Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Sea Urchin

First off, finished the Fetching. This was a stash-busting, birthday knitting project. But I still have one skein of the yarn left in my stash, and I still haven't seen the recipient, so that I can give them to her. The longer they stay with me, the more tempted I am to keep them ;)

I made them longer than the original pattern requests, added a different thumb shaping and did a crochet border instead of the picot bind off.
The yarn is Oscar by Deltex, pretty soft and has a nice color. The whole time I was knitting this, I kept saying to myself - This is a nice yarn, maybe you should go buy some more. In different colors. Lots of different colors.
Argh! Temptation be gone!


Next up, a Sea Urchin hat. Great pattern, the finished thing actually looks like a sea urchin. Without the spikes, that is.

The yarn is Tempest by Rosetti. It knits up kind of weird, I mostly bought it cause I liked the blue in it. It was meant to be a scarf, but it looked awful in stockinette stitch.
So I turned it into a slouchy hat. Not too sure this is my style, the jury is still out on that one. But the pattern was great, it knit up fast, and any mistakes were my fault alone.

I doubled the yarn and used 7 mm needles for the body of the hat, 6 mm for the brim. The brim is a little loose, so I'm afraid I can't wear this in strong wind, or it will fly away.
Still, not too bad for a quick project. I think I might try this pattern again. In solid color, so that the pattern shows.

7 comments:

  1. Joj, jednom sam sebi saštrikala Urchin i prijatelj mi je rekao da davno tako ružnu kapu nije vidio!
    Sram ga bilo, ali barem je bio iskren! Doduše, meni kape stoje kao kravi sedlo!
    Samo ti kupi vune u svim bojama - nikada ne znaš kada će ti zatrebati! A sem toga - zamisli imati mitts u svim bojama!

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  2. Kapa je divna! Ako ti je ranfla baš jako velika uvuci onu tanku gumu, kao konac i neće odleteti, sigurno:)!

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  3. Ovo stvarno lici ! Pa neznam ja sto je tu grdo.Meni je bash lepo, i ove boje su mi bash super, nekako mi odgovaraju na kapu

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  4. Rukavice još nisu blokirane? Moram priznati da mene sve više vuče želja da si za sljedeću zimu napravim jedan elegantni par rukavica ... imala sm prekrasne čipkane koje mi je davno, davno napravila moja mama i uspješno ukrala jedna djevojka prije par godina. Mislim da joj to nikada neću oprostiti, dobro, bilo mi je žao kada ju je lupio tramvaj i sva je slomljena završila u bolnici, ali svejedno joj ne opraštam tu krađu.
    Urcin nije među meni najdražim kapicama, ali lijepo si ju oplela.

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  5. @ bensedin art - super ideja, ne znam kako mi to nije palo na pamet! Hvala!

    @romantales - ja ne blockam te sitne stvari kao što su rukavice i čarape. Računam da će se ionako oprati nakon par nošenja, a kad se stave na ruku ne izgledaju očice tako neravno.

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  6. Pravi morski jež, a i rukavice su cool, na sve te ponude rukavica, kod tebe i kod fridice, moram si nešto za drugu zimi isplesti. Vjerujem da i jednobojna kapica će biti sasvim cool, možda neka specijalna šetland vunica će joj dati malo schic efekta, ježić djeluje malo hladno, možda zbog plave boje. Pozdrav. villa-loredana

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