Happy Thanksgiving,

My son and I had a little project today. Harvesting little odd balls of yarns from my stash box, he arranged them on a twig wreath. The color choice is a little Easterish rather than harvesting, but it's ok, I think it turned out pretty. I may add one or two crochet snowflakes later.  

You all have a nice holiday,

New design: Like Sleeves for kids

Many people may not, but I actually LOVE drop shoulder construction for a knitted garment. Especially for kid size, it gives just right touch of sleeveness (???) to a plain body. With a little twist, you can make a "fake sleeve" without making a real sleeve to sew on. This is my new design, "Like Sleeves".  It is such a simple piece. A little gathering at the high waist and roomy bottom cover child's tummy well. Also I'm glad that finally I could use my favorite stitch, Kanoko, again in my design. The PDF file of this pattern is available for sale at Ravelry.com.

Size: child 2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, finished chest size 21.523.5, 25.25, 27 inches (54.6, 59.7, 64.1, 68.6 cm), 12, 14, 16, 18 inches (30.5, 35.6, 40.6, 45.7 cm) in length.Yarn: Cascade 220 Heather (color#9558, I love this color!)





Click below for PDF download from Ravelry.com;

 

For baby sizes are coming mid Dec. 

 
 Cheers!



a little ring

I got a ring from my husband...... but not the ring.

He has a talent in tiny wire works.  He makes earrings as hobby and they are so beautiful and dainty. He works as an electrophysiologist during a day dealing with various kinds of wires and their tools. He can tweak tiny things even under the microscope!

So I had been asking him to make some tiny stitch markers so I can use for my lace knitting.

And finally I got it!

See how small it is! I love the way he adds the tiny ring coral on top of peridot.

And I asked for more (off course!). They are so cute.

Now I need to find a good project to go with these.......

The boots and skirt

Finally I felt a little chill this morning. It was such a long summer in Atlanta.



Anyway, I think my boots and skirt are ready!

Link: Running-Stitch Skirt

Last year when I was preparing these photos for the submission, I got some weird leg inflammation which made me eventually  not be able to wear the boots at all the rest of winter. Instead of the boots, I was in the high pressure support hose which was the most comfortable thing to put on the legs but least great looking.....
So I was really looking forward to seeing the cool weather coming this year.

And for the skirt, I made a pink-purple one, too!

8-27-10

Things are changing a lot around me...

About knitting, one of my pattern is now on Interweave Knits fall 2010. (for Ravelry, click here) and I started my designing into a real business.

Almost the same time as my pattern were out, my family moved into a new house. Now I have my knitting space where nobody complains of my leaving my swift open, or their getting trapped in tangled mohair (see what I was working on at that time in here).

The house is 50 years old, but nice and spacey and it came with A DOG! The story is that he lived his past 8 years in the backyard of the house, and the former owner was moving to a small condo which has no yard and looking for a good option for him. Well, we met him and we fell in love with him, especially my daughter;



 And he loves her, too. We told her that we will keep him, respecting his current lifestyle and welcome him as our new family member. So his name is now Butterscotch Sakurai !

Anyway, now I'm in new place and getting a lot of inspirations from those my new surroundings. I hope soon that I can post some free patterns and a lot more here.

Hope you all well,
yumiko

Star Tweed

My pattern in now in Petite Purls, issue 3, winter '09, called "Star Tweed".

I'm really happy to be a part of this wonderfull site. There are so many cute designs for kids!

Little Bee Capelet

This is very quick and easy capelet for kids.

The pattern stitch here is from the repeats of only 4 rounds; 2 rounds with garter stitches to create horizontal stripes and 2 rounds with stockinette stitches plus some slip stitches to create checkered squares.

The pattern looks a little more complicated than it says, because we are going to switch three colors every 2 rows in order, independently to the pattern stitches. You will see the same color/texture combination only every 12 rows.

I named this “Little Bee” because of my color choice, but I hope you all have fun to pick your favorite color combinations!
PDF file will be available at Ravelry shortly.


SIZE
child 2 [4, 6, 8, 10, 12]

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
middle shoulder: 26 [27, 28.75, 30.5, 32, 33.5] inches
Length: 9.5 [10.5, 11.5, 13.5, 14, 15] inches

MATERIALS
[MC] Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash [100% Superwash wool; 220 yd/200 m per 100g skein]; color: Aran; 1 [1, 2, 2, 2, 2] skeins
[CC1] Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash [100% Superwash wool; 220 yd/200 m per 100g skein]; color: Mocha; 1 [1, 1, 1, 1, 1] skein
[CC2] Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash [100% Superwash wool; 220 yd/200 m per 100g skein]; color: Daffodil; 1 [1, 1, 1, 1, 1] skein

16[16, 24, 24, 24, 24] length-inch US 8/5.0mm circular needle
16 length-inch US 6/4.0mm circular needle
6x stitch markers
tapestry needle

GAUGE
24 sts/40 rows = 4" in pattern stitch without decreasing
22 sts/24 rows = 4" in stockinette stitch

PATTERN NOTES
When you work slip stitch, move yarn to WS. ( i.e. wyb on RS and wyif on WS)

PATTERN
Using larger needle, with MC, CO 192[204, 220, 236, 252, 268], join in round, pm.

Rnd 1: P all sts.

Rnd 2: K all sts.

Rnd 3: K all sts.

Rnd 4: P all sts.

Cont. in St st (k all sts) until it measures 2[2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4] inches from CO edge.

Next rnd: P all sts.

Next rnd: Join CC1, k1, [slp(slip purlwise)2, k2] to last 3 st, slp2, k1.

Next rnd: K1, [slp2, k2] to last 3 st, slp2, k1.

Next rnd: Join CC2, k all sts.

Next rnd: P32[34, 36, 40, 42, 44 ], pm, p32[34, 38, 38, 42, 46], pm, p32[34, 36, 40, 42, 44], pm, p32[34, 36, 40, 42, 44], pm, p32[34, 38, 38, 42, 46 ], pm, p32[34, 36, 40, 42, 44] , slip marker.



Next, start pattern sts with decrease round as foll (AT THE SAME TIME, change the color every 2 rnds starting from MC, CC1, then CC2);

Note: After pm, pattern sts repeat will be disrupted by markers during most of dec rnds (depend on sts numbers). In the cases, just stop patt sts before each markers, and restart the repeat (k1, [slp2, k2]) after each markers (you can also see more detailed explaination and example in comment section).

Rnd 1: change to new color, *k1, [slp2, k2] to marker* rep * 5 more times.

Rnd 2: *K1, [slp2, k2] to marker* rep * 5 more times.

Rnd 3: Change to new color, k all sts.

Rnd 4: [p to last 2 sts before marker, p2tog] total 6 times.

Repeat rnd 1-4 11[13, 15, 17, 19, 21] more times, 120[120, 124, 128, 132, 136] sts rem.

Cont patt sts without decreasing until it measures 8[9, 10, 12, 13, 14] inches from CO edge.

Break CC1, CC2.

Neckband ribbing
Switch to smaller needle, with MC, work k2 x p2 ribbing until neckband measures 1.5 inches.

BO loosely.

FINISHING
block and weave in all ends.