Sunday, January 01, 2012

2011 in pictures

1. headband of woolmisery, 2. audrey in unst, 3. citron, 4. socks all nicely packaged, 5. northern skies, 6. bitterroot, 7. broken stones, 8. growlithe dsi cosy, 9. tank top, 10. caterpillar toddler socks, 11. epic red shawl, 12. screenshot from ravulous, 13. hat of many greens, 14. piratelove hat, 15. little sister's dress

It's flickrmosaic time again, yay!

Here are all the things I made in 2011. Not as many as last year, but I have had some pretty Big Projects in there. The biggest thing, I think, was Ravulous. It's a bit of an odd one out in the mosaic - it's an app, which is made of 0s and 1s instead of wool. But I think it counts because it's knitting themed and it was all made by me on the kitchen table. It also sort of keeps you warm, if you put your mobile phone or tablet on your knee. It's released in the Android market and the Amazon market now if anyone wants a go. But it's still also a WIP, I am having lots of fun playing with the Ravelry API and adding new stuff in.

There are a couple of projects in there that I didn't get round to blogging about. The caterpillar toddler socks were a super quick project knitted from a mini skein of Yarn Yard Toddy. I love this yarn, and it has lasted really well despite rubbishknitterjunior spending most of his christmas holidays wearing them as slippersocks and sliding around on wooden floors.

The piratelove hat was based on an old favourite pattern, We call them pirates. My fourth hat from this pattern! You just can't go wrong with fair isle skulls. This time I modified it a bit to use 4ply and changed the chart a bit to have hearts between the skulls. The chart is here if anyone wants it. I cast on 144 stitches and just did some 2x2 ribbing instead of a hem. It's a little tight on my big heid in the photo but I made it for a smaller and more delicate lady and it fits her fine.

Excitingly, I also have an almost-done Paper Dolls on the needles at the moment, which just missed out on this year. I was hoping I'd get it finished over the Christmas break, but it turns out excessive festive whiskey intake and fair isle yoke recalculation isn't a terribly good mix.

Happy New Year everyone!

1 comment:

Kate said...

It's never good to knit under the influence!

Your projects are all lovely and very inspiring for my selfishness. ;-)