Christmas stockings
Today I officially started my Christmas knitting.
A while ago I made some minature christmas stockings in the Jean Greenhowe Christmas Special. They are supposed to be tree deocrations, but I thought I could put little chocolates or similar in them and it would be cute as little gifts.
To cut on the waffle, I then volunteered to knit my housemates Christmas stockings. We made quite a big deal of Christmas last year, having a big turkey dinner - which is more effort than normal when you live in pokey student accomodation and don't have a dining table. Doing Christmas with friends was great though, and having stockings should add to the fun.
So I have been asking what people want, colour wise. Pete (in fact, I have two housemates called Pete - so, Tall Pete) said he wanted blue and white checks. I have only ever made fair isle swatches, but the getting so long it's a scarf for a stuffed toy fair-isle swatch was getting a lot better, so I thought I could incoporate fair-isle into the basic stocking design.
So I first had a practice run with a mini stocking, which I think turned out really well.
In fact, I think this is so very cool that I think the plain striped stocking looks very dull in comparison.
So I think I will have to do them all with fair-isle bits or one will look much fancier than the others. The thing is, I am still very much a beginner at this and the mini-stocking took me ages.
So I started on one of the big stockings, because all my housemates are out for the night and I thought I'd take advantage of being able to knit in front of the TV without spoiling the suprise.
Anyway, I have now finished the plain section of one stocking and knitting in plain stockingette something that size was BORING AS HELL. I am actually looking forward to the complicated fair-isle bit, even if something that big is intimidating. Progress so far:
My swatch for the stocking:
I haven't actually settled on a design, but I am going to use the variagted yarn shown on sections of green and red. Hopefully it will look good - I'm really happy with the swatch, but I'm not that good at arranging colours.
Today I officially started my Christmas knitting.
A while ago I made some minature christmas stockings in the Jean Greenhowe Christmas Special. They are supposed to be tree deocrations, but I thought I could put little chocolates or similar in them and it would be cute as little gifts.
To cut on the waffle, I then volunteered to knit my housemates Christmas stockings. We made quite a big deal of Christmas last year, having a big turkey dinner - which is more effort than normal when you live in pokey student accomodation and don't have a dining table. Doing Christmas with friends was great though, and having stockings should add to the fun.
So I have been asking what people want, colour wise. Pete (in fact, I have two housemates called Pete - so, Tall Pete) said he wanted blue and white checks. I have only ever made fair isle swatches, but the getting so long it's a scarf for a stuffed toy fair-isle swatch was getting a lot better, so I thought I could incoporate fair-isle into the basic stocking design.
So I first had a practice run with a mini stocking, which I think turned out really well.
In fact, I think this is so very cool that I think the plain striped stocking looks very dull in comparison.
So I think I will have to do them all with fair-isle bits or one will look much fancier than the others. The thing is, I am still very much a beginner at this and the mini-stocking took me ages.
So I started on one of the big stockings, because all my housemates are out for the night and I thought I'd take advantage of being able to knit in front of the TV without spoiling the suprise.
Anyway, I have now finished the plain section of one stocking and knitting in plain stockingette something that size was BORING AS HELL. I am actually looking forward to the complicated fair-isle bit, even if something that big is intimidating. Progress so far:
My swatch for the stocking:
I haven't actually settled on a design, but I am going to use the variagted yarn shown on sections of green and red. Hopefully it will look good - I'm really happy with the swatch, but I'm not that good at arranging colours.
posted by Ona at Sunday, October 01, 2006
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