green.girl knitting: commentary
25 october 2009 calico cat carrier
she asks, she receives.
we had to inspect and discuss every available color of cotton at michael's before she decided this one was the most cat-like and would therefore make the best bag for toting cats.
i still like this pattern but i think i may work the next one in the round, with a base, so that the carrots and cucumbers don't poke out the bottom. of course they will still poke out the sides, but i can live with that. what i could not live with is if the small child lost one of her tinier cats so i think i shall take the small amount of left over yarn and make a small drawstring bag to hold the smallest friends, the ones even smaller than her gray little friend.
and then? then i start the teacher's christmas shopping bags. i see christmas looming in the entirely too near future...
15 october 2009 bag lady
i rather like this whole shopping bag thing.
i had made one late last year, i think, from the mason-dixon book but i didn't enjoy the process; i find i really dislike the whole double yarnover, drop the loops on the next row maneuver. but i like this easy-peasy mesh pattern and i expect there shall be many more. i found the three giant balls of cotton that i knew were hiding in the stash, and then to test the stretchiness of the bag, i stuck all three inside; they fix easily. room to spare!
i found my long lost crochet hooks, and proceeded to crochet a border, rather than knit one, as i thought it would give the edges more strength and shape, rigidity as it were. and i was right.
et voila! finished bag, stuffed with enough cotton to make many, many more. i'm fairly sure i will crochet a flower, or knit one, to embellish a little, so it looks slightly less utilitarian and more fun.
of course knowing the bag was for her teacher wasn't good enough for the small child, who saw the bag, coveted the bag, but did not like any of the colors i had when lobbying for her own bag, one with a messenger bag strap she can wear across her body as she totes various stuffed cats throughout the world. off then to michael's, to find dishcloth cotton in a color that meets her needs...
5 october 2009 asparagus
so, one more pair of socks i can wear this winter.
i finally sat down with the intention of weaving in the ends, as that was all that remained before they were 100% complete, when what to my wondering eye should appear but a hole in the sole of sock number one. very irritating.
i have no idea whether it was moth induced, cat induced, scissors stuffed badly into the bag induced or just unexplained evil, but i fixed it. and then wove in the ends. and i don't especially like them.
they are a little too long and, more importantly, a little too wide and they slip around on my feet. i think they were doomed from the beginning but i will still get good wear out of them because they are wool socks and wool socks in winter are worn, whether they fit well or not.
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