Totally forgot my FO post yesterday so, well, you get two today. At least I remembered early on Wednesday and not at 5pm on Friday, right?
Back to the topic at hand: Ever since I started knitting, I wanted to make something for my Mom. Problem is, she lives in Florida. No need for many hand-knits, I don’t care who thinks a light cotton shawl is always useful. I made her one of those already. She doesn’t wear it but is looking into getting it framed. Oh, how I hope I’m the only knitter to see it on display – it’s full of mistakes.
And there I go getting off topic, yet again. It’s 7:30 in the morning and I’m still working on my first unit of caffeine. So there.
I have purchased sock yarn to make my mom some nice, squishy socks she can wear. The poor woman is now required to wear “real” shoes on the time and, hey, I will take that excuse and run with it. But I wanted to make her something better, larger, useful yet decorative. She actually picked out her own hand knit, the Brea bag from Berroco (and the yarn, Cascade 220 Quatro which I really love working with). It may have taken me three months to start it and another two to finish it but, hey, she received it for Christmas.
Project Ratings
Yarn: 8
Yarn/Pattern Combination: 7 (the four different color plies = not the best stitch definition)
Execution: 7
Pattern – Overall: 8
- Instructions: 9
- Finishing: 7 (I personally suck at finishing but the pattern had decent directions)
- Stitch pattern(s): 10
- Interestingness: 9
- Desire to remake: 9
Pattern Alterations: Did not bother to line it, at my mom’s suggestion. I’m happy she didn’t want/need the lining because, well, I am terrified at the thought of having to do one. Also, didn’t buy a strap but used a great tutorial for making a twisted I-cord braid into the handle (link).
(As usual, the knitty details are elsewhere, specifically, here.)
