I finally put the finishing touches on the knitted plush duck I attempted a few days ago. It's based on the
pattern by Lion Brand with a few Toque-ish adjustments. The basic idea is that you knit a square -- I believe the pattern calls for garter stitch -- and then you fold it in half to form a triangle and sew up one side. You then have a cone that you need to stuff with polyfill, sew closed, and add your ducky details. The beak, feet, and eyes are all cut from felt just like in the pattern, (I wish I were savvy enough to have been able to knit them all together as part of the pattern
instead), and sewn on. I was really unhappy when I was finished at first; I enlarged the pattern to begin with, didn't use fun fur like the pattern called for, decided to use a stockinette stitch instead, and somehow it just didn't look as "cute" and "duck shaped" as the Lion Brand pattern when I was done. Lucas suggested adding a few stitches to form more of a line/definition between the head and neck, and I did. I also decided to embellish on that by adding a ribbon. See what you think! I've decided to keep this one as a tester and perhaps use some more "fuzzy" yellow yarn that I found in my assorted box in the basement next time. I'd love to make one for Somer for Christmas. Oliver thought it was pretty fantastic, but he's a little biased. I think he thought that the duck was for him, lol.
Yesterday I posted my back-and-forth thoughts on whether or not to use circular needles to knit the blanket I was wanting to make for Lucas' mom for Christmas. I decided to take the plunge, risky I know, but it's going really well! I will admit I probably should've chosen a smaller project to serve as my intro into using circular needles, but it was only awkward for the first row. I'm only on the 6th row, but already by the 2nd row I was feeling more comfortable with the setup. I'm really looking forward to this blanket now! I can already see how much better the finished product will be. I'm not doing anything fancy; I nabbed a
pair of size 10, 36 inch Takumi bamboo needles for the project and some jumbo skeins of yarn that fades between various shades of blues, which is Lucas' mom's favourite colour. On the needles I casted on 130 stitches and plan to go back and forth between knitting a row and purling a row, or stockinette stitch, because I like the way it looks when it's done. And that's it. I'm really excited about the final product already, and I've got loads of work yet to go. I'll keep you updated ;)
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I finally put the finishing touches on the knitted plush duck I attempted a few days ago. It's based on the pattern by Lion Brand with a few Toque-ish adjustments. The basic idea is that you knit a square -- I believe the pattern calls for garter stitch -- and then you fold it in half to form a triangle and sew up one side. You then have a cone that you need to stuff with polyfill, sew closed, and add your ducky details. The beak, feet, and eyes are all cut from felt just like in the pattern, (I wish I were savvy enough to have been able to knit them all together as part of the pattern
instead), and sewn on. I was really unhappy when I was finished at first; I enlarged the pattern to begin with, didn't use fun fur like the pattern called for, decided to use a stockinette stitch instead, and somehow it just didn't look as "cute" and "duck shaped" as the Lion Brand pattern when I was done. Lucas suggested adding a few stitches to form more of a line/definition between the head and neck, and I did. I also decided to embellish on that by adding a ribbon. See what you think! I've decided to keep this one as a tester and perhaps use some more "fuzzy" yellow yarn that I found in my assorted box in the basement next time. I'd love to make one for Somer for Christmas. Oliver thought it was pretty fantastic, but he's a little biased. I think he thought that the duck was for him, lol.
Yesterday I posted my back-and-forth thoughts on whether or not to use circular needles to knit the blanket I was wanting to make for Lucas' mom for Christmas. I decided to take the plunge, risky I know, but it's going really well! I will admit I probably should've chosen a smaller project to serve as my intro into using circular needles, but it was only awkward for the first row. I'm only on the 6th row, but already by the 2nd row I was feeling more comfortable with the setup. I'm really looking forward to this blanket now! I can already see how much better the finished product will be. I'm not doing anything fancy; I nabbed a pair of size 10, 36 inch Takumi bamboo needles for the project and some jumbo skeins of yarn that fades between various shades of blues, which is Lucas' mom's favourite colour. On the needles I casted on 130 stitches and plan to go back and forth between knitting a row and purling a row, or stockinette stitch, because I like the way it looks when it's done. And that's it. I'm really excited about the final product already, and I've got loads of work yet to go. I'll keep you updated ;)
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