Scarf city

On Friday I finished the scarf from the previous post and gave it to my coworker, who was delighted with it. It looked just right on him. Another coworker who was in the room was taken with the scarf as soon as he saw it. He ordered one from me just like it on the spot! Pretty neat. Then as I was walking out of the building that day I was telling someone else about how I made scarves and he ordered one too! This is so cool! I expect ot have them all ready by the end of the week, if not by Monday.

When I went to the craft store to purchase the yarn on Saturday, a woman asked my opinion regarding the color of a scarf she was making for her son. I told her how I had made the one I was wearing and the projects I was buying my yarn for. We had a nice little chat. She put the yarn that I suggested in her basket, and we both went our separate ways.

Today I revised a list of knitting projects that will keep me busy throughout the rest of this year. I look forward to posting them here and sharing them.

Scarf almost done

I'm nearly done with the scarf someone asked me to make for them. I used Lion Brand Wool-Ease thick & quick navy and black yarn. They don't call it thick & quick for nothing! I got this far in just 7 hours using the pink loom! It's neat when you can see progress that quickly. For some reason, when people see my personal scarf which I made extra long, they want theirs long too. This scarf will be about 6 feet long when I'm done. I love long scarves.

At first I wasn't sure the combination of navy and black would contrast enough, but it looks fine. From across the room you probably can't see the different right away. Anyway, those are the colors he wanted.

New scarf order

I just received an order today for a scarf! I'm pretty excited about it because scarves are fun to make and it's nice to know that something you made is helping keep someone warm. In the meantime, I am continuing to make yarn roses and hope to make some neat things using them.

Scarf update

The person I sold the scarf I knitted a few days ago got back to me and said their son was delighted with his new scarf! He kept raving about it. That makes me feel good, to know that I was a part of making a special gift for someone, and knowing that they are wearing it!

My Rosy Pillow

The rose pillow is done but I kept looking at it, thinking it still needed a little SOMETHING... but I decided to leave it alone and live with it for awhile. I didn't want to overdo it. If it still bothered me later or told me it needed something more, I'd add it.

But later on today when I showed it to a friend, he asked me instictively if I was going to add something in the space where I thought it needed something more. To me that was confirmation. I needed to add something, but what? He suggested grass, which I immediately pictured in my head, but that didn't seem like the "it" I was looking for. I had originally thought of adding an extra rose petal, as if it had fallen from the rose, but that seemed to add a bittersweet aspect to it that I wasn't looking to add.

Then I thought, "How about a rosebud?" That would seem easy enough. I just made a long I-cord (on 2 pegs of the pink loom) for the green stem, made a short green I-cord and sewed it together so it looked somewhat like a leaf just coming in. For the rosebud I made a red I-cord, folded and pinched it into a shape that looked rosebud-like, and sewed it together. I had made a short green I-cord before, in case I needed to add more leaves, so I sewed it onto the rosebud and then sewed the rosebud onto the green stem.

By this time I had already stuffed and sewn the pillow closed, so I had to carefully sew the stem and rosebud onto the pillow. I really like the results:

The rosebud was just what that empty area needed.

Here is the back:

My heart, my heart

I was playing around trying to figure out how to knit a heart on the pink loom. There's probably an easier way, but I used two skeins of the Red Heart red yarn. I did two separate drawstring COs, knit a few rows and increased one peg, knit a few rows then joined the yarn and knit the rest of the body, decreasing slowly as I went down until I was finished. I stuffed it when it was nearly done. To make the i-cord, I knit a few rows of the Red Heart white yarn as a flat panel on both sides of the loom, using an extra peg in the hole at one end. Then I started at the upper end of th eloom to knit an I-cord, which I bound off by placing the yarn loop from the left peg onto the next peg on the right and knitted it off, starting the process over again until I got all the way to the end. Then I sewed the I-cord onto the edge of the heart, and voila!

It took me about 6-7 hours from start to finish, the creating of the I-cord taking the longest. Plus I used a 1 over 1 stitch for the heart, and found that after I stuffed it I needed to knit some extra yarn over some of the "bare" spots. It isn't the usual "perfect" shaped heart, and I like it for that reason.

A rose in progress

I wasn't satisfied with how my flower had come out. I felt it needed SOMETHING... So I knitted a couple of flat panels using the Red Heart red on 6 pegs of the pink loom, and it made the flower turn into a rose!

I am still sewing the rose onto the pillow I knitted using Red Heart white yarn on the yellow loom. It took about 8-10 hours to knit the pillow, 1 over 2. I haven't decided how I want to finish it after I stuff it. Should I put lace around it? Should I just make red and white tassels for the corners? Should I attach an I-cord around the whole thing? Decisions, decisions... I should be done with it tomorrow.