Sunday, June 22, 2008

Linda's Warm Baby Blanket

Knit with two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, this baby blanket is soft and warm and knit up very fast! The pattern is a variation of the basket weave.





Materials

Worsted weight yarn
- 2 skeins sherbet green
- 2 skeins white

Size 11 needles

Time: 8-10 hrs

See close-up of scarf pattern below.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Knit Beret and Scarf

This is a large knit beret-style hat with with a matching knit scarf. The scarf is knit in a simple reversible 6-stitch pattern stitch as follows:

Row 1: K3, P3 across
Row 2: K1, P1 across





Materials

2 skeins Bernat acrylic yarn
2 Size 8 16-inch circular needles

Size: Large
Time: Hat 3-4 hrs, scarf 8 hrs


See close-up of scarf pattern below.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Linda's Crochet Hat and Scarf

This is a quick set to make, and was all done in single crochet.

Materials

1 skein Plymouth Encore worsted-weight varigated yarn
Size I crochet hook

Time: 4-5 hrs total
Size: Large


Thursday, April 17, 2008

Linda's Knit Ripple Hat - Infant

This fair isle hat is just the right size to keep a baby's head snuggly warm. The hat was knit with a variety of colors of Plymouth Encore DK weight yarn scraps.

Materials

Plymouth Encore DK black and various colors
2 Size 6 circular needles

Size: Infant
Time: 5 hrs

Linda's Knit Beanie and Crocheted Scarf


Another fast and easy duo to use up the rest of this beautiful yarn. The beanis knit in a 2x2 rib and the scarf is crocheted in sc, ch-1 pattern that looks really good in this varigated yarn.

Materials

1 1/2 skeins Plymouth Encore Colorspun 7128
Size 8 circular needle (for hat)
Size I crochet hook (scarf)



Size: Large
Time: 8 hrs / set




See close-up of scarf

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Linda's Cuffed Earflap Knit Hat and Crocheted Scarf


This set is pretty simple and took about a day to complete, start to finish, probably because I cheated and crocheted the scarf.

The hat is a simple 2x2 rib, long enough for a cuff, and I stopped with a lot of stitches to give more fullness in the top and did not require dpns. I knit the two earflaps in moss stitch first, then when once I got to the row where I wanted to add the earflaps, I just knit/purled the earflap stitches together with the hat stitches. I finished the hat with two braided ties and a large pom.

The scarf is long and was done with a sc, ch-1 repeat across, with the next row of sc going in the ch-1 spaces. Very simple and fast and looks great in this awesome varigated yarn.








Materials

1 1/2 skeins Plymouth Encore Colorspun 7128

Size 8 circular needle (for hat)
Size I crochet hook (scarf)

Size: Large
Time: 8 hrs / set

See close-up of scarf

Linda's Vari-striped Baby bBlanket

This blanket was crocheted using the green-blue varicolored Bernat baby yarn. I made each row long enough so that the color change naturally caused vertical striping.

Materials

3 skeins Bernat Baby Coordinates green - blue varigated

Size I crochet hook