Red Heart with Love (worsted weight) in Mango, Lion Brand Wool-eze in Forest green using Drops Extra pattern 0-966.
One down, more to grow, er, go.
The inside reminds me of a poppy!
Pumpkin hat
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Selling myself short
Jude commented on Casting off another way
First of all….those look VERY complicated to even think about doing. You are excellent at your craft. Those mitts should be worth about 80$ or more if someone were to purchase them.!!!
I do it all the time. Well, when someone asks me to knit something for them and then asks how much I would charge.
I had no problem coming up with a price for a crocheted item a friend of mine made for someone else. She asked me for my opinion and said with the time invested and cost of the yarn, I wouldn’t charge less than $35. And she did. And the person paid the price.
A friend commissioned me to make the Drinkers Mitts for her and I gave her a price. A very low price. It’s not high enough for the amount of work involved but I felt bad charging what I would charge a complete stranger.
Do you charge a flat fee? Do you use some type of formula to come up with a price? Or do you sell yourself short?
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Cheers to you!
I renamed the Drinkers Mitts: Cheers to You! Mitts
I really enjoyed knitting these. The only issue was finding the right (or close enough) colors in my stash. Most of the yarn is Knit Picks Stroll fingering weight yarn. The beer mugs at the top are knit from an acrylic yarn that just didn’t seem to get along with the wool blend after blocking the mitts and want to recede into the background. My ribbing isn’t as nice as I wish.
My friend liked them. A lot. I wish I would have gotten a picture of her modeling them. But alas I didn’t.
Apart from the background color change, the Cosmopolitan drink (?) is now a Margarita as the pink I had didn’t go with the red. If I make these again, I would add a row or two of plain knitting between the beer mugs and the ribbing. Maybe it was using two different yarns (acrylic and wool) that caused the less than perfect transition.
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And another one bites the dust
The Shaadi Mitts I began last January then restarted them because they were too large (even with the right gauge) are no more.
The pattern notes indicated that these mitts are challenging and I thought I was up to the task. Well, sometime last spring I lost my knitting mojo and allowed them to languish in my knitting basket for months and months.
And when I picked them up again, I forgot about how to hold the dominant yarn vs background yarn.
The dominant yarn color goes under the background yarn color where as the receding (background) yarn color goes over. It doesn’t seem like it would be that important but it is. Very.
The longer strand of yarn is the one under the shorter upper yarn which makes the longer yarn stand out more. The shorter upper yarn pushes the longer strand out.
You can see here that the purl stitches recede in the lower section but are more prominent in the upper section where I reversed the dominant and receding yarns. For a better explanation visit these sites: Knitting Daily, Paper Tiger, and Ysolda Teague.
On the front side the circles and spirals appeared smaller in the last sections. This was all due to yarn dominance.
(Oops! I misspelled spiral.)
Then I screwed up the Bavarian twisted stitch.
The mitts were still huge and I just wasn’t having any fun knitting them anymore. What do you do about a unfun project? Let it hibernate, rip it out, continue with the drudgery or throw it away?
Good-bye Shaadi Mitts. Maybe another time.
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