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Last weekend at the fiber fair, I was demonstrating how to make a sew-as-you-go beret with the yarn I'd brought along for bulky demos - some monkey brown and bright red that I had - and as usual, I made a baby size so the demo would go quickly. I alternated the colors beach-ball style since I didn't have a variegated yarn with me. This hat is in the Goldilocks book in four sizes for the bulky machine, but the techniques are the same as the
Tam Take Two video.
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Generally, when you teach, you make little piles of goofy swatches. Two whole days of knitting, and it gets to be quite a pile, but nothing anybody could call a project.
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This little demo item looked like it would be cute, and our club needs baby stuff for the childrens' shelter, so I finished it. Finishing it requires one Kitchener seam, a short bit of mattress stitching to join the ribbing, and in this case, I added the pom-pom. I had told the class I was planning to sew it up, so now they can see it here.
I enjoy making small projects - hats, scarves, slippers, and the like. Whipping up some little goodie at the end of a long day is a great feeling.
What small projects are you knitting? I saw dozens and dozens of very small projects at the fair (even small jobs take a while with hand knitting) - shawlettes, cowls, hats, fingerless gloves, and the like.
By the way, Knit Natters club is holding a "Knit In" in November, making lap robes. We'll have a great day at the church, and Cupcake has promised to grill burgers for us. For my knitting, I thought I'd set up a knitting machine with its ribber, bring some coned stash I need to reduce, and do various ribbed patterns. Once you bind off and hide the ends, you've got a finished project.
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