The box bags I talked about yesterday will be with hand sanitizer, purse-sized tissue pack, a bottle of water, a package of peanut butter cookies, and Tastykakes.*** If you’ve never had a Tastykake, you’re missing out on some fabulous goodness. My favorites are the Butterscotch Krimpets and the Cream Filled Buttercream Cup Cakes.
***I did not receive any compensation nor am I a paid spokesperson for TastyKake. I just wish I was.
My friend is taking her 8th graders to Charleston, South Carolina this coming week and I’m meeting them there. I’ve never been to Charleston before and am really looking forward to going.
I made box bags for all the students. The tutorials I used can be found here and here. Remember my quandary about the fabric?
The final count: 4 in the bicycle fabric, 12 in the granite fabric.
The bicycle ones have all different colors for the lining. The granite ones have 4 different colors between the 12.
If I ever decide to make 5, 16, or 45 of the same thing again (and I really hope I don’t), remind me the make them ALL. THE. SAME! This changing colors of thread for each lining color was a pain, or as I like to call it, a PITA. You can figure out the “A”.
I do like them though.
You’ll be able to see what they’ll be filled with tomorrow.
Silly me. I assumed something and we know what that means.
My iPad cover swatch. Remember it?
I pinned the felted swatch to the cover on my ironing board to dry so I could use the squares as my measurement.
Great plan.
Those squares are one inch so my swatch would be five inches square. And I really had to tug to get the width to five inches.
Mr. Aitch’s cover was 48-49 stitches so I thought I would make this one a few stitches bigger since I was doing a two-color design and I had to work within the color pattern. I cast on 26 stitches for this swatch since I planned on 52 stitches for the width. Wonderful. I needed the cover to be about 10 inches wide. This was going to be a piece of cake.
After felting and measuring the wet swatch, I went on my merry way. Now with only a few more rows left to knit I’ll be ready to felt in no time. Then I decided to remeasure the dry swatch one more time. The swatch is not five inches square. The swatch is 4.5 inches square and the finished cover just might not be wide enough. How can this be? It must have been stretched so much that once it was unpinned, it relaxed. Relaxed a half inch. Which translates to one inch on the finished project.
Had I realized this before I cast on, I could have just made it eight stitches wider. But n-o-o-o. I had to hurry up and cast on before checking and double checking my swatch. Length-wise there is no problem. I can knit a few more repeats. Width-wise is the issue.
I’m going away next week and really, really, really wanted to have this cover finished for my iPad.
Do I keep going as though nothing is wrong and hope and pray (and tug, and tug, and tug) that it will fit?
Do I pick up some stitches along the sides and make a gusset-type of thing?
What would you do?
Remember a few weeks ago when I finished my Carrie Cahill-Mulligan hat?
Well, I finally decided what I was going to do with the brim.
Paisley. I love paisley and found some generic paisley shapes to use as my inspiration. My plan is to embroider eight paisley designs around the entire brim but I’m going to start at the front and work my way around from side to side so I don’t have to have it completely finished before wearing it.
Yes, I know it’s April and we’ve had some unseasonably warm weather of late (90 degrees yesterday!!) but I don’t want to wait until next fall before I return to find it still naked of all embellishment.
I love this hat.
And you can have your very own!
It’s easy.
Go to Carrie’s website and:
I know that Carrie and Andy, her husband, would really appreciate it right now. Go on, check it out.
Knitting In Flashes 