This week’s craft project

This week’s craft project

Over the weekend, I was off to Pittsburgh to visit my family and celebrate my nephew’s first birthday. Really, despite being a child (and therefore very sticky), he is quite cute:

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I had decided to make an Easter basket for him but my overly ambitious plan to knit a giant felted basket has since fallen apart. I went to my parent’s house and set out to find a basket that I could combine with some knitted fabric to make a cute Easter basket. My step mother collects baskets. There were baskets in all corners of the house. It was like a big treasure hunt. My parents also collect large fluffy yellow dogs. They have four of them. I assure you that the one on the sofa is not dead. He had just grown weary of drooling all over me and my knitting and simply passed out.

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So I finally settled on this one and set out to cut the horizontal pieces out of it so that just the vertical supports remained. This required a pair of wire cutters. Not too difficult.

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Here is the finished basked with the yarn that I will be knitting the fabric strips out of: Shepherd’s Wool from Stonehedge Fiber Mill.

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I have 4 inches of height to fill on the basket and plan to have three different stitch patterned strips that will be woven into the basket. I will weave them in before determining when to bind off for each strip. My patterns: Double moss stitch, Six Stitch Cable and Broken Rib. Because my gauge is 4 stitches per inch, each strip must be only 4-6 stitches wide.

In other news, I just realized that there is only a day left in this month and I haven’t finished seaming the sleeves into my March sweater. shoot!

Picture of Danielle

Danielle

Danielle is the owner of the fibre space shop and has been knitting since the age of six or so, when she completed her first project – a Cabbage Patch doll scarf.
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