Well, I suppose that's exactly why we started this thing; now we can help each other out, and provide visual aids! Rad.
Let me provide a little back story, though. See, Kathy is a pastry chef. That means she has to be good at following recipes, because if you fail to follow a pastry recipe, Bad Things Happen(tm). Me? I am not good at following recipes. In fact, I actively chafe against recipes, and, as a general rule, if I want to cook something I've never made before, I look through 5 to 10 different recipes for that thing, get the gist of what I am going for, and then fly blind when it comes to actual meal preparation. This tends to work much better for me than actually following a recipe would. I'm not completely sure why, but I am guessing it probably reflects some general need to blaze my own trail. (Listen, it's not my fault I'm the youngest. And no, I don't buy into any of that birth order crap, thank you very much.)
Point is, Kathy made a beet instead of a heart. And I am very proud of her! But now the beet needs greens, and she's stuck. So she called me, and since she rejected my initial idea of latch-hooking (she wanted proper leaves, apparently), I had to invent a leaf pattern while we were on the phone. So here is one side of the resulting leaf:
and the other side:
Here's a closer shot of the leaf to show the neat little vein detail:
Now for the pattern:Notes - when I say "m1", I am referring to the make one back increase that you can see a video for here.
cast on 3
do a 3 stitch i-cord for whatever length is appropriate for your stem
k1, m1, k1, m1, k1 (you should now have 5 stitches on your needle)
k1, m1, k1, p1, k1, m1, k1 (it's a seven stitch palindrome!)
repeat the following two (marked in square brackets) rows until the body of the leaf is as long as you want it:
[knit across the row
k3, p1, k3]
k2tog, k3, k2tog (should be 5 sts on your needle now)
k2, p1, k2
k2tog, k1, k2tog (three stitches left)
k3tog (one stitch left!)
bind off your sad one stitch. So lonely!
That's it! Pretty easy, right?
Kathy also has been begging me to post an update on the status of my halter top for about a week now. So here it is:
I swear he sat down and started glaring at me like that before I had even finished putting the damn thing on the bed. Apparently this particular item did not yet contain enough cat hair. For crying out loud.I took this picture while holding him out of the frame with my left hand. No small task, that cat weighs 14 pounds, and it's all muscle! Well, and fur. And a shockingly large number of facial whiskers (seriously, check out the eyebrow whiskers in the previous picture. My cat practically has a cuttlefish growing out of his face.) Anyway:
So, yes, I am, in fact, making progress. And I haven't started any other projects since I posted about my excess of projects!Well, I haven't started any knitting projects.
...except for the leaf for Kathy. And that hardly counts, right? I SWEAR I CAN STOP ANY TIME.
4 comments:
For the record, the title alone generated additional viewers of your post, so sayeth Brian.
Wow! That's a frightening look on your cat's face there. It's as though he's saying "Yeah, pick it up. I dare ya!" *shudders*
The leaf looks great, though! I seriously need to get some needles & learn to knit. Knitting is portable & I need something to do next week when I'm in Texas!
YAY! you have compelled me to hop on and log into a new place! Also, I demand that you model your top.
I will happily model my top as soon as it is finished!
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