Some stuff

So, uh, I attempted to make some lacy stuff over the last few days. I attempted a new design idea, but I don't know if I even want to post it or not. I don't know whether it's "good enough." If my mind changes, I will post it. If not, I'll figure something out...

Knitted Lighthouse!

So, I was at my grandma's house, and she had some cool yarn in some sea colors. She also has tons of pictures of lighthouses and beaches and stuff. So I thought to myself "Hey, I'll make a knitted lighthouse!"
And here we are.
The extremely scratched-up CD was placed there for size comparison. Perhaps a ruler would have been better... Naa!

So you do SOMETHING like this. It may be a bit innacurate because it's been awhile.

- *K1, yo, Repeat from * 4 times, K1. K2tog for next five sts.
- k across
- k across
- P across

Repeat previous four rows.

So you do that for the bottom, switching out colors for the sand, the seafoam, the ocean itself, etc. Once the ocean seems big enough, stop doing the above pattern and just do a stockinette stitch. Then on the side you do something like this:



Then, toward the top I knitted white and blue yarn at the same time, giving that cool cloudy look.
For a border I crocheted a thin strip in blue, and then I crocheted that foamy-looking border.

New stuff!

Oops! It's been awhile! I AM SO MEAN!!!
Anyway, here's something new. It's a graph.
So I'm a huge Zelda fan, and here is an outline of Link and Epona. It's really huge, but still cool, right?
Right?

Anyway, I was aiming for some sort of Twilight Princess thing, and thought it would be really cool to put this outline in black with a background of yellow and orange yarn mixed together, doubled up or whatever.
However, this idea is untested, and I have yet to get around to that. I'm not even sure how well the picture will come out when it's knitted, although by my calculations, knitted from nose-to-tail or tail-to-nose, it should be okay.

Valentines Scarf

So after a bit of surfing the web, I came across a really cool pattern on Smariek Knits called "St. Albans Valentine Cable." (http://smariek.blogspot.com/2008/11/scarf-15.html)
This person is some sort of super genious or something.
ANYway, here are the pics (my pics).
Boy, all these cables took a lot of work, but isn't that a satisfying result?

Scarves, Hats & Sweaters

My cousins wanted a black hat and a purple scarf. My Nana dropped off some black yarn after my cousins told her what was going on. It was more than enough ;). Later, my mom went to the store and bought some really nice, soft pretty purple super bulky yarn.
So here they are, in chronological order.



First up was the sweater. Before I got my hands on the black yarn, my Grammy dropped massive amounds of yarn in Christmas colors (She hold stern beleif that you should start knitting for any holiday about six months ahead of time). I used some of the white that was supposed to be used in a Mint-themed pillow to finish that Cardigan. So there it is.




Then came the hat. This isn't the hat. The original hat was black. But it has been misplaced and I can't find it anywhere. The circumstances may call for yet another one. (That's fine with me!). But both hats were made with the same pattern, so it doesn't make much of a difference anyway.
Do you like the top of my head? I do.




Lastly was the scarf. My mom went to the store and bought some really soft Super Bulky yarn. With a little help from the Vine Lace pattern, the scarf came to be.

Up next: Christmas Knitting!

So... many... HATS

Did I just knit 6 hats in a week?
Maybe...
So it started off as a sweater. Then the bottom back of the sweater somehow became a beanie hat (It has been.... misplaced. Which is why it's not pictured above). After that, a bright idea came to me "Hey, I'll make a beret!"
That explains the two ugly beret's on the left of the pictures...
Those didn't look good, so I kind of modeled the top of the hat off the circular pillow design (There I go reusing the same ideas again!). That was how the three hats on the right came to be.

So, the pattern:

Cast on 1 stitch
Row 1: Purl 1 stitch
Row 2: Increase on the 1 stitch
Row 3: Purl back across the 2 stitches
Row 4: Increase on the first stitch, then knit through the rest of the row
Row 5: Purl back across the row
Row 6: Knit across row, increasing on the last stitch
Row 7: Purl back across the row

Repeat rows 4-7 until you reach the desired size. The hats I made varied in size and the number of stitches. The red and blue ones on the right are 20 stitches wide at their widest, while the green one is 15 stitches at its widest.

Row ?: Knit in stockinette stitch for eleven rows, finishing off the Wrong Side row.
Row ?: *Decrease one stitch on each end of the Right Side row.
Row ?: Decrease one stitch in the center of the row on the Wrong Side.

Repeat from * until you reach 10 sts.

Make 8 of those triangle things, sew the pieces together, add a band along the inside of the hat (crocheted bands are quick, easy, and work quite well), hide all those extra strings and Presto! You now have a cool hat.

Carble Cardigan... thingy

So I went online and found the free pattern for a Cable Cardigan (http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/swebhcablecard.htm).
My grandma had this massive 1-pound scane of Lion Brand baby yarn (I used size 7 needles) and let me use it (since she doesn't do large projects any more due to her arthritis). It was finished in five days, which consisted of pretty much solid knitting.
There wasn't enough yarn for the band thing along the sides. So I'll have to track some more white yarn down...
And the sleeves were, um, "edited."

Watermelon Pillow!

Watermelon's cool, right? And pillows are cool, and so is knitting.
What the heck, why not combine them all together?
That's what this here is. It was made using the circular pillow idea, except that it's in a semi-circle rather than a full circle, and I added a 5-stitch strip that goes all along the border, giving the watermelon a better shape. Oh, and the triangles ended with 25 stitches rather than 30. And the little seeds were added afterward, rather than knitted in to the pillow.

Progress & Pillows

If you're wondering what's going on with the horse knitting, here it is. Unfortunately, it seems that I am becoming bored with knitting square after square. It wouldn't be surprising if this became a pillowcase rather than a blanket. I bit off more than I'm willing to chew. Sorry!




Whew! Circular Pillow! It was made using as much of an old pattern as I could remember(which luckily wasn't much!) because the book that contained the pattern has been lost.

Cast on 1 stitch
Row 1: Purl 1 stitch
Row 2: Increase on the 1 stitch
Row 3: Purl back across the 2 stitches
Row 4: Increase on the first stitch, then knit through the rest of the row
Row 5: Purl back across the row
Row 6: Knit across row, increasing on the last stitch
Row 7: Purl back across the row

Repeat rows 4-7 until you reach the desired size (I had 30 stitches) then bind off. You need a total of 16 triangles. Once you have them all, sew them together in a circle (Well, technically an octagon) and stuff it. :D
And I did not create this pattern, so I take no credit for the pattern itself. However, I created the pillow, and I take full creadit for that.

Horse Head Knitting

Here's a simple horse head graph. It's being used on the blankie I've been working on, so it checks out just fine. It's been reversed in advance because it seems like one of those things that would be good in twos, and it's not as much fun if both of the horses are facing the same direction. ;)

Horse Knitting Graph

Here is the graph that was used to create the design below. It was created it in advance, so everything should work just fine. It's meant to be knitted from the tail to the nose, though I guess it would look exactly the same if it was nose to tail. I'll let you decide on that part ;).
So if you ever decide that you feel like knitting a horse, too, then you can just use this. Enjoy!! :D

Horse Knitting

So because I like knitting and horses, I decided to combine the two and see what came about. I'm personally very happy with what I came up with, despite a slight tendancy to curl along the edges. But a solution is on the way, and I am now going to turn it into a part of a blanket.

The pictures have been updated, too, so they're not so low-quality.