Dishcloth-Hat

This was supposed to be a round, flat dishcloth. It's not staying flat. I'm unpleased .. but at least I got to use up some of my cotton yarn, and learned a new technique.

Finally Done!

Look! Look! I finally finished it! And there are -so- many things I will do different on the next one (which I already have the yarn for, but I need to work on something else first, to get a break.) but it's done, and it'll look alright I think. And I have to keep reminding myself .. it's a -towel-. It's not like it's haute coteur (sp?) baby-wear or anything. It's a towel. And I have probably 3/4ths of a skein left. Maybe for some booties, and/or washcloths to go with the towel.

This is is all stretched out .. I have no really good place to take pictures without having awful light. This one I did on my freshly-made bed .. and it still looks kinda funny. I probably should have grabbed the knitting inspector - for persepctive or something.

This is my favorite shot I think, showing the hood, lopsided though it is, and the beautiful seaming. I think the hood could have been deeper .. so I maybe should cast off earlier, at a wider point. But I -love- the border on this, even though it likes to fold over. And the colors are just so soothing. So baby.

I'm pleased.

Project Spectrum Blue Kitty

For some reason, Blogger wasn't wanting to add these photos to my last post, so I had to write another one to add them in. Since it's Blue month in Project Spectrum, I thought I'd post these two photos which were the only pics that came out from a disposable camera I recent found and sent in to Snapfish.com. I'm not even sure why they're blue, though I know they must be from sometime around Yule, 2004.


And just look at this precious darling. This is Isis, the house knitting inspector. She's showing off her Winged Isis charm we got for her as a nametag. Well, that, and complaining because I put her harness on her, so she could go outside some.

Knitting Progress

This is how the baby towel looked three month ago .. and I'd been working on it for a while.

This is how it looks now. I've been working on it pretty steadily for the last moth or so .. especially since I joined the SOSKAL. And I'm bound and determined that I am going to finish this in the next few days, if not today.

Now, there are a few issues. The pattern I'm using has you bind off the 'body' of the towel, then knit the hood separate, then sew it on. Well, seaming and me aren't friends. Sorry. Seaming and I. So I figured out that I could quickly decrease from the 100 stitches of the body, to the 75 of the hood. Not so hard, right? Except it's made these funny places, especially on the right-hand side of the towel.

They're not a -hugely- bad thing, but they annoy me.

Also, in making up the hood, the pattern has you knit for 26 rows, then begin to decrease on every other row. I've been doing it on the purl side, as the whole shebang is stockinette with a seed border, and so I'm getting this nice shaping on the left side:

But on the right side, it's remaining perfectly straight.

Again, not a big deal. It's a towel, after all. But I would like to figure out how to remake this pattern to have a more symmetrical look to it. I have yarn to make another towel, in slightly different colors, so I would appreciate any suggestions. I'm by -no means- a knitting designer, and have been pretty much flying by the seat of my pants with this project.