And next Goodwill find, this pink J Crew sweater to frog and then overdye with Kool aid
Green and Orange yarn for Eric's hat from same yarn
New socks from my frogged kool aid dyed Goodwill find.
So here is my latest kool aid dye. I just did llittle skeins to compare the different reds out there. Watermelon cherry seems to be the lightest red. Not quite pink. And kool aid strawberry and Disney cool splashers Cherry seem to be the deepest.
Next up, dyeing these two big ole balls of recycled goodwill sweater yarn. I want to make some funky verigated stuff going on with these.
Someone from KH asked me how I made my legwarmers and here is my reply:
[quote="Pixywhispers"]Hi Femmy,
My dd Julia wants some legwarmers. Have you written out your pattern yet? If not, could you explain to me how you made the open heel?
Thanks, Candace[/quote]
So I been thinking about it and I don't really have a pattern. What I did was made a swatch out of the yarn I was using with some needles I thought were good. I found out how many stitches per inch I got. Then I measured my foot and my leg and stuff and figured out how many stitches to cast on from that. I started with the foot. I knit about 2 or 2 and half inches of k2 P2 ribbing on 3 dbl points in the round. Then I did few rows of stockinette. THen I cast off half the number of stitches on the needles. On the next round where the cast off stitches were I cast on the same number of stitches I cast off. Then I did a few more rows of stockiette. All of this I did in one color so as not to be too confusing. I continued in stockinette all the way up the leg, switching colors every inch and a half or so. And with each color change I would add a stich at the begining and at the end of each color change so by the time I got mid calf I had abdout doubled the number of stitches. When it got to mid calf I went back to k2 P2 ribbing in yet another color for about 2 inches and cast off. THat's it. I'mnot sure how to make this a more foral pattern. I rarely use patterns. I usually eyeball measurements and guestamate sizes. I think I'll have to get help from Ingy if I try to make a more formal pattern. I hope this helps! Good luck! :muah:
Peace
Lori
