KNITSTER

Hello KNITSTER fans!

We’re all still here, just very busy with life and knitting, of course. I have put down the lace and the socks in favor of getting some holiday knitting done. Since I know none of the recipients are reading, I am in the process of making 3 scarves and a bunch of handwarmers/knucks. I have one scarf done, working on the second (about halfway through?) and have yarn for the third. The first one was a simple seed-stitch scarf, and the one I’m working on now is a basketweave stitch one. It looks cool, but doesn’t knit up as fast, even though it’s an easy pattern. Just have been doing both off the top of my head. I’m not sure what I’ll do with the third one yet– guess I’ll have to either do something easy like a rib stitch of some sort, or pull out the Vogue Stitchonary to get some ideas for something quick but good looking (and masculine, as these are for guys). Once they are done, I’ll post some photos.

In the meantime, I received an email from one of those interior design stores that I love but can’t afford yet get inspiration from, and the photo of the item they were selling confused me until I looked at it more specifically.

Behold:

Yes, you are looking at that correctly. That is one humongously knitted carpet. Kinda cool, huh? Well, I think the first thing is that you would need some pretty giant knitting needles, and I know they are available (remember I posted about them one time?), and I guess the other part would be finding yarn that large and lots of it to make a carpet that’s 7′6″ X 5′7″. I don’t know that I’d put all that cabling and such in it, as that would make it rather bumpy to me, but hey, what do I know? But the idea has certainly intrigued me, and if I can get the supplies, you KNOW I’d do something like that. I’ve been trying to figure out what kind of area rug to buy for my family room for two years, and still haven’t found anything I’ve liked. (Same with my dining room chandelier, but give me time!) Anyway, knowing how much my husband and I tend to be big DIY’ers for most projects around the house, I could see myself doing something like this if I had the resources. Now THERE’S an idea.

Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by Dani
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