Zombie Sheep Experiment

Monday, June 19, 2006

Baby Hoodie

I am finally getting around to posting final pictures of this project, which I gave away over a month ago.
Yarn:Softee Baby by Bernat
Color:Baby Pink Marl
Pattern:"Baby's Hoodie to Knit"
Size:12 months

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Zombie Sheep Experiment



One of my jewelry/knitting friends graduated from college recently (having started again in her late 20s), and we are having a surprise party for her tonight, with knitting and good bad movies. Kristin is the one who pointed me to the knitted zombies web page, so she is the recipient of my first (only?) attempt at a zombified version of the felted sheep pattern.
Yarn:Galway (100% wool - worsted)
Colors:60, 107, 127
Pattern:Fiber Trends "A Felted Flock"
Needles:11

I didn't really have a set plan going into this - I just tried a bunch of random things at various points in the construction, to see which worked best. At times, I held two strands together (the main yellowish and the fleshy pink color). At times, I did some pseudo-intarsia to create pink or green blotches. I created some two- and three-stitch I-cord and tacked it on as trailing guts and festering wound stuff. I picked up and knit stitches to create a skin flap over a blotch area. I oversewed to add some extra color at one place.

Here's a pair of pics of how things looked before felting.


And a few more pics of the final result.
 

Hopefully, she'll like it. :-p

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Basic Knitting Questions

I'm working on the Bombshell sweater from Big Girl Knits and I have a pair of really basic (as in, I really ought to know the answer to these) questions.

First, when it says to "transfer stitches to waste yarn," am I just threading the stitches on the yarn somehow (e.g. with a darning needle), or am I knitting them onto the waste yarn?

Second, how does one work short rows when knitting stockinette stitch in the round? Do I just turn my loop around so I'm knitting at the back of the loop? Do I purl back or continue to knit all the time?