"Turn a Square" Hat by Jared Flood FO

Patttern: "Turn a Square" by Jared Flood

Source: Free Ravelry Download

Yarn: Miscellaneious Remnant Worsted Wool

Needles: 4.0, 4.5mm circular, 4.5mm dpns

Start: March 11 Finish: March 11, 2016

Modifications: extended band to 1.5", added 1 row of MC between each CC stripe.

One recent Saturday morning I pulled together this little sack of equal toned remnants with the printed pattern I queued years ago. Ravelry says almost 18,000 of these have already been knit - time to get to it!

As a pattern designed to use up remnant yarn, the necessary quantity of contrast colour yarn is given in weight rather than "balls" which made it easy to switch from the self striping Noro of the pattern to equal toned, separate remnants...

I wanted something a bit softer looking than the original snug design so...

• Lengthened the ribbed section 'round the bottom 
• Added another round of black between each coloured stripe.

Having a full day of Saturday "stuff" to do, I then resolved to stitch this little piece whenever I did sit down that day. So by the time I went to sleep that Saturday night I had a new hat!

My slouchier fit lets the "square" hang down the back rather than sitting atop the head all but hidden from sight of my tallest friends...

And the feather lightness doesn't mess with my hair either! This one is all good, now posted and gone from my queue!

"Spring Chick" by Barbara Prime FO

In case anyone's interested...the details on the little knitted chicks from yesterday's post...

Pattern: "Spring Chick" by Barbara Prime

Source: Free Ravelry Download

Yarn: Remnant Worsted

Needles: 4.0mm

Start: March 24 Finish: March 26, 2016

Modifications: None

Fantastic little pattern with clever use of shaping - especially around the chick's head and shoulders. The worsted weight yarn also yields something just the right size too.

My sister's cat "Olive" enjoys the catnip-stuffed "Bunny Nuggets" I knit for her a couple of years ago so I thought I'd knit for her again this Easter...

I only put catnip in one this time so my nephews could play games with her "nose"...

She instantly recognized the "good" one.

Then, turned her back on the whole works and set about "enjoying" the tissue and purple paper ribbon...

This project also reminded me of two things...stuffed animals get most of their personalities from the addition of "eyes"....and there is no such thing as saving a piece of felt that is too small. The little scrapes of orange felt I had stashed among bigger pieces were still much more than I needed to finish these off.

Hey thanks for dropping by!

Good Weekend...

Ours extending through yesterday. Just the three of us, so a bit weird, but we kept ourselves amused.

'Saw a movie - "Eye in the Sky" - really well done.

Accomplished a surprising amount of knitting - among the projects - some fun little Chicks...

'Cannot stand how quick and cute these turned out to be!

'Put in three solid days of cooking/baking.

It was a full on Martha Easter here.  

Her early stuff really is soooo complicated but special efforts for special occasions...this round my hands down favourites...

Hot Cross Buns - Martha Stewart Living 1998 - beyond "yum"!

With Easter weekend behind us, the clocks "sprung" forward, Spring officially underway I'm manic to finish up "winter" knitting around here.

 (Also seriously need to address the backlog of unblogged FO's, some from as far back to last spring?!)

Onward!