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I had to photograph (nearly) all of the knitting I did for Christmas of
1999. I did almost all of the knitting while my dear friend, Ann Isenberg,
was driving for our commute. Several people about passed out when I
mentioned doing lots of knitting during my commute until I explained the
car-pool with Ann.
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I knit a "Wallaby" sweater for my niece, Katie, out of "Sugar 'n' Cream" (a
worsted weight cotton). The pattern is fairly well-known and may be
obtained by a local knit-shop or from Cottage Creations, Carpenter, Iowa,
50426-0070. The hooded sweater is knit in the round, with an ingenious
pouch-pocket on the front, and the pattern has sizes from two-years old
through XXL. The model, however, is a teddy-bear my friend Nancy
(Lammers) Simms made for me in 1988; at some point I hope I get a picture
of my niece wearing the sweater.
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I also knit a "Wallaby" for my nephew, Johnny, out of some yarn that I had
had in my stash since 1988. It's a chunky weight wool/acrylic blend
(machine washable). Again, the model is not my nephew; instead, the model
is a doll my sister made when she was supremely bored at age 13. I was
given custody of "Floppy Fred" in 1983 after a particularly unpleasant
break-up. I'm still hoping for a picture of my nephew wearing his Wallaby
Sweater.
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I knit this scarf for my father-in-law, Paul, out of Reynolds Alpaca. I
adapted a pattern from one of the Barbara Walker books (she calls the
pattern Mermaid Mesh), but I wanted there to be more stockinette structure
for it not to be so "meshy". I added a few stockinette stitches on either
side of the "window panes". The color processing on the photographs does
not show that the yarn was really a charcoal grey.
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I knit this scarf for my sister, Jenny, out of a Cleckheaton Mohair/Wool
blend in a "Germaine" stitch pattern (also out of one of the Barbara Walker
books). I simply added an I-cord border to each edge. The photograph
doesn't show off the beautiful variegated blues & purples &
lavenders of this gorgeous yarn from "Down Under."
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I knit these socks for my sweetie, Grant, out of "Wildfoote" sockyarn from
the Brown Sheep Co (Elderberry). I bought the yarns more than a few years
ago, and it took that long for me finally to get around to learning to knit
socks (which is way easier than it looks). In fact, now I understand my
aunt's comment about sock knitting being a "beginners" project.
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I made these socks for my cousin, Don, out of some fabulous "Ja Woll" by
Lang (made in Switzerland). I had to guess at the size, though, which I
did by looking at his feet.
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I made these socks for my uncle, Maurice, out of some yarn in my stash. I
completely lost the label for the yarn, but I remember it being mostly wool.
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I made this scarf for my sister-in-law, December, out of two yarns from my
stash that I bought quite a few years ago in Santa Monica when I was there
on vacation. One yarn is a mohair/silk/wool blend (dark green), and the
other one is a silk/wool blend (coral). I used a mosaic pattern from
one of the Barbara Walker books).
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I knit this scarf for my aunt, Pat, from a wonderful Texas Mohair that I
bought to go with some silk/mohair/wool from my stash. The stash yarns
were four colors of Kaffe Fasset's kid/silk yarn that were left over from a
sweater I knit for my Grandmother. The pattern is the simple mosaic used
in the scarf for December (and my Mom), but the color alternation pattern
created a gorgeous plaid that I was very, very happy with.
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I knit this scarf for my mother-in-law, Kathy, out of a multi-color
chenile yarn, knitting "on the diagonal" in a pattern I created myself for a
baby-blanket for Charlie Meyers Cutting. Knitting "on the diagonal"
involves an increase at one edge and a decrease at the other edge.
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I knit this scarf for my Mom using an incredibly luxious silk/wool blend
from Cleckheaton that I got on sale at
Wolfe Fiber Arts in Colombus,
OH and a mohair yarn that I got at
Londa's Sewing in Champaign, IL. The pattern is a simple mosaic out of
one of the Barbara Walker books.
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I knit these socks for my nephew, Johnny, with leftovers from the socks I
knit for my cousin, Don.
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I knit this chenile scarf for my brother-in-law, Gavin, with a wonderful
variegated chenile. The pattern doesn't show at all, which disappointed
me, but since it was simple and doesn't curl, all's well that ends well.
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I knit this scarf for my sister-in-law, Karen. The yarn was from my
stash, and I had found it on sale in Santa Monica years ago. I had to
find a wool-free yarn for her because of her allergies, and this yarn was
perfect because it's a silk/lurex blend -- and the colors match the stones
in her wedding ring (Carnellian and Jasper). I created the pattern to
mirror some diagonal banding in her wedding ring (the ring itself is
gorgeous and was designed by Christopher Jupp at
the Dragon's Hoard Jeweler in Champaign, IL.).
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I have avoided putting in close-ups for many of these projects (especially
when the pictures were not what I wanted in terms of quality). I had to
include this one because the quality was good and because I did the
pattern design, as well.
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I knit these socks for my father from some wonderful wool/alpaca yarn that
I got on sale at Wolfe Fiber
Arts in Colombus, OH.
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I knit these socks for my brother-in-law, Greg, out of a fabulous sock yarn
that everyone just loves. The colors are rich and yummy! I knit the
socks while we were spending one of the most relaxing weekends of my young
life in the Eastern Ozarks on the Black River. Our friends were somewhat
amazed at my ability to walk and knit at the same time. As it turned out,
though, the pattern I was using seemed really "out-of-whack." In fact, I
spoiled the surprise factor and had Greg try them on well before Christmas,
and in fact, I had to reknit the first sock (taking about 2" out of the
instep). I'm glad I checked before knitting the second sock.
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I knit this scarf for my brother-in-law, Mike, out of Cascade 220 yarn
from Peru. It is one of my favorite pure-wool, worsted weight yarns. The
variegated greens & browns did not show up accurately in the
photograph (please, someone "donate" a digital camera to me right away!).
The pattern is from one of the Barbara Walker books and is charming in
that both sides look identical although they are not worked the same way.
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I knit this scarf for my brother-in-law, Galen, out of a fabulous yarn from
Switzerland that I found in a yarn shop in Medina, OH (Eileen's).
Although the bulk of this yarn store is a staggering (and scarry) amount
of acrylic yarn for machine knitters, she had some really fabulous yarn,
and I got this yarn on sale because it had been discountinued. Since
Galen spent a semester in Switzerland, I thought the yarn was particularly
appropriate, as well as gorgeous. See the close-up below, because it is a
gorgeous multicolor.
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This is a close-up of Galen's scarf, which I included because the yarn is
just gorgeous. The pattern, again, is from one of the Barbara Walker
books. One of these days, I'll look up the book, pattern name, and the
pages that all of these BW patterns are on. |
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I also made two really great doilies that I crocheted for my sister's
mother-in-law, Mary... but I didn't take pictures of them.
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