The Stitch n bisque Thread!

choirqueer · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:00 am

I would definitely put that on my baby if I had a baby!

Phoenix · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:31 am

Thanks maygles and CQ!
Showed the pic to a friend and fellow knitter, and she said, "Totally not a parrot! More like happy rainbow baby!"
So maybe I'm just being overly (self-)critical.
Halfway done sewing everything up!

hayleylujah · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:24 pm

First ever nicely-made dress. Simple and super comfortable because of the elastic on the waist (mostly made that way because I despise sewing in zippers).

littlebear · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:03 am

Phoenix, I love the sweater and would totally put my baby in it!

I am working on a shawl. We were traveling last week and I actually got to knit...now to find time at home to knit and finish this up!

maygles · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:00 pm

hayleylujah wrote:

First ever nicely-made dress. Simple and super comfortable because of the elastic on the waist (mostly made that way because I despise sewing in zippers).

SO CUTE! Well done! It's bright and happy colors go perfectly with your smile!

Phoenix · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:07 am

What a relief - I sewed everything up and took sligthly better pictures of both the front and back sides, and slowly I'm beginning to think that that baby poncho actually looks nice:

maygles · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:41 pm

Oh man that is super cute!!!

Phoenix · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:22 pm

I have to admit that the best part was realizing that a cute pointed hood is the easiest thing to make!
It's just picking up the stitches around the neckline, doing a round of increases, then knitting a mindless rectangle and sewing up the upper edge.
Mind = officially blown.
I think I might want hoods on all my sweaters now.

choirqueer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:35 am

My friends keep having babies!
How big do you think a baby blanket should be?

torque · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:46 am

I always make "crib size"- the one i last made was about a yard and a half to a yard and 3/4, square.

maygles · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:32 pm

First vintage pattern attempt!

Apron and matching potholder (awkward faaaace and gym clothing)

Closeup of button I got at the Oakland Fiber and Textile Festival

Fabric is vintage cotton I got in PDX, bias tape was bought cheap at Daiso, heat-resistant batting was left over from my ironing board project! Pattern is McCall's 7561 from 1964, got it at the Alameda Antiques Fair a few months ago. It's an awesome pattern, there's actually four different aprons you can make, if you can find it on Etsy I recommend picking it up!

I've never made a potholder before...it was actually kind of hard. I suck at doing anything with bias binding (don't look too closely at my shiitake job on the apron closeup).

torque · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:52 am

TALK TO ME ABOUT BRIOCHE STITCH!!!!!

I am trying again. it's the one knitting thing that just kills me. i've been trying again with the purlbee's tutorial page and i'm still just forked. anyone have any other resources on how to brioche? i know it's possible, but i'm just not getting it.

maygles · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:52 pm

torque wrote:

TALK TO ME ABOUT BRIOCHE STITCH!!!!!

I've never done it but had this recommended: http://verypink.com/2011/08/31/brioche-stitch/

It was grey and overcast here today, so we watched the Olympics and I made a laptop sleeve!

I absolutely love love love this Kokka fabric, it was an impulse purchase yesterday and I kind of want to go back and buy the whole thing.

It's lined! (With fabric purchased for 50 cents at Scrap in PDX.)

couroupita · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:55 pm

So cool, maygles! What did you use for padding?

maygles · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:02 pm

couroupita wrote:

So cool, maygles! What did you use for padding?

I used cotton batting (I think it was this: http://www.connectingthreads.com/tools/ ... otton.html but I got it at Verb so not sure), two layers of it for each side (so 4 pieces total).

torque · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:57 am

i love the fabric, i miss funky fabric so much!!
thanks for the link, i'll check it out.

lillianp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:39 am

Knitters, my grandmother gives me a magazine subscription as a birthday present every year. I currently get KnitSimple (someone got me a subscription, but I'm not sure who and I don't *think* it was her) and backpacker (I think my grandmother) and I'd like to switch my not-useful backpacker magazine to a different knitting magazine. Any suggestions? The only other one I can think of is Vogue Knitting but I think them and Knitsimple are related...

maygles · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:39 am

lillianp wrote:

Knitters, my grandmother gives me a magazine subscription as a birthday present every year. I currently get KnitSimple (someone got me a subscription, but I'm not sure who and I don't *think* it was her) and backpacker (I think my grandmother) and I'd like to switch my not-useful backpacker magazine to a different knitting magazine. Any suggestions? The only other one I can think of is Vogue Knitting but I think them and Knitsimple are related...

nebraskalaska turned me on to Knitscene!: http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/knit ... -2012.aspx

kittee · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:40 am

lillianp wrote:

Knitters, my grandmother gives me a magazine subscription as a birthday present every year. I currently get KnitSimple (someone got me a subscription, but I'm not sure who and I don't *think* it was her) and backpacker (I think my grandmother) and I'd like to switch my not-useful backpacker magazine to a different knitting magazine. Any suggestions? The only other one I can think of is Vogue Knitting but I think them and Knitsimple are related...

I like Interweave Knits!

lillianp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:54 pm

I went with Interweave Knits because online it looked it might have a little more of what I wanted! (Articles and mostly patterns!)

creep · **Posted:** Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:14 pm

Sewing makes me angry. I just started a week ago. And by just started, I mean, the first time I ever touched a sewing machine. My mom bought me a machine, a pattern, and some material, so I made this thing:

Now I'm making thing for a baby to wear for my sister-in-law's kid that should be arriving any day now. Did I mention how angry sewing makes me?

creep · **Posted:** Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:40 pm

creep wrote:

Now I'm making thing for a baby to wear for my sister-in-law's kid that should be arriving any day now. Did I mention how angry sewing makes me?

I deed it! There's a cute matching hat that I didn't photograph. Oh, and we got a call that she was going into labor like right as I finished this thing. Convenient!

fauxfrancais · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:58 pm

Oh my god, that is adorable! Perfect timing too!

maygles · **Posted:** Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:04 pm

Both of those are great!

creep · **Posted:** Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:09 pm

Thanks! The mom was pretty impressed with my n00b sewing skills. I'm kind of impressed with myself too! It was nottttttt easy though.

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