For myself, my spouse, our resident teenager, and younger child's favorite stuffed buddy (younger child already equipped with one I made years ago), from my own pattern, in Berroco Ultra Wool Juliet & Cream.
A rick rack rib headband with a sweet little twist, in Songbird Yarn & Fibres's sock weight European Bee-eater yarn.
To make the headband, work rick rack rib stitch (which requires a multiple of 3 stitches + 1) until the headband is nearly half the desired length. I used 37 stitches, sock yarn, US size 5 needles. Then continue in rick rack rib for the first 18 stitches of the row, make 1, and place the remaining 19 stitches on a stitch holder. Work this split section in pattern until it's about 2.5-3 inches long (I worked 15 rows total). Cut the yarn, leaving a tail. Move the 19 held-back stitches from the stitch holder onto a needle and the stitches you were just working onto a stitch holder, and work that half the same number of rows. Keeping each size flat (right-side-facing), twist one section over the other and place all 38 stitches on one needle. Continue in rick rack rib, reducing by 1 stitch at the split in the first row only, until the headband is the desired length. Seam as desired and weave in ends. pattern: Beloved bonnet from Tin Can Knits, but used worsted weight yarn on size 5 16-inch circular needles and stopped increasing at 57 stitches (8 repeats in the increase section with short rows, rather than the pattern's 9 for the newborn size)
yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Cirrus Gray and Ankara Green (this is the third project where I've paired these two, I just like them together) This is an incredibly cute newborn hat. Love how the decrease rows create leaf texture.
pattern: Michele Sabatier's Berry Baby Hat (free), but only cast on 56 stitches (long-tail cast on) and used size 8 needles throughout yarn: Berroco Ultra Wool in Peony and Cascade 220 in ... some kinda green (Leaf Green, maybe?); I really wanted to do purple for an eggplant, but this was a sudden project and there wasn't enough in our stash (someday ...) Pattern: Sugar Run Headband (Apiary Knits)
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios, Archangel This was fun and interesting to work, right up until the instructions for doing the kitchner stitch join in pattern did not click for me. After consulting some outside information (especially this Interweave article), I was able to do a beautifully invisible join, so hooray for the product, but ugh for the process. I mean, I assume it's magical! Based on the wizard's cap pattern in Kids Knitting (Melanie Falick), but my friend calls it an elf hat. Worsted weight odds and ends from our stash--I only had to repeat one color other than the deliberate framing with the dark green.
When a dear and crafty friend offered to send us each a skein of yarn from Songbird Yarn and Fibres, our youngest child's choice was Northern Parula, to be knitted up into a buddy. After some deliberation, they chose the two buddies in Rebecca Danger's Daphne and Delilah pattern. (Which I actually bought and followed pretty closely: a novel experience for me, as I'm used to making up my own little creatures.)
They are delightful. And from a process perspective, it was such fun to see how the yarn's colors striped and pooled differently when worked at a variety of circumferences. A squishy cozy reversible hat for my partner (and practice cabling with brioche for me).
pattern: Eliza Bachelder's Hestia Beanie yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Plomo and Archangel Pretty much straight-up Victoria Anne Baker's Treads pattern, except I needed to use one size smaller DPNs and leave out a few rows in the second panel of linen ridge. I love the lateral braid technique, a new one for me.
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