Not exactly the pretty things you might be looking for in a knitting blog. I found two sweaters, a tea cozy and a hat that needed repair, and I just tried on my most favorite pair of socks, and my toe went right through the tip.įair warning: The following are photos of an *ahem* well-loved sock.
DUPLICATE STITCH EMBROIDERY ON KNITTING FULL
I feel like I’ve been on a streak lately, where everything I pull out of storage is full of holes. Have you ever tried to re-create a project years after you made the first version? How did it go? It’s going to be so weird having 5 stockings hung up this year! (Assuming I can figure out the heel turn on this thing…) But, for now, I’m leaving the name blank, and will go in later with a little red yarn and duplicate-stitch in the letters.
It’s simple enough for the leg of the stocking, but we’ll just have to see how it turns out… I really don’t remember how I did the heel…Īnd, while you read this, the baby will probably be born already (if there’s any justice in the world, anyway… I’m still a month+ out from my due date as I type this, and let’s just say, I’m ready to move on to the next phase of this thing), and should have a name. Of course, I never took decent notes or wrote up an actual pattern, so I’m kind of guessing/using an old stocking as a general template. So, I’ve dug the stockings out of storage, and re-ordered more Cascade 220 (thank goodness I actually kept the yarn tags from the last time I made a stocking, or I wouldn’t have had any idea about what shades of green and red to buy), and set to work knitting up a stocking for the little one.
Plus, since our older kid and our dog both have stockings, it would probably be unfair if the baby was stocking-less. We haven’t really filled them ever, but I love how they look, just as decorations, and I kind of love making them. (And not just because we have a new member of the family this year.)īut I love a tradition, and one tradition we have is hanging stockings by the fireplace. Sure, I might make a pair of Christmas socks or a particularly special Christmas sweater from time to time, but I’m not doing the whole “everyone on my list gets a pair of mittens” thing this year. I’ve given up knitting Christmas gifts, because… well… it’s a lot of work, it’s stressful, and I just don’t wanna. Especially if you’ve got plans to knit for Christmas. It’s early, as I write this from the past ( ooohh!), but it’s never too early to be thinking about Christmas. Have you ever done duplicate stitch to finish a project? Did it take you an aeon, too? Or is it just me? It’s going to look so cute once I’m done, though! It doesn’t help that I’m doing the fronts and backs of both sweaters (since Flax is a reversible sweater, I figured I’d make the decoration reversible, too). I don’t know if it’s a me thing or if I’m doing something weird or what, but oofa doofa. When I say it might take me longer to embroider the letters on these sweaters than it took to actually knit them up, I might not be joking. Then I grabbed my leftover yarn and a needle and got to work duplicating my stitches.Īnd I gotta say… this is slow going. I made my own graph paper because I am both too lazy (I didn’t want to go down to the basement to grab my pre-printed graph paper) and not lazy enough (it probably took 15 minutes to draw out these graphs). Then I counted out my stitches and rows, made myself some graph paper and sketched out my letters. GOOD.įirst, I used safety pins to mark off roughly where I wanted the letters to go.
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