Knitted Bookmark

I came across Sia's blog (it's in Finnish) and she is having a competition. I thought I would like to enter but at first I couldn't think of what I could make. I wanted to do something with a Santa but I couldn't come up with anything that I wanted to do. It couldn't be anything big because of my hands and it needed to be complicated enough to be interesting.

So after thinking about it for a while I realized that a bookmark would fit the bill. I haven't knitted a bookmark before and it would be a chance to do some lace and practice blocking because I finally found rustproof pins! I never thought that I would.

I have no idea what yarn this is. It was just a ball in my stash. I tried the picot cast on and bind off but the cast on didn't work. I wanted a pattern that looked like a snowflake but the only thing I could find was a pattern called snowflake. I decided to use it anyway. I added a K1 on each side of the repeat (which I only did one of). I had to redo each row at least twice. And I ended up counting the stitches each pattern row. Sigh. How can Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knit lace that ends up with at least 880 stitches across? How many times would I end up undoing that?










On the left is the preblocked bookmark. On the right after blocking. Not much difference, eh?

New Projects

The day after I wrote about the felt keychains, I was given this keychain from Moscow. It was a funny coincidence but I still want to make my own.




I'm changing A's project again. He wants a cloak for his larping. We have bought and preshrunk the material. It's the dark stuff under the other material. My apron has about had it. I've been using it for 15 years or so. I went to the charity store today and bought the bits and pieces that are on top of the cloak material. I'm hoping to get 4 aprons out of them but because they have been cut into, I don't know how big they will be.

I've finally got the Xmas squares crocheted together. I'm so pleased. I've almost got the first snowflake done, but I found the pattern confusing and I'm not sure if I will undo it a bit. H's sock is coming along. I've been knitting it also while I'm on the computer.



M: R's crocheted snowflakes (find new patterns, crochet)
T: D's crochet completed!
Next week: apron (wash material, find pattern, draw and cut out pattern, cut out material, sew)
W: H's socks (knit them)
T: Home - A's pjs (find pattern, draw pattern, cut out, sew)
F: Personal (decide what to do about bay pouch, make cord, finish it)
S: A's project (decide on pattern, draw pattern, cut out, sew, wash)
S: Xmas square lapthrow (crochet strips together, find a border pattern, crochet border, sew in ends)