A little something!

I told you I was trying to knit a little bag, had to ripp it out once because the chevron pattern was pulling it together way too much. For some time now, I wanted to do the mermaid patten by Lucy Neatby (not Nancy Bush). Thanks Debi for pointing out my error, you were right of course. I thought I'll do some socks but have no time for socks right now. This little bag was exactly right to try the pattern. Now I know I will not be doing socks with it any time soon.


It looks beautiful, I like the look a lot, but it drives me crazy doing it. I started with Emily Ocker's cast on from the bottom up and ended with a picot edge (which I'm not a fan of either). Again , I like the look, but not the making of it. I didn't have to make eyelets since the pattern produces holes. The I-cord was done quickly. I've used ON line Supersocke 100 "Fun-color" on 2.5mm needles.

Supplemental: I made the Emily Ocker cast on, you know with the crochet hook - 8 stst put on 4 DP's. I increased every other row until I had 80 sts on four needles (I always knit with 5 DP needles, unless it is too big for the short DP's, than I use circulars). When you have 80 sts knit one row purl. After that start the pattern of your choice, in this case Lucy Neatby's mermaid pattern. Knit about 3-4 inches high (or whatever length you like) depending on the pattern make some eyelets, knit a few rows, bind off. If you like to do a picot edging, do that. Make an I-cord (3 sts) 10-12inches long. These sketchy directions are meant for sock yarn only. But I think you can do that with any yarn, it just gets bigger or smaller whatever yarn you'll use.

Sybille made some mermaid socks and also a pair with only the cuffs in mermaid pattern. She's got a sock parade for us to see.

I've finished reading Yarn Harlot "The secret life of a knitter" and I must say I felt unterstood. Now I know I'm not weird, I'm stinking normal in a knitters world - I'm one of many!

By the way, since my digi camera is on vacation in Europe, I had to dig up my old one and let me tell you, this camera has a will of its own! Press the button lightly and it tries to focus and tells you, now you can press hard, the picture will be perfectly sharp (Ha!), also if you think you can take the same picture of the same object more than once, think again. As I was uploading the pics from the camera, it tells me, that this picture already exists (no it doesn't) and therefore it's not possible to see it. I'm weak, so I gave up and that's the story of the crappy pictures of today.

Looking forward for my digi to return home, hopefully with lots of stories to tell.

My asymetrical cardigan (Knitting Nature) is looking good, ladies, the dimensions are correct, even without swatching! I realize that I got lucky and will not tempt fate in that way again.