Edgar

Edgar is finished and is patiently awaiting fall weather so that I can adorn my neck with his beautiful colors. Although, with the type of summer that we've had, I could almost wear him now.

I just love the shape of the scarf. Amazingly, the technique to create such a shape is quite easy - just decreasing in the middle of each row (S1, K2tog, PSSO) every time on the right side. After so many rows, it naturally forms the shape you see above, and then you cast on stitches on both sides to start over again.

For the nice edge you slip 1 stitch purl-wise at the beginning of every row. The pattern can be found here: http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall05/PATTedgar.html .

I made mine quite a bit longer than the longest amount of squares called for in the pattern (I kept going until I used up both skeins of my noro silk garden, minus a bit of the black colored bits), but of course with this sort of pattern it doesn't really matter how long or short you make it - whatever suits you best.

Cletus is cleverly clawing around...

... now that I've finished him! Check it out:

He was a lot of work to make because all of the claws and legs are seperately knitted and then sewed on to the body. Some of his legs were over stuffed because it was hard to get tiny pieces of stuffing into those tiny little legs. Those cute tiny little legs, I may add. I sewed the eyes on and then super-glued them. A few years from now we'll see if they withstand wear and tear.

This little guy gets to hang around until someone comes along to play with him. :) In the meantime he'll make a very cute addition to my desk.

Edgar is eager for me to finish

'Edgar' is coming along nicely! The bottom square is a bit larger than the following ones, but that often happens, at least for me, when starting a new pattern.. my gauge is too large in the beginning and then falls into a rhythm. In any case, 4 1/2 squares out of 17 completed. See for yourself..

I just love the colorway on this noro yarn! The only thing I'd change about it is a little less black.. there is quite a bit of it in there. Also I wish the yarn hadn't gotten tangled before I started, it made it pill quite a bit and the finished product won't look as pretty as it could have. Oh well - a learning lesson. Take care of your yarn young men and women! :)

On a side note, we also plucked these wonderful pieces of food and art from our garden this afternoon...

The beets are amazing.. such vibrant color. I would love to have yarn that color.

Another shot for the fun of it:

And now I must be off. Andreas is taking me to see Petticoat tonight at the Martini Plaza. I'm looking forward to it.

Hi!

*waves*

I decided to start up a knitting blog! Not to say that other stuff won't come here, but I knit a *lot* and I really enjoy sharing my knitting with others. I want to open an online yarn store in the near future (within the next 2 years) and I think I will call it fiddlesticks.. so the name seemed fitting for the blog as well.

Here's a picture of a project I just started working on.. just a teaser!

Hopefully I'll have a very nice set of pictures of this after the weekend.

Have a nice weekend!