I love that video. Was that from ‘I was a Male War Bride’?
So this morning, I'm thinking about Christmas presents .... I already have presents for my two great-nieces, but now I have a little great-nephew. He will be 7 months old at Christmas. Hmmm ... what to do?
Since I've become a "knitting fiend", the thought occurred that maybe I could knit him a Christmas stocking. His mom crochets & has done just the slightest amount of knitting so she will appreciate the work ... in fact, it's gotten to the point that she's the only one in the family I will gift with knit/crochet items. There are some gorgeous knit stocking patterns, including some very ornate ones. Most with any sort of design require stranded color work (yikes!), but I might as well dive in. If I figured out 'lace' knitting, I should be able to figure this out as well.
Then I found this pattern .... both of my great-nephew's parents hunt ... his dad is a true die-hard deer hunter. I will have to get into the pattern & see if I can make sense of it, but I think his folks would 'appreciate' it. If they didn't want to stuff little presents in it, it could be a decorative item. I would change the background colors from blues to greens/reds for Christmas ... more green than red (dad's favorite color is green).
Another one I like a lot - more traditional:
TRUE STORY
My mother could and did do all types of needlecraft including sewing, knitting, crochet, tatting, embroidery, cross-stitch, crewel... and anything I left out. She even wove some tiny baskets one year, that she used as the bases for purses she made for my two sisters and me for our Easter outfits....
Anyway, I could sew but nothing else, and was so determined to learn how to knit (my grandmother was an amazing knitter), so I took a knitting class at the Y or park district when I was about 22... learned enough to knit a scarf. Finished that scarf (some peach acrylic yarn, might even still have it somewhere??), and NEVER tried to knit another thing. It was just proving to myself that I could do it, I guess.
Thanks for doing this thread every month!
I did my yarn shopping for my Christmas stocking(s) this morning. I decided to use RH Super Saver for 2 reasons: cheap as yarn goes, plus they have a large variety of colors.
First, I stopped at Walmart to see what the price of their yarn was & to check colors: $3.67/skein. They had the “frosty green” I needed for the background for the deer head. They also had a “claret” & a “medium thyme” green. Those 3 colors blend beautifully.
Off to Michael’s and surprise, surprise .... their yarn was buy one regular price at $3.99, get one half price!! They had a hunter green and burgundy ... the two colors I thought I wanted when I was first thinking about stocking colors. I also bought white, 2 different browns & a black. That averaged out to $3.00/skein. Colors were very limited at Michael’s ....
Back to Walmart where I got the claret, frosty green, thyme & a charcoal gray that I needed for some shading on the deer & maybe the antlers. I’ll have to play with the deer head colors.
Not a bad haul. I love getting yarn, but hate spending money, so the Michael’s sale was nice. I have two stockings I want to make & I’ll scrounge around for more patterns so I can use up the yarn I just bought. Black, white, the browns & gray .... I won’t be using a whole lot of those so they’ll be around for other projects down the road.
Back to the videos .... figuring out how to do things in knitting I’ve never done before. I think I found the heel pattern I’ll be using (beautiful & relatively easy) so that’s a load off the old brain. I also now know how to knit in ends for color changes .... no weaving in ends at the end of the project. The big bugga boo is that deer head ... try intarsia or use duplicate stitch. I’m going to try duplicate stitch first.