Baby Cap

I have lots of unfinished knitting projects . Recently I quickly used my circular needle to do up this baby cap for a gift

 It was easy I just cast on 54 stitches and knitted in Stocking St. All knit in the double wool purple yarn in size 8UK. Then I shifted to the fun yarn ( from the connoor wool shop)and also moved to size 6 after 2 inches of all knit, I then did this:

knit 4 reduce 1 by knitting two together and knit four and so on.

 (The Important thing to remember in circular knitting is to mark your row beginning with a knit marker. We can make knit markers easily in India by modifying our cheap earring hoops into a circle using pliers. Just make sure that the earing doesn't catch the yarn. Beady earrings are good, I found out.)

After one row I again knitted an inch and then carried out the reduction row. Then I went on knitting till the whole length was about a bit more than 5 inches. Then using a smaller yarn and a needle I caught all the loops from the needle and ties them up and tucked the knot in . I always weave in the extra yarn and never chop it off to the end. It took me about three - four hours of intermittent knitting.

Its a baby cap for newborn to 6 months. It may be a bit big for the new born. But the baby will grow into it.

Its still scarf and cap Knitting time.

 In honour of arne naes, the deep ecologist, I inagurated my new fashion knit cap and muffler on ignite 2 bangalore 09.

 Its a simple knit in the blue yarn brought from thailand by by freind annu.

 If you look closely you can see abutterfly clip on the cap. Its a shiny hair clip that I attached to the cap to make it prettier.

The next project will take a longer time as i am finishing the cable vest started long ago (seen half done in the earlier blog)

 also progress gets slower on knitting when my Phd speedens up!

from the US and projects

In a leisuring walk down eugene streets I was directed to this amazing store called soft fabrics packed with all kinds of knitting supplies. Very carefully I picked a lovely kettle dyed wool to knit my husband a birthday cap. and here is it.

knitted with my new bamboo needles too. The colorful cap is a purchase from a bazaar in Delhi. Crocheted in cotton yarn

Knitting chronicles note:

For my dear friend from Delhi I brought back susan bates needles made of plasic in US size 13 and 15 and guess where they were made (for susan made specially by coats india)

And this lovely yarn which was on sale from New York , manhattan

plan to make a ruana . Watch out for the next post.