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Little bunny softie

Three little bears

Softie design: how much stuffing are you going to use?

Something to consider when designing softies: if you want to stuff them so they are more firm, which is nice, it's going to change the shape a bit. 

The cat above has less stuffing than the cat below. 

Four softies

Finished all these softies today.  

Grey brown little something almost done

Just have to weave in my ends, which I don't know how to do on this lace yet, and block it. I've never blocked anything but I think this scarf would really benefit from it. 

I decided to just use only the yarn I had because the color could differ if I used yarn from a different dye lot. The scarf is 30 inches long which is long enough.  I'll be interested to see how long it gets when I block it. 

Grey brown marl little something

Progress on my little something scarf. It's about 23 inches long so I have about 17 more inches to go.  I've used almost as much yarn as the pattern calls for already.  Not exactly sure why. 

Wendy Bernard's fingerless lace mitt from Creativebug: practice run

Saturday I knitted this fingerless lace mitt from the Creativebug class by Wendy Bernard.  I knew my yarn was too thick but I wanted to try making one for practice.  I enjoyed learning the "nested fans" lace pattern.  

I used the yarn I salvaged from an old sweater my cousin gave me. I'm all for practicing a pattern on yarn that's inexpensive. On this mitt I learned that when you do a m1 increase if you knit it through the front loop instead of the back loop there will be a hole.  I didn't carefully read the pattern and made that mistake on this glove's thumb gusset.  

I liked that this glove requires some focus when you are knitting the lace and the thumb gusset, but there aren't too many stitches to count like there are in a project like a scarf. So you can easily fix mistakes and you don't have to really pay attention for as long at a time. 

If you try this pattern, definitely read the pattern before you watch the corresponding segments of the video lessons.  Especially if you are making a different size glove than the instructor makes.  

Navy and white Gigantic Cable Scarf

Another great pattern & class on Creativebug by Jill Draper: Gigantic Cable Scarf.