My mantel garland! I had wanted one for a long time but had never quite overcome the inertia of (a) going out and getting one and (b) clearing enough stuff off the mantel to make room for it.
It also gave me the opportunity to clean and dust the mantel; I hadn't done that in too long. Next I think I will get out the different Christmas critters; I have a couple of big santas that I put out and also a few teddy bears.
I do want to get some kind of a better tree-table. I had put it on a little cheap end table I had but that's now where my plants live. I might invest in a card table; it would come in handy after the holidays as well.
My tree is only like 3 1/2 feet tall so it kind of needs to be up on a table.
I also finished my mom's hat yesterday:
Here it is, with Algonquin serving as the model once again. I hope she likes the hat; the colors are a little different than what I'd choose.
I also started another hat - "Duncan" - out of the same book. And I cracked the problem of the K1, M1 over 12 sts needing to lead to 18 sts in the end: it depends on how you define M1.
I had always always seen "M1" as what I think of as a "lifted bar increase," where you pick up the bar between two stitches. So "K1, M1" would double the number of stitches.
However, the author of the book defines M1 as a knit back-front (what I think of as the "typical" increase 1). She calls the bar increase "Take 1" or "T1."
So, doing M1 the way she directs - where you are increasing AT THE SAME TIME as knitting a stitch - the numbers work out.
That was in the book's intro, which I hadn't read. Dur. (Or Doyee! or Uh-duh, as we used to say in grade school).
So anyway - Duncan is underway and the counts work out. This is one being made of Chunky Al. It's for me. Yes, I have a lot of hats. But I like making hats and I often wear a different one each day of the week when it's cold. This will be a more dressy hat than my pi hat - it's a solid color, sort of a henna color, a little lighter and a little redder than my natural hair color.
I also did get some more sewing done on the quilt; photo to come later.
1 comment:
first off, a mantel! i'm so jealous! does it come with a working fireplace?
my christmas boxes have been sitting in my living room since last christmas, acting as end tables, lol, so all i'll have to dig out is my tree. i've got a smaller tree, too. hate trying to maneuver around a big tree.
your mom's hat looks magnificent!
and i think there really needs to be a universal M1, ya know?
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