Knitting toys at the moment
Jul 5th, 2010 by elle
Whilst I wait, and wait, and wait.
Whilst I’m waiting for my new Lantern Moon needle to turn up, so that I can continue knitting the MidWinter Wanderer, I’ve set myself to two sorts of projects.
I’ve finally started on the Nightingale Shawl again, actually up to row seventeen! Gasp! Yeah that’s a tiny amount done so far, but this is my first large lace project so I don’t mind going slowly with it.
The other thing I’m going to be knitting whilst I’m waiting for that needle are toys. I’ve made those two Tiny Pigeons that I mentioned, which are adorable. Especially the one I knit on 2.75mm needles, the one on 4mm with yarn doubled isn’t as cute. I’m most of the way through one bunny nugget, which I’ll make more than one of, and I’m also going to make a Chibi Tototro!
As I don’t have a printer at the moment I have to write patterns out by hand unless I go into Uni to print them out, and I’m really lazy so don’t get out there much. So I’ve written out about half of the pattern, and only continue when I feel like it. I do, however, write all these patterns out in little books – I’ve got two so far – that I keep so that if I want to remake the same pattern, as in the case of small toys, I can easily do so!
Now for a knitting pattern! I’ve decided that I don’t like this shrug because of the stitch pattern – the texture grosses me out – but I do like the way it hangs. Things to think about…