Opinions?

What do you think of these pants?

I really love the top part. I had thought I would make the majority of the rest of them with the noro (stripy) yarn and put another pattern on the bottom 3-4 inches and black cuffs. But now I'm worried they're going to be TOO stripey for pants and look silly.

These are size Large, so... like 12-18 months-ish. I've joined for the legs and done about an inch on the right leg (left on the picture). Should I keep going? Or I could back up to the pick and black stripe and make it them black. I'm worried about having enough yarn though.

Would you buy them?

Edited to add: I did pull off the and match yarn into 2 balls so that I can make the stripes on the legs match if I continue them the way they are.

Oh yeah, the other thing...

I remembered what it was I forgot to blog about. But, it really needed it's own post anyway.

So, I took my 9 year old to knit night this week, she worked on a little crochet, and brought some stuff to read. We're all sitting around knitting and she says "Oh Woah! This is a giant knitted bunny!"

So I'm thinking... ok... it's going to be a big stuffed rabbit.

She hands me her National Geographic Kids that has this picture in it. It takes a minute to get a sense scale. Go ahead and look. Look at the house. Look at the person on the belly. It's freakin huge.


You'll probably think, like I did, that it's probably not knitted.






But you would be wrong.

We of course had to google it when we got home. It's an "art" project by a group called Gelitin. (Be warned there are some *very* weird and not very child appropriate things on that site, though, if you decide to go poking around)

Not only is it knitted, but it appears to be all *ribbing*. Think about THAT the next time you complain about all the miles of ribbing you have to do on your project.
How would you like to be the one who had to graft all those seams?

This thing is over 150 feet long and 20 feet high. Made of an unknown amount of pink wool and stuffed with straw.

It is so big that it can be seen from space. Seriously, that's not drawn on there, that's from Google Maps.



And yet look at the gauge. It's not THAT big.

Can you imagine?





Wait, it gets weirder...

If you look really close you can see that the rabbit is actually dead. There is a huge wound on his left side and guts area spilling out on the ground. (They're knitted, too, by the way.)

As someone from from knit night wondered, I'd like to know where they got that much pink wool in the same dye lot.

I won! and other random stuff

Sarah Hope from What If Knits had a little contest and I guess I was the fastest googler... Squee!
Here's what I found in my mail box today.

There's a lovely knit washcloth (which is somehow so much cooler because I didn't knit it! I've never had one that I didn't make myself...) and some stickers (which my kids adored) some little M post-it's, and a cute little tin box which I am way more excited about than is probably called for, but hey, it's cute.

Thanks so much!






This came up at knit night yesterday. Apparently there are those of you who have finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but who haven't yet read the J.K. Rowling interview. So go READ IT. (Do NOT read it if you don't want to know what happens because she tells you everything about everything in this interview).

I got some new sock yarn off of e-Bay that I'm itching to knit. Yeah that ravelry thing is working out. I've already added it to my Stash though!















Some of you have caught on to the fact that there are things over in my ticker thingy that *say* they're 100% done that I've never posted. Here's one of them.
It is Susanfrom the Daily Knitter. Believe it or not, I pretty much just followed the pattern. I did leave off the kind of sad looking scraggly fringe, though.

The yarn is Cottontots. Super cheap and not at all hard, but I really like it. It's the perfect thing when it's 90 degrees outside so you're wearing a tank top but the building you're in is 65.



I feel certain there was something else to add to my random blog post, but I can't remember it now so it will have to wait for later. And before that will come something else new.... :)

Calla and Cargo

I finished this a while ago but didn't get pictures up of it.

It is Calla from Magknits, made from Debbie Bliss DK cotton.

Modifications: I knit this in the round, and changed the central cable motif.

I also took out the eyelets in the pattern and added a braided cable instead. I didn't particularly want a row of holes going up over my boobs.

And I made the back a little shorter (lower) than the front.


I was trying to take pictures of myself in the mirror when my kids offered to do it. Most of what they took looked like this
Funny to see the 4 year old perspective of you. None of the managed to include any part of my head.

Oh, btw, that dragon is a henna tatoo I did for the Harry Potter book release. I had several, but they're all gone now. Henna only lasts a few weeks.
Here are pics of the pants that I finished a few days ago. I just listed them on Etsy today.

Found!

The long lost snitch washcloth was discovered today at the bottom of a knitting bag. No word yet as to why the snitch didn't appear in the bag the last 3 times it was searched. Possibly it was in fear of bludgers.


The pattern is from InsanKnitty. I left off the HP and centered the snitch motif, and also changed the back wing a little to look a little bigger, just a few stitches different. If I had it to again I'd move a couple purl stitches on the front wing too. The shape is kinda weird.

But C doesn't mind, she thinks it's sooper cool.