
I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again anyway: Marshmallow is just beautiful! In the pic, it looks like she’s in a crib…of course it also looks like you’re in there with her taking photos! :rofling:
The preemie hat is adorable; thanks for the pattern!
And I am sooo happy that you’ve conquered your dpn fear!! See, using them didn’t hurt at all, did it?
So I started a REAL blog last night. It’s called Knitting and More and should be a good spot for my family and friends to see what is going on. The template was pretty boring so I made a new title image. What do you think?
Still trying to figure it all out, but it’s pretty fun! I haven’t done any HTML for a long time.
Nice, Jan!! Is that knitting in the title image your own? And I don’t think I’ve ever seen that scruchable scarf you made–it is gorgeous!
I can’t find my html book, so I haven’t done anything on my page since last week or something like that…I guess I could look stuff up online, but I like the way my book is put together. Plus I have notes in it!
Yes, it’s a cropped piece of the preemie hat I posted! I also posted the scrunchable scarf in Whatcha knitting. Thanks!
I can’t find my html book, so I haven’t done anything on my page since last week or something like that…I guess I could look stuff up online, but I like the way my book is put together. Plus I have notes in it!
I use these websites to jog my memory. Most of the stuff is done on blogs, so having just a little help works most of the time.
I actually learned all my HTML from this site. HTML Goodies
This one is actually supposed to be for kids, but I like it because it’s easy to understand. Lissa Explains it All
Thanks Sara! I’m glad you enjoyed them. No, Smugmug doesn’t put th copyright on. I do it when I’m post processing the images. Technically if you have the original you can prove copyright. Having it on there probably just makes me feel better. One thing you can do is NEVER post the original images or have them online. By original I mean the full size ones. If you have smaller versions it’ll be less likely that someone would take them because you can’t get a get a decent print from these small images. Nothing is absolute though. If you are seriously concerned don’t put anything on the internet that you don’t want stolen. As far as I know I’ve never had anything taken.
Marshmellow is a natural. Is she (he?) a ragdoll? My parents have a ragdoll but his markings aren’t as stunning as Marshmellow.
Marshmellow is a natural. Is she (he?) a ragdoll? My parents have a ragdoll but his markings aren’t as stunning as Marshmellow.
